Yoga Of Inner Light And Sound

Author(s): Achyutanand Swami, Praveshkumar Singh
Publisher: Santmat Sangh Samiti Chandrapur

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Thus far it is meditating on the gross form. Subsequent to this, Lord Shri Krishna instructs Uddhav to practice meditation on the subtle form, i.e. bindu dhyān, as is obvious from the following:
"After having successfully fixed his attention at my face, he should then shift attention from there also and focus instead in the void (inner sky) that lies ahead."
To focus one's attention in the inner sky or void means focussing or stilling one's gaze at a point in the sky, or in other words, to practice bindu dhyan. Bindu dhyān, if performed perfectly, automatically precludes all gross forms and all directions. Hinting at this very bindu dhyan, the legendary Sant Tulsi Sahab of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India states:
"All the secrets of God-Realisation are hidden inside the point ('til') located in your pupils ('putli'). However, to unravel those secrets look beyond the dark curtain."
The current of consciousness itself or the ability of the eye to see is the pupil ('putli') alluded to by Tulsi Sahab. Where these currents of consciousness meet each other, an effulgent point ('til') arises. Those practisers, who, by practising meditation alertly, transcend the inner darkness, get to see that dazzling point. A direct and spontaneous outcome of having seen this effulgent point is that they come to know of whatever is happening in different parts of the universe; all that is required for this is to watch against straying from the goal and stare alertly within. Tulsi Sahab says in clear words:
"Events of all the fourteen planes (six layers/ planes of the body (the microcosm or the 'pind') and the seven planes or levels of the macro-cosm (brahmanda)) would be surely revealed unto you.
(But for that to happen) don't lose your focus and keep looking intently at the target (as instructed by the Guru)."
Sant Kabir Sahab also concurs,
"A star, that is the radiant visible form or symbol of the All-pervading and the Invisible God, is sighted between the black and white points (tils)
A bird (or refulgent point) dazzles in the mid of the eyes; and there is a door (opening or passage) in that point. Whoever trains and stills his sight at that opening, ultimately swims across the Ocean of existence."
That is, the practiser of bindu dhyan on freezing his sight at first sees a dark point, which subsequently turns into (or leads to sighting of) a white point and finally into a dazzling