Yoga Of Inner Light And Sound

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

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The Eternal dies never, His light keeps shining spontaneously ever."
Talking of bindu dhyān, Guru Nanak dev Ji Maharaj says that he hopped onto the star or the bindu. He practised inner meditation and beheld the Infinitesimal Point which is the witness of Guru within:
"With the grace of God who can make life blissful with a mere cast of His glance, I hopped on to the star (absolute point or bindu).
The inner light itself that I could behold with the grace of Ram became the witness of the Guru.
Having annihilated my ego, says Nanak Ji, I hopped onto the star."
Lord Shri Ram wandering through the woods during his exile comes to the sage Valmiki's cottage and requests him to suggest a suitable place where he could stay temporarily. Goswami Tulsidas Ji presents a vivid account of what the great sage Valmiki had to say in reply in the Section called Ayodhya Kand of his famed epic Ramcharit Manas: That is,
Those who keep gazing unceasingly like hawk-cuckoo (a mythical bird which is said to keep its eyes fixed skywards in the hope of getting a drop of water that rains down in a particular constellation or asterism)
In the hope of getting a glimpse of the clouds (of a particular constellation)
Disregarding the waters of rivers, oceans or other large water bodies...
Gets ecstatic as it receives a tiny droplet (the droplet here has been used as a metaphor for the radiant form of point visualised by a thirsty spiritual seeker in the inner sky).
In the blissful hearts of such devotees... Make your residence, O Lord Ram, along with your brother, Laxman and spouse, Sita."
Our most adorable Gurudev, Maharshi Mehi Paramhans, has very exquisitely explained the above quartets of Goswami Ji. He writes in his commentary: