Concentration (Continued)

Since the time our reasoning matured and our absorbing nature was developed by purification and perfection in the course of the yoga sadhana (living in a systematic way as defined in the texts, say that any act performed by us is a sadhana, it is only our individual understanding of these that create disturbance to the peace), we have been studying the mind under the various topics some of which are: - mysteries of the mind, power of the seat of reason & Knowledge, intellectual ability, grasping the nature of things, understanding of the nature of the mind (meaning, quality, magnitude of the range of mental vision). This has helped us to simplify the methods of meditation and concentration. Mind works through the internal essence or subtle part of the main sense organs and external senses. Mind is always dynamic, alert and continuously informed within the limits of its exposure and development. There is one law of nature that says that everything is in a constant motion, time cycle, if their flow of energy is not restricted then there is joy, peace or harmony as it will be in the most natural domain, and on the other hand, when restriction or becomes stagnant there is sorrow, disturbance or discord (friction, argument, fright fear, or grief). This will cause anything that is stagnant to cause pain, stress, strain, & discomfort (a characteristic of the basic element air), this is exactly what happens when contraction on a feeling of sorrow & pain. The gross is more stagnant than the subtle, which has greater characteristics of fluidity, which is more stagnant than the fire due its higher mobility, which is more stagnant than a gas, which is more stagnant than energy and space. Thus, thoughts of space and energy will make us arrive at the state more easily in comparison with gross things. This is what is achieved when we transcend from gross (physical or external thing) to subtle, and then to super subtle realm of energy and space.

We consciously or unconsciously gather information (energy) in the process of living, through our internal & external senses, the assumptions we make when we accept the perceived, learn, and reason with the topic (subject or object), they are stored in the memory, this is stagnation in a way and is the cause of all the things we experience while living. That information that is accepted by us or understood is stored in the memory (establish impression firmly in the mind, the power of retaining and recalling past experience). Thus, when a similar signal or some thing related with a topic is brought to the mind by the senses, it is compared with the memory, and then consciousness is generated along with an illusionary picture, visualized in the mind along with the experience.

Say we are concentrating on an apple, the eyes can see the reflected light from the surface of the apple along with its texture and shape, and this is using only one sense organ. Keeping this in active memory now add the feelings (reflections) of touch, taste, smell, and the sound of crunching without actually eating it, if this generates the same enjoyment (experience) of eating it then our concentration has become wholesome or single pointed with respect to one main topic of eating the apple. Note, even though there are so many different signals they are actually dealing with only one topic of concentration and in a sense it is a global feeling (more complete as it covers all the topics of that apple. We have created the reality with complete clarity using our gross senses and further aided the conscious ness with subtle sense (the essence of gross sense organs) to create a reality in our imagination. (Care to be noted here is not to generate a flow so large in the initial stages, as it can manifest or create the apple in reality, this is necessary as many of the components that create this may not have been purified, [this is done by guiding the intensity of the desire to superficial aspects at first and then gradually increase this intensity to experience higher clarity with respect to subtle essence and still higher in the feelings level and then to energy level the final stage to generate the oneness of all things.]Yes, this requires very high level of will power, determination with purity and perfection). We can start with an apple or any other thing / subject / object or abstract thought with open eyes and then graduate to the level of tip of the nose and the further graduate to closed eye or internalization of concentration. But mastering the tip of the nose concentration is vital for progress as per our experience and understanding if we want to achieve the state of meditation called “turyia” or meditative perpetual bliss. Note here that do not assign any specific place to the consciousness during the internalization of concentration, (say mind inside the head, heart or any where out side) just think of the point with out reference, let it be any where it really does not matter, this will help in expanding or engulfing the entirety easily. In meditative state, there is the flow of energy and consciousness is active with the difference to the other states by not attaching it with any one particular thing, this means that there is global awareness rather than specific awareness. Thus if we can consciously tune our activities in this manner we can achieve success easily since we can guide the energy in the direction we intend (guide). Perceptions of (sound, smell, sight, touch & thought), divine illumination, enlightening experiences are all energy impulses of larger and larger frequencies and wave length when compared to gross things. The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of soluble solutions in terms of say acids (which dissociate the fluid components to give hydrogen ions) and bases (which dissociate to give hydroxyl ions), is also dependent on the amount of water or dilution, or the product of an acid and a base or a salt and water. Hydrogen ions being the simplest atoms with only one proton and electron makes them closest to the pure energy, thus consciousness becomes faster and faster and globalization becomes easier. Similarly mechanical vibrations transmitted to elastic medium (sensation of hearing) create some auditory effect. A mental image generated can also create by an auditory perception, not real auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds, composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the reception area organ and the hair cells of the cochlea (A sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head). The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain, ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts the internal organs. All are responsible to make the mental vision complete, the synchronizing of all these signals from the different senses with respect to frequency, wave length and amplitude create the harmony when we are able to understand them as same thing in many different signals, their difference is removed and flow of energy is directed towards one single path. THIS IS SAME AS REMOVING DIFFERENES WE HAD ASSUMED. Now intellect is free to experience only this as there is no more need of any further correlation. This is when we experience the first glimpse of peace. Note if we change the topic then the state is lost, thus we need to come to one single point and stay with it, gradually we develop the understanding that all the rest is similar and give up the activity of engaging our intellect to them. This is maturity when related to working of the mind and brain.  

To Be Continued …..