Instructions for Divya Netra Meditation🔗

This meditation involves two separate techniques: one for cleansing the Ajna, and the other for energizing it.

Our lower chakras need only cleansing and channeling. The higher chakras need energizing also – pumping up the energy to the chakra.

In the two phases, you will need to alternately close and open your eyes.

When your eyes are closed, focus on your 'third eye' - on the area of your Ajna chakra.

In the next phase, you will open your eyes - but you are not supposed to see! Don't look through your two eyes as you normally do. Instead, try seeing with your third eye. With your third eye, look intensely at Swamiji's third eye. Alternatively, you may use look at the flame of a lamp lit with ghee or sesame oil.

Try not to blink. Initially, you may feel some discomfort. You may experience a burning sensation in the eyes, or tears may come. Let it happen. This is all part of the cleansing process.

Be prepared to have unusual experiences during this meditation. Your Ajna has never been activated before. Opening the Ajna will open you to a whole new realm of experience. You may see visions of your favourite deities, or find that Swamiji's form disappears and is replaced by a point or beam of light. Sometimes you may see total emptiness where his form or picture was.

Don't be alarmed or lose your clarity at these moments. You are not being hypnotized! In fact, only now are you finally being dehypnotized. Only now is your superconscious awakened. If you see only light or emptiness, it is a sign that you have done the meditation with deep sincerity. Because that is the truth of our nature. We are all nothing but energy. The physical body that we perceive as our own, and the physical existence of everything around us, is nothing but an illusion.

That's why the Ajna chakra is known as Maya Harana – destroyer of illusion.

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