Potpourri

I tried to hide the fact I had eye glasses from Gurudev.  So, I made sure I did not wear my eye glasses or anything around him.  However, out of the blue a few days after I was with him, he suddenly said, if you do Tratak properly, you wont need eye glasses.  This was 25 years ago.  I still wear glasses and my number has kept increasing. 

This morning I was on my computer and suddenly, for no reason without eye glasses, my vision suddenly corrected.  It was about a minute but it corrected perfectly.  I tried to get back to the stage of  not needing eye glasses later but I could not do so.  What I did understand was that if only I could keep my eyes  partly focused within, then I would not need eye glasses.  Even as I am typing this, I can achieve this success partly. 

Samta is more and more stable. Situations, people which would be upsetting to me in the past are now neutral. I am more like a silent spectator not caring nor intervening but fully capable of changing it.  Reaching the stage of “gita” is now routine and easy.  This is the stage where “sankalpa” shakti truly develops.  This stage, when one wills it happens because there is no reaction from the mind or the intellect or even from the body. 

Again, I can understand how, one slowly learns to know the future.  The sequence per Gurudev in Muktashastra is as follows. First one knows the future.  First of oneself, then of the family, then of the friends and town and finally of the nation and world.  The reason for this sequence is that when one enters the Sushumna, our first encounter is the hidden emotions or chitta born reactions which we learn to neutralize and watch and as a result there of the future is revealed. 

Finally, the body is composed of 9 openings through which the soul departs.  2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, mouth, anus and urethra.  Within the body there are 2 more openings one is called the tenth door and then above the Agna chakra is the elevent door which leads us to freedom.