Todays meditation was more at the Manipura chakra. It was more clear. Last year, I had written about the experience of being one with the light. This experience, the portal to enter the Brahmanadi, starts near the Manipur chakra.
When I entered there, I had the similar experience as I had being in the tunnel. The body tries to bring one down by a pulse but one has to persist. At this place, I realized this is the entry where a Yogi can say, Omkaram Bindu sanyuktam nityam dhayanti Yogina. Kamadam mokshadam chaiv, omkaray namonama. (Meaning A yogi always meditated on Aum with the bindu. The end result is he achieves liberation and all his desires are fulfilled). This experience is more of the Brahmarandhra, the nadi within the chitra and vajra which is within the sushumna.
When within, one feels liberated, no longer confined to the body. This is why Yogananda described in God talks with Arjuna, that the brahmanadi is within and without the body. It is a misnomer to say it is within the body.
Some people have used the word third eye, for some gifted individuals who have the ability to see the auras of different individual. Edgar Casey Sr. from the 1930’s was one such person. There have been others like that also. This is a gift, develops spontaneously.
However, the word third eye, in the sense I use it and that which is described in Mahayoga Vigyana and the sense in which it is used in the bible (when thine eye is one) and in the sense used by Yogananda Maharaja is a the eye with 3 colors. Outer golden yellow, inner blue and innermost bright white shining star. I have had occasional glimpses of this but never sustained nor at will in seconds.
I reconfirmed my experience of the Manipur chakra by reading about it in Mahayoga Vigyana.
A few more points
1) Brahmanadi is where the causal body or Karana deha resides.
2) When in there, meaning when the prana is there – unexplained joy is the rule. It lasts all day.
3) How does one know that his prana has reached to the innermost or deepest layer – the brahmanadi? There is intense joy, the sense of being without body, all the prana from the body starts rolling back and goes within and the body becomes and feels numb, there is no longer the downward pull of the subtle body (which can be in form of emotions, thoughts etc) and intuition becomes very rapidly clear. This is why Gurudev, Yogananda and others emphasized on the power of intuition. This intuition power is a direct result or even synonymous of being in brahmanadi and also of being in the true consciousness which resides here.
4) It is called brahmanadi because it is the road that leads us to Brahma or God
5) The 7 chakras are here. This is where one finally begins to have a perception of the chakras. The nadas become clear, we are able to locate the nadas and then the different lotus
6) It is the seat of consciousness. Rest of the consciousness is just a projection coming from here.
Bhavin