VBT – Meditation 11.4
Inner Senses
The sixth sense joins you together. The inner and the outer disappear in that bridging, and one for the first time comes to know existence as a totality. I and thou disappear. There is utter unity. Try this: Shut your eyes, ears and lips. Then, gently touch someone. You will experience a current surging through your hand.
Although all our senses are extroverted, a seeker needs to go within. Meditation is the discovery of the inner sense. “When you see or feel an ant creeping on your body, stop all the doors of the senses. Close your eyes. Assume you are blind. Close your ears. Assume you cannot hear. How will you close them? It is easy. Stop breathing for a second and you will disconnect with all your senses. As the mind stops, time stops. And for the first time you see the seer, you observe the observer. You become aware of awareness.”
This meditation technique works wherever you are: under sea, in the mountains, in fear, anger, crises or pain. The result will surprise you. However, do not set a tall order for yourself. Start with one sense. Become totally aware of it. It will be a springboard and your sensitivity; of other senses will be enhanced.
Our sensitivity is a door to our inner being and the outer universe as well, but we are always occupied.
Every sense must become more alive, and then you can experiment with this technique. Everywhere light is – in many, many shapes and forms, light is happening everywhere. Look at it! And everywhere light is because the whole phenomenon is based on the foundation of light. Look at a leaf or a flower or a rock, and sooner or later you will feel rays coming out of it. Just wait patiently. Don’t be in a hurry because nothing is revealed when you are in a hurry. In a hurry you are dull. Wait silently with anything, and you will discover a new phenomenon which was always there, but of which you were not alert – not aware of it.
Our sensitivity is a door to our inner being and the outer universe as well, but we are always occupied. Our mind is always busy with useless things, which suck our energy and make us totally insensitive to this amazing universe we are gifted with. There is another Shiva sutra: Vismayo Yoga Bhumika (the preface for Yoga is wonderment). Yoga life begins with a sense of wonder. Wonderment is essential nourishment to all our senses, which make our being fully alive and vibrant.
If you feel the whole world is filled with life and light, then you are changing your body chemistry. And this is a chain reaction. When your body chemistry changes, you can look at the world and it will look more alive. And if it looks more alive, your body chemistry will change again, and then it becomes a chain.
We can live a life of illumination.
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