The Bindu-Chakra and the Ripening of Enlightenment into
Liberation,
The Synthesis of Light and Sound with Shiva and Shakti
Ekãgrata (concentrated point of one-pointed focus)
chitta leads to Sampragnãta Samãdhi (or Savikalpa), which
may reach four stages:-
i. Savitarka= Examination of what is perceived;
ii. Savichãra= Discrimination of the perception after eliminating
Mayã; Glamour and Illusion
iii. Sananda= Joyful Peace; leading later to Bliss
iv. Asmitã= Simple awareness of individuality beyond personality:
identification with the Triad.
When all vrittis (modifications of the mind stuff) are
ceased to exist and only sub-conscious impressions remain after a constant
practice of Sampragnata Samãdhi, a higher stage of Asampragnata
Samãdhi is attained. Sampragnata, or Savikalpa Samadhi is only
possible after the Second Initiation.
True sustained meditation is only possible after the Second Initiation.
Further, when the disciple (from the soul
standpoint, not the personality) is committed to that path leading to
the Third Initiation points of soul imposed tension become extremely important.
Certain forms of concentration are not possible until then. Asampragnata
or Nirbikalpa Samadhi becomes possible until just prior to the Third Initiation,
but only touched at certain times until after the Third Initiation when
these deepened states are regularly sustained. This is the outcome of
certain meditations that are imposed by the soul and the ashram and the
successful and deepened state of total points of concentration (ekagrata).
The soul, the ashram, and later the monad impose certain points
of concentrated tension throughout the day as well as in ordered times
of formal meditation. This calming of the chitta and the vrittis brings
about a peaceful calmness that is only possible when the personality is
first dominated by the soul, and deepens as the result of personality/soul
fusion.
The peaceful calmness of the mind, as a result of successful
points of tension, is achieved
by cultivating:-
Maitri= Friendliness towards all;
Karunã= Compassion towards the unhappy;
Mudito= Delight in the virtuous and in Bodhicitta;
Apekshãnãm= Indifference towards the Samskaric knots.
If you plug your ears you will hear a sound or a hum. At first it will
sound like the rushing of a river or a waterfall. This is nothing other
than the sound of your blood circulation. If we sit for a longer time
with our ears held and do several rounds of Brahmari (the bee, the inner
hum) or Mursa-Pranayam or Nada Yoga than we begin to hear the sound
of each chakra which like a ladder leads to that sound which is the functioning
of our brain center. If we continue we come to finer and finer resonances;
we hear our brain waves, and at the deepest level reverberate to the Sound
of Silence, the Naam, and the Music of the Spheres.
Altogether there are up to ten different kinds of tones that we hear.
There then appears a light in the head,
produced by these waves. That is called enlightenment but is not yet accompanied
by liberation. For that an eleventh sound occurs, the “Sound of the
Soul'' or “the Self". That
is called Nada. Nada Rupa Para Brahma (the form of the Supreme is sound,
vibration). Now we experience both light and sound. This is the result
of matured awakening of the Kundalini Shakti. This Shakti is what eventually
opens the Bindu Chakra in the head (the lower head center), which then
culminates in the amrita nadi which carries Shakti back to the heart chakra.
We are still not at the end of the journey here. We are now only beginning
to make progress in the direction of liberation or Moksha. This is actually
the beginning of the Yoga-path because up until now we were only searching
and still uncertain.
Once we have perceived this light and this sound, this form of Atma,
of the Supreme, of the Master, of the Self - call it what you may- we
will never forget it. There is a beautiful Vedic song about that: “Oh Lord,
I have seen the radiance of your form and now my search is over''. Once
we have had this experience we know we are on the right path. We have
found the direction in which we must proceed.
The experience comes after the Ajna-Chakra in the direction of the Bindu-Chakra.
In the head is to be found the important triangle of crown, ajna and alta-major charkas. The Bindu Chakra comes into play as a
point in the middle of this Kundalini activated triangle. Some of the
ancient literature shows the activated Bindu Chakra above the Ajna at
the forehead, others depict it as an eclipsed sun (to depict the dark
light of Shamballa). The
Bindu Point, or Chakra, is a result of Synthesis taking hold in the life
of the disciple as a result of becoming sensitive to the non-dual.
To review, Bindu means point, drop or circle. The Bindu-Chakra is associated
with the moon and is depicted in all the Yoga books as a new moon. If
we look closely at the new moon we will see that it has a very thinly
illuminated circle around it. This means that above the Bindu-Chakra everything
is light and illumination. We are not able to see that when this chakra
is closed. Through concentration and practice we can open this chakra
(the arrow of concentration is the most powerful force) and as it begins
to open we see a glimmer of light shining through.
As already mentioned it is from the Bindu-Chakra that the nectar drips
or flows. Until the Vishuddhi-Chakra (
In addition the Bindu-Chakra is the center of the sound. This chakra
is active in people who have musical talent. Any one who wants to develop
musical talent should concentrate on this chakra through Pranayam and
awaken it.
After the Bindu-Chakra we finally reach the Sahasrar-Chakra. Here
Jivatma, the living entity unites with Paramatma. The Shakti
comes to Shiva. Shiva is supreme consciousness. There is an important
correlation with the Bindu-Chakra and the Brahmarandra at the top of the
head. More on this later in the essay.
The Sahasrar-Chakra is located at the top of the head just about where
the fontanel is visible in children. Sahasrar means “Thousand''
or “Infinite".
It is also called the thousand-petalled lotus, the source of the thousands
of positive divine rays. Here is the connection to Atma the divine Self,
Shiva or Supreme Consciousness. The light of the entire universe is Its
light.
Until the Sahasrar-Chakra is awakened this lotus blossom is closed like
a bud. Its light does not shine forth because the petals are shut, hiding
its radiance. The lotus -will not open its thousand petals until the Jivatma
(or we can still call it the Kundalini, the snake, Shakti or Chetanya)
has completed its journey through the Bindu-Chakra. When it is completely
open we see a gem or diamond as brilliant as a thousand suns. Within it
the Jivatma floats like a swan. In Sanskrit swan is called Hamsa.
Hamsa is the liberated radiant soul that flies to heaven. The Paramahansa
is the one who has attained that.
This swan, Jivatma, or Shakti unites with Shiva. Jivatma drinks in this
light, assimilates it and dissolves in it. That is called liberation,
union or Moksha. Jivatma is united with Paramatma forever and that is
the goal of all Yogis.
The doorway leading to the Sahasrar-Chakra is Brahmarandra, the
gateway to Brahma, or gateway to the Highest located at the top of the
head. In the body of each of the more developed living entities there
are nine Doors" mouth,
eyes, ears, nostrils, anus and genitals), but only the human being possesses
the Sahasrar-Chakra and is capable of achieving union with the Supreme
through this tenth door.
Through diligence,
application, high endeavour, and the long and patient following of the
rules laid down, there comes a time when the student is suddenly conscious
- right within the physical brain - of certain unexpected events, an illumination
or a seeing that has before been unknown. It is something that is so real,
yet so momentarily surprising, that no amount of subsequent apparent disproving
can take away from him the knowledge that he saw, he contacted, he felt.”
(Letters On Occult Meditation -page
288).
Now comes to all of you the most important
series of lives, to which the previous points of culmination, were but
stepping stones. In the lives immediately ahead of those upon the Path,
will come final achievement through the instrumentality of the ordered
occult meditation, based on law. For some few may achieve
attainment in this life or the next; for others, shortly in other
lives. (Letters On Occult Meditation -page12).
The world of meaning
and of causes becomes gradually the world in which he finds happiness,
and his selection of his major interests, and the use to which he decides
to put his time and powers, are finally conditioned by the truer spiritual
values. He then is on the path of illumination.
(Esoteric Psychology Volume
I – page 340).
The man's efforts in meditation have opened
a door through which he can pass at will (and eventually with facility),
into a new world of phenomena, of directed activity, and of different
ideals. He has unlatched a window through which light can pour in, revealing
that which is, and always has been existent within the consciousness of
man, and throwing illumination into the dark places of his life; into
other lives; and into the environment in which he moves. He has released
within himself a world of sound and of impressions, which are at first
so new and so different, that he does not know what to make of them. His
situation becomes one requiring much care and balanced adjustment.
Exhilaration is also sometimes found as a
result of the contact with a new world, and strong mental stimulation.
Depression is as frequently a result, based upon a sensed incapacity to
measure up to the realised opportunity. The man sees and knows too much.
He can no longer be satisfied with the old measure of living, with the
old satisfactions, and with the old idealisms. He has touched, and now
longs for the larger measures, for the new and vibrant ideas, and for
the broader vision. The way of the life of the soul has gripped and attracts
him. But his nature, his environment, his equipment, and his opportunities,
appear somehow to frustrate him consistently, and he feels he cannot march
forward into this new and wonderful world. He feels the need to temporise,
and to live in the same state of mind as heretofore, or so he thinks,
and so he decides.
These expansions, which he has undergone as
the result of successful meditation, need not be along the line of recognised
religious effort, or produced by so-called occult revelation. They may
come to him along the line of a man's chosen life activity, for there
is no life activity, no vocational calling, no mental occupation, and
no condition, which cannot provide the key to the unlocking of the door
into the desired wider world, or serve to lead a man to the mountain top,
from which the wider horizon can be seen, and the larger vision grasped.
A man must learn to recognise that his chosen school of thought, his peculiar
vocation, his particular calling in life, and his personal trend, are
only part of a greater whole, and his problem is to integrate consciously
his small life activity into the world activity.
It is this we call illumination, for lack
of a better word. All knowledge is a form of light, for it throws light
into area of awareness, of which we have hitherto been unconscious. All
wisdom is a form of light, for it reveals to us the world of meaning which
lies behind the outer form. All understanding is an evocation of light,
for it causes us to become aware of, or conscious of, the causes which
are producing the outer forms which surround us (including our own), and
which condition the world of meaning, of which they are the expression.
(Esoteric Psychology Volume II – pages 465/8).
The activation
of the Brahmarandra with Bindu
Heretofore all good reaction during and after meditation
has been due to an increase in Pituitrin which holds to through the Second
Initiation. The feelings
of intense pleasure that the old Vedic scholars have described as the
nectar drops of buddhi through the Bindu point can be attributed to a
strong about of ketamine and other secretions of the Pineal Gland.
Shakti, or Kundalini (that is the fire of the base chakra
plus an admixture of Presence) has pierced the Bindu point in the brain
(what modern esotericists have vaguely referred to as a head center still
in the brain) allowing for the nectar of Bindu. Often, due to ray equipment,
a disciple will not be as intensely aware of inner happenings. This is
true until the time of the Third Initiation. With the cracking of the
Causal Body at the third sub-plane, the first synthesis petal of the Egoic
Lotus opens. The continuation of this results in the continuity of consciousness
(the 24 hour awareness in or out of body, in or out of nirbikalpa Samadhi)
mentioned by the Tibetan of the post Third Initiation consciousness.
What makes this possible is that the Bindu drop, in conjunction
with Shakti, permanently expands the Brahmanandra Nadi at the top of the
head, giving full access to the Crown Chakra (and consequently the Jewel
in the Lotus). The opening of this allows Shakti to continue along Her
way until She lights the Chalice. In the process the samskaras become
roasted. Everyone knows that roasted seeds can
never sprout.
When the topmost nadi is opened, the first response is
that of waves of most intense pleasure in the Nadi itself. Every vibration
of the Nadi’s activation brings on Ecstasy beyond description. No
wonder that the greatest mystics of all traditions have spoken of this
time in terms of sexual pleasure.
The ecstasy however, is far beyond that of physical pleasure.
Sohbet, as spoken of by great mystics like Rumi, can
only be experienced with the open Bindu point.
This is not a one time experience, is with earlier initiate
consciousness. The experience leaves the initiate with the most intense
aftermath of “afterglow”. After this, whenever the nondual
Presence summons the disciple to meditation/contemplation/Samadhi, the
Bindu drops continue with the nectar waves of Bliss!
All those Who speak to humanity of the Bliss of the nondual,
the Music of the Spheres, of that which calls to Them from beyond the
three worlds of ordinary human consciousness know of what They speak.
Naught in the three worlds hold them.
Bodhicitta has claimed another Lover. Shiva and Shakti are now forever united.
Now the disciples know the import of the Ancient Mantra
and can recite with knowing:
Oh Thou in Whom we live and move,
The Power that makes all things new,
Unveil to us the Light of the True Spiritual Sun,
Hidden behind a Golden Disk,
That we may know the Whole Truth
And do our Whole Duty,
As we journey to Thy Sacred Feet!