Visualization during Meditation
Question
Thank you for continuing to share your knowledge. My query is on which meditation visualization to use. Do I attempt to empty the mind with letting the thoughts rise and fall, or do I visualize the lord in whatever terms that my human mind can relate? I also understand that one can meditate on the guru however I don't want to become attached to the visualization. Thank you once again sir Dhananjay
Answer
One should visualize the empty space that results on closing the eyes and focusing at the Thrikuti (inbetween the eyebrows) as representing the infinite, empty Universe completely filled by the formless Almighty. Then one should merge onself into this infinity and think I am a part of the Lord occupying this infinity and no different. I as a person do not exist. I am the formless and all pervading, infinite Atman, completely merged in the formless Lord. As and when thoughts crop up, they are to be displaced and this concept replaced. When such efforts are carried out regularly for a few years with unbroken Brahmacharya and a life of Yoga, the mind of the meditator becomes completely empty and the Yogi merges into the Almighty through Samadhi (super-consciousness). He will then not even be aware that he is meditating, cannot hear any sound, feel touch etc. His breathing and internal organs, including the heart stop (he cannot know this but a person observing him can). In other words, he is dead to the external world perceived through the senses. He then experiences himself as the Atman (pure soul). In this state, the Yogi expands to the infinity of the Universe. Then there is only the reality of the infinite (Almighty), extending endlessly like a limitless ocean of bliss. It cannot be described. It should be experienced.
This is how meditation is to be carried out. Nothing more needs to be done.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)