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Tratak with Om
Tratak or steady gazing is a wonderful focus exercise. It
includes alternately tratak at an object or level without blinking, then closing
your eyes and emaging the item within your mind's eye. The apply steadies the
wandering mind and concentrates the attention, leading you to concentrate with
pinpoint accuracy. Where the eyes go, the mind follows, so that whenever you fix
your gaze on a particular level, the thoughts too becomes one pointed.
Follow of Tratak
The technique of Tratak
stays much the identical, whatever the target of your gaze is, although
naturally you will have to adapt it slightly when meditating outside.
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Place the object at
eye degree, three feet (ninety cm) from you.
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First adjust your
respiration, then begin to gaze at the thing with out blinking.
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Don't stare or gaze
vacantly - simply look steadily with out straining.
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After a couple of
minute, close your eyes, and maintain your interior gaze regular, imagine
the object.
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When the after-image
vanishes, open your eyes and repeat.
Yantras are geometrical diagrams that serve to concentrate
the mind. Sort of a mantra each yantra has a specific mystical meaning.
O m
- Highly effective signs
A commonly used symbol to concentrate on while training
Tratak is the OM symbol. To some yogi no symbol is more powerful than the
syllable OM, as witnessed by these words from the Mandukya Upanishad: "OM: this
everlasting word is all; what was, what's and what shall be." Within the
Sanskrit letter the longer lower curve represents the ambition state, the upper
curve stands for the waking state and also the curve issuing from the middle
symbolized deep dreamless sleep. The curved shape stands for "maya", the veil of
phantasm and also the dot the transcendental state. When the individual spirit
in man passes by the covering and rests within the transcendental he's
unconventional on the three states and their qualities.
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