Question from Joseph: I sometimes experience visual phenomena and images pictures with open eyes also closed in meditation, sometimes the pictures are vivid other times they are somewhat blurred. My question is: Are these phenonomema just projections of my mind? Or are they real?
Question from sumit: Swamiji suggests the half-open half-closed position for meditation…..does the gaze has to be upwards… also what exactly is meant by an upward gaze?…..is one to look sharp ahead like tratak, or is it that the eyes just needed to be upward without the sharp gaze or looking ahead and the mind focused at eyebrow centre?
Question from PRASATH.P: During meditation many thoughts are coming in my mind. I try to concentrate on breath, but I did not know if i concentrated on breath or not. After completing meditation i feel sleepy. Is it correct or not? Please send me correct solution.
Question from sharon anderson: While I was meditating, I was focused on becoming absorbed in the aum sound, and also seeing the inner light, and a contradiction creeped into my efforts. Swami explained that sight and sound accompany movement, and like a metronome I was trying to dwindle to complete stillness at this point. But, now there would be no aum sound to expect…
Question from Janice Freebern: What is the meaning/significance of hearing crickets in the right ear? (This does not only happen in meditation, but sometimes after I pray; read spiritual literature; etc.) It is only in the right ear. I have read about this before but cannot find this information at the moment. Blessings
Question from Owen: Dear All, On two occasions during my life I have experienced the presence of a golden orb during meditation. It was an vivid and intense feeling of safety and joy. I would have stayed there had I been able to. I spoke to a Buddhist monk about it recently and he said it was a grace which I shouldn’t try…
Question from tracy: I have been practicing meditation for about three months now and up until now they have felt quite good and relaxing. The last few meditations I have done have felt really strange and uncomfortable, just as I feel as though I am in a deep state my body goes numb, Mr heart starts racing and the only way I can…
Question from Peter: Can you flesh out and explain further the link between the physical act of meditation (focusing on the breath, etc.) and the spiritual benefit it provides? Is it that you turn off all the other senses and are just left with what can be defined as your true self/soul? How does meditation on a physical level help you come closer…
Question from Luiz Olavo: Dear friends. I have a doubt about spiritual eye. The spiritual eye really appears between the eyebrows (obviously It depends on the spiritual development) or is it imagined (visualization) and due to great concentration during meditation it appears in our mind? Jai Guru! Olavo
Question from Bhushan: I have read somewhere that Swamiji says that when someone is sitting in meditation in his subconscious mind he had doubts the door is locked or not? Also ensure first that things are in order may be like health, money, relation, family etc. and he states that this is not correct. When you meditate just forget everything and surrender to…
