Astral Projection
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Shubham: Is astral projection real? Can a normal person who is not a gyani or guru do it?
Meditation & Spiritual Questions Answered By Expert Yogis
Guidance in Meditation, Yoga, and the Spiritual Life
What Are You Supposed to See During Meditation?
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Matthew Collins: I’ve been practicing Hatha Yoga and vippasana samatha meditation for some time now, and as of a few months ago have started to see royal blue diamonds in the air, shimmering blue energy and “pops” of light. I am experiencing pressure between the eyes and spontaneous kriyas during meditation and off the cushion. More recently I’ve started to see little…
Meditation Positions to Sit for Long Hours in Meditation
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Rajani Iyer: How can I increase the length of my sitting during meditation? I’m able to sit comfortably for an hour or so after which my knees start to hurt badly and I’ve to shift my legs. Ideally I want to sit for at least 1.5 hours to 2 hours or more. Kindly help me.
Energy Going Out of the Head
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Sam: At times, I feel like energy is going out of my head. I don’t understand what is this.
Feeling Joy with Chanting
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Anonymous: Whenever I chant mentally a mantra or maxim or name of a diety, I feel indescribable joy, contentment and calmness. But by the second or third stint of chanting, I no longer feel the same. It appears like just any other phrase. Is it a problem? Should I even chant with a definite purpose to seek joy and not do…
How Does it Feel When a Chakra Opens?
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Vivek: While doing Hong Sau I feel a cold laser entering my crown, piercing my head and moving to my neck. My body starts vibrating forward and backward. I also experience a strong pull on my crown so that something is moving very intensely from the neck to the crown. And during this my head starts leaning backward such that my…
Where Should I Look When Meditating?
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Pk yadav: Some confusion of meditation. You say eye closed and upward gaze in midway in eyebrow. Various spiritual organisations and gurus say meditate in middile eyebrow but no upward gaze, just assume to aajana chakra like lotus. I am very much confused about both meditation techniques. Please tell me what is difference and what effect these two meditation methods.
How Do You Sit Comfortably While Meditating?
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Pinkesh: I have been practicing meditation for a month. When I sit in the cross leg posture after half an hour, my legs become numb. Is this a bad thing?
Is this visual experience normal?
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from May: Today during meditation I started seeing this dark purple fire like circle, and it became intense. I began feeling euphoric and a different sensation than I ever had and began it lean into it. All the sudden my eyes starts moving back and forth really fast and I could feel my eyes fighting to stay closed but I continued to…
How to Handle Nightmares
Nayaswami Mukti
Question from Surabhi P Maheshwari: I have experienced severe depression and anxiety for several years. I recently started meditation, an hour daily every morning and night. I am pretty happy with my meditation practice but have been having really bizarre nightmares since about 3 days, consistently. The last one was bad enough for me to wake up more scared than I have been in a…
