Concept
Spiritual eye
The spiritual eye is an inner light seen in meditation: a white or golden ring around a deep blue cave with a white star at its center, often first just a deepening darkness. It is taught as a road sign toward absorption, not a goal, approached by gazing with dilated, expansive eyes rather than grasping.
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Variations of the 3rd Eye - Yogi Explains
Covers the many forms it can take, from a distant partial halo to the blue cave and star, and how it draws closer as meditation deepens.
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Seeing the Spiritual eye - tips and tricks - shambhavi mudra
Three steps to try: get into heart rate variability until the hands are hot and heavy, press the eyes gently, then dilate them.
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The 3rd Eye is a Trap
Explains why grasping at the light with the left brain makes it vanish, and why gazing with right-brain expansion works better.
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05:54“Now as we continue this journey, it's very likely that we have a vision of the spiritual eye, and that will appear as a golden ring or a white ring to start sometimes, but then it will turn into a golden ring, and in the center will be a darkness.”00:48“Very often, the spiritual eye will appear very far away.”10:45“Yogis very often need confirmation to know they are seeing the spiritual eye.”00:31“The spiritual eye can arise spontaneously while you're in meditation, and that's really the best way that it can possibly happen.”00:03“Today, I want to talk about the spiritual eye, and I have a number of these videos.”00:05“You're sitting in meditation, and all of a sudden, you might have a vision of a round, white or golden circle, and inside, you might see a bluish or purplish or indigo center, and in the very center of that, you might begin to see a little white star.”00:01“Today, I want to talk to you about the three stages of the spiritual eye, and I like to expand on it.”00:01“Today, I want to talk about developing the spiritual eye.”00:37“So the thing that happens when you first see the spiritual eyes, you go, is that is that really the spiritual eye?”00:01“Today I want to talk about catching the spiritual eye, and it's almost impossible proposition for the yogi.”01:41“It's inside the brain, but it is projected out as if it is in front of you, but it's not.”05:20“He's in front of the spiritual eye, and what does he do in front of the spiritual eye?”00:07“So a viewer asked me to talk about the Kutastha, the spiritual eye, and specifically about a talk that Yogananda gave when he was a young man.”11:44“So I've talked about the spiritual eye a lot on this channel already, and one of the things that I mentioned is that the first thing that you might see is that white circle, and it's it looks like it's right here in front of you.”03:11“And what he's trying to do is point out to you the division between where you're looking and where your attention is.”00:01“Today, I want to talk about the spiritual lightnings that can be experienced in the spiritual eye.”00:28“The thing that I realized about the spiritual eye is that it is light, right?”11:09“Okay, so the last thing that we promised in this video, the thing that I realized about the spiritual eye is that it is light, right?”00:03“Today, I want to talk about the spiritual eye.”16:32“I'm meditating, and I see the spiritual eye, and oh my God, God must love me.”03:43“As you enter into the spiritual eye, into the feeling of the spiritual eye, it will progress.”01:59“Then Yogananda said, in your spiritual eye, while you're thinking of them, look into your spiritual eye.”00:28“And the very popular place to put your mind is the spiritual eye.”01:37“I would actually spend my entire day focusing on the spiritual eye, and that's a very, very ungrounding practice.”09:14“So I walked around contemplating this, and I'm like, "Oh my God, the spiritual eye is a gauntlet of truth.”22:50“You might feel when you feel that sensation at the spiritual eye, try and pull it back to the medulla, or pull it up towards the top of your head and open it up, because that's a much better place to feel that feeling of the first knot.”04:38“So specifically with the spiritual eye, he told me the doorway of the spiritual eye is where you go out and you have visions and you encounter powers.”02:45“But you, as you're doing heart rate variability resonance, may also encounter this knot, or if you're doing Kriya Yoga, you might encounter this knot, and it's a magnetic pull at the spiritual eye.”02:41“And so, the light of the spiritual eye is actually a road sign.”06:29“So when the yogi looks into the spiritual eye, there's a riddle that they tell.”10:36“One of the main ways that we may encounter this subconscious awakening of Kundalini is the drawing sensation at the spiritual eye.”08:04“And as we keep going, we may encounter spiritual light.”08:11“You are there with the true guru, the spiritual eye right in front of you, and so that's the Krishna state because you're actually with Krishna in that moment, the true true meaning of Krishna.”10:05“And they said, "Well, I'm seeing the spiritual eye every single time, and I'm not sure how I should go forward into the cave of the spiritual eye."”09:45“So, just seeing the spiritual eye is not enough.”07:11“And when you look in the writings of Lahiri Mahasaya, he says over and over and over again that the spiritual eye, the third eye, is the one truth.”12:30“It happens through this balancing, through coming into that central channel, the prana rising up, taking us into the brain, so we can be just with the spiritual eye, the real cave.”10:06“You might see the light of the spiritual eye.”05:32“And you're sitting in front of the spiritual eye.”08:40“You might feel it here in the Kutastha, which we know from following my channel.”07:33“And it's the same thing with the spiritual eye and the medulla.”12:49“If you do 144 kriyas and you do them really well, you may spontaneously see the light of the spiritual eye, and that light that you see makes you realize I am not this just this physical flesh.”02:08“Want to put our attention here at the spiritual eye, and while your attention is there, you can imagine that the in breath is coming in through the spiritual eye, and the out breath is going out through the spiritual eye.”03:50“And that is what the Kutastha, what the spiritual eye, is a reflection of.”02:44“So that is the first stage, and then that will ease off as you start to feel the second stage, which is a pulling at the third eye, a magnetic sensation as your energy is being drawn back to the third, pulled to the third eye.”06:12“So if you do several more sets, then you know that you're somewhere closer to the spiritual eye, and that's what we're looking for.”01:00“So that feeling that you get between the spiritual between the between the eyes at the spiritual eye—that is not superconsciousness.”09:23“Because you have to be in a very relaxed state in order to see the light of the spiritual eye.”04:25“Your spiritual eye is a broadcast center, so you can think of it like the radio tower of your body.”12:44“You could point yourself towards the spiritual eye.”05:35“You probably don't want to overuse your spiritual eye.”09:53“And when you get the bells and you and the whistles and the candy and the spiritual eye and whatever and the experience, you go, "Oh my God, thank you.”05:23“You think that because I see the spiritual eye, therefore I am a success.”19:28“He says, I've been seeing the spiritual eye for years, years and years and years.”10:43“He started practicing the cute Chihuahua meditation, and one week he'd been seeing the spiritual eye, and one week bliss started to come to him through his spiritual eye.”02:10“Like, for example, just focus on the spiritual eye.”08:10“He heard about the spiritual eye.”01:53“So there's the light of the spiritual eye, there's the sound of the Om vibration, and there is this vibrational state that the yogis found so very long ago.”07:15“It's like looking into the spiritual eye.”15:00“Did I just leave it at my spiritual eye?”11:31“The the thing that you're trying to experience is the sensation of absorption where you get sucked through the spiritual eye.”05:09“In one week, he was feeling bliss come through his spiritual eye.”22:18“And so, but you might feel you'll go through this time where you're just a head or you're just the skull, and then that will disappear as well, and then you might just be the spiritual eye.”04:47“People are describing the spiritual eye and then I say, yes, that was the spiritual eye.”12:34“I just did five minutes of the cute baby meditation every day, and suddenly I'm looking into the spiritual eye.”13:40“So he had been seeing the spiritual eye for years and years.”08:46“I got to grab that spiritual eye, but that's the mistake, okay?”11:38“If you see the spiritual light, look at that spiritual light and expand.”07:53“So the yogi might see the spiritual eye, and that's a charged connective tissue between the left hemisphere of the brain and the right hemisphere of the brain.”15:17“Maybe you're sitting there in front of the spiritual eye, and that's your whole world—just the darkness and the spiritual eye—and the body is gone, and the breath is dimmed out because it's in the tranquil breath, right?”15:05“Maybe you see the spiritual eye.”14:29“What are other signs of spiritual progress other than the spiritual eye?”09:15“And so a lot of people see the spiritual eye or they get the tranquil breath and they go, what do I do now and what I get?”01:44“A hole developed in the stone, which is of course a metaphor for the spiritual eye.”07:55“We're looking for a little bit of the vision of the spiritual eye, just because it shows us where to look.”10:33“When it's just you and your brain, when it's just you and the spiritual eye, and that spiritual eye is the presence of the divine inside of your yogic experience.”07:49“You might feel a magnet at the spiritual eye, which is also described as Lahiri Mahasaya's first knot, the experience of the first knot.”00:44“This particular kriya goes to the medulla, then goes forward to the spiritual eye, and then comes up over the brain and then back down.”04:08“When all of those are silenced, when those projections reverse back into the brain, and you are face to face with the spiritual eye, the one reality that is Sahaja, that is the natural state.”04:43“And so, it has to be the expansion of the spiritual eye, expanding, dilating our eyes, letting go, falling into surrender, letting all of the muscles deeply relax.”11:53“He's taking the earth, the the orb, on his shoulders, which means he is seeing the spiritual eye in meditation.”08:22“These are all the the body becomes like a shadow, and you find yourself in front of the spiritual eye, the only reality, the true reality.”03:05“And so the first place that we're going to put the mind is the spiritual eye because it's a favorite place of everybody, right?”06:13“If you're interested in seeing spiritual light in the spiritual eye, if you're if you're interested in having any kind of perception or experience inside meditation, you don't have to see light, by the way.”08:59“I am meeting myself at all times through the gateway of the spiritual eye.”00:58“They go up and like we're looking backwards because the kutastha is like a mirror for the medulla oblongata.”05:03“The tongue to touch, and when you do that, it has the the spiritual eye has the opportunity to light up.”02:09“People often think that the spiritual eye in the front of the forehead, named the Kutastha, is the ajna chakra, and that's a big mistake.”00:17“You want to take your eyes and look up to the spiritual eye.”12:19“It means we should be alone in the cave of the spiritual eye, without any of the senses telling us anything, and without any memories of those five senses bothering us either.”04:25“The spiritual eye would start to spin.”04:02“We direct our gaze to the spiritual eye, and that is only a reflection of the medulla, right?”16:20“We we look up to the spiritual eye, and we say that we're taking the energy from the two eyes, and we're putting it back into the one spiritual eye.”01:18“So I'm going to look up to the spiritual eye and press all of this.”02:03“So you can watch the breath come in through your nose and watch it in your belly, or you can watch it in your nose and your chest, or you can look up to your spiritual eye and feel your spiritual eye and feel your breath at the same time.”16:12“Or, you can look up to your spiritual eye.”00:10“I had a great question about what does samadhi feel like, and the person asked if it was the sensation that you feel between the spirit, between the eyes at the spiritual eye.”07:57“So you got to believe powerfully, and then once you've sent out that energy through the broadcast center of the spiritual eye, engaging your heart, putting your heart behind that, then you can relax and listen.”