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4 Stages of the Spiritual Eye In Meditation

Summary

, 24 min

Four stages of the spiritual eye: a small distant light, a large close light, light wrapping around perception, and meeting the thumb-like self in the download phase. Covers Yoni Mudra for developing it, the view that it is the corpus callosum, and why it is a useful roadmap toward samadhi but not a requirement.

In this video

Teaches
Spiritual eyeYoni Mudra
Discusses
Satyacharan LahiriThumb-like selfLeft and right brainHakalauLahiri MahasayaCorpus callosumGranthisDownload PhaseDual and non-dualSamadhiExpansion
Mentions
Khechari mudraAshok SinghAshoke ChatterjeeBhagavad GitaDo Be Do Be DoOM techniqueSwallowed by the WhaleFreeze ResponseHigher SelfThree Essentials

Key moments

00:00Three stages of the spiritual eye, expanded into four01:10A friend's search in India for a guru who knew Khechari03:03Ashokji: "Let me know when you meet yourself"03:30Satyacharan Lahiri watches himself through the spiritual eye05:14Lahiri Mahasaya's diary: "I met my thumb-like self"07:09Don't grasp the light: embrace it with the right brain09:25Developing the spiritual eye: dilating the eyes with Hakalau11:08How to do Yoni Mudra, two versions12:36Why Lahiri put Yoni Mudra at the end of meditation13:24The spiritual eye as the corpus callosum; the first knot as proof15:17Stages one and two: a small, far light, then big and close15:53Stage three: the light wraps around your perception17:00Stage four: meeting yourself in the download phase18:11Beyond the download phase: absorption and the first samadhi19:53Recap of the spiritual eye progression21:31Not necessary: the three essentials and inducing expansiveness