happiness is the journey
itself not the end
a mini course to lead a life
of bliss, joy and happiness in every
moment not waiting for it till the end of the day / goal /life
3rd Eye Practice
Lessons
CONTENTS
LESSON 1: 3RD
EYE
LESSON 2: EXPERIENCING
3RD EYE
LESSON 3: BLISS
LESSON 4: CHOOSING
SORROW OR HAPPINESS
LESSON 5: KARMA
LESSON 6: KARMATEET
LESSON 7: ACTIONS
WITH 3RD EYE AWARENESS
LESSON 1: 3RD EYE
WHAT IS 3RD EYE ?
3RD eye is known as
self. 3rd eye is known as soul. It is the point of attention,
concentration, Dhyan, focus. I means the one who is attentive. In fact, there
is not much difference between I and attention. Hence, I can call myself as
ATTENTION. I am attention. I am naturally attentive without any stress or
tension or staring. I remain attention in a easy way.
Whenever there is attention, I am
self aware, I am soul conscious. When there is no attention, I am not self
aware and I am not soul conscious.
Questions and Answers:
1. Who am I?
I am attention
2. How can we be self aware?
By attention.
Practice: Be attentive in all actions throughout the day with the
attention from 3rd eye.
Practice to become aware of 3rd eye:
Keep your eyes look straight but
let the attention be on the tip of your index fingers of both the hands. Keep
moving your both the index fingers far away against each other by looking
straight with eyes but let the attention
be on the fingers. This will help you know that it is the 3rd eye
which looks through the eyes.
LESSON 2 : EXPERIENCING 3RD EYE
HOW DO I EXPERIENCE MYSELF?
I experience myself by means of
silence, existence, being aware of Consciousness. In natural course of actions,
our attention is diverted or focused on worldly objects through our 5 senses
and most of the time, our attention is focused on thoughts unconsciously. Now,
to experience myself, I have to bring back all my attention from worldly
objects, 5 senses, thoughts to my own self. When I bring back all my diverted
attention to 3rd eye, then I become self aware. Otherwise we remain
aware of non-self.
When I bring all attention to 3rd
eye, then I feel my existence of stillness, silence, self awareness. And it is
natural without any tension or stress or staring. It has to be easy and
natural.
Questions and Answers:
How can I experience myself?
Being aware of 5 senses, bring
the attention to 3rd eye from 5 senses and feel the stillness.
This stillness and silence can
also be experienced by keeping our thoughts to the minimum like 0 to 4 thoughts
per second.
Practice: Practice stillness or silence whenever you don’t have to
focus on external objects.
LESSON 3: BLISS
WHAT IS THE STRUCTURAL FORM AND
OTHER DIMENSIONS OF 3RD EYE?
3rd eye is just a
point of light. It does not have any physical form or weight. Because it is
just a point of light and does not have physical weight, whenever our attention
is focused on 3rd eye, we feel light and because of lightness, we
feel bliss, happiness and unconditional love.
Questions and Answers:
What are the other qualities
other than silence I experience being aware of 3rd eye?
Lightness, Bliss, happiness and
unconditional love.
PRACTICE:
Wherever our attention is, we
tend to absorb the qualities of the object where our energy (attention) flows.
The easy way to feel our point of energy (3rd eye) is to look at a
point. When we stare or look at a point without any other thoughts, very soon
we will experience ourselves as a point of light.
For few seconds, let the
attention be on the external point of light, after that let the attention be
diverted to the 3rd eye at the middle of forehead and feel the
lightness, happiness and bliss of being a point of light.
Whilst doing all activities where
there is no point of light to stare, image a Supreme point of light and you
will start experiencing the lightness, bliss and happiness at the centre of
your forehead in your 3rd eye.
LESSON 4: CHOICE
-
COMPULSIVE,
PAINFUL AND DEPENDENT OR INTELLIGENT, HAPPY AND INDEPENDENT CHOICE
HOW DOES THE THIRD EYE BECOME A
CREATOR OR CREATIVE AND REMAIN SELF RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS EVERY THOUGHT AND
ACTION?
3rd eye becomes a
creator or become creative using thoughts.
Thoughts are stored in the form of memories in 3rd eye known
as sanskars or habits or character. Thoughts are used to analyze right and
wrong which is known as Intellect or Intelligence. And in general the function
of thoughts are known as mind. In fact there is nothing called mind but just
thoughts. The ideas, beliefs about a person or objects known as attitude.
3rd eye can create a
thought whenever it feels so and it can stop using thoughts when it is not
required like the body uses hands and legs whenever it is required and other
times when not required, limbs are allowed to rest.
The mind does not have any
control on its own. But it is the 3rd eye which uses thoughts. Many
times we say that I don’t want to do it but my mind does it. It is like we
create something out of nothing. The truth is It is the soul / 3rd
eye does everything and mind never does anything on its own. By making the
invisible non existent mind responsible, many a times, I, the third eye skip
the responsibility of controlling the thoughts / habit / attitude/ memory /
character.
Mind is the word we used to skip
our responsibility. When I know, I , the third eye is responsible as a Creator
of thoughts, I can take control of thoughts and thereby I take control of my
own life.
I, 3rd eye is self-responsible
for whatever thoughts I had created in this birth from childhood days till date
and I am also responsible for all those thoughts I had created in my previous
life times.
At any given situation, if I have
the awareness of 3rd eye, I never get entangled in the past memory,
habit, attitude, character and personality but I use my Intelligence and my own
choice based on the present current situation and deal effectively.
So, the awareness of 3rd
eye, the attention is not that I use it once in a while or when I sit in
meditation, I use it every moment, every second to remain intelligent and
remain self-aware.
Questions and Answers:
1. How
3rd eye function through thoughts?
3rd
eye function through thoughts by using thoughts as mind, intellect and
sanskars.
2. What
are the different forms the thoughts take?
Thoughts take
the form of memory, habit, attitude, character and personality.
3. What
is habit?
Repeated
thoughts which has become a natural behavior is known as habit
4. What
is attitude?
Beliefs, ideas
that are formed part of behavior is known as attitude.
5. What
is memory or 3rd eye self-created program?
All those
thought impressions in different forms like habit, attitude, character,
personality are known as memory or program.
6. Can
mind function on its own without the attention of 3rd eye?
No, mind cannot
function on its own. Because it itself does not have any existence. Mind is
just a function of thoughts.
7. Who
has control over thoughts? Mind or third eye?
It is the third
eye which has control over thoughts. Mind does not have control over thoughts,
because it never exists on its own in the absence of thoughts.
8. How
do I know that my thoughts and actions are intelligent like a human being and
not compulsive and automatic like a Robot?
By thinking and
doing every action with self awareness and attention of 3rd eye.
Practice:
Whatever action I perform, let me
aware of my thoughts and action to know
if it is done compulsively through my past memory, habit, attitude, character
and personality or if I am doing it consciously with Intelligence and attention
through my 3rd eye based on the needs of present and current
prevailing situations.
LESSON 5: KARMA
-
BONDAGES
OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS
WHAT IS KARMA?
Karma is the suffering and pain
caused by thoughts of past memories, habit, attitude, character and
personality.
a. How do the past thoughts cause
suffering?
Past thoughts cause suffering by
re-living them. When we consciously think about past thoughts, we never undergo
suffering. But when we get lost in the past thoughts with feelings and
emotions, we re-live the past memories causing pain and suffering known as
karma.
b. How do the future thoughts cause
suffering?
Whenever we plan for the future
consciously, we don’t experience pain. But when we create anxiety and worries –
feelings and emotions about the future based on the past memories, habit,
attitude, character and personality, we experience pain and suffering.
c. How do the present thoughts cause
suffering?
When we consciously choose the
decisions for the present with 3rd eye awareness, we never
experience suffering. But when we associate the present moment with the past
memories, habit, attitude, character and personality, we undergo pain and
suffering even in present moment.
Questions and Answers:
1. What is karma?
Our past memories, habit,
attitude, character and personality are karma. Suffering – karma is experienced
by the attachment of 3rd eye / soul with the past thought and its
related feelings and emotions.
2. How we can get rid of karma?
Being aware of 3rd eye
being self aware - detached not connecting with feelings and emotions of past
memories, habit, attitude, character and personality.
Practice:
Whenever there is pain or
suffering, see what was the past memories, habit, attitude, character and
personality that become instrument for that suffering and get detached from
those memories being aware of 3rd eye.
If both the hands are touching -
attached together, if one hand moves, other also moves. But when it is not touching
– remain detached, when one hand moves, the other remain stable. Similarly when
3rd eye (soul/ self) remain detached from thoughts and its related
feelings and emotions, the soul remain unaffected in its own glory. But when it
remain attached, when the attention of 3rd eye goes towards the
thoughts and its related feelings and emotions, the soul become one with
emotions and experience pain and suffering. So, Practice attachment and
detachment of soul and mind (thoughts).
Practicing attachment and detachment: We can practice focusing on 5
forms of being in 5 ages of golden, silver, copper, iron and confluence aged of
the world transformation. Or practice focusing on any 5 objects every one hour
to get accustomed to attaching and detaching the soul with the thoughts.
LESSON 6: DIFFUSION OF PAST KARMA
-
BEING KARM-ATEET
(FREE FROM BONDAGES OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS) AND EQUANIMOUS (BALANCE)
1. HOW
DO I REMAIN UNAFFECTED BY KARMA ?
When I remain detached and do not
re-live the past feelings and emotions, I remain unaffected by my past karma.
But there are incidences where we
did not face the situations due to fear or other reasons, those situations are
to be faced or dealt with or re-lived once again to neutralize those karmas. It
is here where Psycho-analysis, psychotherapies like hypnotherapy, delta
healing, counseling helps.
There are many incidences which
can be neutralized by means of spiritual knowledge for which we have to gain
spiritual knowledge like murlis of BrahmaKumaris.
There are many incidences that we
have to understand the psychological, biological and social factors and with
the understanding, the past karmas get neutralized.
So, the knowledge, understanding
by going into depth, facing the fears etc., help us to remain self aware of 3rd
eye by not getting lost or become automatic like a Robot in the influence of
past thoughts with their feelings and emotions.
Being detached, being self aware
with 3rd eye consciousness, being attentive all the time, we remain
constantly peaceful, light and blissful in all thoughts and actions.
More we remain detached with
awareness of 3rd eye, our consciousness will expand from limited
awareness to the unlimited self consciousness moving from annmaya, pranamaya,
manonmaya, vigyan maya koshas towards the ultimate anandmaya kosha, the
blissful 3rd eye experience.
2. HOW
DOES THE MIND / THOUGHT FUNCTION WHEN THE ATTENTION OF 3RD EYE
CONSTANTLY FOCUSED ON MIND/THOUGHTS?
When I am not focused on self
awareness of 3rd eye, and if it is focused on thoughts / mind
constantly, human beings in general undergo 2 extremes of thoughts or behavior.
a. Sometimes,
the thought leads to extreme goodness otherwise leads to extreme opposite.
b. Sometimes
extreme wealth and other times extreme poor.
c. Sometimes
extreme happiness and other times extremeness of sorrow.
d. Sometimes
extreme of feeling kind and helpful and other times extreme revenge and
jealousy.
e. Sometimes
extreme spirituality and other times totally indulge in sensuality.
f.
Sometimes more loving and other times more
hatred
If the attention of 3rd
eye is on thoughts/mind, it keeps moving from one end to the other end of
different opposites of character (like good and bad) that exists in the world. It
keep assuming or playing different masks / personality /roles with different
attitudes based on the influence of past memory.
3. HOW
DOES THE MIND / THOUGHT FUNCTION WHEN THE ATTENTION OF 3RD EYE
CONSTANTLY FOCUSED ON SELF AWARENESS OF ITS OWN 3RD EYE?
When I am constantly attentive
and focused on 3rd eye in all actions, I remain neutral. My thoughts
and actions remain well balanced not going to any of the extremities of the
mind. I remain equanimous with intelligence dominating and focused all the
time.
Questions and Answers:
1. What
is the cause of suffering?
Not being in the present with
self/3rd eye awareness but get lost in past thoughts and its related
feelings and emotions is karma and the cause of suffering.
2. How
do I remain karm-ateet free from bondages/suffering of my thoughts and actions?
Being self aware of 3rd
eye and constantly using my intelligence and attention in every thought and
action, I remain karm-ateet, free from bondages or pain.
3. What
can I do if I am not able to remain self aware of 3rd eye but
undergo fear, anxiety, worry, sadness, disturbed emotions?
Practice the techniques given in
previous lessons and still if you cant remain self aware of 3rd eye,
it is suggested to get help from a Spiritual Counselor or Psychologist or
Psychotherapist.
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Practice:
See and experience all my past
karmas of anxiety, fear, worries, sadness, doubt etc., dissolve and disappear
by remaining constantly self aware of 3rd eye.
Feel throughout the day, the
happiness, cheerfulness and joy whilst carrying out all thinking and performing
all actions being self aware of 3rd eye.
LESSON 7: ACTIONS WITH SELF AWARENESS OF 3RD EYE
HOW DO I ACT AND REMAIN BLISSFUL
CONSTANTLY WITH SELF AWARENESS OF 3RD EYE ?
Bliss is the word that denotes
equanimity and tranquility. Whenever I remain peaceful and content with
attention and focus on whatever thinking or action we do, I remain blissful.
This attention and focus will remain natural when I perform all thinking and
action by being self aware of 3rd eye.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
ACTIONS I PERFORM?
With self awareness of 3rd
eye, in general, I perform three types of actions:
a. Action
that needs full attention still at balance.
b. Actions
that need less attention. Here I can perform actions with more self awareness
of 3rd eye.
c. Actions
that need not require attention. Here I just remain a detached observer not
using my attention to get influenced by what is going on outside. I remain
totally self aware of 3rd eye although I observe what is going on
outside. Seeing but not seeing. Hearing but not hearing. Feeling but not
feeling.
WHAT DO I DO WHEN I AM NOT
THINKING OR DOING ANY ACTION?
When I don’t perform any thinking
or action, I need to revel in the happiness, joy and bliss of my own self of 3rd
eye which is very natural. I don’t need any action or thinking to remain
blissful or joy or happy. My nature itself is the source of joy and bliss like
the children always remain blissful and joyful with curiosity in every action.
I do all my actions for the sake
of just doing not depending my joy and happiness on the outcome of actions.
My way of life is happiness, joy
and bliss. It is not the end of my life journey.
Questions and Answers:
1. How
do I act with 3rd eye self awareness when I am suffering from
illness or pain?
Suffering or illness are from the
past. Still if you have pain in the present, accept the pain and illness
without brooding caused by the past feelings and emotions and future
expectations. This will reduce the suffering and you will work on the well
being by taking medicines and doing all that is required for health and
wellbeing with hope and desire for better life.
Practice:
Experience in my day-to-day life
all 3 types of actions and get accustomed to them with varieties of 3rd
eye self awareness of my own natural qualities of bliss, joy, happiness,
silence, peace, etc.
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