Thank you, in my more than 18yrs of self study and searching, your instructions have proven themselves to be the best for me. In my opinion you stand on a pinnacle.... The universal Buddha's are smiling.
This has been my experience too. You cannot open the third eye through conscious efforting. It happens only through profound stillness and surrender. Great video!
Dear Forrest. Yes, and this is why it is yoga. The melding of the two hemispheres. And when I arrive I REALIZE that I have been here all along. Your studies and elucidation bring me great joy and confirmation of the path we have tread for thousands of years. May the Blessings Be.
Surrender...I will like to say, when I just surrender in meditation without wishing to achieve something - I felt love beyond comprehension, only shortly and I had feeling if lasted longer I will burst! I felt silver space where I didn't have any need for anything , I didn't have need to ask 1 question, it was so komfortabel, secure... And so on....
Great video Forrest . Would like to share an experience I had . So I had visited the Ellora Caves . There a large cave number 20 with 35 feet buddha statue . I sat alone looking at the face of buddha for about 30 minutes . It was pretty dark in there .. I could meditate with eyes open . I could go through the same routine as I do with my eyes close .. I could see my spiritual eye on the face of buddha .. what was amazing was that it distorts the image of buddha in an amazing way ...like at one moment you see no eyes but only face , at another it seems like a baby buddha face .fascinating..really felt like reaching somewhere ...quite amazing .. I am intrigued whether these caves were made for this very purpose . Highly recommended to try .. Another thing there's something about caves and places that are dark and deep which seems to enhance perception of the eye .. Even a simple tunnel on the way to my work place has the same effect ...
Beautiful experience, Doctor! Thank you so much for sharing with us! The dark is very powerful, and helps stimulate melatonin and DMT. I've always liked closed in spaces as well. It's so great to experiment with Open Eye meditation.
Namaste🙏🏻 I don't know where to start from.. Actually I want to prostrate at your feet.. I don't have enough words to thank you.. I've been struggling to see the third eye since 3years. I meditate on third eye both with my eyes open and closed and I can see bright light on my forehead. I can literally see the light with my eyes open in my dark room. After meditating also when I go to sleep I feel someone is lighting torch over my head.. But inspite of all that I was not able to have a glance of the spiritual eye. I prayed to Mahavatar Babaji, Paramhansa Yogananda and my guru Sai Baba of Shirdi to bless me with a glance of the third eye. I cried a lot for that.. Then finally I came across your video and as you suggested, pressed lightly near the ear and eye and how clearly I can now see the spiritual eye omg! Although I can't see it on my forehead still this sight is more than enough for me as of now. I know nothing about kriya yoga, I just prayed day and night and meditated.. I need to learn more from you😊 And yes your poems in this video are so deep and touching.. have lots to learn from you, thanks again 🙏🏻
That's really wonderful, Manjushree! I'm so glad to hear of your success! Those poems are actually from Yogananda. Prayer at Night and Cup of Eternity. To your success!!🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amazing! Goosebumps! I saw the light of the eye many years ago, and know it is there..nothing since. yet that experience has remained with me and I know will be revealed when it is time again. For me, and I see many similarities in your story, realise I was TOO driven in my quest. (same with kechari mudra attainment). Yet now the pressure is off, and, more relaxed I wait patiently for my time again. Thank you so much! Your sharing is so helpful! Wonderful stuff! M
Thanks you Forrest for your suggestions. I'm trying to see the Spiritual Eye since 7 months, and in vain. As mentioned by you, I feel there is something wrong with me 😀 and I'm Frustrated. I've few questions: 1. I'm located in a place where Yoga is not practiced. How can I find a Guru in this scenario. Can I find someone online. Is it recommended to have an online Guru. Or can I assume you as my Guru. Is it possible to initiate online. 2. While trying Shambhavi Mudra (3rd eye), should we keep eyes opened and focus or eyes closed. 3. I tried both ways. When I keep eyes opened, I could focus. However I could see the bulb and ceiling and it distracts 😀. So I tried with closed eyes. Its nice to meditate with eyes closed. However my intention is to see Spiritual Eye, and with eyes closed, I couldn't focus exactly between eye brows(slightly above). The moment I close eyes, I'm confused whether my focus is on right spot or below.
Fantastic, Wanderers! I do initiate, but it's in the traditional way, face to face and in person. For those who aren't able to do that I've started some long trainings that will get more and more at the heart of the matter: www.meditativemellows.com/ I usually like closed eyes, however, if you open and dilate the eyes, then close the eyes, it's a very good progression. I have a video on how to separate the physical looking from the act of seeing the spiritual eye. This can be very helpful. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jUb1s-v_QpM.html&t
Forrest this message took me into a deep place in contemplation. I have seen the spiritual eye many times because of hrv. But as I reach for it it disappears. But now with this great nugget of information I feel I'm on.the journey to see a glimpse of the Divine. Many thanks. 🙏🙏
Dude you have described my experience exactly. I've only seen the spiritual eye a couple times, but a golden sun more frequently. I've noticed that you have to not try to grasp it too hard, but see it with your peripheral vision. Thank you so much for this. This encourages me to practice the technique you mentioned too. I've been slacking off on that one.
This talk is so helpful. When I get upset or anxious in meditation, I conclude I’m not meditating any longer, but telling God what to do. You can imagine my frustration. . Now I won’t make it personal. Please share the titles of the poems, and where to find them. Thank you
I saw the spiritual eye a couple of weeks before without expecting it and without knowing what was in front of me. I hadn't received the SRF spiritual eye lesson yet, so i was so confused until I found your videos. I had no idea what i was doing. i just know that in less than 10 minutes of practicing hang Saw everything went black pitch, and a huge beautifully blue and yellow eye stood in front of my whole view field. It started to move up and down like stearing at me. Omg just to think about it brings back the feeling of joy I felt. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Thank you!.
Hi Forrest. I've been seeing this circular light that fits your description of the spiritual eye. I have never tried to enter it because it comes to me over and over again. It comes to me, and passes me and this keep happening continuously. Can you please enlighten me about what's happening?
I’ve been meditating for two years, and I lay on my meditation mat, and I focus on a red Christmas bulb on up on my dresser. I already have gone ‘wide eyed’, taking in the entire room, while focusing on the red Christmas bulb. I take in the entire visual field, and I am aware of the thoughts flowing through. I have been listening to many of your vids, I am aware of your vid on the Hourglass. I feel that I have been dilating my eyes by this practice. I am not ‘chasing’ anything, I am not ‘pursuing’ anything, as is the Left brain’s mission. Does this sound on the correct course? Thank you, Forrest.😀
Hi Forrest!! Thank you for your video!! A year ago, I meditated, and just using my intuition I combined all techniques, even without understanding what I was doing, and for sure I didn’t have any clue what it could happen to me, but when I saw third eye, felt it, went through a huge experience in my first meditation!! I was out of my mind!! I could not understand what happened to me, but it was amazing!! I saw lights, stars, purple light!! But now, a year after, I am going through your videos, and understanding that every step I took at my first meditation, just intuitively, I didn’t do it for any purpose to see something, because simply I even didn’t know that something like that it’s possible and exist!! I didn’t know anything about third eye!!! Zero!! !! I just amazed, how all that knowledges came to me at that moment that I was able to combine all those techniques by myself without knowing anything about third eye!! I even have never really practiced meditation before seriously!! Just now, a year after I am understanding that some higher power revealed it to me at that moment, without any understanding by me what I was doing. Wow!!! I am just in shock!!!
You are truly a god sent guru for me. I was stuck near medulla and throat chakra for 2 years. Gone through so much pain and right hemisphere of my brain shrank. Now i know how to expand it. I bow to your feet. You saved my life.
@@ForrestKnutson 2 years ago at midnight sleep state around 2:30 PM i experienced something entered my heart and forehead. It shaken me while asleep and i got frightened. I could not find what was that.
I dont know if it will help but when i was in the Army we were taught when on manoeuvres at night in the dark countryside , let the eyes relax and let them get used to to the night light ie let the rods in the retina take over from the cones and not to look at bright lights and if you want to see something particular, dont stare directly at it but look in a relaxed manner to the side of it and let it appear ,ie not focusing directly as the light will hit the blind spot on the retina where there are no receptive cells
It would be so cool if you put a link to the video you made on [how to expand the pupil] - ( -- is this what you refer to here: expanding peripheral vision/expand pupil to take in more around you, to expand, but in passive way). I seem to recall your video, about expanding awareness to farther away, left and right. but I can't recall its title. You have so many great videos! P.S. by the way, I am really benefiting from your classes, and I keep repeating them with new insights popping up every time. So glad you are on YT and that i found your classes. peace.
i went from once or twice a year, to once or twice a month, to once or twice a week, to once or twice or day (usually morning meditation). now every meditation I see it. I don't understand what you're saying regarding dilation of pupils, because it is possible to see the spiritual eye with physical eyes open as well. But good to hear about your progress being the same as mine. Still can't enter, but it is there. Which is an important realization in itself... Pranaam.
Hi! I’m reading all the comments to better understand the topic. I find it fascinating that you can see Kutastha with your eyes open! Do you mean during the Kriya practice?
My friend I found a hack to "drink" it. The trick is to use the right brain and "turn your eyes inwards/backwards" i.e. the easiest way to reach out to the third eye is to spacially reach backwards. Think of it like daydreaming with our eyes closed (it's so difficult to explain, like thinking of nothing and everything at the same time). If you do that the light will sometimes zoom in and fill your whole vision and engulf you. I'm stuck at this point at the moment because when the light engulfs me my heart is startled and beats so hard that it breaks me out of the meditation. It's so hard to "let go"
Hello Forrest! I am loving your teachings an explanations, I am very thankful. I have a question: are there some images of how it looks the entrance of the third eye?
Thanks for the video and the quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda. Quick question: when you talk about the spiritual eye you make rather big circle with your hand. Does it appear to be that big? My experience with the spiritual eye is a small circle that appears in the darkness of closed eyes.
Mostly, I'm just talking with my hands. When we begin to enter that cave, it does get larger, and begins to come around us. This can be experienced in multiple ways.
Hi Forrest, by expansion, do you mean peripheral vision? You know, the one that allows you to reach the state of no thought. One more question, is the inner sound perceived with the "OM" method akin to a tinnitus?
is this sprititual eye the same as the star seen during Yoni mudra? Also, when you say dilate, what do you mean? Like literally dilate the eyes or figuratively dilate your mindset by letting go/entering deep relaxation?
Yes, Matea, that is one of the possible things you might see in Yoni mudra; or spontaneously in meditation. I mean it literally. Like when you stare at something and your vision spreads out into your peripheral. It also has a deep effect on the mind.
Thank you for this video. Is it possible to surrender and enhance the right brain exactly during the meditation time? Or do you need to change your personality completely for that?
Thank you , yes ... it was a strong dmt experience. Very individual based experience I guess. Being calm in this eye ocean now, my experience is more like floating in/ bathing in light waves .
!! i didn’t have anybody that I could talk to and share my experience with somebody who would explain to me what actually happened to me and what I saw:)) Forrest, can you please give some advices, what should I do in order to see a light, third eye for a longer time, sometimes it disappears very fast, I would like to enjoy it for 10-20 mins!!! It’s amazing!! Thank you so much!!
Sir could you please tell me when you first feel that you are going to right way towards samadhi or dhyan and how much time it had taken for that up to that stage
My first Absorption was about 5 years into my practice. But I didn't know what it was or how to return. It's taken me 20 years to understand the process and how to return at will.
Dear Forrest, Thank you for all of your shared knowledge. I am following your channel in the past two years and so far everything you speak of is completely true. I am also doing Kriya Yoga from some time now and I got interested in your explanations about the spiritual eye. Many times before I saw it if I pressed my eyes but then I suddenly stop doing that. Few months later it started to show without any pressing, not that clear image but still it is there. I am writing to you because I see something else as well, sometimes there is a beam of light which is spinning anticlockwise. I’ve seen it so many times and I was always wondering what can we do with it. Thank you and be blessed!
Yoganchi! That's wonderful! What you're seeing I've talked about as the 3rd knot of Lahiri Mahasaya. At that moment, expand yourself into the feeling of the Divine in every direction in and Unbounded way.
Thank you Forrest, I’ve checked the video and again the provided information is more than enough. I realize now that every single time I saw this, I actually felt that spiraling feeling in the coccyx. I am seeing a blue beam of light, rotating anti clockwise and I will take your advice and expand myself next time I see it. Thanks again for everything that you do!
Thanks for the video, such an important aspect. I have been able to see the third eye at the end of my kriya, but it stays only for few minutes. This has been the state for the last ten years. Need your help. Also, for how long one can do kriya pranayam, I have been doing it regularly but not more than 24 kriyas in one sitting.
Hi Sanjay, you may need an aspect of the Higher Kriyas to help hold it for a longer period. I help train that in the 4th Phase of Breath on MeditativeMellows.com ... You can do more than 24 kriya. I'll be doing a video on Kriya numbers, soon, hopefully.
@@ForrestKnutson in each video a part comes where you tell the final steps like 1. HRV 2.any to Hing else but in this video it's not clear what to do finally
Thank you for this very helpful video! And for bringing these beautiful poems to the youtube-audience. "The mind has to be mounted on the Ajna Chakra, then rotated from right to left. After this the phallic kinetic mind has to be entered bay intermittently thrusting into yonilike Kutastha" (Quote from Purana Purusha, 9th Edition p. 255.) Any chance he means the right and left side of the brain? The second sentence sounds more like an activity of the left brain to me... thank you for showing another way!
It depends on where you put your concentration. If you put your concentration or attention on the Deep Blue Cave then you will go deeper into the non dual state. But if you have questions in your mind then you may get answers through the spiritual eye in the form of a vision or a symbolic answer. I've also had people think of me and seen them in the spiritual eye. And gods and goddesses may appear to you. Angels as well.
Forrest Knutson Thank You , I was asking because it was opning a view of another place and I thought just seeing the eye that was the only thing or purpose nothing else lol. God Bless Forrest with Infinite Peace and Compassion.
@@ggb2193 very understandable. It opens the process of "seeing" which can be a lot of things. If you hold an awareness of expansion, then it will keep you in the meditation and not distract you. This is a great time to ask your Higher Self questions, by the way.
Forrest Knutson Internal means you are in Ego Uncle ji😁 Guru show us a path of Spiritual world that means he opens third eye to his disciple then we go the same path showed by Genuine Guru why I repeatedly saying same word genuine genuine Guru because 90% Kriya Yogi Baba's are fake now they don't know the original yoga and they can not opened third eye, if you do Kriya yourself without genuine gurus helps you cannot not be successful in your entire life, people have only knowledge about Kriya yoga by reading books like you are doing you have only knowledge by reading books and taking knowledge from fake gurus who don't know original Kriya yoga🙂🙏
@@dgopalsuri sorry Gopal, it’s not correct, I can see exactly what Forrest explained and I had an initiation with a Guru. How do I know if my Guru was genuine? The same time, two of my other friends had an initiation as well with the same guru and they can’t see anything.
@@olgapieters3396 I am a kriya practitioner, but feel sorry for you , you are all in illusion. if someone see the path of almighty he or she never will explain these things to any body. if you does it will vanish gradually. I know and I experienced while my guru initiating me. you all are in illusion , you see whatever you read in books and your gurus said. but genuine guru never explain this things to any one.
