What is Tratak? Swami Satyananda in his discourses on Tratak explains: “The word Trataka means, ‘steady gazing’. The practice of Trataka involves gazing at a point or object without blinking the eyes. It is a method of focussing the eyes and in turn the mind on one point to the exclusion of all others. Through this method, all the attention and power of the mind is channelled into one continuous stream. This allows the latent potential within the mind to spontaneously arise.”
In the classical hath yoga text, Gheranda Samhita, it is classified as one of the shatkarmas, the six actions of cleansing the body and mind. Tratak is the last of the six, because it concludes the physically oriented practice, and prepares one for, or say acts as the stepping stone to the mental practices that leads to higher awareness. In a sense, Tratak acts as a bridge between Hatha Yoga and Dhyana Yoga.
Tratak is continuous gazing, it is not letting your mind wander. And when you don't let the mind wander, initially it struggles, it fights hard, but if you continue to gaze calmly, slowly the mind stops struggling. For a few moments, it stops. And when the mind ceases to function, the state of no-mind is attained, because the existence of the mind can only be sustained in movement, thought-processes can only be sustained in movement. Mind is a verb, it’s a continuous process. When there is no movement, when the thought-processes cease, you cannot think, the mind is no more.
Full alertness and awareness are necessary; because you can gaze even with dead eyes, you are looking at something, yet your mind is somewhere else, you’re reading a book yet registering nothing. You zone out. Seeing in this way leads to nothing. In this practice, you have to be in the zone. The meaning of trataka is not just your eyes, but your entire existence being focused through your eyes. So, it depends on your preference, whatever the object of meditation may be. If you like the flame of a candle, it's fine; if you like darkness, it's also fine. The Cross of Christ, the idol of Shiva or the Buddha, or a Yantra, regardless of the object, the essence lies in stopping the mind at one place, concentrating it, so that internal movements, internal turmoil, can cease, internal tensions can cease. You're just observing
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Script: Geetanjali
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8 июн 2024