Look at your Self rather than anywhere else

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D: Will it be helpful if I gaze from time to time on

your eyes or face during the effort at meditation, or

should I keep the eyes closed? If closed, should I

concentrate them on the ajna-chakra, or deep down in

the heart? When practicing the enquiry at one's own

place should the eyes be closed or fixed on some

object of devotion?

 

A: Look at your Self or Atma rather than anywhere

else.

The eyes may be kept open or closed. It is immaterial.

 

There is only one I, whether you spell it 'I' or

'eye'. There is no point in opening or closing the

eyes. Attention must be focused on the inner 'I'. You

are not an 'I' that can be opened or closed. You may

open or close the eyes according to your liking or

inclination. It is immaterial, and not important. You

will cease to think of the world when you think of the

Self. If you are in a room and close your eyes and do

not look out, it is immaterial whether you close the

windows or keep them open. The body is the room; the

eyes are the windows.

Looking at ajna chakra, etc., is not necessary in this

method. It may be helpful in keeping the mind from

going out towards external objects. Concentrate on the

Self without which there are no chakras. They do not

exist without you. You are all of them. All centres

(chakras) are in the Heart. The Heart is not the

anahata chakra. The latter is in the spinal cord.

Heart is I.

 

Ramana Maharshi

 

 

 

 

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