IndiaDivine Home

Articles   |   Scriptures   |   Meditation   |   Forums   |   Videos   |   MP3 Songs   |   MP3 Lectures   |   Puja Sponsorship   |   Online Store
IndiaDivine Menu
Picture Gallery
Email Newsletter

Online Donations
 »  Home  »  Meditation & Yoga
Unmani Mudra: Meditation on the Empty Space

By Swami Rama | Published 06/28/2005
Category: Meditation & Yoga
Article Viewed 6870 Times
Rating: ratingfull ratingfull ratingfull ratingfull ratingfull Unrated

By keeping the attention fixed on a certain idea or by making the mind blank for a sufficient duration, an outgoing of both ideas and will result. The will can thereby inadvertently bring about its own extinction when it is intent upon the extinction of something else, such as an idea. By the repetition of such a mental action, the consciousness of that action grows less, until at last it is performed quite automatically and unconsciously.

One practices this technique to make himself a void so that an influx of the divinity can fill this void with its fullness, as an empty jar is filled by the ocean. One can also direct the pranic energy anywhere one wants in the body by thinking oneself as hollow inside and sending the thoughts to the place where he wants the current to flow. One should banish all thoughts and be neither inside nor outside the mind. Thus, the mind will lose its identity, as salt disappears in water or oil in a fire. The aspirant who practices will be well rewarded, even before this stage is fully achieved, by attainment of siddhis, such as clairvoyance and the ability to perceive and read the thoughts of others. He who contemplates the void or space, while walking, standing, and dreaming, will become absorbed in space. An aspirant who desires success should acquire the power of regular and habitual practice, which will produce wonderful results. Such an aspirant will have an experience unlike anything he has ever known before. This feeling is simply indescribable: he will feel like an entirely transformed person, purged of faults and limitations, and living a new life. Such an aspirant becomes beloved by all, and acquires spiritual powers. This is one of the processes of emancipation. By making the mind free and open, he himself becomes full, saturated with sattva (goodness). Even one's normal daily consciousness will be more strongly permeated with awareness than before as a result of the intensity of this practice.


Special Offer: The Bhagavad Gita
beautifully sung on 10 Audio CDs



Now you can listen to the ancient sanskrit chants of Bhagavad Gita, sung in classical melodies by noted devotional singer Sri Vidyabhushana. Listen to all 700 verses of the Gita with a beautiful accompaniment of flute, veena, sitar, mridanga, tabla and tala. (Scroll down to listen to it online.)

Special Offer: $39.45
Regular Price: $49.45
(with free postage to anywhere in the world)


Set includes 10 audio CDs (7 CDs of sanskrit chants, 2 CDs containing english translations for the entire Bhagavad Gita, and 1 CD providing an introductory lecture on the Bhagavad Gita by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada).
Unmani Mudra: Meditation on the Empty Space Comment
 
K.RAVISHANKAR Yoga Acharya & Nadi Vidwan Rating: ratingfull ratingfull ratingfull ratingfull ratingfull Unrated
said this on 30 Aug 2007 7:35:21 AM EST
I've been practising this technique which came to me as an intuition during one of my personal meditation sessions a few months back. This is very powerful & indeed makes you feel unique.
It also lets you identify with the almighty in a very powerful way. I cannot explain the powerful feeling it gives & the bliss it gives inn those states.

Swami Rama has been my Guru of sorts & this article lets me identify with him in many ways than one.


Rate this article and leave a comment:
Rating: ( required ) Poor Excellent
    Your Name *:   ( required )
    Email (private) *:   ( required )
    Website:    
Please copy the characters from the image below into the text field below. Doing this helps us prevent automated submissions.
Security Code: img

No popular articles found.
No popular authors found.
Search IndiaDivine
Ask a Question
Do you have a spiritual question? Please write.

Video Library
Audio CDs
Multimedia CDs
Malas
(Prayer Beads)
Videos and DVDs
Ayurvedic Medicine
Natural Incense
Contact Us | About this Site | Bhaktivedanta Ashram | Puja Sponsorships | Charity in India |





IndiaDivine has had 8,043 page views since creation.