The Power of Focusing Mind and Sight

Ambaji: So, Baba, could you please explain a little bit more about the technique, how the eyes which go parallel, what happens when the eyeballs come steady and the mind gets withdrawn? Could you please explain a little bit more about the technique you always teach?

Babaji: The amazing illusion that has happened. It is here; the Ultimate Truth also is here which is not imagining, which is totally in stillness – that’s known as Mahasamadhi. So, within this, in the same sphere, ‘Aavarana’ is the word Vasistha uses if you remember, right? In the same sphere, that small portion, a droplet of that stillness operates as the mind, first giving you as an individual imagined self. Always it is the ‘me’ and ‘mine’, that’s when the trouble starts. Then it can take you into life after life, life after life, millions and billions, you never know. Time – long that happens.

Now, to control this mind which is operating, spinning within a sphere, so that it can merge. For that, this which is operating as the mind has to stop its spinning; slowly it slows down, so then it has to come closer into becoming single-pointed. Then once it comes like this, then it merges and becomes one with the Self again. That means it has expanded into its Real Self.

For that to happen, is the technique taught: Keeping the eyes closed, you just concentrate the eyeballs, using the eyeballs, focus, remain focused; your mind and sight. Sight means here, eyeballs, you fix the eyeballs. So, you see, even open eyes also if you steadily, firmly watch like this with the eyeballs, your mind also is here. And even if somebody comes, you won’t immediately be able to make out who it is. Even if a little bit is visible, somebody is coming, then you have to stop this job and then I have to see like this, if we have to attend to that person. So that is the power of focus. When you are focused, you don’t see anything.

That is the thing in Mahabharata when Dronacharya asked all the students, keeping one target of a parrot on the tree branch. He told, what all you can see? He went on asking every student. One said, “The beautiful sky, and the big tree, and the parrot.” He said, “You are not focused well.” Like that everybody went on answering “This, that also I can see, I can see Clifford, I can see Geordie, I can see him also.” “So your focus is not.” Finally, when Arjuna came, “I can see the neck, one neck is there, that is all.” He said “Shoot the arrow, your focus is perfect”, Dronacharya says. That focus is what here we are trying to teach you.

First, that is why no target is given. You don’t have to bother what is it that you have to watch. When I have not told you what is it that you have to watch, so why should you bother what is it that you have to watch? “The Master has told me to watch, so I am just watching.”