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November 12, 2011  

What is Tratak Sadhana? Part 2: The Benefits

Tratak is an advanced technique. Seek the help of a Guru before starting its practise.

This post continues from the prior article on Tratak – click here to read.

The benefits are many

The point of tratak is to ultimately still the mind and use the resulting concentration to access soul power within.

Aside from improved focus, mental acuity and memory, other notable benefits are:

  • Precognition. One may experience such heightened levels of perception that your observation skills border on precognition. IE – you can almost read someone’s thoughts or know what they are about to say before they say it. This occurs because the mind is usually attempting to process more information from your 5 senses continuously than is usually possible. Most of the time it must ‘delete’ the majority of this information flowing in and just focus on the relevant details. With the practice of tratak, one starts to delete less and absorb more.
  • Influence. Your powers of influence improve as you can no only ‘read’ people better, your added awareness and mental acuity give rise to greater levels of confidence. In combination these two factors allow you to improve your oration abilities, stick to the strength of your convictions and therefore much more easily influence others.
  • Siddhis. The advanced practitioner of tratak can reach the stage where their cognitive abilities can access the subtle realms of existence and channel divine power to manifest siddhis (when used in conjunction with mantras); the easiest being clairvoyance, remote vision, psychic communication, etc.
Tratak is generally considered an advanced technique and the help of a Guru should be sought by the serious practitioner.
September 19, 2011  

The Kleem Mantra

Transliteration:

“Kleem“

(Semi-literal) Translation:

None. Kleem is a Bija mantra.

Purpose:

  • Attraction of female company.
  • That’s right, it brings girls to your door!

Say what now…?!

I believe some explanation is sorely needed on what is likely to prove a popular topic!

The Kleem mantra is a Bija mantra – ie a primal sound which taps into the very essence of the universe to function as a mantra all in itself. Each Bija mantra typically corresponds to a singular deity. Unsurprisingly, this mantra is the essence of the God of Love, Kamadeva (literal translation) and incidentally the great Avatar of Vishnu, Sri Krishna Himself.

How it works

The Kleem mantra basically aligns your energy/spirit/aura/prana with those of females that already like you. Initially, it will not be able to change the minds of others. However, once mantra siddhi is achieved, it is said that one can attract anything in the universe with the mantra.

How to use it

Just repeat the word. The usual target count is 10,008 – preferably in a single sitting. Given the brevity of the sound, it is not too tough to complete a set within a 2-3 hours.

The practice of tratak is a great complement to this mantra, for those of you in the know. It is an advanced technique explained here.

Need to know more? Read  about the Kamadeva Mantra here >>

Footnotes:

  • Dr. Pillai, formerly Dattatreya Sivababa, has some excellent YouTube videos on the topic.
  • You can take his video introductions as an effective upadesh (ie Guru initiation into the mantra).


September 18, 2011  

What is Tratak Sadhana? Part 1: The Method

Tratak is an advanced technique. Seek the help of a Guru before starting its practise.

The Yoga of practicality 

Tratak is one of the 6 methods of Hatha Yoga.

The practice of tratak is key to improving one’s concentration during meditation on certain abstract mantras.

In particular, one would practice tratak for bija mantra japa – such as Kleem and Shreem.

Tratak is generally considered an advanced technique and the help of a Guru should be sought by the serious practitioner.

Concetration is vital to manifestation

It is well known that benefits from mantra japa accrue in proportion to effort. Concentration is the underlying measure of effort; the greater the concentration whilst chanting, the more powerful the results.

Tratak helps to focus the mind and dramatically improve concentration. In this way, it is not dissimilar to pranayama.

What is tratak?

Tratak is the concentrated effort of maintaining one’s vision on one particular object or area within.

There are three forms:

  1. Inner – one focuses on the point between the eyes while they are closed. This is the area where the pituitary gland is located within the brain.
  2. Middle – focus on an object at an intermediary distance; for example an oil lamp at arm’s length.
  3. Outer – in this method the aspirant focuses on a distant object such as the moon or stars.

The method

  1. Freshly shower, wear freshly washed, loose clothes and find a quiet room to practice alone.
  2. Sit in your usual yogic asana (posture) – such as cross legged with the spine, neck and head straight.
  3. One calms the mind using pranayama before starting.
  4. Actively avoid and repel any intense emotional thoughts. Clear the mind.
  5. Start the tratak method that you find most comfortable (inner, middle, outer etc).
  6. Keep absolutely still and quiet during practice.
  7. Start with 15 mins of practice and work up to 1-2hrs.
  8. Always practice for the same or more time than in your prior practice.
  9. Try to be regular in practice – at the same time every day or week, depending on frequency.
  10. It will take at least 3 months of continuous practice to see significant improvement in your mental state.