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By Ennis Duff
Let us talk about reflection and fire tratak today and being with the former.
One practises this tratak with the help of a large mirror eight inches long and six inches wide. Fix it on the wall. Take your asana at least three feet away. Make sure that the room is not unduly lighted. When you look at the mirror you will find your face reflected init. Now you fix your eye on the mid-centre between the brows in the reflection.
Gradually you will not be able to see the reflection. You will see merely the mirror. Now at this stage breathe in at a low speed. The lower the breathing would be, the sooner the reflection will vanish. After some time the reflection will again be visible. Once again if you look at it steadily it will vanish.
Time Frame
You will have to practise like it for about a month. You need not recite any mantra while practising this tratak technique. When you continue to practise this technique you will start seeing in the mirror many new scenes. If you see a multiplicity of scenes you can take it you are successful in your practices.
The implication is that all our suppressed desires and the scenes consigned to the obscure unconscious come out in the mirror through the medium of tratak. At times we come across many such sights which have never taken place to our knowledge. But these must have been seen by inner mind. Precisely this is the reason why they emerge in the mirror.
Advanced Stage
Later as you continue to practise, the sights will disappear. For the conscious mind pervades all over. In a situation like this whatever and wherever it sees anything, it turns out to be a reflection of itself (the inner mind). This state of being is called Turiyawastha.
The mirror we have used for such exercises should not be put to any other use. When the practice is over, we should cover the mirror with a fine cloth and keep it safe and secure.
This technique produces a glow in the eyes and soon a spiritual lustre merges in the sight. By virtue of this lustre one can easily be hypnotised. Even birds and animals get hypnotised. Having cultivated this lustre once you look into the eyes of anybody, he will feel obliged to follow your wish whatever it is. For instance if you give a look at an incensed person, he will calm down. Even violent animals will act up to your behest.
Even Inanimate Objects
Even inanimate objects are not outside the purview of hypnotism. Take, for instance, the case of a handkerchief or ring. Give it a steadfast look and suggest to it that whoever looks at the owner of this object will be hypnotised. Little wonder that anybody doing so will find himself totally hypnotised.
You can hypnotise any object such as handkerchief or ring. The benefit will go to the user of the object. The hypnotic influence lasts for three months. But if the hypnotised object comes to be washed earlier the influence will go.
As already discussed the tratak technique of this kind can influence even bird and animals. Sitting in my garden when I choose to ask a bird perched high above on the tree to come down, it will immediately come down and without the least hesitation start pecking at corn on my palm. Experiments like this have been successfully made on a variety of birds including peacocks.
This sadhana transcends time. A long practice of three hours would appear to be a fleeting experience of a couple of minutes. It implies the practice instils in us a sense of pure delight.
Fire Tratak:
Of all the tratak techniques already described, the Fire Tratak technique is not only the best, but the most difficult too. Ordinary house-holders are advised against practising this tratak. One who has come to gain a total control over one’s sexual urges can practise it successfully. But in no case should this practice be resorted to without the supervision of a teacher.
On a dark night go to a distant forest and collect three or four wooden logs. Put them together and burn them. As flames start rising high, withdraw yourself to some four or five feet away and fix your eye on the flame rising high. Follow this practice for an hour. Keep a reserve stock of wood so that whenever the flames weaken you can replenish the stocks.
After a month-long practice the practitioner will mark that the red flames will disappear and in its place a glorious lustre will emerge. In this light s he will see pictures of many kinds of gods, yakshas and gandharvas. At times we come across sights which we read about in the Gita and other scriptures. Practising this technique I myself saw the Mahabharata war as described in the Gita.
In no case shall we come across demons and witches. Tratak is a God-oriented meditation.
The Five Elements
The human body is made of five elements: ether, earth, air, water and fire. The Fire Trarak removes from it two constituent elements. Viz. earth and water. By virtue of the Fire Tratak the practitioner brings about a blending of the remaining elements and enters the universe of the three elements. All gods are made of only three elements. One has to leave behind the to elements named above. It is only then can one reach supreme godhead.
The principal use of the Fire Tratak is that one gets endowed with power to enter such realms which are generally obscure and forbidden. The human being who is made of five elements will not be able to reach the universe made of only three elements. He may be the greatest yogi belonging to the highest order.
Dropping two elements is central to the job of acquiring power to enter all realms of the universe. Until the process of elimination is consummated, one has to remain confined to the mundane framework. One can achieve this only through the Fire Tratak.
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