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It has been made very clear for the readers
that for learning the metaphysical sciences it is of utmost importance that one
should liberate oneself from dispersed and scattered thoughts. When the
thoughts are concentratively focused on one single point the concentrative
abilities of mind are developed. Those who have not completed the first lesson
are advised to switch on to second lesson only when they have completed the
first lesson.
Likewise, please do not start this third
exercise if the second lesson is not completed. One more thing is also required
to be understood very clearly. Like the fingers of the human hand, no two men
could be equal in terms of their abilities to learn and achieve. Some are more
capable than others. Those who are not ordained with more abilities should not
feel inferior to others or discouraged, rather they should rejoice at the
success of people with more abilities.
Having an inferiority complex amounts to
rusting ones' abilities. Those who have not succeeded fully should be striving
more enthusiastically instead of losing heart. Success is bound to be yours.
The third lesson for mental concentration
is as follows:
Close your right nostril with the thumb of
your right hand after sitting in a relaxed posture. Inhale through your left
nostril for seven seconds.
Hold your breath for 15 seconds after
closing left nostril with the small finger of the right hand. After 15 seconds
remove thumb from the right nostril and exhale through it for seven seconds.
Now inhale through the same nostril for 7
second and hold your breath for 15 seconds by closing it with the thumb. Exhale
through left nostril for 7 seconds after removing the small finger. This makes
it one cycle. Complete 15 such cycles. This exercise is also done once in the
morning and once in the evening before going to bed. This exercise would yield
the best results if it is done on an empty stomach in an open and airy place.
All those students who are practicing these
exercises are advised to have their dinner early in the evening. There must be
a gap of at least three hours between the dinner and the exercise i.e. the
exercise should be done three hours after taking the meal.
After this exercise of breathing either sit
with legs crossed or in any other comfortable posture which suits you the best.
Let the muscles of your body relax.
There (After succeeding in having this
imagination with closed eyes. Start attempting to have it with) must not be any
tension in any part of your body. Now close your eyes and imagine that there is
a pool of mercury and you are submerged in that pool of mercury. Depth of this
imagination is indicated with a tactual feeling of mercury. When this
imagination further deepens the mind starts feeling the weight of mercury.
Silvery scintillations of waves start
taking place in the mind. open eyes. Finally when you manage to observe that
the whole world besides you is submerging in the pool of mercury, your 3rd
exercise is completed.
Note:
Muraqbah is not to be performed when you
are lying or reclining against some support because it would cause you to sleep
and the state which is required to be experienced in wakefulness slips into
sleep. It creates this problem that mind starts dreaming instead of observing
in wakefulness and it becomes difficult to
relate the things witnessed in dream with one another.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
This book is dedicated to those lively-hearted
friends who want to reach the pinnacle of
humanity through service to mankind and to
those scientists who would adorn the Earth
anew after 2006 A.D.
His Divine Grace Qalander Baba Auliya
writes in his valuable work 'Tazkira Tajuddin Baba" (An Account of
Tajuddin Baba Auliya).
"Human beings are conversant with the
act of 'articulation' from the very beginning. In talking, the sound waves with
predetermined meanings convey the information to the listeners. This method is
a duplication of that communication style which takes place between the waves
of Ego. It is a common observation that a dumb person conveys everything with a
slight movement of his lips and those who are versed with lip-reading;
understand everything which he desires to convey. This too, is a replica of the
same method. Animals convey their feelings to their fellows without producing
any sound. In this case, too, the waves of Ego are operative. Trees also
converse and communicate with one another regardless of the distance existing
between them. This conversation not only takes place amongst the nearby trees,
but the trees at far off distances also take part in it. The same law is valid
for the minerals as well. Stones, pebbles and the dust particles also negotiate
with one another exactly in the same style."