Hi all,
My question is about power of intention. I read somewhere that in yoga Nidra when you go deep into subconscious mind if you implant your intention no matter what your intention is it will manifest.
and subconscious dose not care about positive or negative intention and because of that the author had said that you have to be very careful what you intend when you go deep in subconscious mind and choose your intention carefully.
Also in Vigyan Bhairav Tantra Volume 1 by Osho
he says about the power of imagination when focused on the third eye:
“Now your imagination is just impotent; you go on imagining and nothing happens. But sometimes,
unknowingly, in ordinary life also things happen. You are imagining about your friend and suddenly
there is a knock on the door. You say it is a coincidence that the friend has come. Sometimes your
imagination works just like coincidence. But whenever this happens, now try and remember and
analyze the whole thing. Whenever it happens that you feel your imagination has become actual, go
inside and observe. Somewhere your attention must have been near the third eye. Whenever this
coincidence happens, it is not a coincidence. It looks that way because you do not know the secret
science. Your mind must have moved unknowingly near the third eye center. If your attention is in
the third eye, just imagination is enough to create any phenomenon.
This sutra says that when you are focused between the eyebrows and you can feel the very essence
of breathing, LET FORM FILL. Now imagine that this essence is filling your whole head, particularly
the top of the head, the SAHASRAR – the highest psychic center. And the moment you imagine,
it will be filled. THERE – at the top of the head – SHOWER AS LIGHT. This prana essence is
showering from the top of your head as light. And it WILL begin to shower, and under the shower of
light you will be refreshed, reborn, completely new. That is what inner rebirth means.
So two things: first, focused at the third eye your imagination becomes potent, powerful. That is why
so much insistence has been given on purity. Before doing these practices, be pure. Purity is not a
moral concept for tantra, purity is significant – because if you are focused at the third eye and your
mind is impure, your imagination can become dangerous: dangerous to you, dangerous to others. If
you are thinking to murder someone, if this idea is in the mind, just imagining may kill the man. That
is why there is so much insistence on being pure first.
Pythagoras was told to go through fasting, through particular breathing – this breathing – because
here one is traveling in a very dangerous land. Because wherever there is power there is danger, and
if the mind is impure, whenever you get power your impure thoughts will take hold of it immediately.
You have imagined many times to kill but the imagination cannot work, fortunately. If it works, if it
is actualized immediately, then it will become dangerous – not only to others, but to yourself also,
because so many times you have thought to commit suicide. If the mind is focused at the third eye,
just thinking of suicide will become suicide. You will not have any time to change, immediately it will
happen.
You might have observed someone being hypnotized. When someone is hypnotized, the hypnotist
can say anything and immediately the hypnotized person follows. Howsoever absurd the order,
howsoever irrational or even impossible, the hypnotized person follows it. What is happening? This
fifth technique is at the base of all hypnotism. Whenever someone is being hypnotized he is told to
focus his eyes at a particular point – on some light, some dot on the wall or anything, or on the eyes
of the hypnotist.
When you focus your eyes at any particular point, within three minutes your inner attention begins to
flow toward the third eye. And the moment your inner attention begins to flow toward the third eye,
your face begins to change. And the hypnotist knows when your face begins to change. Suddenly
your face loses all vitality. It becomes dead, as if deeply asleep. The hypnotist knows immediately
when your face has lost the luster, the aliveness. It means that now attention is being sucked by
the third eye center. Your face has become dead; the whole energy is running toward the third eye
center.Now the hypnotist immediately knows that anything said will happen. He says, ”Now you are falling
into a deep sleep” – you will fall immediately. He says, ”Now you are becoming unconscious” –
you will become unconscious immediately. Now anything can be done. If he says, ”Now you have
become Napoleon,” you will become. You will begin to behave like a Napoleon, you will begin to talk
like Napoleon. Your gestures will change. Your unconscious will take the order and will create the
actuality. If you are suffering from a disease, now it can be ordered that the disease has disappeared
and it will disappear. Or any new disease can be created.
Just putting an ordinary stone from the street in your hand, the hypnotist can say, ”This is fire in your
hand,” and you will feel intense heat; your hand will get burned – not only in the mind, but actually.
Actually your skin will get burned. You will have a burning sensation. What is happening? There is
no fire, there is just an ordinary stone, cold. How? How does this burning happen? You are focused
at the third eye center, your imagination is being given suggestions by the hypnotist, and they are
being actualized. If the hypnotist says, ”Now you are dead,” you will die immediately. Your heart will
stop. It WILL stop.
This happens because of the third eye. In the third eye, imagination and actualization are not two
things. Imagination is the fact. Imagine, and it is so. There is no gap between dream and reality.
There is NO gap between dream and reality! Dream, and it will become real. That is why Shankara
has said that this whole world is nothing but the dream of the divine… the DREAM of the divine!
This is because the divine is centered in the third eye – always, eternally – so whatsoever the divine
dreams becomes real. If you are also centered in the third eye, whatsoever you dream will become
real.”
would you please shed some light on this?
