Hi
I have a few comments about this.
First, I admit, I've never tried Yoni Mudra Kumbhaka. I don't like putting pressure into my head or pressing on my eyes. Pressing on the eyes causes lights and visual phenomenon that is strictly biological, (you are really stretching those rods and cones causing small electric charges to be released which causes the lights and patterns to appear. I believe doing this too frequently for prolonged periods of time can damage the eyes.)
Secondly, please try this experiment:
Seat yourself in front of a blank white or light colored wall and look straight ahead. Next, slowly cross your eyes and keep going until you are looking at the place just above the tip of your nose.
You will see a dark spot. Or rather, you will see two dark spots converge until there is only one dark spot.
Guess what? That is the blind spot in both eyes. By crossing your eyes, you are converging both blind spots and then looking (or focusing your attention) through the blinds spots.
And guess what? Without any effort, by just crossing my eyes, I see golden light in the blind spots.
My question to you is this: How do you know that this phenomenon has any spiritual significance?
Ok, so maybe you point the converging blind spots at the brow (or third eye area behind the brow). Still, it's easy to be fooled into thinking that there some spiritual significance in this practice. I believe this phenomenon is strictly a biological phenomenon called
looking through the blind spots and has no spiritual signficance.
Third eye sight does not depend on focusing the eyes. I admit, focusing the eyes at whatever you are trying to focus on helps a lot to control your attention, but at some point you have to let the "looking through the eyes" go because it grounds you in coarse every day consciousness.
The third eye works on it's own regardless of where the physical eyes are pointing. Third eye sight is a matter of attention.
About the golden ring: Yes, there is a golden ring. When your outer-world attention has dissolved through pranayama and deep relaxation and you find yourself in that state that feels like you are deeper than dream state, floating inside the sushumna, a golden ring appears. It seems to originate from the heart. And guess what? You can move that golden ring up and down the sushumna using attention and will. When you do, it is as if the sides of the ring reflect the planes of the chakras that you are passing the ring by. Perhaps it isn't even a golden ring, but the sides of the sushumna that just look like a circle because the sushumna is like a hollow tube.
When I move the "ring" straight upwards, then I can see a star through the ring, but I think it's just point of view. You don't need to see the star by looking through the ring. You can just focus on it. That star is directly above the head, straight up.
The other thing I will say about this is that if I spend too much time moving the ring up and down the sushumna (like I sometimes do during spinal breathing), it is very easy to overload: Sun burnt face and hands, heat through the body, bodies splitting apart at random times during the day, general disorientation and dream-like consciousness... So I don't do that often.
The method I use to see that golden ring is, during spinal breathing, to shift the attention straight down the sushumna from the inside (instead of visualizing the suhumna as if my locus of attention were near the front of the head looking downwards and backwards). Pretend you are right in the sushumna, directly above your heart and then move your attention down to the root. Then I 'pull' the ring upwards along the straight path of the sushumna. At first, when I first discovered that I could do this, I had much trouble getting the ring to go higher than the base of the skull. There were some blockages there. You also have to reverse your point of view at the junction of the medulla and then go upwards, or outwards if you are going towards the brow. That is how I do it.
Hopefully what I have written here will make you consider whether what you are seeing is biological phenomenon and mistaking it for spiritually significant, or if it actually has any value.
Comments?
TI
