Tratak - Meditation on Light

We live each day in a world of accelerated and jolting vibrations. In an age of pollution, freeways and constant noise we seek means to relax our overwrought systems without recourse to the vicious cycles of drugs and sensory overload.The first step, we recognize, is to simply sit down quietly and dismiss the cares and tensions of the workaday world. And for a moment, all appears cleansed and freshened.But this sense of relaxation is fleeting.Like a wild horse, the mind wants to run free. Temporarily unleashed from the constricting patterns of day-to-day existence, it rushes first here, now there. Soon the feeling of relaxation is replaced with a deepening sense of frustration and confusion.Tratak brings the mind to a one-pointed view,the object of all yogas. It is the single-mindedness of the child, which we can re-integrate into our adult lives without the practice of arduous and esoteric disciplines.Through daily meditation on light we can learn to penetrate beneath the fleeting, superficialworld of names and forms to perceive the timeless essence within. Through it we become aware of our own higher form. Try it and see for yourself.Tratak, meditation on light, is a tool to bring together the widely scattered thoughts and feelings-a way of focusing, of learning to concentrate. Tratak tames the wild horse of the mind, enabling the meditator to saddle his mount and maintain a firm rein.