Muraqaba: The Subtle Contemplations

This meditation, it is for expanding the consciousness, and allowing your heart to recieve the infomation.

This particular meditation is quite advanced and requires a complete focus. It has been practised by mystics, the knowledge was taken from the Inner Islamic traditions, Irfaan.

Muraqaba; The subtle contemplations This is the first of a series of muraqabat, or subtle contemplations. The word muraqaba is related to the Divine Name al-Raqib, meaning, the Watchful One. Hence muraqaba can be understood as an exercise in ‘watching the Watcher watching.’

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Instructions:

The Decree of Hu-ness With eyes closed, turn the glance toward the suwaida, this is the heart’s subtle energetic nucleus, visualizing it as the center and cause of the universe.

From there, draw lines upward, downward, to the right, to the left, forward, and backward, until the lines intersect with the convex point of the empyrean, or until your self appears miniaturized.

Ascend from the suwaida into the brain, exit the cleft of the brain, and traverse the universe of sublime thought until reaching the supreme empyrean. This is the final 12th realm that extends furtherest in the universe, where there is no limit, no end.

Travel in the upper reaches of the empyrean until, after a time, you have the wondrous feeling of having reached infinity, and from there return.

In the same way, travel in each of the six directions. In this exercise, certain things will be revealed to you, including the realities of the eyes of knowledge, the providence of infinity, the universal, the unity of the universal body, and inner grace.

From non-dimensional space many lights and secrets will be revealed. The Harmony of Hearts Sit kneeling or cross-legged, with eyes closed and back erect, facing north. Watch the breath, allowing it to pervade the body, inducing deep relaxation and awareness.

Direct the awakened breath to the heart, probing its inner recesses. Locate the heart’s subtle energetic nucleus, the particle of black light called the suwaida. From the suwaida, trace luminous lines outward in the six directions, visualizing the heart as the axis of a vast three-dimensional grid that lattices the entire cosmos, its six lines ultimately intersecting at the boundary of the space-time continuum, the point of singularity.

With focused concentration, follow the trajectory of the ascending line. Passing out of the body through the fontanel, rise through the atmosphere and the stratosphere into space, traversing the solar system, the Milky Way (100,000 light-years in diameter), and similarly the 100 billion other galaxies, until reaching the threshold of infinity.

Return by the same corridor. Likewise, traverse the five remaining vectors, one by one. Descending, your path plunges through the earth’s crust, mantle, and burning core, only to reemerge on the opposite hemisphere and ascend into the sky.

Horizontally—to the right, left, forward, and backward—you hover for miles at ground level, tunneling through hills and mountains, until your straight path parts ways with the curved earth, propelling you into interplanetary space and beyond.

Rest in the heart. (The approximate duration of this muraqaba is 45 minutes.)

Extensions of the Decree of Hu-ness in daily life:

Throughout the month, continuously return to the awareness of the heart as axis mundi, the center and cause of the universe. Notice how your consciousness is capable of encompassing the universe in every direction.

Likewise maintain awareness of your spatial orientation on earth, that is, your position relative to the six cardinal directions. Ideally one does this by observing the position of the sun in the sky.

Alternatively, a compass may be employed.


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