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Vision- Water bowl (scrying)


I have been into meditation practice since the year 2008. What began as a casual relaxation technique initially, due to faith and dedication towards my divine Sadguru Shri Sainath of Shirdi, started gaining higher grounds through daily practice. Meditation through assiduous practice progresses gradually through faith and devotion; what matters is time and patience. Visions on the other hand though are a byproduct of the mind; a projection of the subconscious, it certainly deepens perceptions varied, brings in clarity of thought. Often times it has helped me find answers to unanswered questions. Everything depends on ones level of concentration, faith and practice. Therefore, every little progress I made through practice was recorded in the beginning as a diary entry. Later on as the practice got into a serious note I began to have varied spiritual experiences. It has been restated already in a secondary source. That was the beginning of an atheist stepping into spirituality which was recorded and self published as an eBook namely, “In Pursuit of Self“authored by Sumathi Mohan. For those who are interested, the eBook is available at Create Space, Amazon and Kindle stores.

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Yesterday, the 29th December, 2014 was yet again a different day. I am on vacation, spending leisure time spring cleaning home. So this is how the day dawned. After a short prayer in the morning and while attending to chores, I started getting this vague picture in my mind; and that is the vision of a bowl filled with water. The symbolic meaning of water speaks of a higher wisdom we may all aspire to mimic. I had recently procured a brass bowl to be used as an offering bowl during prayer. But to see it filled with water with my eyes open was something different. I discussed the same with my spiritual friend. She said there must be something significant to do with the vision; hence I should meditate on it. I was all the more curious to know what it all meant. I concentrated on the question and sat for a quick meditation on my prayer mat inPadmasan, facing West direction, in my usual sacred space. I held the bowl of water in my hand and prayed for a clue. This time the vision I got was of a black Shivling emerging from the water. This was followed by the vision of a tiny dark pyramid standing perpendicular at a distance over shadowed by a glowing silhouette of a young and bald ascetic. My dear old friend then said that it was a divine guidance and I should meditate more upon it. On my second sitting with the water bowl in my hand, the vision I received was that of a horizontal pyramid pointing towards North, emitting blue light, parallel to which stood the brass bowl filled with water. This time I saw not the silhouette but the faces of the young ascetic more clearly, just like a head on a coin. The one sided face appeared facing West direction first, in the next glimpse, it was facing towards the North direction. Then the vision went blank. I opened my eyes slowly and looked into the bowl. Though I did not understand initially what it all meant yet through the process I learnt that one could use water as a medium for visions. Through this experience I could assimilate that henceforth I must sit for prayer facing North direction instead of West. I could read nothing more of the visual.

My research through browsing got me to Wikipedia, Scrying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrying Hence this note I share on Wikipedia that this is how a practitioner gets into scrying automatically. I do not know how otherwise it was done before!

--Sumathi Mohan (talk) 09:44, 30 December 2014 (UTC)