Dhaarana - A Kite to fly

Dhaarana

If your dhaarana is perfected, it will be like a kite. How the kite is handled ? You allow the kite to fly very high in the sky, but you always have the control in your hand, the connectivity is the thread. Is it not a great kill to keep the kite flying all the time, but at the same time you being connected to it with the thread? All the time you are very skillfully handling your fingers and hands, your attention and your dhaarana is completely absorbed to the kite. It can be beautiful analogy to understand what dhaarana is all about.

So if you know how to handle this movement of thread to control the kite, then you have perfected your dhaarana, otherwise, it is an uncharted plane of existence, you really don’t know, where to go, how to go, how far you have gone, and the worst thing is, if you don’t know how to come back, then you are lost as well. So through dhaarana, you are going to create a beautiful path which becomes very familiar to you, so that everyday you start your journey, reach the center of your consciousness and at the same time you are not afraid of it because you yourself have created the path and you also know how to come back. Otherwise we would be become the case of Abhimanyu in Mahabharata. Our dhaarana should not become like a chakravyuha.

So your dhaarana teaches you how to move confidently, step by step in a very scientific way, understanding what it is all about, experiencing your own center of consciousness, experience how is the self can recognize consciousness, stay there, enjoy the flight, and then come back, with a successful landing.