Chitakash, Subtle body, Mind...

Between the two eyes , a little backwards is another Eye/ Chakshu/ चक्षु. It comprises of mind represented by circle and pran represented by a bindu in the centre. 

Purer the mind smaller the circle and impurer the mind bigger the circle. As we improve our mind this circle reduces and tends towards the central bindu. The radius of te circle represents te vrittis or maya which propell a jiva into the world. 

                                          

Bindu/ बिन्दु is the point where chitakash/ चित्ताकश opens and one sees 'scene' there. Chitakash is called subtle body. Thus inside the physical body, is the subtle body which lies inside the bindu of the third eye also represented by third eye. Light from the mind is being thrown outwards due to which we are able to see the world. As mind gets purified this gaze starts turning inwards. Then less and less of the outer world is seen. When mind becomes pure, it turns inward totally and circle merges into bindu and third eye opens.

When mind is totally ignorant at that point the bindu is covered with a dark curtain, when it gets a little purified than it becomes translucent and when it gets totally purified than it becomes transparent. Scene is seen in this space of Chitakash/ चिताकाश in the bindu/ बिन्दु and now the one who is seeing That scene is the 'Drashta/ Witness'. When this happens Sarv Vritti Nirodh/ सर्व वृत्ति निरोध () takes place ad one attain Nirvikalp Smadhi. 

When mind merges into Anatama, it is called Gross or Jad (जड) samadhi (समाधि),

When mind merges into both Anatm/ अनात्म and Atma/ अत्मा, it is called Savikalp Samadhi/ सविकल्प,

When mind merges into pure Atma/ आत्मा, it is called Nirvikalp Samadhi/ निर्विकल्प.

When Adho Drishti/ अधो दृष्टि (Downward or outer gaze) occurs Darshan (one sees) of Brhamand/ ब्रह्माण्ड (material world) takes place, it is through Karma (कर्म)/ action.

When Madhya/ मध्य Drishti/ दृष्टि or Sam/ सम takes place, then Kaivalya Darshan (कैवल्य दर्शन) takes place, it is through gyan or knowledge.

When Urdhav/ उर्धव (upward) gaze takes place then Bhagwat darshan (भगवत दर्शन) takes place, it takes place through Bhakti. 

Veils over different states are cut with initiation from the guru. First veil (आवरण) by Karma, Second by knowledge and third by Bhakti (भक्ति)/ Kripa (कृपा)/ Grace...Om!.....Shaktanand.

subject matter explained from writings in Svasamvedan, written by Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj.