Activate your spiritual senses. You, too, can utilize your spiritual sight to connect to the heavenly plan, just as prophets and visionaries around the world have been able to perceive the divine workings in visions. Using visualizations during meditation and prayer to enhance and expand your ability to store images in your mind is crucial to developing spiritual sight. When you communicate to Christ or angels in prayer, practice envisioning them and imagine what paradise looks like. Soon, you'll have dreams and have moments of awake inspiration.
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God's voice can be heard. God is constantly communicating to us, but we are not listening, and part of the reason for this is that our spiritual sense of hearing has not grown. Learning to calm the noise in your mind is essential for hearing spiritual messages. Try to keep extraneous thoughts to a minimal during meditation or prayer, and instead focus on God's love and beauty. When something comes up that bothers you, pray for a remedy from God. If you have a clear mind, you will hear His voice clearly speaking to you, as it always does.
God's Word is to be tasted. The living God's Word is believed to fill the hearts of hungry mankind. While in meditation or prayer, practice improving your ability to truly taste these words. Observe how your mind and body are hungry for a variety of things in the world. Now consider how focusing on God's love is more satisfying and eliminates the need for many of these things. Feel the sweetness of His words and how they fill the soul. Keep a few treasured Bible passages with you at all times so that the words of God are always available to quench your spiritual thirst.
The Lord's presence is palpable. As we go about our everyday jobs and chores, many of us feel alone. Concentrate on the notion that God is around you at all times to enhance your spiritual feeling ability, and focus on this during prayer or meditation. Soon, you'll be able to sense his soothing presence all around you.
Take a whiff of the garden that awaits you. Smell has the ability to elicit strong emotions, memories, and mental states. Practice smelling the flowers that bloom in the earthly paradise that awaits humanity while in prayer or meditation. Take note of how clear of pollution and man-made dirt the air is. Allow the scents to transfer you to a different frame of mind that will stay all day.
What is spiritual sense?
The Spiritual Sense explores what Scripture means in terms of reality and happenings. The Allegorical Sense examines how individuals, events, and things in the literal sense alludes to Christ's mystery. Moral Sensibility.
Why did God give us the five senses?
Pratyahara is a practice in which we divert our senses away from external objects and toward the inner world. It's not a dulling or numbing of the senses; rather, it's a shift in the antennae's direction. Consider an antique television set with rabbit-ear antennae. Imagine turning those antennae that point outwards and link with the TV signals in the outside world inside the TV and just communicating with the internal waves! Pratyahara is what it is. Our sensory antennae are shifted from the outside to the inside. It is one of the eight limbs of yoga as described by the sage Patanjali.
Why would we have a valued practice of withdrawing our five senses if God has given us the ability to use them to perceive the world? I often emphasize that God does not make errors. God provides us with what we need for a reason.
However, just because God has given us a gift does not imply we are supposed to utilize it carelessly. Yes, we have taste buds, but it doesn't imply we have to eat everything all the time. We have touchy fingers, but that doesn't imply we should touch everything. Anyone who has ever touched a hot burner, a cactus, or a sharp edge understands that this is not what God had in mind when he gave us the ability to touch.
Just because God has given us something does not mean we are free to use it in whatever way we please. Everything we've been given has a purpose, and our sense organs were given to us so that we may learn about the world around us.
I require my sense of touch to navigate the outside world, so that if I accidentally place my hand on a hot burner, I can quickly remove it. If I didn't have sensory neurons in my spinal cord that worked quickly, connecting to motor neurons that would pull my hand away from the burner, I'd keep it there, burn myself, and, after a few seconds, give myself such a burn that it would get infected, septic, and I'd die. Let's say I'm driving and hear a loud horn. My sense of hearing alerts me and assists me in detecting the automobile that ran the red light so that I can respond quickly and avoid being hit. The sense organs are critical for assisting us in interacting safely and successfully with the environment around us. They also provide us the ability to appreciate and adore creation's beauty, such as a sunset, the scent of jasmine, or the sound of rain on a lake. Our senses are a gift that allows us to experience the world around us.
The true reality, however, is the inner world, as we are repeatedly told. This is where pratyahara enters the picture. If we desire to acquire dhyan (meditation), enlightenment (samadhi), divine yogic connection, bliss, and ecstasy, we must do so. But before I can meditate, I have to concentrate my attention, which is scattered in a million directions, on a mantra, a candle flame, an image, or my breath. And even before I can accomplish that, I need to detach my sensory and perceptive organs from the outside world.
That's why meditating in the middle of a football game, a shop, or while driving a car is quite tough. You must keep your eyes peeled! Anything that needs you to be focused outward is a challenging setting in which to concentrate, because your perception is based on the sensory organs that face outward at the time. This is why the first thing we do when we sit down to meditate is find a peaceful spot and close our eyes. Because you must be able to draw your senses inward in order to concentrate them on only one thing, whether it's a mantra, a candle, a picture, or your breath. You will be able to integrate into a state of meditation from that single-pointed focus, and from there, you will be able to experience samadhi with grace. However, pratyahara is the first and most important stage.
Our sensory organs are required to interact with the outside world. We express our gratitude to God for allowing us to hear, feel, see, taste, and touch. Thank you, too, for this inner realm where I can see and hear you now. We require both.
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati's ‘Come Home to Yourself-Wisdom for Life from Parmarth Niketan Ashram' (Penguin Random House) has been republished with permission.
Is there a 8th sense?
The sense of knowing/feeling what is happening on inside your body, including internal organs and skin, is known as interoception (i.e hunger, thirst, pain, arousal, bowel and bladder, body temperature, itch, heart rate, nausea, and feelings such as embarrassment and excitement etc.).
What is 6th sense?
Do you know what the sixth sense is? The five senses of taste, sight, smell, touch, and hearing are well-known to most people. What about the sixth sense, though? The sixth sense is a person's ability to perceive something that isn't actually there. For example, you may get a sense that something is about to happen before you actually experience it. Alternatively, you may have a dream that comes true. This is when your sixth sense comes into play.
How can I see my spiritual eyes?
- Pray with your eyes closed. You don't have to close your eyes, but there's something about tuning into God's realm and shutting out the earthly sphere that allows us to see what He sees.