Question
What role, if any, do the third eye and the chakras play in Transcendental Meditation, does MMY mention them? As a meditator will I ever experience them? Thanks....
Answer
Billy, Thank you for your question.
Third eye and chakras play no role in either the Transcendental Meditation or Natural Stress Relief techniques.
Many schools of meditation that lack efficiency (the direct experience of samadhi), try to compensate by putting emphasis on advanced experiences such as these. As a practitioner of TM, you will have all the advanced experiences, but you will not be hung up on them and thereby risk missing enlightenment. Instead, you will enjoy increasing normalcy of the nervous system in a natural way, leading to fullness of life in bliss consciousness. Any other practice is "toys for children" in the words of Maharishi.
I hope this brief answer has helped. Please feel free to submit followup questions, if any.
David Spector
