Laukika Dhāraṇā · Dhāraṇā 77

करद्वयेन नेत्रे च श्रोत्रे चापिधाय च । बिन्दुं ध्यायन्मनो याति तत्र ध्येयं विशेषतः ॥

karadvayena netre ca śrotre cāpidhāya ca | binduṃ dhyāyan mano yāti tatra dhyeyaṃ viśeṣataḥ ||

Closing eyes and ears with both hands, meditating on the bindu, the mind goes there. That is the supreme object of meditation.

Seventy-seventh dhāraṇā. The practice of Śaṇmukhi mudrā or Yoni mudrā. Closing the senses with hands — eyes and ears blocked. The outer world disappears. Only the inner world remains.

Binduṃ dhyāyan — meditating on the bindu, the point. What point? The one that spontaneously appears in the inner visual field when you close your eyes with gentle pressure. A point of light, sometimes blue, sometimes golden. The bindu is the seed of all manifestation.

Mano yāti — the mind goes there. Naturally, without effort. When you eliminate all sensory input, the mind seeks a point of support and finds the bindu. Dhyeyaṃ viśeṣataḥ — that is the supreme object of meditation. Not because it is special, but because it is what remains when everything else withdraws. It is consciousness seeing itself.