Moodboard: Chapter 4 of the BAHR AL-HAYĀT ("OCEAN OF LIFE"). Section 8

 

"The word of recollection of chakrī [no. 5]. When one wants to see the entire world in a dot, and to find the entire world by the renewal of images in absolute existence, one should undertake the chakrī practice as a personal duty. Chakrī is an expression for turning. It is the brightness and luminosity of the eye in separation. When one performs this recollection, the dot that is visible one sees as a single point and the world appears as a single atom because it is the center of the circle. Quickly one sits with knees crossed and one hand placed on another. One keeps the seat even and turns the eye in all directions. After one year, the eye rotates; vision becomes concentrated upon its own state. The usefulness of this is considerable; after practice, it will become clear."

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Image and English translation from the mysterious Bahr al-Hayāt translated as "The Ocean of Life" written in Persian by the 16th Century Sufi mystic Muhammad Ghawth.   The first illustrated manual of Hatha yoga, which has been studied over the many centuries and is said to be possibly an attempt at bridging Sufi mysticism to meditation and yoga, that are renown in Hinduism and Buddhism.