how closing eyes in meditation enables reversal of consciousness rays?

The Dialectic of Consciousness: The Return to the Source

In the ceaseless movement of thought and existence, the trajectory of consciousness reveals itself as a dialectic—one that oscillates between the outward and the inward, between dispersion and unity, between the finite and the absolute. The very nature of our experience is predicated upon the movement of consciousness, whose rays extend outward into the manifold of sensory existence. Yet, in this dispersion, consciousness estranges itself from its essence, casting itself into the realm of differentiation and alienation. It is here, in the outward gaze, that suffering arises.

To perceive is to externalize; to externalize is to fragment. When the rays of our consciousness are cast into the world, they become diffused, scattered across the multiplicity of objects, desires, and distractions that constitute the empirical world. The subject, in this moment, experiences a loss—not merely of itself, but of the unifying principle that grounds its being. The world, as manifold, entices and ensnares; it reflects back to us not unity but disparity, not essence but accident. In this outward turning, the soul loses sight of itself, of its own absolute nature.

Yet, in meditation, there is a reversal of this trajectory—a movement of return, a sublation of dispersion into unity. The eyes, as instruments of outward projection, close; the rays of consciousness, once scattered, fold back upon themselves, retracing their origin. Here, the outward becomes the inward, and the soul recognizes itself in its own self-reflection. This is not a mere negation of the external but a higher realization of spirit’s own necessity: to grasp itself not as an object in the world but as the ground of all knowing, the principle of being itself.

The agony of dispersion finds its resolution in the return to source, for it is only in inward unity that the self is truly free. To remain cast outward is to dwell in illusion, to suffer under the tyranny of the multiple. But to bring consciousness back to itself is to awaken to the truth that all differentiation is ultimately grounded in the One. Thus, meditation is not an escape but a synthesis—the reconciliation of self with itself, of the many with the One, of existence with essence.

The soul, in its highest realization, is not a mere participant in the world but the very ground upon which all phenomena arise and return. To meditate is to enact the dialectic of spirit, to return to the center from which all emanates. And in this return, suffering ceases—not because the world has changed, but because the self has awakened to its own undivided reality.