Yoga of Perfect Sight

Art of Seeing

The School for Perfect Eyesight has developed a new technique called the 'art of seeing' for the cure of visual defects. Two Oriya girls, 10 years old, studying in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, had developed a condition of semi-blindness (amblyopia). Their vision was found defective both for distance and near without any apparent cause and glasses did not help them to see better. The teacher told us that the defective condition had developed after joining the school class. It is important to note that when children begin to learn unfamiliar things, letters or a language, they usually suffer from little or more of eye strain and mental strain due to the unfamiliarity of the lines and figures and letters. It is at this stage that visual defects usually start. And if children can be taught a few simple methods of eye education as blinking and palming etc., their defects will soon fade away and they will be blessed with perfect eyesight. Let me tell you how these two semi-blind girls were cured in fifteen minutes by the art of seeing "view-cards and pictures".

I taught these girls the art of seeing pictures with the mind completely relaxed. I give a view-card depicting a colourful picture of Taj Mahal to them. Soon the flatness began to disappear and the three-dimensional character of the picture was clearly perceived by the girls. With the mind relaxed, the picture appeared so beautiful to the eyes that their minds got deeply absorbed in seeing the Taj. They exclaimed, Lovely! Beautiful! The details of the picture were appearing sharply, they were observing their vision getting improved. Then when they were asked to read the Snellen eye-testing chart from 10 ft and 20 ft, they could easily read the normal line after a few attempts. They could also read the fine print which was impossible before. Since then they are maintaining permanent improvement. Formerly defective vision of this nature in children was cured in about two weeks but now by the art of seeing it was corrected in 15 minutes. Further experiments have proved that this exercise of mind and eyes proves very helpful in the improvement of eyesight in almost all cases who can successfully do it.