Response:

Your experience is certainly within the normal range of possibilities for meditation, but try not to give too much importance to the colors or images that come up during your meditation practice. 

What matters are the transformations and openings that occur in your heart and your spiritual understanding after meditation. 

Every time we meditate there is a deepening and expansion of consciousness and that is what furthers our spiritual awakening. 

Most people do not experience the kind of dramatic visual images or sensations that you reported, but their meditation will be just as effective and profound. 

Whatever images or sensations are happening in our minds and bodies are not the real story of our spiritual awakening. 

The only important experience is the self recognizing itself on its own terms, independent of any feelings, thoughts, or sensations we might have on the surface level of life. 

So if during meditation you see purple light in the shape of an eye, don’t give it any special attention.

Even though you know it is real, treat it like any other thought in meditation and simply take it as a signal to return your attention to your practice. 

Love,

Deepak