HOW TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES DURING MEDITATION

 

                          OBSTACLES IN MEDITATION

                    OBSTACLES APPEAR IN MEDITATION SOMEWHAT LIKE THE OBSTACLES WHILE PERFORMING ANY OTHER WORK. WHATEVER OBSTACLES COMES ONE MUST TRY ONE'S BEST TO OVERCOME IT. ONE SHOULD NEVER STOP PRACTICE, ONE SHOULD NOT LOSE HEART. ONE SHOULD KEEP MOVING FUTHER WITHOUT GETTING DISTRACTED BECAUSE OF THE OBSTACLES. ONE SHOULD NOT BE DICOURAGED BY THE THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD TAKE LONG TIME. IT IS A LONG JOURNEY WHICH CAN NOT BE COMPLETED OVERNIGHT.

                      

               WATCH YOUR MIND VERY CAREFULLY. BE ALERT, DO NOT ALLOW THE WAVES OF JEALOUSY, LUST, GREED, HATRED AND ANGER TO DISTURB YOU. THESE WAVES ARE THE OBSTACLES OF MEDITATION. THEY SPOIL YOUR PEACE OF MIND AND WISDOM. THESE THOUGHTS CAN BE CHECKED BY KEEPING VIGILANCE ON THEM. YOU SHOULD TRAIN YOUR MIND TO OVERCOME INTELLIGENTLY THESE STUMBLING BLOCKS ON THE PATH OF GOD REALISATION. YOU SHOULD NEVER BE DISCOURAGED. NEVER LET THE LAZINESS AND LETHARGY SETS IN. IN DAILY ROUTINE, DO NOT ALLOW YOUR BUSINESS TO HAMPER YOUR REGULAR PRACTICE OF MEDITATION.  EGO AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS EMERGING IN YOUR MIND SHOULD BE UPROOTED. EAT NUTRITIVE  DIET FOR HEALTHY BODY AND SANE MIND. NEVER LOSE FAITH IN GOD AND NEVER STOP PRACTICE OF MEDITATION, KEEP MOVING AS PATH IS VERY LONG. MR "Y" EXPLAINED TO MS, "G".

                                IRREGULARITY IN PRACTICE

                     I HAVE STARTED BLOGGING WHICH MEANS WRITING POSTS REGULARLY ON INTERNET". NEAR ABOUT ONE YEAR BACK, MR. "X" ELATEDLY TOLD MR."M" THE ELDEST MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY.

                    OTHER PERSONS VISIT YOUR SITE AND LEAVE COMMENTS ON THE POST, "M" SAID. YES.

                   YOU WRITE ON WHICH TOPIC?

                  I PEN DOWN MY MINUTE OBSERVATIONS. I AM WRITING IN ENGLISH AND NOT IN HINDI. I KNOW MY ENGLISH IN NOT SO GOOD BUT I  AM GIVING IT A TRY.

                  NEVER BE IRREGULAR IN WRITING POSTS. NEVER CEASE THE PRACTICE OF WRITING AS AFTER SOMETIME IT WILL MONOTONOUS. KEEP WRITING REGULARLY, ONE DAY YOUR ENGLISH WILL DEFINITELY IMPROVE" HE ADVISED.

                MR. "X" RECALLED THIS CONVERSATION AFTER HEARING THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH.

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                        A KID WAS NOT DOINNG THE MORNING YOGA EXERCISES PROPERLY EVEN ON MS. "B" S REPEATED ADVICES. WHY YOU ARE NOT CONCENTRATING ON EXERCISE? AT LAST SHE LAST HER TEMPER AND SCOLDED HIM.

                       MA' AM , TODAY I FORGOT TO BRUSH MY TEETH" HE REPLIED 

                      INNOCENTLY.

                 DON'T MAKE USELESS EXCUSES TO ESCAPE OF EXERCISE, REGULAR PRAYERS AND MEDITATION. DUE TO BUSY ROUTINE OR MONOTONY IN PRACTICE ONE SHOULD NEVER STOP MEDITATION. MINDS WANTS VARIETY.  SOON IT GETS BORED WITH THE ROUTINE OT MEDITATION ONE SHOULD CREATE VARIETY BY CHANTING MANTRA LOUDLY OR WHISPERING. ONE SHOULD LISTEN TO RECORDED MANTRA. ONE CAN DANCE ON THAT MANTRA. ONE CAN PAINT THAT MANTRA, ONE CAN CREATE LORD'S IMAGE BY WRITING THAT MANTRA ALL OVER. ONE CAN CHANGE THE SCHEDULE OF MEDITATION BUT MEDITATION SHOULD NEVER BE COMPLETELY STOPPED.  SPIRITUAL PRACTICE SHOULD NEVER BE GIVEN UP WHATEVER SITUATION MAY ARISE IN ONE'S LIFE. IN THE BEGINNING ONE IS FULL OF ENTHUSIASM AND HOPES TO GET RESULTS IN VERY SHORT TIME. ONE NOT ACHIEVING THOSE RESULTS, GENERALLY ONE GIVES UP PRACTICE. ONE SHOULD MEDITATE WITHOUT ANY EXPECTATIONS . PROGRESS HAPPENS BUT SLOWLY. SWAMI VISHNUDEVANANDA SAID, YOU HAVE TO PRACTISE, PRACTISE, PRACTISE, UNTIL THE MIND BECOMES MANTRA AND MANTRA BECOMES THE MIND. CESSATION OF PRACTICE IS A GRAVE MISTAKE, SADHANA, SPIRITUAL PRACTICE SHOULD NEVER BE GIVEN UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES'.

                                 HEALTHY FOOD IN MEDITATION

                        THE BODY SHOULD BE KEPT HEALTHY AND STRONG IT IS A VEHICLE FOR GOD REALISATION. AS THE SHARP TOOL GIVEN GOOD RESULTS IN LESS TIME SIMILARLY HEALTHY BODY HELPS IN ACHIEVING GOAL SOONER. REGULAR EXERCISES, PRANAYAMAS, GOOD DIET AND MODERATE SLEEP HELP IN MAINTAINING THE BODY IN GOOD SHAPE. GOOD HEALTH HELPS IN KEEPING THE MIND IN CHEERFUL STATE.

                    ROAMING UNIVERSAL STUDIOS IN ORLANDO CITY, VIEWING EXCITING THINGS AND EXPERIENCING THRILLING ADVENTURES IN THEME PARKS, NOT ONLY MADE MR. "F" TIRED BUT HUNGRY ALSO. THERE WERE OF EATING PLACES THOUGH VEGETARIAN FOOD WAS AVAILABLE ONLY AT A FEW COUNTERS. H SEARCHED ONE, ORDERED PIZZA, CHILLED CAKE AND SWEET CHOCO COOKIE.

                   AS SOON AS HE ATE THE FIRST MORSEL OF PIZZA, HE REALISED WHY IN AMERICA MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE NON-VEGETARIAN. IT WAS STICKY, DIFFICULT TO CHEW AND WHAT TO SAY OF TASTE. IT WAS EVEN WORSE THAN THE HOSTEL RATIS IN INDIA. HE WAS NOT SURE WHETHER HE COULD FIND SOMETHING VEGGIE BETTER THAN THIS, SO CONTINUED EATING TILL IT WAS FINISHED.

                     THAT'S A TOTALLY  DIFFERENT STORY THAT PIZZA REMAINED IN HIS STOMACH FOR TWO DAYS CAUSING HIM ALL THAT BLAH BLAH. HE FELT WEAK AND COULDN'T CONCENTRATE HIS MIND WHILE MEDITATING BECAUSE OF GASTRIC PROBLEM AND HEAVINESS IN STOMACH.

                     IMPROPER DIET IS AN OBSTACLES IN MEDITATION. IT CAUSES MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS LIKE STOMACH ACHE, POOR DISGESTION AND SLEEP DISORDER. FOOD SHOULD BE LIGHT, NUTRITIVE AND EASILY DIGESTIBLE.

THE DETAIL ABOUT KUNDALINI

 

             

                                  SYPTOMS OF

                    KUNDALINI AWAKENING

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                   ACCORDING TO SWAMI SIVANANDA, "DURING MEDITATION YOU BEHOLD DIVINE VISIONS, EXPERIENCES DIVINE SMELL, DIVINE TASTE, DIVINE TOUCH, HEAR DIVINE ANAHATA SOUNDS. YOU RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS FROM GOD. THESE INDICATE THAT THE KUNDALINI SHAKTI HAS BEEN AWAKENED. WHEN THERE IS THROBBING IN MULADHANA, WHEN HAIRS STAND ON THEIR ROOTS, WHEN UDDIYANA, JALANDHARA AND MULA BANDHA COME ONVOLUNTARILY, KNOW THAT KUNDALINI HAS AWAKENED".

                   SOME OF THE KUNDALINI AWAKENING SYMPTOMS 

                                         ARE LISTED BELOW"

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                               1. THROBBING AT THE BASE OF SPINE.

                              2. INVOLUNTARY BODY MOVEMENTS LIKE JERKS, FORCE PUSHING BODY STRANGE WAYS OR MAKING UNUSUAL POSTURES ESPECIALLY DEDITATION, REST HOURS AND JUST BEFORE ENTERING THE SLEEP.

                           3. CHOKING IN THROAT.

                         4. OVERWHELMING FATIGUE OR HYPERACTIVITY.

                        5. DISTURBED SLEEPING PATTERN AND SLIGHT PAIN IN HEAD.

                      6. BAD DIGESTION.

  

                     7. ELECTRIC CURRENT PASSING THROUGH THE SPINE.

                     8. ROLLING OF EYEBALLS OR MOVEMENT OF EYES UPWARD AND 

                         NOT ABLE TO OPEN EYELIDS DESPITE EFFORTS MADE FOR THAT.

                    9. FEELING OF ENERGY MOVING INSIDE THE BODY, MUSCLE TWITCHING, 

                      HOT AND COLD CHANGES IN BODY TEMPERATURE.

                   10. FEELING OF SENSATIONS LIKE CRAWLING OF INSECT, TINGLING,

                   AND ITCHING.

  

                  11.  TEARS IN EYES WHILE MEDITATING.

                 12. HEARING INNER SOUNDS.

                13. SEEING INNER LIGHTS OF VARIOUS COLOURS AND IN VARIOUS FORMS.

                 14. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW INTEREST IN MUSIC, ART, POETRY,

                  CROSSWORD ETC.

                15. FEELING OF BLISS.

               16. ECSTASY.

                   DIFFERENT PERSON'S EXPERIENCES VARY BECAUSE THE NATURE, PAST KARMAS AND THOUGHTS OF PERSONS DIFFER. SOME MAY EXPERIENCE ALL THESE SYMPTOMS WHILE OTHERS MAY EXPERIENCES ONLY A FEW.

                 MR. 'V' MEDITATING IN HIS CLOSED ROOM. HIS MIND STARTED TO FOCUS ON THE OBJECT. SUDDENLY HE FELT THAT HE BEGAN TO MOVE FORWARD AND BACKWARD. HIS BACK VIBRATED SO INTENSELY THAT HE HAD TO OPEN UP HIS EYES WHETHER IT WAS SOMETHING INSIDE HIS BODY OR OUTSIDE.

                 MS. 'L' WAS RESTING IN HER ROOM. HER BODY VIBRATED. SHE FELT JERKS IN HER LEGS. SHE FELT THAT EARTHQUAKE HAS HIT HER CITY. SOON SHE REALISED IN NOT OUTER QUAKE RATHER INNER SERPANT MAKING ITS WAY TOWARDS THE CROWN OF HER HEAD.

THE POWERFUL MANTRAS

 

                          

                             TYPES OF MANTRA AND

                                       JAPA MEDITATION

                              SRI RAM JAYE RAM JAYE JAYE RAM

                       THIS IS THE MANTRA FOR LORD RAM. IT GIVES INNER STRENGTH AND IMMENSE PEACE OF MIND. IT GIVES DISPASSION AND SALVATION.

                               OM SRI MAHA LAKSHMYAI NAMAH

                      THOSE WHO WISH TO WORSHIP GODDESS LAKSHMI CAN CHANT THIS MANTRA. IT GIVES PROSPERITY. IT BELOWS WEALTH OF MATERIALISTIC AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL NATURE.

   

                                         OM SRI RAMA NAMAH

                I BOW TO LORD RAM, THE SUPREME DEITY WHO REPRESENTS THE SELF. THIS IS THE BEST MANTRA FOR THE HOURSEHOLDERS AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES.

                                         OM SRI HANUMATE NAMAH

                   IT GIVES STRENGTH, POWER AND DEVOTION. IT GUIDES TO TRUMP ALL THE OBSTACLES COMING IN THE PATH OF GOD REALISATION.

                                               OM NAMAH SHIVAYA 

                   I BOW TO LORD SHIVA THE DEITY OF TRANSFORMATION. IT DESTROYS ONE'S LOWER NATURE. IT ANNIHILATES NEGATIVE QUALITIES GIVING WAY TO POSITIVE QUALITIES TO GROW.

                                JAPA MEDITATION

               JAPA MEDITATION IS THE MOST POPULAR AND MOST COMMONLY USED TECHNQUE OF GOD REALISATION. SWAMI SIVANANDA SAID, "NAMA (NAME OF GOD) AND NAMI (THAT WHICH IS DENOTED BY NAME) ARE INSEPARABLE. REMEMBER HIS NAME. CHANT HIS NAME. SING HIS NAME. GLORY TO HIS NAME ! VICTORY TO HIS NAME, WHICH BLESSESS US FOR EVER AND CONFERS IMMORTALITY, SUPREME PEACE AND ETERNAL BLISS!

                THERE ARE SO MANY MANTRAS OF VARIOUS DEITIES. ONE HAS TO SELECT THE MANTRA BEFORE STARTING JAPA MEDITATION. ONLY THOSE MANTRA SHOULD BE SELECTED FOR WHICH ONE HAS FULL DEVOTION AND COMPLETE FAITH. THE FAITH SHOULD BE SO STRONG THAT ONE HAS TO WORSHIP THEM THROUGHOUT ONE'S LIFE, WITHOUT FEELING BORED. MANTRA AND DEITY ONCE CHOSEN SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. THERE ARE MANY PATHS THAT LEAD ONE TO THE TOP OF MOUNTAIN. SIMILARLY THERE ARE MANY PATHS TO GOD REALISATION. THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT IS THAT WHATEVER PATH ONE MAY CHOOSE ONE SHOULD BE CONFIDENT THAT IT WILL LEAD TO SUCCESS IN LIFE.

THE TYPES OF HINDU MANTRAS

                             

                                  TYPES OF MANTRAS 

                     SAGUNA MANTRAS - MANTRAS WHICH GIVE RISE TO THE ACTUAL FORM OF A PARTICULAR DEITY AND HAVE A PARTICULAR SHAPE ARE KNOWN AS SAGUNA MANTRAS. ON CHANTING, THEY LEAD TO GOD REALISATION. THEY HAVE FORM, QUALITIES, AND VISUAL SYMBOLS. THE MANTRA IS THE DEITY ITSELF. THE MANTRAS SHOULD BE CHANTED PROPERLY WITH FULL CONCENTRATION ON EACH AND EVERY WORD.

                    OM NAMAH SHIVAYE'  IS LORD SHIVA'S MANTRA. HARI OM' IS THE MANTRA OF LORD VISHNU.

                     NIRGUNA MANTRAS - MANTRAS WHICH DO NOT GIVE RISE TO THE ACTUAL FORM OF A PARTICULAR DEITY ARE FORMLESS ARE CALLED NIRGUNA MANTRAS. THESE MANTRAS HELP IN BECOMING ONE WITH NATURE. THEY HAVE MYSTICAL ENERGY. THEY SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED OR CHANTED CORRECTLY. MISPRONUNCIATION CAN CAUSE SEVERE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON ONE'S BRAIN.

                    AHAM BRAHMA ASMI' MEANS I AM BRAHMA. IN THIS MANTRA ONE DENIES BODY CONSCIOUSNESS AND AFFIRMS UNITY WITH BRAHMA.

                      MANTRAS FOR JAPA - THESE ARE SOME OF THE MANTRAS CHANTED ALL OVER THE WORLD.

                     1. OM

                          IT IS THE SOUND OF UNIVERSE AND ORIGINAL VIBRATION OF GOD. ITIS THE MANIFESTATION OF ABSOLUTE. IT REPRESENTS GOD AS OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT AND OMNIPOTENT OM LETTER BY LETTER A-U-M REPRESENTS SHAKTI, DIVINE ENERGY UNITED IN THREE ELEMENTARY ASPECTS BRAHMA SHAKTI (CREATION) , VISHNU SHAKTI (PRESERVATION) REPRESENTS THE SLEEP STATE AND "M" REPRESENTS THE DEEP SLEEP STATE AND THE COMBINATION AUM REPRESENTS TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS. ACCORDING TO MANDUKYA UPANISHAD, "AUM STANDS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD".

                    2. OM SRI MAHA GANAPATAYE NAMAH

                I BOW TO LORD GANESH WHO IS THE KING OF "GANAS" TROOPS. HE REMOVES ALL OBSTACLES AND GIVES PROTECTION. IT GIVES SUCCESS IN MATERIALISTIC AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL LIFE.

                   3. OM NAMO NARAYANAYA

           

               THIS MANTRA IS FOR LORD VISHNU. NARAYANA IS ONE OF HIS NAMES. HE IS THE PRESERVER OF THE WORLD. PEOPLE WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE RUNNING OF ANY INSTITUITION OR SOCIETY CAN CHANT THIS MANTRA.

               NAMBI GAVE INITIATION OF RAMANUJA FOR THE MANTRA "OM NAMO NARAYANAYA" AND ASKED RAMANUJA TO MAINTAIN ITS SECRECY AS IT IS A VERY POWERFUL MANTRA. ON CONTINUOUS REPETITION IT GIVES SALVATION. IT SHOULD BE GIVEN ONLY TO A WORTHY DISCIPLE. ON REALISIN THAT IT IS A POWERFUL MANTRA, RAMANUJA ASSEMBLED PERSONS OF ALL CASTE, CREED AND SOCIAL STATUS AND TOLD THEM THE MANTRA TO SALVATION. HE WAS VERY COMPASSIONATE AND KIND. HE WANTED THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD ENJOY THE ETERNAL BLISS OF LORD NARAYANA.

                    4. HARI OM

               HARI IS THE NAME OF LORD VISHNU. IT DESTROYS PAST KARMAS AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS. IT GIVES SALVATION.

                 5.  OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA

             IT IS THE MANTRA OF LORD KRISHNA. VASUDEVA IS ONE OF LORD KRISHNA'S NAMES. IT GIVES VAIRAGYA (DISPASSION) AS WELL AS MUKTI (SALVATION)

                6. OM SRI DURGAYAI NAMAH

              MOTHER DURGA IS SHAKTI, SHE HAS EIGHT ARMS IN WHICH SHE CARRIES WEAPONS AND LOTUS FLOWER. SHE RIDES A TIGER. THIS MANTRA GIVES POWER AND REMOVES FEAR.

                7. OM SRI MAHA KALIKAYAI NAMAH

            THIS MANTRA IS FOR GODDESS KALI WHO REMOVES NEGATIVE QUALITIES FROM INDIVIDUAL AND HELPS IN  COSMIC UNION OF INDIVIDUAL SOUL.

                  8. OM AIM SARASWATYAI NAMAH

               GODDESS SARASWATI IS THE SOURCE OF LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE. SHE SHOWERS KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELDS OF ART AND MUSIC. THIS MANTRA HELPS IN CREATING INNOVATION IDEAS. IT ALSO INCREASES KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM.

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

 

                             

                               IS THE GOD IS EXIST?

                     OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD NEVER CHANGE WHEREAS THE REST OF RELATIONSHIPS CHANGE THE TIME! THEN WHY DO WE GIVE MORE IMPORTANT TO THE REST OF RELATIONSHIPS THAN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD? MR. 'Y' ASKED.

                   MR 'Z' REPLIED, GOD IS OUR OWN BUT THIS WORLD IS NOT OURS. THE BODY, FAMILY AND FRIENDS WE HAVE RECEIVED, WILL ALL DEPART ONE DAY. GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US, TAKING CARE OF US, GUIDING US, HELPING US, PROTECTING US AND LEADING US TOWARDS HIM. GOD IS OUR OWN FOR ETERNITY. GOD IS ALWAYS THERE TO LISTEN TO OUR PROBLEMS, GRIEVANCES AND TROUBLES WHICH WE CAN'T SHARE WITH ANYBODY ELSE".

                      GOD IS AN IDEA. GOD IS THE PRODUCT OF MIND.TO SOME IT APPEARS IN FORM, TO SOME IT IS FORMLESS OR TO OTHERS AS LIGHT OR TO OTHERS AS THE SUPREME TRUTH. IT IS ONLY ONE'S IMAGINATION HOW ONE WISHES TO SEE GOD AND GOD MANIFEST BEFORE THAT PERSON ACCORDING TO ONE'S CONCEPTION AND PERCEPTION. GOD IS EVERYWHERE, IN THE SUN, MOON, STARTS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, BIRDS, ANIMALS, TREES ETC. HE IS IN EVERY PARTICLE. ACCORDING TO BOEHME, "THE BIRDS IS OUR FOREST, THEY PRAISE GOD EACH IN ITS OWN WAY, IN DIVERSE TONES AND FASHIONS. DO YOU THINK GOD  IS VEXED BY THIS DIVERSITY AND DESIRES TO SILENCE DISCORDANT VOICES? ALL THE FORMS OF LIFE ARE DEAR TO INFINITE BEING HIMSELF".

                    ACCORDING TO DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN, " A TRUE SEER IS COVINCED OF THE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF THE NATURE OF GOD AND THE FINITE NUMBER OF ITS POSSIBLE MANIFESTATIONS.

                     EVERYONE  LOOKS AT GOD ACCORDING TO ONE'S OWN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT HIM . AT THE TIME OF SITA'S SWAYAMVAR , WHEN LORD RAM ENTERED THE COURT OF KING JANAK, ALL THE INVITEE KINGS LOOKED AT HIM AS A BRAVE PERSON, THE WICKED KINGS GOT SCARED LOOKING AT HIM AS IF HE IS A TERRIBLE FORM, THED DEMONS WHO WERE SITTING THERE DECEITFULLY IN PRINCE'S FORM SAW HIM AS THEIR DEATH, THE COMMON CITIZENS OF MITHILA SAW HIM AS A ABODE OF HUMANITY AND A DELIGHT TO THEIR EYES. FOR SAINT AND SAGES HE LOOKED LIKE A OBEDIENT DISCIPLE, TO DEVOTEES HE LOOKED LIKE LORD VISHNU IN HIS COSMIC FORM, TO THE RELATIVES OF KING JANAK HE LOOKED LIKE THEIR SON-IN-LAW, TO THE QUEEN HE LOOKED LIKE HER DEAR CHILD, TO THE YOGIS EVER UNITED WITH GOD SAW HIM AS THE HIGHEST TRUTH AND PLACID, SITA SAW HIM WITH JOY AND LOVE THAT COULD'NT BE PUT IN WORDS.

                    SMALL STORY

                    THIS STORY IS FROM MUNDAKA UPANISHAD. ONCE THERE WAS A LARGE TREE WITH MANY BRANCHES. ON ITS LOWER BRANCH WAS SITTING A BIRD. WHEN IT LOOKED UP, IT SAW ANOTHER BIRD ON TOP BRANCH OF THE TREES. THE BIRD SITTING ON LOWER BRANCH RESTLESSLY PECKED FRUITS, SOMETIMES SWEET AND SOMETIMES BITTER AND THEN JUMPED A BRANCH UP. IT LOOKED UP AND SAW ANOTHER BIRD WAS SITTING ON THE HIGHEST BRANCH. IT AGAIN ATE SOME SWEET AND BITTER FRUITS AND HOPPED UP ONE BRANCH. IT KEPT MOVING TILL IT REACHED A BRANCH LOWER TO THE HIGHEST BRANCH. WHEN IT LOOKED UP THERE WAS STILL THAT ANOTHER BIRD ON THE ABOVE BRANCH. AS SOON AS IT REACHED THE TOP BRANCH IT FOUND THERE WAS NO BIRD EXCEPT ITSELF.

                       IN THIS STORY THE BIRD SITTING ON LOWER BRANCH IS JEEVATMAN (HUMAN BEING) AND THE BIRD SITTING ON HIGHEST BRANCH IS THE PARMATMAN (GOD) AND THE SWEET AND SOUR FRUITS ARE THE BIRH AND DEATH CYCLES.

                                       THE PRESENCE OF GOD

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                     THE MAIN GOAL OF MEDITATION OS GOD REALISATION RIGHT? 

                     MR. 'X' SAID.

                     YA. MR. 'L' REPLIED.

                   

                     YOU ARE DOING MEDITATION FOR PAST FIFTEEN YEARS. HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE PRESENCE OF GOD?

                        "YES"

                         HOW?

                      WHENEVER I FIND SOME OBSTACLES WHILE MOVING ON SPIRITUAL PATH THEN I AM GUIDED BY EITHER INTERNET OR A BOOK OR A STRANGER WHO COMES TO HELP ME. A PATH IS SHOWN TO ME TO IMPROVE MYSELF AND TO OVERCOME THE HIMDRANCE. THAT IS THE FORM OF GOD . I FEEL HIS PRESENCE.

THE BEGINNER MEDITATION TIPS

                             THE BASIC STEPS OF 

                                     MEDITATION

                        MEDITATION HAPPENS NATURALLY JUST LIKE SLEEP. SLEEP CAN'T BE FORCED INTO SOMEBODY EVEN IF SOMEBODY HAS A VERY COMFORTABLE BED, FLUFFY PILLOWS MATTRESS. COSY QUILT AND WELL FURNISHED ROOM WITH ALL LUXURIES. SLEEP COMES NATURALLY. ONE FALLS INTO IT. SIMILARLY MEDITATION COMES BY ITSELF. IT REQUIRES REGULARITY AND PATIENCES. THE NEWCOMERS SHOULD FOLLOW CERTAIN POINTS IN SELECTION OF PLACE.  TIME AND POSTURE FOR GOOD RESULTS. MENTAL ATTITUDE, FOOD HABITS AND ENVIRONMENT COUNT IN THE BEGINNING.

                        HOW TO SELECT PLACE 

                                AND TIME FOR MEDITATION

              A BEGINNER SHOULD KEEP THE FOLLOWING POINTS IN MIND WHILE DOING MEDITATION ACHIEVING BETTER AND EXCELLENT RESULTS IN MEDITATION. THE SELECTION OF PLACE, TIME AND POSTURE SHOULD BE DONE CORRECTLY TO ACHIEVE QUICK AND GOOD RESULTS.

             PLACE - FOR PRACTISING MEDITATION, BEGINNERS SHOULD SELECT THE ROOM IN THE NORTH EAST OR NORTH- EAST CORNER OF THE HOUSE OF BUILDING. ONE SHOULD AVOID DOING MEDITATION IN THE ROOMS SITUATED IN SOUTH. WEST OR SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF THE HOUSE OR BUILDING WHILE MEDITATING ONE SHOULD FACE TOWARDS NORTH. THIS IS THE BEST DIRECTION FOR DOING MEDITATION. ONE CAN ALSO FACE EAST BUT SHOULD NOT FACE SOUTH WHILE MEDITATING.

                IN THE NORTH- EAST CORNER OF  MY HOUSE THERE IS HUGE WATER TANK. IT IS VERY DEEP AND IS ALWAYS FILLED WITH WATER. "MR. X SAID. WHERE WILL DO THE MEDITATION? MR. "S" LAUGHED A LITTLE AND SAID, YOU CAN DO MEDITATION UNDER WATER BUT THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF PRACTICE AND CONTROL OVER BREATH. IN BHAGAVATA PURANA, IT IS MENTIONED THAT SAUBHARI MUNI MEDITATED UNDER WATER IN YAMUNA RIVER FOR SOME TIME AND ATTAINED MANY MYSTIC POWERS".

                         TIME  

                           CLOCK OR WATCH IN YOUR HOUSE SHOULD BE WORKING PROPERLY IN THE BEGINNING ONE NEEDS TO DO MEDITATION EVERYDAY AT THE SAME TIME. THE BEST TIME FOR CONCENTRATING THE MIND IS BRAHMAMUHURTA I .E FROM 4 A.M TO 6 A.M . AT THAT TIME, EVERYTHING IS SILENT IN THE UNIVERSE AND ONE IS AWAKEN FRESH AFTER SLEEPING THE WHOLE NIGHT. THE DUSK AND DAWN ARE EXCELLENT TIMES. ONE CAN DO MEDITATION AT ANY TIME WHICH IS CONVENIENT AND CAN PRACTISE IT REGULARLY AT THE SAME TIME.

                      ONE WILL PUNCTUAL FOR THE THINGS ONE WANTS TO DO. ONE WILL ALWAYS FIND TIME FOR THE THINGS ONE WISHES TO DO. ONE HAS TO BRING MEDITATION IN THEIR TOP PRIORITY OF THEIR LIST OF CHORES. FOR THAT ONE HAS TO JUST CHANGE ONE'S OUTLOOK.

                      POSTURE 

                       THE SPINE, NECK AND HEAD SHOULD BE A ALIGNED STRAIGHT IN  A LINE WHILE MEDITATING. SUKHASANA, PADMASANA, VRIKSHASANA, SHIRASHASANA ARE GOOD OPTIONS.TRY TO RELAX MUSCLES OF YOUR BODY. ONE SHOULD EXHALE OUT TWO OR THREE BREATHS THINKING, " I AM THROWING OUT ALL THE THOUGHTS RELATED TO THE WORLD AND I AM THROWING OUT ALL THE NEGATIVITY INSIDE ME. NOW I WILL THINK ONLY ABOUT GOD AND WHATEVER THOUGHT COMES TO MY MIND WILL BE OF GOD".

                       FOCUS ON HIGHER GOALS INSTEAD OF FOOD, FABRIC AND FURNITURE, FOCUS AND FURNITURE. FOCUS MIND ON GOD THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

                     WHILE MEDITATING ONE CAN FOCUS ON VARIOUS CENTRES WITHIN BODY. THERE ARE SEVEN CHAKRAS IN THE BODY ON WHICH ONE CAN CONCENTRATE. MOST OF THE SPIRITUAL ASPIRANTS CONCENTRATE ON SIXTH CHAKRA - THE SPACE BETWEEN EYEBROWS. THE OBJECT OF FOCUS IS VISUALIZED IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS. SOME ASPIRANTS FOCUS ON FOURTH CHAKRA - THE SPACE IN THE CENTRAL CHANNEL IN THE SPINE BETWEEN THE LUNGS AT HEART.

                 IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONCENTRATE THE MIND. IF ONE ASKS THE MIND TO THINK ABOUT A PARTICULAR OBJECT, THE MIND IS SO MISCHIEVOUS  THAT IT WILL DEFINETELY THINK ABOUT IT. MIND IS VERY NAUGHTY AND VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.

                     THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF JAPA MEDITATION

                👉  1. JAPA WITHOUT MEDITATION - JAPA IS DONE WITHOUT MEIDTATIO

                    UPON IT.

              👉  2.  JAPA MEDITATION - MEDITATING WHILE DOING THE JAPA. IN ADVANCE STAGES JAPA WILL DROP BY ITSELF AND ONLY MEDITATION WILL REMAIN. SAID, PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF GOD CAN DO. THOSE WHO REPEAT IT CONSTANLY ALONE KNOW ITS POWER. IT CAN PURIFY OUR MIND COMPLETELY. THE GOD'S NAME CAN TAKE US TO THE SUMMIT OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. REPETITION OF MANTRA PRODUCES A VIBRATION IN THE HEAD WHICH STIMULATES AND RELAXES THE BRAIN. IT REMOVES BLOCKED IMPRESSIONS FROM DEEPER LAYERS OF MIND, IMPROVES AWARENESS, ENHANCES WISDOM AND HELPS IN HAVING BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS. CHANTING OF MANTRA BRINGS CHANGES IN CONCIOUSNESS, BUT NOT IN PHYSICAL BODY, IT IS A PANACEA FOR GETTING OF MIND.

WHY WE SHOULD MEDITATE?

 

                  

                                DIFFERENT WAYS TO 

                               CONTROL THE MIND

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                           THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS TO CONTROL THE MIND, TO FOCUS IT ON ONE SINGLE POINT. SOME OF THEM ARE LISTED BELOW.

                   👀 1. CONCENTRATION ON BREATHING - CONCENTRATE MIND ON BREATHING INHALE SLOWLY AND DEEPLY AND EXHALE UNHURRIEDLY. FEEL THE COOL AIR INHALING AND HOT AIR WHILE EXHALING. SLOWER THE BREATH, MORE STABLE IS MIND. CONCENTRATE ON BREATHING AND FEEL RELAXED AS WELL AS CALM.

                  👀 2 .  CONCENTRATION ON SENSATIONS - CONCENTRATE MIND ON THE SENSATIONS FELT BY THE NOSTRIL DURING INHALING AND EXHALING. OR MIND CAN BE CONCENTRATED ON THE RISE AND FALL OF ABDOMEN WHILE BREATHING.

                  👀 3.  OBSERVATION OF THOUGHTS - THIS METHOD IS SUGGESTED BY JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI. WILL ENTER THE MIND OBSERVE IT FROM WHERE IT COMES FROM AND WHERE IT GOES AFTER LEAVING MIND. OBSERVE  THE SECOND THOUGHT FROM WHERE IT ARISES. STAY IN THE PRESENT. DO NOT LIVE IN PAST OR FUTURE. ON CAUTIONS THINKING, THE THOUGHT WILL LEAVE  THE MIND AND THE NEXT THOUGHT WILL NOT ENTER THE MIND. THE DAY HAS ENDED AND NIGHT HAS YET TO BEGIN AND IN BETWEEN TIME ZONE IS THE STATE OF SAMADHI - SUPREME PEACE.

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                 👀 4. EMPTYING THE MIND -  MIND IS LIKE A HUGE BAD FILLED WITH LOTS OF STUFF. WITH EACH PASSING DAY WE ARE INCREASING THE STUFF IN THAT BAG. PICK UP STUFF AND THROW IT OUT. THINK ABOUT A THOUGHT, GET DETACHED FROM IT. REMOVE IT FROM THE MIND THINKING THAT IT IS USELESS AND UNIMPORTANT. SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY THE THOUGHTS WILL START DECREASING AND ONE DAY WILL COME WHEN THERE WILL BE NO THOUGHT.

                  👀 5. HATHA YOGA AND PRANAYAMA - DIFFICULT YOGIC POSTURES ALONG WITH PRANAYAMA AND MUDRAS (HAND POSTURES) ARE PRACTICED TO CONCENTRATE MIND AND TO AWAKEN KUNDALINI. THE ENERGY IS THEN CONTROLLED AND PUSHED TO HEAD FOR SELF REALISATION. WHATEVER ONE MAY CHOOSE THE WAY TO CONTROL MIND ONE CAN PRACTICE PRANAYAMA, YOGA POSTURES AND MUDRAS LIKE JNANA MUDRA (TOUCH THE TIPS OF THUMB WITH THE INDEX FINGERS OF THE RESPECTIVE HANDS) WHICH WILL HELP ONE TO DEVELOP CONCENTRATION IN INITIAL STAGES.

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                      THE BEST WAY OF MEDITATION IS TO RISE IN THE MORNING. TAKE A BATH. SIT IN PADMASANA ON A MAT IN ERECT POSTURE. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK THAT YOU ARE DEAD. YOUR CLOSE RELATIVES LIKE MOTHER, FATHER, BROTHER, SISTER, WIFE, SON, DAUGHTER AND YOUR FRIENDS ALL ARE CRYING. YOU ARE DEAD YOU CAN'T CONSOLE THEM. YOUR BODY IS PUL ON THE BIER AND YOUR FUNERAL POSSESSION BEGINS. YOU LEAVE BEHIND THE STREET IN WHICH YOU HAVE PLAYED GAMES, YOU LEAVE BEHIND THE SHOPS FROM WHICH YOU HAVE BOUGHT TOFFEES AND TOYS IN YOUR CHILDHOOD, YOU LEAVE BEHIND THE TOWN IN WHICH YOU HAVE SPENT WONDERFUL YEARS OF YOUR LIFE. YOUR BODY REACH BURIAL GROUND AND YOUR BODY IS PLACED UPON PYRE. YOUR SON LIT THE FIRE TO THE PYRE. YOUR BODY TURNS INTO ASHES. NOW YOU ARE TOTALLY FREE FROM DESIRE, ANGER, LUST, JEALOUSY, GREED, SORROW, AND ALL MATERIALISTIC ATTACHMENTS". MR "D" SAID.

                     IF AM DEAD THEN WHAT IS THE NEED TO MEDITATE?. MR. "T" ASKED.

                   TO FEEL THE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS YOU HAVE TO END THE BODY CONSCIOUSNESS. ALL THE SORROW, PAIN, HAPPINESS, AND PLEASURES ARE EXPERIENCED BY BODY AND NOT SOUL. SOUL IS FREE FROM PAIN AND PLEASURE. ON REMAINING UNAFFECTED BY PAIN AND PLEASURE YOU WILL EXPERIENCE PEACE".

                 I HAVE A STRONG, BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHY BODY. WHY SHOULD I IMAGINE THIS? 

                FOR HOW LONG YOU ARE STRONG, HEALTHY AND BEAUTIFUL? ONE DAY YOU WILL BECOME SICK, UGLY, AND OLD. NOBODY WILL WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE. THIS BODY WILL FADE AWAY SOONER OR LATER. YOU CAN BE DETACHED FROM YOUR BODY BY IMAGINING THAT YOU ARE EITHER DEAD OR YOUR BODY HAS BEEN DECOMPOSED. THAT YOUR BODY HAS BEEN EATEN BIT BY GIDHAS - BIRDS OF PREY, CROWS AND ANTS".

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