meditation

By concentrating the mind on peace, out of many conceptions select any one emotion, one thought of bringing restfulness or quietness. Rest your mind in that and lose it. Hold your mind and rest the mind. And again when the mind starts swinging here and there then say OM SHANTI! SHANTI! SHANTI!

Joy Meditation Yoga

When there is a crowd of thoughts in your mind and you sit for some time, and then sentimentally witness the traffic of thoughts running inside. Don‘t say good or bad. Let the thoughts come and go, similarly as traffic moves. It comes from one side and goes from other. The thoughts can be good or bad, of anger, of jealousy, of hatred, of affection. Let them come and go. You only see the thoughts coming and leaving .Besides seeing does not observe or think about them. Suddenly your mind will be lost, will become thoughtless. Do not focus on any thought and slowly you will go into meditation. During this you will experience extreme joy and your inner voice will say that until now there was unnecessary running in which the race was long, but nothing is achieved and when worldly running is stopped and turned towards inside then everything is found.  The peace which is not attained by different means is gained by controlling the mind, we become wealthy and meditation is successful.

There is one more way to control your mind; it is when there are many types of thinking going on in your mind,  then keep your mind uniform with only one consideration that is of serenity.  You feel as if I am becoming calm, peace exists within me. I am the beloved child of the divine.  My God is serene.  I am getting tranquility inside, I am being pacified.

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In today’s mad race for earning materialistic benefits, it is important to gain spiritual relaxation and a sense of calmness for a happy and contented life. The first part of this online meditation program will allow you to control your unwanted flow of negative thoughts and will take you towards deep relaxation. It will further allow your restless mind to attain calmness for its effective working through following meditations:

1. Meditation for the restless mind: ( http://bit.ly/2PvsJ0n ) It is important to make your tomorrow peaceful by living in the right understanding today. What is a restless mind? One which is full of thoughts. The Continuity of thoughts does not allow you to have a peaceful mind. So, on the first hand let’s create a thought of peace & calm, as thoughts are our own creation and our whole body is affected by it.

2. Thoughtless Meditation: (http://bit.ly/2PvsJ0n) Imagine, if you just say pause to your unwanted thoughts and they immediately vanish away. Isn’t it more necessary than interesting? Through the ultimate breathing, awareness learns how to settle your thoughts, remove the unwanted distractions and maintain your calm state of mind for a happy persona.

3. Forest meditation: http://bit.ly/2PvsJ0n )Ask yourself what you want to look for in life? Do you have a habit of looking at the brighter or you always look at the darker side and crave for what is missing? In this meditation, let’s take a troll in the forest and see if we look at a beautiful part of it is about realizing the way you look at life, correcting your attitude and nature can be the best tool for it.

4. Body-Mind balancing meditation: (http://bit.ly/2PvsJ0n )The mind is the inner part of our body and body outer part of our mind. There is a deep connection between our body and mind. It profoundly affects our overall physical health and well-being. Nearly half of our physical problems are because of mental disturbance. So, it is important to meditate to maintain a balance between mind and body and attain a state of calmness. This meditation will allow you to understand the difference between the two and how to balance them.

5. Energise yourself meditation: (http://bit.ly/2PvsJ0n) Meditation is a natural necessity for the soul. The rhythm of wholesome living is withdrawal and involvement. Though nature compels us to sleep but most of the times it is our body that is at rest, not the mind. The mind becomes restless when it is unable to detach itself from the activity. So, for a perfect rejuvenation, this meditation will allow you to rest your mind and energize your body. Mental rest is most important to revitalize the entire being. Through humming sound, you will be able to fill your mind and body with positive vibrations.

6. Meditation for calming the mental formations:(http://bit.ly/2Pvs- J0n) As a disturbed lake is not able to reflect the Moon clearly, so is our mind. If the mind is not calm and composed, you can never have clear perceptions. So, in order to clearly realize your life goals and be happy, it is important to clear the unwanted and destructive thoughts or formations our mind creates. This meditation will allow you to not to create such formations and form a series of thoughts.

7. Meditation for Relaxation:(http://bit.ly/2Pvs- J0n) After all these practices of such meditations, you will now be able to relax completely. Relaxation would here mean both mental and physical relaxation. This meditation will further allow you to completely relax your being and practice the thoughtless state for a longer time. These 7 days will refresh and relax you completely and a continuous practise of such meditation will help you remain in a balanced state of mind.

To Effect Change Understand Your Habits

Every action leaves an impression on the mind. The trace it leaves is deepened by every repeated similar action. This develops into a channel, through which thoughts of a particular pattern flow. This subtle, imperceptible residue that resides in the mind is known as vasana.

The habit for the proverbial morning cup of tea, begins with the first sip. With no idea about the taste, fragrance, aroma or addictive nature of the beverage, the uninitiated succumbs to the first cup; relishes the taste, develops a sense of joy and before long has joined the tea lovers club! Thereafter, there is the longing for the steaming hot cup of tea. This is the birth of a desire, which gives rise to an action. Gradually the repeated action manifests into a habit – a vasana!

In today’s age of consumerism hordes of advertisements assail the senses. We find them plastered on billboards at airports, railway stations and other often frequented public places. They enter our homes through TV screens – from cars to gadgets, to men’s suiting, to up market residential villas – the list is endless. To sell this multifarious range of products, is always, a beautiful woman. This relentless bombardment of the senses, soon captivates the gullible and the demon called desire takes birth. In time, this leads to action and a vasana is born!

Vasanas are of three kinds: loka vasana, deha vasana and Shastra vasana.

Lok vasana is the need to be accepted. Most of us have the desire to conform. ‘Peer pressure’ has a strong pull. Bound by it we are forced to live a lifestyle, which sometimes can border on extravagance. A glaring example is the flamboyant marriage ceremonies we witness, often with scant regard for financial constraints.

Deha vasana is the obsession with the body, to the extent that today it borders on the dangerous. Living in the constant fear of ageing, we subject the body to face lifts and other age defying techniques. Prone to comfort, we pamper the body. International travelers are known to even carry their own pillows.

Shastra vasana is the desire for knowledge and learning. Though a pure vasana, a study of the scriptures, without imbibing its essence, gets us entangled in a forest of words. Mere logic leads to a never-ending web of endless discussions. The seeker has no time to either contemplate or practice the learning of meditation, leading to establishment in the Self.

Vasana is avidya or the non-apprehension of Reality, which leaves a sense of incompleteness. We feel that name, fame, wealth or pandering to the body will bridge this gap and bring us fulfillment. However, despite all we have or achieve we remain unfulfilled.

These strong impressions can only be purged by either substituting a lower vasana with a nobler one or through sadhana and knowledge.

Through the substitution route we can opt for better or less harmful habits. Substitute a cup of strong tea with herbal tea and then with ginger tea or plain hot water. The earlier vasana is then destroyed by a change of impressions.

Conscious destruction of the desire is achieved via the ‘knowledge route’. A philosopher would often go down the town’s fashion street to ‘window shop’ and return home empty handed. Whenever his wife asked the reason for this, his standard reply was, “I wanted to see all the things I did not need!”

The vasana ‘seed’ can be destroyed by diligently working on oneself. Through repeated practice our divine fragrance will emerge and eventually the dust of unhealthy habits created by desires are brushed off.

Every action leaves an impression on the mind. The trace it leaves is deepened by every repeated similar action. This develops into a channel, through which thoughts of a particular pattern flow. This subtle, imperceptible residue that resides in the mind is known as vasana.

The habit for the proverbial morning cup of tea, begins with the first sip. With no idea about the taste, fragrance, aroma or addictive nature of the beverage, the uninitiated succumbs to the first cup; relishes the taste, develops a sense of joy and before long has joined the tea lovers club! Thereafter, there is the longing for the steaming hot cup of tea. This is the birth of a desire, which gives rise to an action. Gradually the repeated action manifests into a habit – a vasana!

In today’s age of consumerism hordes of advertisements assail the senses. We find them plastered on billboards at airports, railway stations and other often frequented public places. They enter our homes through TV screens – from cars to gadgets, to men’s suiting, to up market residential villas – the list is endless. To sell this multifarious range of products, is always, a beautiful woman. This relentless bombardment of the senses, soon captivates the gullible and the demon called desire takes birth. In time, this leads to action and a vasana is born!

Vasanas are of three kinds: loka vasana, deha vasana and Shastra vasana.

Lok vasana is the need to be accepted. Most of us have the desire to conform. ‘Peer pressure’ has a strong pull. Bound by it we are forced to live a lifestyle, which sometimes can border on extravagance. A glaring example is the flamboyant marriage ceremonies we witness, often with scant regard for financial constraints.

Deha vasana is the obsession with the body, to the extent that today it borders on the dangerous. Living in the constant fear of ageing, we subject the body to face lifts and other age defying techniques. Prone to comfort, we pamper the body. International travelers are known to even carry their own pillows.

Shastra vasana is the desire for knowledge and learning. Though a pure vasana, a study of the scriptures, without imbibing its essence, gets us entangled in a forest of words. Mere logic leads to a never-ending web of endless discussions. The seeker has no time to either contemplate or practice the learning of meditation, leading to establishment in the Self.

Vasana is avidya or the non-apprehension of Reality, which leaves a sense of incompleteness. We feel that name, fame, wealth or pandering to the body will bridge this gap and bring us fulfillment. However, despite all we have or achieve we remain unfulfilled.

These strong impressions can only be purged by either substituting a lower vasana with a nobler one or through sadhana and knowledge.

Through the substitution route we can opt for better or less harmful habits. Substitute a cup of strong tea with herbal tea and then with ginger tea or plain hot water. The earlier vasana is then destroyed by a change of impressions.

Conscious destruction of the desire is achieved via the ‘knowledge route’. A philosopher would often go down the town’s fashion street to ‘window shop’ and return home empty handed. Whenever his wife asked the reason for this, his standard reply was, “I wanted to see all the things I did not need!”

The vasana ‘seed’ can be destroyed by diligently working on oneself. Through repeated practice our divine fragrance will emerge and eventually the dust of unhealthy habits created by desires are brushed off.

Stressed By Disease?

Several life-threatening diseases like the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus, lifestyle-related and other cancers, as well as heart conditions, and other communicable diseases that can turn life threatening, are causing more stress than ever before, not only in patients and caregivers but also in people who are well. Apart from being a financial drain on most patients and their families, such illnesses cause acute emotional stress due to the pessimism and fatalism associated with such diseases.

That is why increasingly, in India and in some other countries, patients and their families take refuge in spiritual healing and experience heightened inclination towards prayer and religion. Most doctors in India do not find this strange; some even promote holistic healing as that may help patients deal better with the challenge.

A Noida-based oncologist says, “Spirituality and religion are very personal issues. Doctors and caregivers need to respect patients’ religious and spiritual beliefs and concerns. Faith can be a huge stress buster for all concerned.

The True Cause Of Pain And Suffering

One thing i notice about pain its façade of illusion. Its grim face makes it appear real.  But it is not real. There is a duality to pain which distorts the Truth underlying everything. This duality is so entrenched, it has become a fact of life. Wherever pleasure comes, pain is lurking, waiting to cast its ominous shadow. Observe how quickly too much pleasure produces a bitter aftertaste which, if taken to extremes, provokes pain and suffering. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo calls pain and pleasure the “same thing”. They are just “differently reproduced in the sensations and emotions.”

How are they the same thing? Because they both mask the delight of Ananda, the Truth behind all existence. At the root of the malady lies our separation from the soul. We cannot find our essence and so cannot find our soul. The surface keeps pulling us out. We are masked from delight, which gets misinterpreted and rendered into the duality of pleasure and pain. Both states are only twisted from the true state of Oneness and bliss.

Until we find our soul, we will always fall prey to a variety of impacts and forces. The circuitry of our nature needs mastering by something much greater.

Intrusions will always knock on our door, but as long as the surface nature presides, there will be a faulty reception to them and it will lead to pain. The weakness of our consciousness manifesting in our nature is the cause of pain and suffering. The circuitry gets overloaded. Our nature is subject to division which creates “an egoistic and piecemeal instead of a universal reception of contacts by the individual.”

The orientation of our consciousness proves decisive. When turned upward, the Mother says, the pain vanishes. When turned downward, it is felt and even increases. “When one experiments… one sees that the bodily complaint has nothing to do with the pain. “ The difference lies in the “turn of the consciousness”. See for yourself.

This truth applies to all suffering. Psychological suffering is specifically due to “a wrong working of the mind.” Again, the surface circuitry is lacking.

Pain is a “schooling”. How else can we be goaded into climbing the peaks of delight? Each lesson teaches us only to “grow in rapture”. There are three stages to this schooling: “endurance first, next, equality of soul, last, ecstasy.” Pain is a signal that we have to organise ourselves; it is a reminder of our unfinished business. Each of us has to learn from it. It is a harsh lesson and one we normally try to avoid.

If a weed has to be destroyed, it is removed by the roots. The same applies with pain. We acknowledge its existence and try to understand what gives it nourishment. Observation is necessary. The symptoms may vary according to the leanings of the individual nature. But there is always a common factor behind pain: the weakness and falsity of human nature itself.  We need to understand our nature and find the courage to stand up to anything that needs to be put right. There is no other way if one wants to become whole. Otherwise, we opt for painkillers. Knowing the cause is the first step to truly eradicating pain.

Inflation & The Universe

There are many different stories about how the world started off. For example, according to the Bushongo people of central Africa, in the beginning there was only darkness, water and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach ache, vomited up the Sun. The Sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the Moon, the stars and then some animals — the leopard, the crocodile, the turtle and finally man.

The first scientific evidence to answer these questions was discovered about a century ago. It was found that other galaxies are moving away from us. The Universe is expanding, galaxies are getting further apart. This means that galaxies were closer together in the past. Nearly 14 billion years ago, the Universe would have been in a very hot and dense state. The moment it started to move apart is called the Big Bang.