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MEDITATION
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In order to
accomplish the act of meditation, there should be found a quiet place to allow
deep
There are listed below three mantras for use in meditation:
Om salutations unto Lord Shiva
This self is Brahman
Om that is existence
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To
a self-realized individual, to a yogi, the world of thoughts is not real.
Thoughts are seen as the possessions of others. In order to recruit the
mind to a way in which matters of truth are subsidized by an ultimate reality
measure, and so that actions will flow from the heart with no
perturbation from the mind,
the mind must be cultivated in a concerted way. The mind, in order to lend
a given harmony to the daily life and therefore to be available for its full
actuation in life's endeavors, must be understood and approached as an
invaluable tool for self-realization. The ancient rishis undertook a study
of yogic science, and through the practice of austerities and an undying inquiry
after ultimate truth, they found a way to refurbish the mind on a daily basis
for its greatest attributes in the giving of knowledge of self and of universal
truth. The mind is found to be capable of recruitment to a plane whose
domain is beyond the world of thoughts. It is through meditation that the
yogi can relax the mind and implement its greatest capabilities for the
realization of sTym! satyam,
universal truth. 
concentration. A yogic sitting posture on a carpet is recommended, whereby
the limbs are drawn in and relaxed. The eyes are closed, and the mind
should make a journey throughout the body, concentrating so as to relax each and
every muscle from the top of the head to the very toes. Once this exercise
has been accomplished, then a given mantra can be mentally recited, repeatedly
and incessantly so. This mantra will blot out the thought processes, which
enforce the perceptions of life's daily activities and duties with all of the
concomitant resistances and problems. Instead of thinking, one fills the
minds with a pre-thought out truth, a mantra. As thoughts arise to
interfere with the mantra as it sounds in the mind, those thoughts must be
quelled and observed with a certain detachment, taken as not real in the face
and force of the mantra. For the meaning of the mantra is enforced also by
the powerful, one-to-one correlation between the sounds of the Sanskrit and
their concise meaning in relation to universal truth. These sounds place
the awareness of the meditator at the threshold of deeper realization of truth,
and which truth is beyond the description of words, anyway. To thus use
the tool of the language of Sanskrit to transcend the challenges of emotional
attachments and figuring out problems from minute to minute in a busy life, and
to give the say to the wisdom of the higher plane of reality which is concisely
addressed by the Sanskrit mantra, is a deed whose redeeming value in the life of
any individual cannot be measured or even described. As one practices
meditation every day, one develops a knack for it, and more of what these brief
instructions intend to demonstrate will naturally unfold and bless the mind, the
life and the happiness of the one who undertakes the meditation. Please
persist and scientifically observe the peace and calm which are attained through
the daily use of meditation.
