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Meditation For Beginers Ranchi
Meditation For Beginers Ranchi
After you are established in the meditation posture, begin by offering God a
1) Prayer:
prayer from your heart, expressing your devotion and asking His blessings on your
meditation.
2) Tense and Relax to Remove All Stress
Inhale, tensing the whole body and clenching thefists.
Relax all the body parts at once and, as you do so, expel the breath through the
mouth in a double exhalation,“huh, huh.” Repeat this practise three to six times.Then
forget the breath. Let it flow in and out naturally, of its own accord, as in ordinary
breathing.
3) Focus Attention at the Spiritual Eye
With the eyelids half closed (or completely closed, if this is more comfortable to you),
look upward, focusing the gaze and the attention as though looking out through a point
between the eyebrows. (A person deep in concentration often ‗knits‘ his brows at this
spot.) Do not cross the eyes or strain them; the upward gaze comes naturally when one
is relaxed and calmly concentrated.
What is important is fixing the whole attention at the point between the eyebrows. This is
the Kutastha or Christ Consciousness centre, the seat of the single eye spoken of by
Jesus: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body
shall be full of light” (Matthew 6:22).
When the purpose of meditation is fulfilled, the devotee finds his consciousness
automatically concentrated at the spiritual eye, and he experiences, according to his
inner spiritual capacity, a state of joyous divine union with Spirit.
It takes deep concentration and calmness to behold the spiritual eye: a golden halo
surrounding a circle of blue, in the centre of which palpitates a five-pointed white star.
Those who do see the spiritual eye should strive to penetrate it by deeper concentration
and by devoted prayer to God. The depth of calmness and concentration necessary for
this are naturally developed through steady practice of the scientific Yogoda Satsanga
techniques of concentration and meditation [which are taught in the Yogoda Satsanga
Lessons].
Whether you see the light of the spiritual eye or not, however, you should continue to
concentrate at the Kutastha centre between the eyebrows, praying deeply to God and
His great saints. In the language of your heart invoke their presence and their blessings.
A good practise is to take an affirmation or a prayer from the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons,
or from Paramahansa Yogananda‘s Whispers from Eternity or Metaphysical Meditations,
and spiritualise it with your own devotional yearning.
Silently chant and pray to God, keeping the attention at the point between the eyebrows,
until you feel God's response as calm, deep peace and inner joy.
Through daily practise of the foregoing instructions, you can prepare yourself for the
practice of the deeper techniques of concentration and meditation that are given in
the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons. These scientific techniques will enable you to dive ever
more deeply in the great ocean of God's presence. We all exist at this very moment in
that ocean of Spirit; but only by steadfast, devoted, scientific meditation may we
consciously perceive that we are individualised soul waves on the vast ocean of God‘s
bliss.
"As a first step toward entering the kingdom of God, the devotee should sit still in the
correct meditation posture, with erect spine, and tense and relax the body — for by
relaxation the consciousness is released from the muscles.
"The yogi begins with proper deep breathing, inhaling and
tensing the whole body, exhaling and relaxing, several times. With each exhalation all
muscular tension and motion should be cast away, until a state of bodily stillness is
attained.
"In the body, life is templed; in the mind, light is templed; in the soul, peace is templed.
The deeper one goes into the soul the more that peace is felt; that is
superconsciousness.
"When by deeper meditation the devotee expands that awareness of peace and feels his
consciousness spreading with it over the universe, that all beings and all creation are
swallowed up in that peace, then he is entering into Cosmic Consciousness. He feels
that peace everywhere — in the flowers, in every human being, in the atmosphere. He
beholds the earth and all worlds floating like bubbles in that ocean of peace."
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The Kriya Yoga Path of Meditation: "By the definite science of meditation known
for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can
enlarge the calibre of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the
Universal Intelligence of God." — Paramahansa Yogananda
Experiencing the divinity within our own souls, claiming divine joy as our own joy — this
is what the Kriya Yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda offer to each of us.
The sacred science of Kriya Yoga consists of advanced techniques of meditation whose
devoted practice leads to realization of God and liberation of the soul from all forms of
bondage. It is the royal or supreme technique of yoga, divine union. (Read ―What Is
Yoga, Really?‖)
Yogananda wrote: ―In bestowing his blessings on me before I came to America in 1920,
Mahavatar Babaji told me that I had been chosen for this sacred mission: ‗You are the
one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West. Long ago I met your
guru Yukteswar at a Kumbha Mela; I told him then I would send you to him for training.‘
Babaji then predicted: ‗Kriya Yoga, the scientific technique of God-realization, will
ultimately spread in all lands, and aid in harmonizing the nations through man‘s
personal, transcendental perception of the Infinite Father.‘ ‖
Bhagavan Krishna & Kriya Yoga
One of the essential goals of Paramahansa Yogananda‘s mission was ―to reveal the
complete harmony and basic oneness of original Yoga as taught by Bhagavan Krishna
and original Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ; and to show that these principles of
truth are the common scientific foundation of all true religions.‖
―Other devotees offer as sacrifice the incoming breath of prana in the outgoing breath of
apana, and the outgoing breath of apana in the incoming breath of prana, thus arresting
the cause of inhalation and exhalation (tendering breath unnecessary) by intent practice
of pranayama (the life-control technique of Kriya Yoga)‖. —God Talks With Arjuna The
Bhagavad Gita, IV : 29
The Science of Kriya Yoga
The quickest and most effective approach to the goal of Yoga employs those methods of
meditation that deal directly with energy and consciousness. It is this direct approach
that characterises the particular system of meditation taught by Paramahansa
Yogananda. Specifically, Kriya is an advanced Raja Yoga technique that reinforces and
revitalises subtle currents of life energy in the body, enabling the normal activities of
heart and lungs to slow down naturally. As a result, the consciousness is drawn to
higher levels of perception, gradually bringing about an inner awakening more blissful
and more deeply satisfying than any of the experiences that the mind or the senses or
the ordinary human emotions can give. All scriptures declare man to be not a corruptible
body, but a living soul. The ancient science of Kriya Yoga reveals a way to prove this
scriptural truth. Referring to the sure and methodical efficacy of devoted practise of the
Kriya science, Paramahansa Yogananda declared: "It works like mathematics; it cannot
fail."
1. Energization Exercises
3. Aum Technique
Aum Technique of Meditation shows one how to use the power of concentration in the
highest way to discover and develop the divine qualities of one's own true Self. This
ancient method teaches how to experience the all-pervading Divine Presence as Aum,
the Word or Holy Ghost that underlies and sustains all creation. The technique expands
the awareness beyond limitations of body and mind to the joyous realization of one's
infinite potential.
Correct practice of Kriya Yoga enables the normal activities of the heart and lungs and
nervous system to slow down naturally, producing deep inner stillness of body and mind
and freeing the attention from the usual turbulence of thoughts, emotions, and sensory
perceptions. In the clarity of that inner stillness, one comes to experience a deepening
interior peace and attunement with one's soul and with God.
This gradual introduction has a purpose. A mountain climber seeking to scale the
Himalayas must first acclimatise and condition himself before ascending the peaks. So
the seeker needs this initial period to acclimatise his or her habits and thoughts,
condition the mind with concentration and devotion, and practise directing the body‘s
life energy. Then the yogi is prepared to ascend the spinal highway of realization. After
one year of preparation and practise, students are eligible to apply for initiation in the
technique of Kriya Yoga, and formally establish the time-honoured guru-disciple
relationship with Paramahansa Yogananda and his lineage of enlightened masters.
If you have not yet enrolled for the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons, you will find on these
pages some initial instructions on how to meditate, which you can use right away to
begin experiencing the benefits that meditation brings.
The Eightfold Path of Yoga The Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Yoga, the timeless science behind all true religions, consists of systematic and definite
steps to realization of the soul's oneness with Spirit.
The Bhagavad Gita, which is a sacred dialogue between the divine teacher Krishna and
his disciple Arjuna, is India's most beloved scripture of yoga, as explained in
Paramahansa Yogananda's definitive two-volume translation and commentary: God
Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita — Royal Science of God-Realization.
The essence of the yoga path was set forth in systematic form by the ancient sage
Patanjali in his short but masterly work, the Yoga Sutras. Paramahansa Yogananda has
written: "Patanjali's date is unknown, though many scholars assign him to the second
century B.C. His renowned Yoga Sutras presents, in a series of brief aphorisms, the
condensed essence of the exceedingly vast and intricate science of God-union — setting
forth the method of uniting the soul with the undifferentiated Spirit in such a beautiful,
clear, and concise way that generations of scholars have acknowledged the Yoga Sutras
as the foremost ancient work on yoga." The yoga system of Patanjali is known as the
Eightfold Path, which leads to the final goal of God-realization.