To start Meditation we should take care about these three 1. Environment, 2. Our body, 3. Our mind.
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We can modify or change our environment suitable for Meditation. If we maintain our health, our body is helpful. But the last one MIND, that is very difficult to control and bring it in proper way. If we make sufficient efforts with perseverance MIND will be conquered.
We can't stop our thoughts, we have to divert. Whatever may be your religion you think only about god. You chant your own god name repeatedly. Without thinking our god we can't do meditation.
If we believe the soul, Meditation is meaningful. Fruitful result of the Meditation is, experiencing the soul. We can't sense the soul with our five senses.
BHAGAVAD GITA
6th chapter YOGA OF MEDITATION
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At clean spot, which is neither too high nor too low, . . . . . Firmly seated on it, the yogi should practice spiritual Communion, with mind concentrated and with the working of the imaginative faculty and the senses under control, for self-purification.
Holding the body, head and neck erect, motionless and firm, gazing . . . . . . . . not round about, fearless, serene, restrained in mind, and established in the vow of continence, he should sit in spiritual communion . . . . . . . . . . .
8th Chapter WAY TO BRAHMAN
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Established in spiritual communion by inhibiting all sensations, Concentrating on the heart centre, and drawing up the vital energies to the head. One should meditate . . . . . . . . along with the utterance of the single-syllabled mantra ' OM ' denoting Brahman . . . . . . . .
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RAJA YOGA
By SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Chapter RAJA YOGA IN BRIEF
Page 74 last paragraph and first paragraph of page 75
Fixing the mind on the lotus of heart, or on the centre of the head, is what is called Dharana. When remaining in one place, making one place as the base, where the waves of the mind rise up, without being touched by the other waves - when all other waves have stopped - and one wave only rises in the mind, that is called Dhyana, meditation. When no basis is necessary, when the whole of the mind has become one wave, " one-formedness, " it is called Samadhi. Bereft of all help from places and centers, only the meaning of the thing is present. If the mind can be fixed on one centre for twelve second it will be aDharana,twelve such Dharanas will be a Dhyana, and twelve such Dhyanaswill be a Samadhi.
The next is Asana (posture). The only thing to understand is to hold the body straight, leaving the body free, with the chest, shoulders, and head straight. Where there is fire, or in water, or on ground which is strewn with dry leaves, or where there are wild animals, where four streets meet, or where there is too much noise, or too much fear, or too many ant hills, where there are many wicked persons, Yoga must not be practiced in such places. This applies more particularly to India. When the body feels very lazy do not practice, or when the mind is very miserable and sorrowful, or when the body is ill. God to a place which is well hidden, and where people do not come to disturb you.
As soon as you do not want people to know what you are doing all the curiosity in the world will be awakened, but, if you go into the street and want people to know what you are doing, they will not care. Do not choose dirty places. Rather choose beautiful scenery, or a room in your own house which is beautiful. When you practice, first salute all the ancient Yogis, and your ownGuru, and God, and then begin.
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