The Yoga of Meditation - Swami Krishnananda + Bonus (eBook)
Swami Krishnananda is a highly respected philosophical writer, especially on metaphysics, psychology and sociology. Swamiji's books are known the world over as excellent presentations of answers to the daily questions that arise in the day-to-day confrontations of a human being.
Swami Krishnananda was born on the 25th of April, 1922 into a highly religious and orthodox Brahmin family, and was given the name Subbaraya. As you know brahman families are maintaining their course of life to the spiritual awakening. Swami Krishnanada had the great writing skills from the childhood, so his guru decided to give him all necessary, rights to reveal secrets of yogic meditations to the society.
What is the Meditation and How to do it Properly?
Most people doesn’t know that word Meditations origins is not Eastern, but Latin. Meditation In Latin means deep thinking, In Yogic traditions, they call Meditation as Dhyana and it is the one of the most important practice on the way of Enlightenment.
So What is the meditation? Meditations is deep thinking on something, someone may say that there are meditation on Emptiness, but you must understand that when you are meditating on noting, you are deeply thinking about it. Meditations Object may be different things, most of people are meditating on The gods or goddesses, Meditating on their energy, Consciences, Inner Awareness, Positive Energy, Energy Healing, relaxation or many different things. It’s Law of these universe that you are Attracting, things what you are thinking about, you are changing yourself when meditating on something, and these process of meditation will change somehow even the object. Its some kind of energy circulation system, if you are meditating on moon energy, you are circulating the bout of you energies, you are giving your energy to moon and at the same time you are receiving, moon energy. So when you are thinking about something, you are having very intimate relationship.
And there is the question, how to meditate properly? What do I need to Meditate? How Can I start Meditation Now? Its easy task, you need elementary Concentration for meditation, as Swami Vivekananda said if person can concentrate on something for about 5 minutes, he/she can meditate, without doubt. So for meditation You need Strong Concentration and Meditation Object. Do you remember when you are thinking about your loved one? At these moment you are meditating on Him/Her. Lets start with Concentration, because Meditation Objects are many. There are many ways to develop concentration, for example, meditation music helps to concentrate, by dividing you from outer world, when you are mediating with non attractional sounds, you are not hearing noises of outer worlds, our brain reduces attention on hearing, it sharpens other senses, when you are closing your eyes, and there are no cold or heat during meditation, or even scents to attract brains attention, you will have free power for concentration. You can act like you are meditating, there are different practices for concentration, for example, concentrating and meditating on fire, you can also meditate and concentrate on white paper with black point in the middle, My favorite Concentration Practice is to Meditate and listen to your Breath, keep breathing, concentrate how lung are filling and releasing, meditate on your berths rhythm, observe your thoughts, when they go away bring them back to the meditation process, don’t push yourself, it’s natural for mind to think, you shouldn’t stress your mind during meditation, in opposite, you should use it for meditation process.
About meditation Object, As I said earlier, there one can meditate on anything, because, meditation is Deep thinking, and we can think about anything what we can imagine. For more safety I recommend to meditate on yourself. These Meditation Will help you to discover yourself again and gives many benefits as, Inner Peace, Relaxation, it will remove anxiety, develops energies, Strengthens vital forces, Energy Bodies, Mind activity, Health and many more.