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DHYANA (MEDITATION)
WHAT IS DHYANA?
1. Meditation is an unbroken flow of knowledge
of the object on which one meditates.
2. Meditation follows concentration. Concentration merges in meditation.
3. Meditation is the seventh step in the ladder of
Yoga.
4. Concentration, meditation and Samadhi
(superconsciousness) are internal Sadhanas.
5. When you practise concentration, meditation
and Samadhi at a time, it is called Samyama.
6. Meditation is freeing the mind from all
thoughts of sense-objects. The mind dwells on God
alone during meditation.
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
7. If you meditate for half an hour daily, you will
be able to face the battle of life with peace and spiritual
strength.
8. Meditation kills all pain, suffering and sorrow.
9. Meditation is the most powerful mental and
nervine tonic.
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10. The divine energy freely flows to the Sadhaka
during meditation and exercises a benign, soothing influence on the mind, nerves, sense-organs and body.
11. Meditation is the mystic ladder which takes
the Yogic student from earth to heaven.
12. Meditation is the key to unlock many of the secrets of life.
13. Meditation opens the door to intuitive knowledge and realms of eternal bliss.
14. During meditation the mind becomes calm, serene and steady. One idea occupies the mind.
15. Deep meditation cannot come in a day or a
week or a month. You will have to struggle hard for a
long time. Be patient. Be persevering. Be vigilant. Be
diligent.
16. Cultivate burning dispassion, burning aspiration or an intense longing for Self-realisation. Gradually
you will enter into deep meditation and Samadhi.
17. All doubts will be gradually cleared through
meditation
18. Amysterious, inner voice will guide you. You
will yourself feel the way to place your first step in the
next rung of the Yogic ladder.
HOW TO MEDITATE?
19. Meditate regularly in the early morning between 4 and 6 a.m. The mind is calm and refreshed at
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that hour. The atmosphere also is calm. You will get
good meditation.
20. Have a separate meditation room, or convert
by means of screens a corner of a room into a meditation
chamber.
21,. \f there is much strain in your meditation, reduce the duration of each sitting for a few days. Do light
meditation.
22. Use your commonsense throughout your
Sadhana. Do not go to extremes. Stick to the golden medium or the middle path.
SAGUNA MEDITATION
23. Mind wants a concrete object for meditation in
the beginning.
24. Meditate in the beginning on a concrete form
such as the image of your Ishta Devata, Lord Jesus, or
Lord Buddha. This is Saguna meditation, or meditation
on the form of the Lord with attributes.
25. Think of His attributes such as omnipotence,
perfection, purity, freedom, when you meditate on His
form.
26. Rotate your mind on His form from head to
foot or from foot to head.
MEDITATION ON JESUS
27 . Place a picture of Jesus in front of you. Sit in
your favourite meditative pose. Concentrate gently on
the picture, with eyes open till you feel strain. Rotate the
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mind on his long hair, beautiful beard, round eyes, the
cross on his chest and other limbs of the body, on the
spiritual aura around the head, and so on.
28. Think of the divine attributes such as love,
magnanimity, mercy and forbearance. Think of the various phases of his interesting life and the "miracles" he
performed and the various extraordinary powers he pos.
sessed. Then close your eyes and try to visualise the picture. Repeat the same process again and again.
MEDITATION ON LORD HARI
29. Place a picture of Lord Hari in front of you. Sit
in a meditative posture. Concentrate gently on the picture. Rotate the mind on his feet, legs, yellow silken
robes, golden garland set with diamonds, jewelled necklace etc., on his chest, then on the face, the earrings, the
crown of the head, the disc on the right upper hand, the
conch on the left upper hand, the mace on the right
lower hand. Then close the eyes and try to visualise the
picture in the manner. Repeat the process again and
again.
30. Devotees of Lord Buddha can meditate on his
form in a similar way, in association with his particular
attributes.
MEDITATION ON OM
3l. Have the picture of Om in front of you.
Concentrate gently on this picture with open eyes. Associate the ideas of eternity, infinity, immortality, etc.,
when you think of Om. The humming of the bees, the
DHYANA (MEDITATION)
sweet notes of the nightingale, the seven notes of the
scale in music-all sounds are emanations of Om only.
Om is the essence of the Vedas. Imagine that Orn is the
bow, the mind is the arrow and Brahman or God is the
target. Aim at the target with great care and then, like the
arrow become one with the target, you will become one
with God. You can also recite Om while meditating.
The short-accented Om burns all sins, the long accented gives Moksha, and the elongated bestows all
psychic powers (Siddhis). He who chants and meditates
upon this monosyllable (Om), meditates upon and
chants all the scriptures of the world.
ABSTRACT MEDITATION
32. Meditate on the effulgence in the sun, or the
splendour in the moon, or the glory in the stars.
33. Meditate on the magnificence of the ocean and
its infinite nature. Then compare the ocean to the infinite Brahman, and the waves, foams and icebergs to the
various names and forms of the world. Identify yourself
with the ocean. Become silent. Expand. Expand.
34. Meditate on the Himalayas. Imagine that the
Ganga takes its origin in the icy regions of Gangotri,
flows through Rishikesh, Haridwar, Banaras, and then
enters the Bay of Bengal near Gangasagar. The Himalayas, the Ganga and the sea; these three thoughts only
should occupy your mind. First take the mind to the icy
regions of the Himalayas, then along the Ganga, and finally to the sea. Rotate the mind in this manner.
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35. Gaze steadily on the formless air. Concentrate
on the air. Meditate on the all-pervading nature of the
air. This will lead to the realisation of the nameless and
formless Brahman, the one, triving Truth.
36. Watch the flow of breath. You will hear the
sound 'Soham,' 'So'during inhalation and 'Ham'during exhalation. Soham means "I am He." The breath is
reminding you of your identity with the Supreme Soul.
You are unconsciously repeating Soham 21,600 times
daily at the rate of 15 Sohams per minute. Associate the
ideas of Existence, Knowledge, Bliss, absolute Puriry
Peace, Perfection, Love, etc., along with Soham' Negate
the body while repeating the Mantra and identify yourself with Atman or the Supreme Soul.
37. Meditate on Nirguna Brahman or the
Absolute. Think that there is a living, universal Power
which underlies all names and forms. Associate the attributes of infinity, etemity, immortality, existence-consciousness-bliss absolute. In due course the attributes
will merge in pure Nirguna meditation.
EXPERIENCES IN MEDITATTON
38. The feeling of rising up during meditation is a
sign that you are going above body-consciousness.
39. When you practise concentration and meditation, you are bound to get various powers and Siddhis.
DHYANA (MEDITATION)
41. There is really no such thing as a miracle.
When you know the cause, the miracle becomes an ordinary event.
42. During meditation you will get rapture, ecstasy, thrill.
43. When you get a flash of illumination, do not be
frightened. It will be a new experience of immense joy.
44. Do not be unnecessarily alarmed when you go
above body-consciousness. Do not stop your Sadhana.
The Lord will take care of you and guide you. Be bold.
Look not back. March on, hero!
45. A flash is a glimpse of truth. It is Ritambara
Prajna. This is not the whole experience. This is not the
highest experience.
. 46. Reach the Bhuma or the Infinite. This is the
acme or the final stage. You have reached the final destination. Meditation stops here.
47. You will hear various sorts of Anahata sounds,
viz., conch, bell, flute, lute, Veena, Mridanga and drum
sounds, thunder, etc.
48. You will see brilliant lights in the space
between the eyebrows. They are like pin points, or like
the sun, the moon or the stars. You will have vision of
unity.
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49. Sometimes you will behold coloured lights:
green, blue, red, etc. They are due to the presence of different Tattvas at a particular time.
50. Prithvi or earth Tattva has yellow light, water
Tattva white light, fire Tattva red light, air smoky light
or green light, Akasa blue light. Ignore these lights and
march forward.
51. Sometimes you will have vision of Rishis,
sages, tutelary deity, Nitya Siddhas, astral entities, landscape, mountains, blue sky, beautiful lardens.
52. Sometimes you may float in the air. Your astral
body may get detached from the physical body. You will
move about in the astral world.
53. You may go to Brahma Loka, the realm of
Brahma or Hiranyagarbha.
54. Those who have entered the first degree of
meditation will have a light body, sweetness of voice,
beautiful complexion, clarity of mind a
WHAT IS DHYANA?
1. Meditation is an unbroken flow of knowledge
of the object on which one meditates.
2. Meditation follows concentration. Concentration merges in meditation.
3. Meditation is the seventh step in the ladder of
Yoga.
4. Concentration, meditation and Samadhi
(superconsciousness) are internal Sadhanas.
5. When you practise concentration, meditation
and Samadhi at a time, it is called Samyama.
6. Meditation is freeing the mind from all
thoughts of sense-objects. The mind dwells on God
alone during meditation.
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
7. If you meditate for half an hour daily, you will
be able to face the battle of life with peace and spiritual
strength.
8. Meditation kills all pain, suffering and sorrow.
9. Meditation is the most powerful mental and
nervine tonic.
(e7)
98 FOURTEENLESSONSONRAJAYOGA
10. The divine energy freely flows to the Sadhaka
during meditation and exercises a benign, soothing influence on the mind, nerves, sense-organs and body.
11. Meditation is the mystic ladder which takes
the Yogic student from earth to heaven.
12. Meditation is the key to unlock many of the secrets of life.
13. Meditation opens the door to intuitive knowledge and realms of eternal bliss.
14. During meditation the mind becomes calm, serene and steady. One idea occupies the mind.
15. Deep meditation cannot come in a day or a
week or a month. You will have to struggle hard for a
long time. Be patient. Be persevering. Be vigilant. Be
diligent.
16. Cultivate burning dispassion, burning aspiration or an intense longing for Self-realisation. Gradually
you will enter into deep meditation and Samadhi.
17. All doubts will be gradually cleared through
meditation
18. Amysterious, inner voice will guide you. You
will yourself feel the way to place your first step in the
next rung of the Yogic ladder.
HOW TO MEDITATE?
19. Meditate regularly in the early morning between 4 and 6 a.m. The mind is calm and refreshed at
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that hour. The atmosphere also is calm. You will get
good meditation.
20. Have a separate meditation room, or convert
by means of screens a corner of a room into a meditation
chamber.
21,. \f there is much strain in your meditation, reduce the duration of each sitting for a few days. Do light
meditation.
22. Use your commonsense throughout your
Sadhana. Do not go to extremes. Stick to the golden medium or the middle path.
SAGUNA MEDITATION
23. Mind wants a concrete object for meditation in
the beginning.
24. Meditate in the beginning on a concrete form
such as the image of your Ishta Devata, Lord Jesus, or
Lord Buddha. This is Saguna meditation, or meditation
on the form of the Lord with attributes.
25. Think of His attributes such as omnipotence,
perfection, purity, freedom, when you meditate on His
form.
26. Rotate your mind on His form from head to
foot or from foot to head.
MEDITATION ON JESUS
27 . Place a picture of Jesus in front of you. Sit in
your favourite meditative pose. Concentrate gently on
the picture, with eyes open till you feel strain. Rotate the
100 FOURTEEN LESSONS ON RAJA YOGA
mind on his long hair, beautiful beard, round eyes, the
cross on his chest and other limbs of the body, on the
spiritual aura around the head, and so on.
28. Think of the divine attributes such as love,
magnanimity, mercy and forbearance. Think of the various phases of his interesting life and the "miracles" he
performed and the various extraordinary powers he pos.
sessed. Then close your eyes and try to visualise the picture. Repeat the same process again and again.
MEDITATION ON LORD HARI
29. Place a picture of Lord Hari in front of you. Sit
in a meditative posture. Concentrate gently on the picture. Rotate the mind on his feet, legs, yellow silken
robes, golden garland set with diamonds, jewelled necklace etc., on his chest, then on the face, the earrings, the
crown of the head, the disc on the right upper hand, the
conch on the left upper hand, the mace on the right
lower hand. Then close the eyes and try to visualise the
picture in the manner. Repeat the process again and
again.
30. Devotees of Lord Buddha can meditate on his
form in a similar way, in association with his particular
attributes.
MEDITATION ON OM
3l. Have the picture of Om in front of you.
Concentrate gently on this picture with open eyes. Associate the ideas of eternity, infinity, immortality, etc.,
when you think of Om. The humming of the bees, the
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sweet notes of the nightingale, the seven notes of the
scale in music-all sounds are emanations of Om only.
Om is the essence of the Vedas. Imagine that Orn is the
bow, the mind is the arrow and Brahman or God is the
target. Aim at the target with great care and then, like the
arrow become one with the target, you will become one
with God. You can also recite Om while meditating.
The short-accented Om burns all sins, the long accented gives Moksha, and the elongated bestows all
psychic powers (Siddhis). He who chants and meditates
upon this monosyllable (Om), meditates upon and
chants all the scriptures of the world.
ABSTRACT MEDITATION
32. Meditate on the effulgence in the sun, or the
splendour in the moon, or the glory in the stars.
33. Meditate on the magnificence of the ocean and
its infinite nature. Then compare the ocean to the infinite Brahman, and the waves, foams and icebergs to the
various names and forms of the world. Identify yourself
with the ocean. Become silent. Expand. Expand.
34. Meditate on the Himalayas. Imagine that the
Ganga takes its origin in the icy regions of Gangotri,
flows through Rishikesh, Haridwar, Banaras, and then
enters the Bay of Bengal near Gangasagar. The Himalayas, the Ganga and the sea; these three thoughts only
should occupy your mind. First take the mind to the icy
regions of the Himalayas, then along the Ganga, and finally to the sea. Rotate the mind in this manner.
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35. Gaze steadily on the formless air. Concentrate
on the air. Meditate on the all-pervading nature of the
air. This will lead to the realisation of the nameless and
formless Brahman, the one, triving Truth.
36. Watch the flow of breath. You will hear the
sound 'Soham,' 'So'during inhalation and 'Ham'during exhalation. Soham means "I am He." The breath is
reminding you of your identity with the Supreme Soul.
You are unconsciously repeating Soham 21,600 times
daily at the rate of 15 Sohams per minute. Associate the
ideas of Existence, Knowledge, Bliss, absolute Puriry
Peace, Perfection, Love, etc., along with Soham' Negate
the body while repeating the Mantra and identify yourself with Atman or the Supreme Soul.
37. Meditate on Nirguna Brahman or the
Absolute. Think that there is a living, universal Power
which underlies all names and forms. Associate the attributes of infinity, etemity, immortality, existence-consciousness-bliss absolute. In due course the attributes
will merge in pure Nirguna meditation.
EXPERIENCES IN MEDITATTON
38. The feeling of rising up during meditation is a
sign that you are going above body-consciousness.
39. When you practise concentration and meditation, you are bound to get various powers and Siddhis.
DHYANA (MEDITATION)
41. There is really no such thing as a miracle.
When you know the cause, the miracle becomes an ordinary event.
42. During meditation you will get rapture, ecstasy, thrill.
43. When you get a flash of illumination, do not be
frightened. It will be a new experience of immense joy.
44. Do not be unnecessarily alarmed when you go
above body-consciousness. Do not stop your Sadhana.
The Lord will take care of you and guide you. Be bold.
Look not back. March on, hero!
45. A flash is a glimpse of truth. It is Ritambara
Prajna. This is not the whole experience. This is not the
highest experience.
. 46. Reach the Bhuma or the Infinite. This is the
acme or the final stage. You have reached the final destination. Meditation stops here.
47. You will hear various sorts of Anahata sounds,
viz., conch, bell, flute, lute, Veena, Mridanga and drum
sounds, thunder, etc.
48. You will see brilliant lights in the space
between the eyebrows. They are like pin points, or like
the sun, the moon or the stars. You will have vision of
unity.
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104 FOURTEEN LESSONS ON RAJA YOGA
49. Sometimes you will behold coloured lights:
green, blue, red, etc. They are due to the presence of different Tattvas at a particular time.
50. Prithvi or earth Tattva has yellow light, water
Tattva white light, fire Tattva red light, air smoky light
or green light, Akasa blue light. Ignore these lights and
march forward.
51. Sometimes you will have vision of Rishis,
sages, tutelary deity, Nitya Siddhas, astral entities, landscape, mountains, blue sky, beautiful lardens.
52. Sometimes you may float in the air. Your astral
body may get detached from the physical body. You will
move about in the astral world.
53. You may go to Brahma Loka, the realm of
Brahma or Hiranyagarbha.
54. Those who have entered the first degree of
meditation will have a light body, sweetness of voice,
beautiful complexion, clarity of mind a