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Correct Posture for Meditation – Yoganan
Correct Posture for Meditation – Yogananda Posture Instructions on Posture for Effective Meditation Erect Spine One of the first requisites for meditation is correct posture. The spine should be erect. When the devotee is seeking to direct his mind and life force upward through the cerebrospinal axis to the centers of higher consciousness in the […]
Obsession and Fanaticism are opposed to ...
Obsession and Fanaticism are opposed to Love – Vivekananda There was a poor man who wanted some money; and somehow he had heard that if he could get hold of a ghost (genie), he might command him to bring money or anything else he liked; so he was very anxious to get hold of […]
How am I to practise desirelessness – Ni
How am I to practise desirelessness – Nisargadatta Questioner: How am I to practise desirelessness? Maharaj: No need of practice. No need of any acts of renunciation. Just turn your mind away, that is all. Desire is merely the fixation of the mind on an idea. Get it out of its groove by denying […]
Guide to Family and Social Relationships...
Guide to Family and Social Relationships – Buddha A young man named Sigala used to worship the six cardinal points of the heavens – east, south, west, north, nadir and zenith – in obeying and observing the last advice given him by his dying father. The Buddha told the young man that in the ‘noble […]
Do what you feel like doing – Nisargadat
Do what you feel like doing – Nisargadatta Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Q: I seem to have a clear idea of what needs be done, but I find myself getting tired and depressed and seeking human company and thus wasting time that should be given to solitude and meditation. M: Do what you feel like doing. […]
Control of the Mind – Sarada Devi
Control of the Mind – Sarada Devi Teachings of Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother Control of the Mind (Part 1) 1. “Everything depends on one’s mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It is said, ‘The aspirant may have received the grace of the Guru, the Lord, and the Vaishnava; but he […]
Turn away from desire or fear – Nisargad
Turn away from desire or fear – Nisargadatta Maharaj: You are back in India! Where have you been, what have you seen? Questioner: I come from Switzerland. I stayed there with a remarkable man who claims to have realized. He has done many Yogas in his past and had many experiences that passed away. Now […]
Work Without Getting Caught – Vivekanand
Work Without Getting Caught One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. He was a great man from whom I learnt it, and his own life was a practical demonstration of this great principle. I have […]
Mind runs about too much – Chinmayananda
Mind runs about too much Question: My mind runs about too much. I do not seem to get it under control! Answer: You describe a situation which every sincere seeker experiences at one time or another. This is mainly because you despair unncesessarily at the direction in which your mind is running at some point […]
Living One’s Values – Chinmayananda
Living One’s Values Self-Unfoldment Swami Chinmayananda Q: I have read a good deal. I also have convictions. Yet to put these values into practice is my problem. A: This was exactly Arjuna’s problem in the Bhagavad Gita. The Lord advised him: Recognize your real enemies; they are desire and anger, born of a passionate nature. […]
Breath Regulation helps Meditation – Ram
Breath Regulation helps Meditation In the absence of enquiry and devotion, the natural sedative pranayama (breath regulation) may be tried. This is known as Yoga Marga. If life is imperilled the whole interest centres round the one point, the saving of life. If the breath is held the mind cannot afford to (and does not) […]
