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Twelve Principles of Meditation

Just like any activity or task, learning to meditate entails practice and patience. You will not be able to meditate properly on your first try. For example, learning how to meditate is just like learning how to bake a cake. On your first try, you might have some doubts and questions on how to do it. You might find it hard to bake one. However, as you gain experience in baking a cake, you will realize that it is not that difficult. Eventually, you will be able to bake one with ease.

At first, meditating can be difficult for you, but when you practice regularly, you will get used to it and you will find that Meditation is not a hard thing to do.

To be able to meditate properly, you need to have a better understanding of what Meditation is all about. For that, we have Swami Vishnu-Devananda to thank for. He formulated the Twelve Principles of Meditation to help people understand the basic steps and stages of the practice.

Twelve Principles of Meditation:

Set aside a special place for Meditation.
Select a moment when your mind is free from everyday worries.
Using the same time and place each day, condition the mind to slow down more quickly.
Sit with your back, neck, and head in a straight line, facing north or east.
Tell your mind to remain quiet for the duration of your session.
Regulate your breathing - start with five minutes of deep breathing, then slow it down.
Establish a rhythmic breathing pattern - inhaling then exhaling for about three seconds.
At first, let your mind wander - it will only grow restless if you force it to concentrate.
Bring the mind to rest on the focal point of choice - either the Anja or the Anahata Chakra.
With your chosen technique, hold your object of concentration at this focal point throughout your session.
Meditation comes when you reach a state of pure thought, but still retain your awareness of duality.
After a long practice, duality disappears and Samadhi, the super conscious state, is achieved.

One good thing about Meditation is that you can do it anywhere, as long as that place will help you concentrate and clear your mind throughout the session.

Meditate on a regular basis. It does not require much from you, it but can provide a lot of benefits. When you meditate regularly, your mind responds to what you ask of it once you start meditating. After some time, your mind will start to ask for this quiet time and meditating will become perfectly natural for you.

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Tuesday 1st February 2011 at 3:24:43 AM


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Take meditation as a Puja(worship),a meeting with God.Be eager to meet Him as you are always eager to meet a loved one(mother,child and so on).When you are eager to meet the loved one,the mind never interferes.Even hours spent with loved ones appear to be a few minutes.

To start with,you need not even sit,or keep the spine straight and so on.You just lie down on mat or may be in your bed.Close you eyes.Relax each part,rather each cell of your body. .Find yourself surrounded by white light.Leave the body on its own,as we do in Shavasana(corpus pose),or as if body has been thrown down from the first floor window.

Gradually body will sink in the bed/mat.Let it.Keep watching the state of the body.Keep enjoying the relaxation of the cells.Soon you will have a feeling which you have not had since years.

There is no use of mind here.You have voluntarily thrown youself out of window.Enjoy where it goes/sinks.Do not lose your awareness.Your breathing will take care of itself.It will become slow and rhythemic as you sink in the bed/mat.

Try it sincerely.Do not make it a burden.Enjoy it like like a child's play.

Note that nothing is easier than reaching a meditative state.Unfortunately some Gurus have complicated the path so that we join classes and courses for it.

Meditation is your natural state.It is a journey from yourself to yourself;from your outer self to your inner self.Let us not complicate it by laying down rules and regulations,which are products of logical/educated mind which has no role to play in it. Once you get used to it,you can start doing it in sitting position.Get back to me,if further guidance nedded.

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