What is meditation? Meditation is an prolonged and continuous concentration on a single object, with this object being the only idea in your head, may be a near definition of meditation. If you can practice this for more 5 minutes with one exclusive object in your mind and ALL your concentration being pointed continuously on that particular object, then you may have reached a good beginners level of meditation-practice. How easy or how difficult it can become to accomplish this, depends on the object you concentrate on. If you keep God in your mind it shall become quite easy, as God is Passion, peace, harmony, tranquility, wellness and all the potent positive aspects you may conceive of.
Why do people meditate?
Daily life may often cause lots of turmoil in your mind and emotions. Stress with your job, your family and political or economical situation of your surroundings of your life may cause lots of anxiety, fears, emotions and thoughts, acting like a storm inside you. Mankind on earth has most often forgotten to live according to spiritual laws and Divine principles of God's creation. So they are sometimes creating Karma several times each day almost on a continuous basis.
Another reason for meditation is an advanced spiritual proficiency. Extended meditation by fully concentrating on an object, until becoming one with the object of meditation leads to the knowledge about the object. This principle is named Samyama. It is a technique that may be used to get an answer about important spiritual questions, or find solutions for important situations of your life. But as a beginner you may practice thousands of hours of meditation before you may become one with the target of meditation. What is slowing down your success? Your anxieties, your expectations about the answer, your desires, preoccupation - your ego.
So in place of exercising at first of your spiritual path Samyama, you would get much better results if you start persistently working on your spiritual progress by breaking up all your ego, your wishes,... in the fire of Divine Love. If once all your personality has been filled with the Divinity of your soul - made to the image of God - then you may need only minutes or seconds to attain knowledge about an object, since one with God, you may have easy access of all the knowledge you truly need. Intuition is the advanced method of accomplishing knowledge about important objects in God's creation. You simply look at something and you may instantly know whatever might be significant for the moment.
The use of meditation to get peace within and to concentrate on Supreme Being, the Divine is the recommended method and use of meditation. Some significant spiritual wisdom may however be achieved to help you to understand truth significance of life on earth in a physical body and also to speed up your spiritual progress. You may find a few important and instructional questions to meditate and or contemplate in another chapter or you should ask God to help you understand it before falling asleep in night time. Receiving an response through meditation is much different than reading it. When receiving an response by meditation then you are fully aware even within yourself of the full content and meaning of the answer. By reading an answer you may intellectually know it, keep it stored in your physical mind without having it ever comprehended. For that particular reason many wise man from the past have written questions to meditate about - rather than provided intellectual answers. One such examples might actually be the Yoga Sutras from Patanjali, or Lao Tse.
What do people anticipate from meditation?
Meditation is then felt as an ease of all this mental and emotional pressure. People anticipate it to create some calm within and if properly done it really does successfully relief you of any stress, emotional and mental.
What is the aim of meditation in spiritual customs?
The purpose of meditation in all spiritual traditions is to:
- Empty your mind becoming a ready for vestal awareness.
- Empty your emotions to become aware about your surroundings emotions.
- Relief all your tension and emotional and or mental pressure.
- Create peacefulness and harmony within yourself.
- Substitute your emotional or mental turmoil by something positively and purposefully sacred and Divine.
How can we achieve this goal by meditation methods?
Foremost there definitely is a need to right away stop any action causing such turmoil in your emotions, intellect and actions. This is done by conducting a peaceable living in harmony with the Divine. To start this, you need to learn again to listen to his Divine and loving guidance. It is all the disharmony in your thoughts, emotions, words and activities that caused the tumult. All the Karma you ever created will collect and be with you, until you begin to change your type of life. Serious study of all spiritual laws of nature and practicing and using them in every days situation of your job, business, family, friends, recreation, politics, and any other situation of your life will be the 1st step toward producing serenity within.
It makes little sense to meditate to be able to make peace, as long as you still persist in making tumult before and after meditation in your daily living. So be prepared to change your life, your inner and outer conduct while at the same time begin to use daily meditation and applying or living the spiritual laws in every days situations.
Meditation methods switch your focus on God or Love.
Some spiritual traditions exercise meditation by concentrating on vacuum. This is quite difficult, because there is no void in the total creation. So these person utilising successfully this technique often are hanging between two centers of awareness, i.e. between physical and astral body, being neither in physical nor in astral body. Or between astral and causal body, again being neither in astral nor in causal body. You may somehow compare it to the gear of a car. The normal procedure is to move from one center up to the following higher until you are one with God-consciousness. Like switching in an automobile from 1st gear to 2nd and 3rd up to the highest one when accelerating. Like in an automobile before switching to the next higher gear, a driver usually speeds to a certain speed before switching to the next gear. A similar rule works in meditation. Before you can move from one center of awareness to the next higher one, you may definitely need to increase the vibration of your present consciousness and all its pertaining parts in your spiritual body and its aura. This point is difficult if ever to be reached when concentrating on emptiness, besides the basic fact that there is no emptiness in the least, so you may waste some time to look for something in-existing. How can you go from one point to another when there is no orientation course, no thrust that keeps you occupation a constant way with all your spiritual practice.
Meditation methods with Mantras.
Others are meditating using a large variety of Mantras, or by using the image of a Guru or deity to concentrate on. Some Mantras are associated with deities, others with "metaphysical gifts". When you concentrate on Mantras, deities or Gurus, it may result in the result of you becoming one with the object of your concentration. Contemplation as a result of extended concentration is leading to Samyama - becoming one with the object of concentration. If this is what you are practising, you may see one day that you have accomplished your destination, being in divine Worlds and universes - far away from God. That is the reason why in many Holy scriptures there is a warning - you should never have other deities beside me. Striving for unity with any deity may lead to this achievement, but this can and may lead to being far away from the source of all sources for a long time before you may realise how far you are from your intended goal.
The best meditation technique always is to focus on God.
Since the only genuine spiritual goal can be unity with Supreme Being, the Infinite, the Source of all sources, it should be your true and honest intention to have only God in mind when meditating. God is the Source of all sources, the Infinite beyond any creation and manifestation, thus God has the highest vibration of all. Everything is made of and by Supreme Being. But any deity is a manifestation, like a highly evolved soul. God the Infinite source of Divine Love in your mind keeps you quickening steadily, while replenishing your psyche with Divine peace and Love over and over, dissolving in Divine Love anything else in your aura and mind. When you truly be aware of the principle of Samyama, then you definitely may realize why it is critical to concentrate on God and nothing else.
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