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    Meditation and Its Methods: Swami Vivekananda's Most Popular book on Meditation
    Meditation and Its Methods: Swami Vivekananda's Most Popular book on Meditation
    Meditation and Its Methods: Swami Vivekananda's Most Popular book on Meditation
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    Meditation and Its Methods: Swami Vivekananda's Most Popular book on Meditation

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    This book is a collection of Swami Vivekananda’s explanation of Meditation, his writings and lectures on Meditation, its benefits and its methods. This book explores all his thoughts on meditation and its methods. For all the seekers of truth and practitioners of meditation this book is sure to provide flashes of deep insi

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGENERAL PRESS
    Release dateJan 5, 2019
    ISBN9789388760140
    Meditation and Its Methods: Swami Vivekananda's Most Popular book on Meditation

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    Meditation and Its Methods - Swami Vivekananda

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    Contents

    Meditation According to Yoga

    What is Meditation?

    The Gate to Bliss

    In Search of Truth

    How Restless is the Mind!

    A Tremondous Task

    Environment for Meditation

    Requisites for Meditation

    Time for Meditation

    Now Pray!

    The First Lesson

    Now Think!

    A Few Examples of Meditation

    How to Reach the Goal

    Be Careful!

    The Mind-Lake

    Mind and its Control

    Be Cheerful!

    The Signs of a Yogi

    Be Like a Pearl Oyster

    Patience

    In the Realm of Tranquility

    Transformation through Meditation

    Three Stages of Meditation

    How to Rest

    Action Brings Reaction

    The Power of Meditation

    Meditation is a Science

    Pavahari Baba: An Ideal Yogi

    A Fable about Buddha

    Questions and Answers

    Experience and Verification

    How to Be Detached

    How to Study the Mind

    Practical Hints on Meditation

    Supernatural Powers

    The Mystery of Samadhi

    The Power of Ojas

    The Mystery of Learning

    The Power of the Mind

    Mystery-Mongering

    Follow the Middle Path

    The Royal Path

    Effects of Meditation

    In The Hours of Meditation

    Emotions and Meditation

    Read Your Own Life

    Eight Limbs of Yoga

    At the Threshold

    Meditate in Silence

    Meditation According to Vedanta

    Why God?

    The Vedantic Conception of God

    The Goal and Methods of Realization

    Pray For Illumination

    De-Hypnotization

    Here and Now

    An Indian Lullaby

    A Tale of Two Birds

    Be Grateful!

    From Solitude to Society

    Who Can Know the Knower?

    What is Beyond?

    Be the Witness!

    Do We Want God?

    The Soul and Its Bondage

    It Is All In Fun

    A Psalm of Life

    Let Bygones Be Bygones

    The Living God is Within You

    The Lord is Yours

    No One to Blame

    The World: Neither Good nor Bad

    Al Allegory

    Morality and Religion

    See God in Everything

    Towards The Goal Supreme

    What Makes Us Miserable?

    Quintessence of Vedanta

    ‘Why Weepest Thou, My Friend?’

    The Snare of Maya

    Life Inspires Life

    Spiritual Boldness

    A Wisp of Straw

    Love Abideth Forever

    Man, the Maker of His Destiny

    The Gospel of Fearlessness

    The Need for a Guru

    The Qualifications of the Student

    Are We Fit For Paradise?

    What We Think We Become

    Enjoy the Mangoes

    Stick to One

    The Transformation of Energy

    How to Be Illimined?

    The Secret of Restraint

    Mind: The Library of the Universe

    Grace and Self-Effort

    The Goal and the Ways

    Maya and Freedom

    Sleep No More

    Meditation According to Yoga

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    What is Meditation?

    What is meditation? Meditation is the power which enables us to resist all this. Nature may call us, Look, there is a beautiful thing! I do not look. Now she says, There is a beautiful smell; smell it! I say to my nose, Do not smell it, and the nose doesn’t. Eyes, do not see! Nature does such an awful thing – kills one of my children, and says, Now, rascal, sit down and weep! Go to the depths! I say, I don’t have to. I jump up. I must be free. Try it sometimes… [In meditation], for a moment, you can change this nature. Now, if you had that power in yourself, would not that be heaven, freedom? That is the power of meditation.

    How is it to be attained? In a dozen different ways. Each temperament has its own way. But this is the general principle: get hold of the mind. The mind is like a lake, and every stone that drops into it raises waves. These waves do not let us see what we are. The full moon is reflected in the water of the lake, but the surface is so disturbed that we do not see the reflection clearly. Let it be calm. Do not let nature raise the wave. Keep quiet, and then after a little while she will give you up. Then we know what we are. God is there already, but the mind is so agitated, always running after the senses. You close the senses and [yet] you whirl and whirl about. Just this moment I think I am all right and I will meditate upon God, and then my mind goes to London in one minute. And if I pull it away from there, it goes to New York to think about the things I have done there in the past. These [waves] are to be stopped by the power of meditation. (CW4.248)

    The Gate to Bliss

    Meditation is the gate that opens that to us. Prayers, ceremonials, and all the other forms of worship are simply kindergartens of meditation. You pray, you offer something. A certain theory existed that everything raised one’s spiritual power. The use of certain words, flowers, images, temples, ceremonials like the waving of lights brings the mind to that attitude, but that attitude is always in the human soul, nowhere else. [People] are all doing it; but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly. That is the power of meditation.

    Slowly and gradually we are to train ourselves. It is no joke – not a question of a day, or years, or maybe of births. Never mind! The pull must go on. Knowingly, voluntarily, the pull must go on. Inch by inch we will gain ground. We will begin to feel and get real possessions, which no one can take away from us – the wealth that no man can take, the wealth that nobody can destroy,

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