Nov
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“Concentration is the essence of all knowledge. Nothing can be done without it. Ninety percent of thought force is wasted by the ordinary human being, and therefore he is constantly commmitting blunders. The trained man, or mind, never makes a mistake. When the mind is concentrated and turned back on itself, all within us will be our servants, not our masters. The Greeks applied their concentration to the external world, and the result was perfection in art, literature, etc. The Hindus concentrated on the internal world, upon the unseen realms in the Self, and developed the science of yoga. Yoga is controlling the senses, will, and mind. The benefit of its study is that we learn to control insteal of being controlled. The mind seems to be layer on layer. Our real goal is to cross all these intervening strata of our being and find Our Highest Self. The end and aim of yoga is to realize God.
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops.Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth….Work a little harder, more and more, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When yoou come out of it after an hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such rest as that. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few minutes in meditation your brain has almost stopped. Just a little vitality is kept up. You forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.” East Meets West…Vivekananda, pg 82,83
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops.Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth….Work a little harder, more and more, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When yoou come out of it after an hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such rest as that. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few minutes in meditation your brain has almost stopped. Just a little vitality is kept up. You forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.” East Meets West…Vivekananda, pg 82,83
