Sai Baba On Light Meditation

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Sathya Sai Baba on Light meditation Introduction Meditation is the name for the period of rest we provide for the busy wayward mind. Meditation is that inward journey, away from the objective world and the senses that run after it. Meditation is, according to many exponents, the performance for a few minutes when man tries to assume a certain posture, and controlling the ingress and egress of breath, endeavours to fix attention on an image or ideal, to the exclusion of everything else. During meditation, people feel elated, experience joy and peace; but when the period is over they lapse into the normal routine of scandal, envy, faction and fear. So meditation has become a fad, a routine, a pastime or habit, a drug or tonic, instead of the very sustenance of the spirit. Can anyone train another in meditation or claim to train? It may be possible to teach a person the posture, the pose, the position of the legs, feet or hands, neck, head or back, the style of breathing or its speed. But meditation is a function of the inner man. It involves deep subjective quiet, the emptying of the mind and filling oneself with the light that emerges from the divine spark within. This is a discipline, which no textbook can teach and no class can communicate. Meditation classes! Those who handle them do not know what that is. Those that attend them do not care to know. Concentration (Excerpts from Dhyana Vahini) ; “Every minute, from inside and outside, promptings and temptations arise and accumulate in one. One cannot attend to all these at the same time. So one fixes one’s attention on the most important among them only.(note that what is important is decided upon by one based on one’s condition of the mind!). This is called concentration. Concentration is needed to grasp any subject well. Even walking needs concentration. Purposefully directing the attention

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