Quotes About Meditation

Aspire to purify yourself first. Become an embodiment of love, mercy and goodness. One has to apply oneself to sadhana, diligently, day and night. Like the man who anxiously seeks a means of escape from the midst of a burning house, the aspirant should have a burning desire to free himself from the fire of samsara. Only then will he be able to enter into deep meditation and samadhi.

Sometimes, for a short time the mind finds itself in quiescence. In this state of mind there is neither raga nor dvesha; this silent mental state is called tushnim avastha. It occurs in the waking state, the jagrat avastha. The aspirant mistakes this neutral state of mind for samadhi. This is an obstacle on the path of God-realization, and should, therefore, be overcome by careful introspection and vigorous meditation.

Six hours of study and six hours of meditation should go on uninterruptedly. That is my method.

Le yoga est une autodiscipline basée sur ces deux principes : vie simple et pensée élevée.

Tous les yogas exigent en priorité le sens moral, une disposition pour la spiritualité et la pratique régulière des exercices yoguiques.

Pour obtenir une parfaite relaxation, trois méthodes sont employées par les yogis : physique, mentale et spirituelle. Aucune relaxation n'est complète sans atteindre la relaxation spirituelle que seuls connaissent les yogis.

Hymns are not only words of praise but words of power, being pronounced with the right attitude of mind.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will know the truth.

Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps.

But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind.

One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee

The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen.

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life.

take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself.

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment

We can read all the Vedas, and yet will not realize anything, but when we practice their teachings, then we attain to that state which realizes what the scriptures say, which penetrates where neither reason nor perception nor inference can go, and where the testimony of others cannot avail.