Quotes About Meditation

When life force is shut off from the sensory organs, material sensations cannot reach the brain to snatch away the meditator's attention from God.

Why come to view my flesh and bones, when I am ever within range of your kutastha (spiritual sight)?

by self-mastery in meditation, the attention is focused steadily on the center of divine perception at the point between the eyebrows, the searchlights of life force and consciousness are reversed. Withdrawing from the senses, they reveal the light of the spiritual eye….Through this eye of omnipresence the devotee enters into the realms of divine consciousness.

The great guru taught his disciples to avoid theoretical discussion of the scriptures. "He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient revelations," he said. "Solve all your problems through meditation. 14 Exchange unprofitable speculations for actual God-communion. "Clear

Heavenly Father, I will reason; I will will; I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right thing that I should do.

No matter what the disciple's problem, the guru advised Kriya Yoga for its solution.

La meta de la ciencia del yoga es aquietar la mente, para que pueda escuchar sin distorsión alguna el infalible consejo de la Voz Interior.

The earth's diurnal cycle, from light to darkness and vice versa, is a constant reminder to man of creation's involvement in maya or oppositional states. (The transitional or equilibrated periods of the day, dawn and dusk, are therefore considered auspicious for meditation.) Rending the dual-textured veil of maya, the yogi perceives the transcendent Unity.

The ancient rishi Patanjali6 defines yoga as "neutralisation of the alternating waves in consciousness.

Even he with the worst of karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effects of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace. Know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes!

But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own? In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature? Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?

Free the mind from all disturbing thoughts and fill it with love and joy.

The consciousness of a perfected yogi is effortlessly identified not with a narrow body but with the universal structure.

A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light (vibrations of life energy); to him there is no difference between the light rays composing water and the light rays composing land. Free from matter-consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over or through the light rays of earth, water, fire and air.

The yogi [...] sees the universe as the Lord created it: an essentially undifferentiated mass of light.

Self-scrutiny, relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverises the stoutest ego. But true self-analysis mathematically operates to produce seers.

The yogi is greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom (jnana yoga), or of the path of action (karma yoga); be thou, O disciple Arjuna, a yogi!

4. Outward longings will drive you from the eden within; they offer false pleasures that only impersonate the souls happiness, The lost paradise is quickly regained through divine meditation.

Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration

Paramahansa Yogananda

Yoga meditation is the process of cultivating and stabilizing the awareness of one's real nature, through definite spiritual and psychophysical methods and laws by which the narrow ego, the flawed hereditary human consciousness, is displaced by the consciousness of the soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The fundamental cure for all human ills is everywhere one and the same: to raise one's consciousness. In

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult. In