Helpful hints on Meditation

• Do not try to strain your neck or shoulder muscles during spiritual mediation, nor put any pressure on your brain, eyes and so forth. Spiritual concentration does not depend on putting pressure on any part of the body.

 

•  The aim of spiritual practice is firstly and primarily to make the mind motionless so that no thought of any kind may disturb it while listening to the Sound. As the vibrations of the mind are made quite, the Sound Current will of Itself become clearer and clearer, without any need of putting pressure on the eyes, ears and brain.

 

• For stilling the vibrations of the mind, all that is necessary is to repeat the five holy Names with care and attention, so that the mind does not wander. If it wanders during mediation, then a second link should be applied to it by concentrating on the form of Guru. But there is no need of putting any strain on the body .

 

• Any posture in which you can remain for long would do for concentration . Frequent changes of position interfere with concentration.

 

• You should not sit in meditation with excitement to see or to achieve. Then your mind is always running in excitement and it is not steady and still. Unless the mind is still and steady at the eye centre, it does not get the desired results.

Death Is a Friend

               “Death teaches us not to place our reliance on the flesh but on God.Therefore Death is a friend,” the Master said. “We should not grieve unduly about the passing of our loved ones. It is selfish to desire that they always remain near us for our pleasure and comfort. Rather, rejoice that they have been summoned to advance toward soul freedom in the new and better environment of the astral world.

                The sorrow os separation causes most men to cry for a while; then they forget. But the wise feel impelled to seek their vanished dear ones in the heart of the Eternal. What devotees lose in finite life, they find again in the Infinite.”

We have to leave this world one day, and if we are loving,

obedient disciples and have made proper preparations in this lifetime,

                we do not have the transition which we call death.

While others weep, the spiritually developed soul departs happy -

                happier than a bridegroom on his wedding day.
                                                                             - Master's , Spiritual Gems