Swami Krishnananda - Yoga of Meditation, @Yoga
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THE YOGA OF
MEDITATION
by
S
WAMI
K
RISHNANANDA
The Divine Life Society
Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India
Website: swami-krishnananda.org
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CONTENTS
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PART 1
MEDITATION – ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Chapter 1
THE MEANING AND METHOD OF MEDITATION
The art of meditation is not a job to be performed as one
doesthedutiesofone’sprofessioninlifeforallactivitiesof
lifeareintheformofafunctionofone’sindividualityor
personalitywhichistoalargeextentextraneoustoone’s
nature, due to which there is a fatigue after work and there
are times when one gets fed up with work, altogether. But
meditation is not such a function and it differs from activities
with which man is usually familiar. If sometimes one is tired
of meditation, we have only to conclude one has only
engaged oneself in another kind of activity, calling it
meditation, while really it was not so.
Wehavetomakeacarefuldistinctionbetweenone’s
being
and the
action
thatproceedsfromone’sbeingWhat
sometimes fatigues the person is the latter and not the
former. We may be tired of work, but we cannot be tired of
our own selves. So it naturally follows that whenever we are
tired of a work or a function, it is not part of our nature but
extraneous to it. If meditation is also to become a work or a
function of our being, it too would fall outside our nature And
one day we shall not only be tired of it but also be sick of it,
since it would impose itself as a foreign element upon our
being or nature, and it is the character of essential being to
cast out every foreign body by various methods.
Aspirants on the spiritual path are generally conversant
with the fact that meditation is the pinnacle of yoga and the
consummation of spiritual endeavour. But it is only a very
few that really gain access into the centrality of its meaning
and mostly its essentiality is missed in a confusion that is
usually made by equating it with a kind of work or activity of
the mind, which is precisely the reason why most people find
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