THE BEST FROM OUR SCRIPTURES - 6

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THE BEST FROM OUR SCRIPTURS - 6

 

DHYANA (MEDITATION)

 

Eyes cannot see the Supreme Being nor can words express it—nor can

it be reached by other senses and cognitive faculties. The Supreme

Being is only revealed in dhyana. Dhyana (True Meditation) is only

possible when consciousness is spiritualized by purity of knowledge

of the self.

(Mundakopanishd 8.1.8)

 

Dhyana is concentration on the divine being, who is quiescent,

luminous, pure, and blissful in the hrit center (Spiritual heart)

(Kaivalyopanishad 5)

 

Concentration on the universal form of God, realized by

concentration on mantra and then concentrating on God without form

is Dhyana. (Darshanopanishad 9.1—2—3—5)

 

When concentration reaches the phase of nondual consciousness

(seeing the Supreme Being abiding in each and every particle), that

is dhyana. (Manila Brahamanopanishad 1.1.9)

 

Dhyana is of two type: (1) Saguna Dhyana, meditation on God with

form and attributes, and (2) Nirguna Dhyana, meditation on God

without from and attributes.

Doing breath suspension and meditation on the deity is Saguna Dhyana

and meditation on the Supreme Being without form is Nirguna dhyana.

Nirguna Dhyana leads to Samadhi. (Yogatattvopanishad 105)

 

Dhyana is to hold the form of the deity in the consciousness without

interruption.

(Prapanchasara Tantra

 

Dhyana is concentration on the form of the deity of the Mantra.

(Kularnava Tantra, Chapter 17, p.83)