Meditation

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hari om,

i have been

reading some of swami vivekananda's books

for some time

now and i am yearning for some practical

experience . i

would like to know how to meditate.

looking forward

to some help from the fellow members

of this group.i

would be highly thankful if any of you

could help me on

this topic.

 

Varun

 

Namaste,

 

Meditation is the process of concentration on the formless,

dissolving the mind, leaving the radiant self, the essence alone, known. It is a

long, difficult process and progresses in stages. Along the way as the concentration deepens everything you

need is revealed from within.

 

At first you must relax and still the body, sitting with a straight

spine. The breath controls the

mind so relax and breathe. If you

love some aspect of the Divine, such as Sri Ramakrishna, or any other form,

concentrate on that within the forehead, know it is real and is aware of you

and invite it into your awareness. A qualified teacher is a great, great help

with this process from beginning to end, seek one out.

 

As you become aware of the next stage through practice, stick with

it and more will be revealed to you until eventually, in utter surrender and

love, you will know why you have had the urge to meditate.

 

All my prayers for your success.

 

Bob Rose

 

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

Hi Varun,

 

You might find the following webpage very useful.

 

http://sivanandaonline.org/graphics/EBOOKS/swami_sivanandaji/downnload/amrita_gi\

ta.html#_VPID_7

 

 

 

Sri Ramakrishnaya Namah

 

 

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Varun,

You might find the following lecture by Swami Ashokakanda useful:

http://www.employees.org/~girishv/meditate-work.html

 

Regards,

 

Girish

 

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:56:07 +0000 (GMT), Varun Ramasubramanian

<greatsage7 wrote:

 

> i would like to know how to meditate.

> looking forward to some help from the fellow members

> of this group

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Dear Neil,

 

I have attached my thoughts in seperate word file. May Guru Maharaj bless us all on this Guru Poornima day.

 

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Namaste,

 

Bathe first, bow to whom you love

and pray for their blessing on your practice. It may be God or Goddess, or some exalted being, or self,

whatever. Do you believe this is

real and can hear you? Sit still,

breathe calmly. Forget the breath, seek the answer to your prayer. Never stop your practice for any

reason. Eventually more and more

the truth will be revealed to you from within, you are what you seek.

 

All my love and prayers for your

success, Bob Rose

 

Hello

everyone!

my topic for

discussion is meditation, I would like to ask how to tackle unwanted distractions

within the concentration of the mind, do you just let these distractions pass,

should you be concerned about these distractions. I find that when I

attempt to meditate at times I get unwanted distractions of daily life.

This breaks my concentration and I have to start again.

Please let me

know how you meditate and cope with distractions if any.

Thank you!

Neil

Mukherjee.

 

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Hi,

 

 

If you already have a mantra (of any diety), then you are always free to meditate on it at the peaceful ambience of any of the Ramakrishna Center.

 

If your question is regarding getting a mantra from any of the senior monks in Ramkrishna order, then yes, Sri Ramakrishna

will be your chosen diety and you can receive only Ramakrishna mantra. As far as I know, the practice of chosing your diety

for a mantra has been stopped from Srimad Swami Vireswarananda's (10th President of SRK Mission) time.

 

Regards,

 

Sujith

nepokor <nepokorRamakrishna Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:39:02 AM[sri Ramakrishna] Meditation

 

Hello everyone - this is my first question at this forum.Does everyone in the Ramakrishna centers meditate upon Swami Ramakrishna. Or one can actually pick his/her deity and meditate upon them. That is considering you are given mantra by the guru.Hopefully someone can answer me. Thank you.

 

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Dear Sujith,

 

I really appreciate your reply. It's is great to be initiated into

Sri Ramakrishna as deity and follow his teachings. But its also

interesting to know why choosing own deities was stopped - as it

seems that centers follow holy day and pujas. Maybe its policy of

each center, and I should address it there.

 

Thank you.

 

Ramakrishna , sujith c <sujithhere

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I had put this question to one of the senior monks of Ramakrishna order. He told me the following incident.

 

Earlier there used to be a column to fill the chosen deity's name in the initiation application form. Almost all used

to fill this out as Sri Ramakrishna but once when Swami Vireswarananda was visiting a center located in Kerala, South India,

some one gave Lord Ayyappa as his chosen deity and Swamiji did not know the mantra. Before initiating someone with

a mantra, the Guru should practice it and attain Siddhi. So, Swamiji sent someone to Sabarimala temple which

is the main temple dedicated to Lord Ayyappa, got the mantra from the chief priest there, practiced it and initiated

the person with the mantra. After this incident he maintained the practice to provide only Ramakrishna mantra to all. Swamiji

used to say this was the will of Sri Ramakrishna. Although Swamiji would never disclose it, the monk who was close to Swamiji

told me that He must have got the mandate in a vision.

 

Some may think this as a biased decision but we can never judge something that we cannot comprehend. One of my close friend

who is a monk in the order once told me, he always felt that these senior monks belong to a totally different plane

of existence than ours.

 

Thanks,

 

Sujith

 

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Yes, indeed the monks of the order are definitely not ordinary and it takes holiness to recognize holiness especially as they do not make a "show" of their holiness and conceal it rather well.

 

There is nothing biased about giving only Ramakrishna mantras. Ramakrishna represents all the previous and future avatars so repeating the Ramakrishna mantras would also satisfy other chosen deities. He was "avatar varishtaya". This should especially make sense for anyone who wants to be initiated by a monk of the RK order.

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Dear Sujith and Rajani thank you for your responses -you answered my

questions. I really appreciate it.

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The greatest thing is meditation. It is the nearest approach to spiritual life — the mind meditating. It is the one moment in our daily life that we are not at all material — the Soul thinking of Itself, free from all matter — this marvellous touch of the Soul!

- Swami Vivekananda.

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Meditation

 

A man was sitting on the bank of a stream, all alone, fishing. It was getting

late and still he had caught no fish.

 

After a while the float on his line began to move. Now and then its tip touched

the water. The fisherman was holding the line tight in his hands, ready to pull

it up, when somebody came walking by, on the road above the banks of the stream.

" Sir, " the traveller said to the fisherman, " can you tell me where the

Lettermans live? It's somewhere around here... "

 

There was no reply from the fisherman, because he was just on the verge of

pulling up his rod. There seemed to be business at the end of the line. Again

and again the traveller said, in a louder voice, " Sir, can you tell me where the

Lettermans live? " But the man fishing in the stream was unconscious of

everything around him. His hands were trembling, his eyes fixed on the float,

the picture of a fine fish about to come up, vivid in his mind. " This man must

be stone deaf, " said the traveller to himself, very much annoyed, and so he

started walking on the road again.

 

After he had gone quite a way, it happened that the fisherman's float sank under

the water and with one pull of the rod he landed a good sized fish. Wiping the

sweat from, his brow (it was a hot day) he now turned and shouted after the

visitor. " Hey! " he said. " Come here! Listen! But the man would not even turn his

face. After much shouting, however, he did come back. He said to the fisherman,

" Why are you shouting at me? "

 

" What did you ask me about? " said the fisherman.

 

" Why, I repeated my question so many times and here you are, asking me to repeat

it again! "

 

The fisherman replied: " At that time a fish was after my bait, so I didn't hear

a word of what you said. "

 

Sri Ramakrishna tells us that this is the kind of single-mindedness we must have

in meditation; we must become completely absorbed.

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MEDITATION TODAY:

 

The greatest thing is meditation. It is the nearest approach to spiritual life —

the mind meditating. It is the one moment in our daily life that we are not at

all material — the Soul thinking of Itself, free from all matter — this

marvellous touch of the Soul!