Meditation

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Dear Girish:

 

I want to thank you for your 9/16 message sharing sharing the website for Swami Bhajanananda's article, "Concentration and Meditation," (realization.org --- also found at: vedanta.org). It was the most complete explanation of dharana, dhyana and samadhi that I have read.

 

1) For practitioner's of Paramahansaji's Kriya Yoga, it provides a good explanation why this technique is so effective.

 

2) To add to our recent discussion of celibacy, I'll share the following from this 1980 article:

 

"A major cause for the drain of prana is sex. It is impossible to make the mind calm or practice intense meditation as long as sex is active. When brahmacharya — celibacy — is observed, more psychic energy gets stored at the base, more energy is made available for higher mental life and more energy flows into the brain. This extra energy, which is transmuted sex energy, is called ojas. It imparts a new retentive and grasping power to the brain known as medha. More important, it adds to the spiritual reserves of the aspirant and ultimately enables him or her to gain supersensuous perception.2 "

 

Om Ramakrishna

Brad