Concentration & Meditation by Swami Sivananda - part 4

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BENEFITS OF MEDITATION

 

Meditation gives spiritual strength, peace, new vigor and vitality.

It is the finest of all mental tonics. The divine energy flows

freely from the Lord to the different systems of the aspirant. The

holy vibrations penetrate the cells of the body and cure diseases.

The powerful, soothing waves that arise during meditation exercise a

benign influence on the mind, nerves, organs and cells of the body.

Considerable changes take place. New nerve currents, new vibrations,

new grooves, new cells and new channels are formed. The whole mind

and the nervous system are remodeled. You will develop a new heart,

a new mind, new sensations, new feelings, a new mode of thinking and

acting, and a new view of the universe as God in manifestation.

 

Meditation develops strong, pure thoughts. The mental images are

clear-cut and well-defined. Through clarification of ideas,

confusion vanishes. Meditation also helps a lot in checking various

emotions and impulses. If you can regulate your emotions and moods,

you will not do foolish and wrong actions.

 

If you can meditate for half an hour, you will be able to engage

yourself with peace and spiritual strength in the battle of life for

one week through the force of this meditation. As you have to move

with different minds in your daily life, get the strength and peace

from meditation and you will have no trouble or worry.

 

If you meditate regularly, you will experience peace, contentment,

fearlessness, unruffled state of mind in worldly difficulties,

inspiration, sattwic (pure, balanced) qualities and absence of

anger, egoism, and likes and dislikes. Regular meditation opens the

avenues of intuitive knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady,

awakens an ecstatic feeling and brings the yogic student into

contact with the Source. The fire of meditation annihilates all

foulness due to vice. Then suddenly comes knowledge or divine

wisdom, which directly leads to final emancipation.

 

Develop the divine vision by purification, concentration and

meditation. You will get the full bliss of the divine glory only

when you merge deep into silent meditation.

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Namaste Jayadeva,

 

The greatness of meditation ! Personal experience for many on this planet !

 

Om Namah Sivaya

 

Kanda