Taking Meditation to the Next Level

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The West has seen a recent surge of interest in meditation, and it's a wonderful tool for finding a little peace and calm in an otherwise hectic world. You can sit quietly somewhere, let go of all your worldly concerns, and just relax. This is something almost everyone could use more of, but it's also just the very beginning of real transformation. 

It's easy to find peace in a peaceful environment, anybody can do that. This is why spiritual retreats are so popular, you get a nice peaceful environment to do your spiritual work in. However, the "normal" human world is usually everything but a peaceful environment. It's chaotic, full of emotions and distractions. It's very challenging to stay balanced in that sort of environment, though balanced people are what the human world needs the most. 

Many people who consider themselves spiritual have a fake sort of peace. Their peace is dependent upon the external environment. It's not real Peace, just an imitation. This is why the monks flee to the mountain tops, why so many spiritual people attempt to disconnect from society as much as possible. They don't want their mind's illusion of peace disturbed. Dogs barking, children yelling, cars honking, all of these must be eliminated to create the illusion of internal peace. The world gets renounced and ignored, like it's the cause of their problems and not their own mind. 

Real Peace isn't dependent upon the external world, though I will say true Peace also erases all separation between the internal and external. A truly balanced being is not so easily disturbed, and meditation becomes all-inclusive instead of focusing upon avoiding that which disturbs the mind. This is why people need to meditate sitting in a comfortable position, eyes closed, in a quiet space. Just about anything can disturb their false sense of "peace". 

Now, there's nothing wrong with doing that kind of meditation. I'm not against it, but I am aware of its limitations. I feel that sort of meditation is just the tip of the iceberg, it's for people to begin to get in touch with themselves again, but it's incomplete. You're probably not able to spend your whole life in sitting meditation, so the key is to integrate the peaceful states of being you discover during meditation into every aspect of your life. So long as you just use meditation to relieve stress, and then go right back to the patterns that create the stress, you're spinning in circles. Progress comes very slowly, though you probably feel a lot better than you did before beginning meditation. 

The states you discover during meditation can be brought into every aspect of your life. If you're really quieting your mind, there's an intense awareness in every moment. Living from this place isn't just useful in some vague spiritual sense, but from a purely practical and even a material sense as well. Instead of being caught up in your own mind's little world all the time, you can really be aware of what's occurring around and within you. An overworked mind has difficulty solving problems, it's exhausted, whereas a peaceful being can often solve problems before they even become problems. 

I recommend expanding your meditative practices to the point that I wouldn't even call it practicing anymore. Instead of searching for balance when it's convenient, make Balance your whole way of life. Being able to relax and disconnect from your emotions is nice when you're sitting down comfortably, but what about when you need it the most? It's possible to enter those meditative states even while you're talking to someone, while you're walking around, while you're on the computer. Why limit yourself? I used to do meditation while working a mindless corporate job, and I got paid while doing self-improvement, imagine that! It didn't negatively effect my work at all, as some might believe, in fact I was even promoted to manager. 

Meditation is not really learning to quiet the mind, that's only the first step. One learns to quiet the mind until one can begin to see what's beyond the mind. One stops associating with all their thoughts, and just observes them. Meditation is about going beyond the illusion of mind altogether, and simply witnessing thoughts without getting attached to them. This kind of meditation is not a means to an end, it's really the very beginning of your life.

Love yourselves as we love you

Message from Archangel Michael channeled by Ron Head for 13 March 2013

Meditation will be our topic this morning. Our purpose will be to show you that you can do this as well as anyone else can. 

Simplify, please, your perceptions of what meditation is. You have read and heard descriptions of meditational experiences told by others. They tell of things which amaze you, and because none of these things seem to happen to you when you close your eyes, you believe that you cannot meditate and you cease trying in disappointment. 

Dear ones, you have lives to live. People, your children and spouses, depend upon you. You have not spent a lifetime in developing this skill, and do not have the time to do so. That is alright. It is understood. If this does not fit, and you are an accomplished meditator, we applaud you. But the overwhelming majority of you will not be cave dwelling hermits nor lifelong meditators. So, let us dispel your misgivings and give you a chance to use this magnificent tool to move yourselves forward from wherever you are. 

And that phrase is key, my friends, wherever you are. It is impossible to begin a journey from anywhere else than wherever you are. So, here is a new goal we propose you adopt. “I will meditate each day.” It is very simple. It is where to start. 

You will learn more, just as you have in every other area of your life. You may indeed find yourself at some time having those marvelous visions and experiences. That this may happen is not important. What is important is for you to find, in your hearts, peace and freedom to know yourselves for who you truly are. And of those two things, we emphasize peace. It is very hard to achieve that in your world. And when you are able to feel that, you do, in fact, share it with all others, whether you know it or whether you do not. 

Now, since you are reading or listening to this message on an electronic device of some sort, we tell you that it is perfectly fine for you to use the thousands and thousands of meditational sound tracks and videos to guide and help you in this process. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to spend time each day with you and only you. We add a little humor to lighten this up. It should be light. We are offering you a release and a relief, not a new chore. You should feel, “Ah, now I can meditate for a bit.” not “Now I have to meditate.” 

Peace and self-discovery. Make those the only considerations and you will have done wonders for yourselves. Make this first step and we promise you that in very short order you will miss it on the days when you need to skip it. And, by the way, do not beat yourselves up over that either. 

Love yourselves as we love you and we will speak again soon. Good day. 

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The Secret to Immortality is Simple

Weekly Message from Mikos in the Hollow Earth for 1 April 2009 

Greetings, it is Mikos, residing in the Hollow Earth, in the City of Catharia, way down below the Aegean Sea off Greece’s mainland. This is the focal point of our abode, and where you can physically find me, if you could physically go down to the depths of the Ocean and then continue about 800 miles deep. Here we reside in peace and comfort and abundance and great wealth of health and body and spirit. For living so deep inside the Earth has given us all we could ever dream of including our Immortality. 


Living in peace is the secret to gaining Immortality, and we invite you to try it. You would enjoy it. No clamor, no wars, no hardships, just pure delight and joy in each moment of each day – and it lasts forever. How blessed we are to have discovered this secret, for this is the secret of life. It is so simple, once discovered. 


Just live in peace with one another and you have everything you could ever dream of, including your being with us. Yes, we can meet physically with you, when there is peace on Earth’s surface, but not before. So, strive to live peacefully with each other, and start with your biological family, and then spread your love out to your community and then to your nation and then to the whole Earth, and then assuredly we will magically appear before you, in our physical forms of radiance. Yes, our cells radiate our Light and it is very visible to the eyes. Once you are living in a peaceful state on the surface, you too will be radiating this Light from within your cells, and this light will encompass all around you and you will Light up the surface for all to witness. 


And then there will form a great conclave of Beings from other dimensions and other star systems who will celebrate your climb into Light, and you will be formally accepted into the Confederation of Planets once again, for regaining your Light Status. What a moment in time! You will achieve this, this we know. But why take so long? Do it now. It can happen in the twinkling of an eye, since time does not exist. Just make up your minds that you intend to live in peace, and it shall be, and the whole Universe will support your intention. It is not a mystery…It is your intention. It is simple, isn’t it? It is only your governments who have purposely made it so complicated by devising wars to entangle and control you. For they know that in peaceful conditions you would rise in consciousness and find your Self, and merge with your Higher Self, thus gaining your Immortality. And this would put them out of business, and they would lose their hold on you and would have to leave the Earth plane enmasse. So let them leave! 


You do this by being the peace you wish to create and spreading it out to all around you. Could it be more simple? As you rise in consciousness, you will find that most mysteries in life have simple solutions. Whatever you want to achieve, just ‘be’ that achievement and it will effortlessly come to you, because you are already radiating that frequency of what you want to attain, so it has to come to you once you have identified with it ‘as you’. It has nowhere else to go but to you – its vibration then matches yours. Simple? Yes! 


So you have to become actresses and actors, don’t you? You have to play and live the part you want to create in your role on the screen of your life – and it is your life and you are the actors, so play your part well and your dreams will all come true. It is only up to you. No one can fill in for you to play your part on the screen of life, only you can. 


So dream your life away…it is the quickest route to Immortality. We await you there. I am Mikos, good day. 


And now Rosalia, your sister from Telos is here, bidding you a good day. I am encased inside the Earth, where all is cozy and all is warm. We don’t have the fluctuating weather factors here that you have on the surface, because we live in a state of Immortality, and in Immortality all is perfection. So this is the aim of humanity – to reach this state of Immortality where all problems become instantly solved – voila – nothing to ever complain about again. It is magic, pure and simple. So we invite you to peacefully gain your Immortality, because it is only through Peace that it can be gained. We have proven this during our past 12,000 years of living in Telos. 


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Opening the Door to Your Own Divinity

By Archangel Michael

Welcome! & Greetings! My Beautiful Beings of Light. Meeting again, it is always such a pleasure to have you stop by and read the messages. Each person’s Higher Self perks up each month, as you return and select the message you are drawn to read. 


I bet you didn’t realize that you were touching base with your Higher Self by checking in for the messages, but you truly are, My Beloveds. It brings such joy to your Higher Selves to see that you are indeed remembering that there is more to you than this human form that is playing a part on the Earth Plane stage. 


The Creator is also involved when you check in for messages each month. Your visit just beams your presence in the Higher Realms as you read. Surprisingly, but so true, that your desire to learn more and work more towards that remembrance of Who You Truly Are is such a monumental thing, but it really really is. 


The Creator is sharing an Etheric Cyber Hug with you right now. Close your eyes and just allow that Hug to wash right over you. That Hug is always available for you each time you think of this very moment and remember. 


Opening the door to your own Divinity is not hard, My Beautiful Beings of Grace. You have opened this door and returned HOME time and time again. Keeping yourselves really clear of all the debris that has accumulated in your Energy Fields is really a big start towards opening that channel of communication again. 


Not only does the clearance of debris keep you balanced and in harmony, but it also allows the Higher Communications to more easily reach your Spiritual Ears. Opening the door to your own Divinity is like opening the door into Spring. 


The easiest way, My Beloveds, to keep yourselves clear of debris is to call in your Angels and Spirit Guides and ask for their assistance. Simply invite them in (mentally or verbally, just ask for your Angels and Spirit Guides presence) and say to them “Please Clear Me NOW, Thank You, And So It Is”. 


This Clearing, My Beloved, can be done for you, your computer, your house, your car etc. It is that simply and that easy. Give it a try now, it can be done anywhere during any time of the day. It is suggested that you do this at night before going to sleep. After all, why drag all that stuff into your dreams. 


Allow this Messenger to take you on a mediation journey to practice clearing and enjoying the connection of debris free communications with your Spiritual Guidance. 


Arrange yourself in seated position or lie down so that you are comfortable. Keep your legs and arms from crossing if at all possible, as this blocks the flow of energy. Cover yourself with a light blanket if you chill easily. We want you comfortable and undisturbed for a while as you journey within yourself through meditation. 


Close your eyes and take a comfortable deep breath, then comfortably exhale as hard as is possible. With each in breath, you are breathing in love and renewal. With each out breath, you are breathing out fear, frustration and doubt. Take another comfortable deep breath in and comfortably exhale; just letting all the stress go. Take another comfortable deep breath in and then just exhaling letting it all go with a sigh as you are breathing out all frustrations of the day. 


Feel your body relaxing from the top of your head down to your toes. Give yourself permission to feel the calm and peace. Your muscles are feeling loose and limp, so relaxed, so deliciously serene, so wonderfully lazy. 


Direct your ego self to perch on your left shoulder. Instruct your ego self that it is only to be an observer on this journey, it is not to participate. If it helps you to visualize your ego self by identifying it as a symbol or as an object please do so. 


In your imagination ask through prayer for The Creator to send you down a protective Ray of White Light by praying mentally something like this “My Creator I AM asking for a protective Ray of White Light to enfold me and lift me up so that I am experiencing the very highest of vibrations during this journey into my innermost depths of understanding and Being. I am protecting myself, My Creator, from anything that is not for my highest good on this journey. I am thanking you in advance My Creator for assisting me by sending this Ray. I am visualizing the ray in my imagination now coming down through the corner of the area where I am meditating. It is entering into my physical form, permeating all that is within my I AM presence.” 


The Creator has responded to your prayer and has gifted you with an Iridescent White Ray plus a Soft Lavender and One Golden Fluid Rays for this journey. The Rays are entering into your body through the soles of your feet and moving up through your physical vessel; permeating throughout all of your etheric energy fields & physical vessel and into all corners of the actual area that you are meditating in. The rays then are exiting through your Crown Chakra. The Rays are returning to The Creator and cycling back down through you again and back to The Creator in a continuous circular loop. These protective therapeutic rays are in a continuous circular motion while you are in meditation. 


You are now divinely protected at this moment and nothing can even communicate with you that is not for your highest good, without your permission. 


My Divine Beings of Light, you are breathing very slowly and evenly now; you are feeling secure and safe. 


Breathe in deeply, My Beautiful Beings of Light, and feel the lighter relaxed feelings of being protected & divinely guided into this meditation. Breathe in deeply and know that you are breathing to the Pulse of The Creator. Listen to The Creator’s spiritual heart beat and feel the unconditional love that courses through you each time you think about this moment. 


Breathe in deeply allowing and seeing within your spiritual imagination your Guardian Angels and invited Spirit Guides as they join you now. The Angels take your etheric essence hands and guide you out of your physical body. The Angels then direct you into your Etheric Spiritual Heart Chakra. An Angel has been stationed to stay with your physical essence until you return from your meditation journey. 


You are seeing, feeling and sensing this within your imagination. Your Guardian Angels, Spirit Guides and special invited guests are with you now within your Spiritual Heart Chakra. Your Angels and Guides are helping you locate the Golden Door that says “To My Highest Guidance Within”. You have located the Golden Door and now you turn the etheric spiritual door knob, opening the door as you cross over the threshold knowing that you are on a spiritual growth adventure. 


You find yourself in a White Marble Corridor. Your Angels hand you a broom and whisk you down the hall to the eighteenth door to your right. The door label reads “Your Divinity”. You open the door and walk over the threshold only to find that this is yet again a corridor, but you can see another door down the way. 


You laugh as this is really becoming fun to see where all this is really leading to. You still have your broom in hand as you head down the corridor to open the other door. You reach the door and open it and there before you is a meadow with your own Crystal Palace mountain right there in front of you. 


You walk out into the meadow and see a chair lift going up the side of the mountain. WOW! You tell yourself, this is new, you’ve never seen this chair lift before. Your Angels and Guides just roll with laughter as you keep being surprised at new innovations and additions to your very own Crystal Palace complex. 


You Angels do tell you that you do keep expanding, growing and moving forward, you are never stagnate. They point to the construction scaffolds next to your Crystal Palace and the new wings that seem to be going up in several locations around the Palace exterior. 


You hop onto the chair lift and away you go up the side of the mountain. There at the top and ready to help you off the chair lift, is your good friend, Jake the white Unicorn. Jake is beaming at the opportunity to help you off this new lift addition. Jake greets you warmly and fills you in on other improvements in the Garden of Serenity as you walk on down the path. Jake reminds you to come back often and spend some time there enjoying all the new additions. 


You smile at Jake and scratch his silky ears as you walk and talk at the same time. On the path to the Crystal Palace Jake is pointing out some new flowers that have appeared and are blooming in your honor today. 


You have arrived at the golden door to the Crystal Palace and Jake tells you that he will wait for you here. You walk up the three steps to the golden door with your name on it. You are remembering that this door also contains all the other names that you have ever held since being Birthed into the Omniverse. Just for fun you have a look at the door to see if there are any of the other names that you can see, other than the one you current hold in this incarnation. You also remember that this will only come as you are ready for the information and will be presented again, if you are not quite ready to see them yet. Remember, the names can be in other languages, color, light, sound, or symbols as well. 


You open the golden door and walk into the entrance corridor. You welcome all of your wonderful friends, the Colored Circles, on the floor, that are being created by the refracted light coming from the crystal spires above. You walk and stand in those colors that you are drawn to and receive their messages for you today. 


Your Angels are telling you to come along and you follow them to turning the left into the Grand Round room. There to your immediate right you are seeing the room where there is a pool and that is where the Angels are directly you at this time. However, they are now asking you to stop before entering this room. They ask you to hand them the broom that you have been carrying with you all this time. 


The Angels request that you pull off your shoes as the space you are going to be entering is sacred. You realize when they say sacred that there will be someone else joining you. The Angels take the broom and then begin clearing all the debris from all of your Energy Fields. They next take a special Angelic vacuum cleaner and finish the job. The broom is then vaporized as it contains all the debris that has been removed. The vaporized junk is then re-qualified back into Divine Love, Light and Grace. 


After they have finished clearing, you kind of wiggle around and notice that you feel so much lighter and much more balanced and in harmony. The Angels smile and say that this will certainly help you feel better along with helping you maintain your Spiritual grounding. ***You open the door and walk into the room with the pool. The windows around the room are a bit steamy and have a rather unusual rainbow reflection coming from the steam droplets. The Angels guide you to walk into the pool. They tell you that your pants legs won’t even get wet, so don’t worry about your clothing at this juncture. 


You do as guided and notice as you begin walking that another Being is coming towards you in the pool. This Sacred Being is brilliant and glowing and is carrying something in Its hands. The Angels tell you that this is a special gift for you. 


You reach the Being and feel this most glorious feeling of being wrapped in pure love. The feelings are so strong that they bring tears of great joy rolling down your cheeks. You know this feeling so well and begin trying to place it in your own remembrance bank. The Being relates that it is the Christ Consciousness and you have always known each other. 


The Christ Consciousness takes Its hand and places it on your Heart Chakra. Then the Christ Consciousness take the key that It has been holding and places it into an invisible Spiritual Lock in your Heart Chakra, then turns the key. As the key is turned and the Spiritual door is opened you are given a picture of a brilliant Spring Morning bursting forth in front of you. You see the sacred flowers from the sacred garden, the white doors on either side wide open as a glorious white butterfly greets you. You then move into this sacred garden and walk with the butterfly feeling the awakening and remembrance of your own initial Birth into Creation. Your song begins to waft through the garden as you walk and you are greeted by The Creator, Itself, with a wonderful Hug and “Welcome Home My Child.” “It is time for you to remember and awaken the connection that is your true Birthright. This is where you belong for all eternity and this is where you always reside, even when you are in a lifetime in other dimensions. 

You are My Child and I love you. 

You are sacred and part of this sacred place. Please give yourself permission to accept this knowledge and return with it into your current incarnation. You are so dearly loved and your assistance and actions during these very difficult times on the Earth Plane is very much appreciated. Thank You for accepting the assignment and we look forward to your completion, My Child. Be at peace and know without a doubt that we are always with you, even in the darkest moments. “The Creator hugs you and you just cling to each other for a while. Then you know it is time to return to do your work. You disengage from The Creator reluctantly. 


You find yourself back in the middle of the pool and the Christ Consciousness is hugging you and saying “Until next time”. The Christ Consciousness turns and walks back into the mist. 


You are feeling so loved and electrified with having all of the Higher Frequency energies following through you. You turn and walk back out of the pool. You look down at your pants and the Angels were right they are not even wet. 


The Angels tell you how much you are glowing and you feel like you are glowing. You can’t believe how wonderful you feel as you leave the room and follow the Angels back into the entrance corridor. 


You say good bye to the Colored Circles and go back out the golden door. You see Jake there waiting on you. Jake comments on how much you are glowing and how good that glow looks on you. 


Smiling and thanking Jake you walk on down the path and back to the new chair lift. Jake helps you back into the chair lift. You watch the scenery around you as you descend back to the door that you came through. You walk back down the little corridor and back through the door labeled “Your Divinity”. 


You instantly find yourself back in the White Marble Corridor. You catch a glimpse of your beaming glowing Essence in the mirror. Your Angels lead you back across the threshold of the Golden Door Within, back into your Spiritual Heart Chakra and then they assist the return of your spiritual Essence back into your physical form. 


Take a deep breath to help you reorient as you wiggle your fingers and toes. When you are ready open your eyes. Go about your day remembering that your Inner Higher Wisdom and Angelic support staff are always at your service working with you to help you reach your highest most appropriate potential. Listen for those first thoughts that pop into your awareness and know without a shadow of a doubt that you are receiving daily spiritual guidance. 


Beloveds you are blessed beyond words and loved beyond measure, more than any Earth Plane language can ever express. 


I Am Archangel Michael, The Creator’s Messenger, of Love, Joy, Wisdom, Light, Peace and Grace. 


This Message was Transmitted Through & Transcribed by Carolyn Ann O’Riley. 


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When in Doubt

Source: http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress

By Shannon - Posted on 24 March 2012 

When in doubt… 

BE AT PEACE 

When faced with worry... 

BE AT PEACE 

When troubles come fast and furious... 

BE AT PEACE 

When love seems to have gone 

BE AT PEACE 

When the world seems on the brink of war... 

BE AT PEACE 

I LOVE YOU ALL 

Now go tell the WORLD this message!

Yoga, the Path from Mortality to Immortality

Taken from Swami Sivananda's book "Practical Lesson In Yoga"

There is no such thing as inanimate matter. There is life in every thing. Life is involved in a piece of stone. Matter is vibrant with life. This has been conclusively proved by modern science. 


Smile with the flowers and the green grass. Play with the butterflies and the cobras. Shake hands with the shrubs, ferns and twigs. Talk to the rainbow, wind, stars and sun. Converse with the running brooks and the turbulent waves of the sea. Keep company with your walking stick and enjoy its sweet company. 


Develop friendship with all your neighbours, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, in fact, with all nature’s creation. Then you will have a wide, perfect, rich, full life. Then you will realise God. Then you will achieve success in Yoga. This state can hardly be described in finite words. It should be felt and experienced by you by unfolding the divinity within.


This remarkable unfolding from the stone to the God goes on through millions of years, through aeons of time. But in the individual this unfolding takes place more rapidly and quickly with all the force of its past behind it. These forces that manifest and unveil themselves in evolution are cumulative in their power. Embodied in the stone, in the mineral world, they grow and put out a little more strength, and in the mineral world accomplish their unfolding. Then they become too strong for the mineral and press on into the vegetable world. There they unfold more and more of their divinity, until they become too mighty for the vegetable, and become animal. Expanding within and gaining experiences from the animal, they again overflow the limits of the animal and appear as the human. In the human being they still grow and accumulate with ever-increasing force, and exert greater pressure against the barrier, and then out of the human, they press into the superhuman. This last process of evolution is called Yoga. Therefore, when Yoga has definitely begun, is not something new, as is often imagined.


If you begin to view Yoga in this light, then this Yoga which looked so foreign and so strange, will appear to wear a familiar face, and come to you in a garb not altogether strange. It will not look so strange that from the man you should pass on to superman, from mortality to immortality, and enter a region where divinity becomes more manifest.


When you begin to learn that there is one Self in all these names and forms, that He is the same in a king or a peasant, in a bird or a beast, in a man or a woman, in a stone or a piece of wood, that all powers seen throughout the world are latent in “inorganic” substances also, that this Self is the same at all times, and that there is no increase or diminution in the Self, then Yoga will become possible of achievement.


In fact you have practised Yoga, consciously or unconsciously, in your previous births, and this is a vital point that should not be lost sight of. All that you have now to do is to give a powerful momentum to quicken the process of unfolding the divinity and attain the Highest Goal of Life - Perfection, Peace, Joy, Immortality and Happiness.

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Yoga Brings in Perfection, Peace and Everlasting Happiness

From the book "Essence of Yoga" by Swami Sivananda

Yoga is a perfect practical system of self-culture. Yoga is an exact science. It aims at the harmonious development of the body, the mind and the soul. Yoga is the turning away of the senses from the objective universe and the concentration of the mind within. Yoga is eternal life in the soul or spirit. Yoga aims at controlling the mind and its modifications. The path of Yoga is an inner path whose gateway is your heart.

Yoga is the discipline of the mind, senses and physical body. Yoga helps in the co-ordination and control of the subtle forces within the body. Yoga brings in perfection, peace and everlasting happiness. Yoga can help you in your business and in your daily life. You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of Yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity and a high standard of health. Yoga transmutes animal nature into divine nature and raises you to the pinnacle of divine glory and splendour.

The practice of Yoga will help you to control the emotions and passions and will give you power to resist temptations and to remove the disturbing elements form mind. It will enable you to keep a balanced mind always and remove fatigue. It will confer on you serenity, calmness and wonderful concentration. It will enable you to hold communion with the Lord and thus attain the summum bonum of existence.

If you want to attain success in Yoga, you will have to abandon all worldly enjoyments and practise Tapas and Brahmacharya. You will have to control the mind skillfully and tactfully. You will have to use judicious and intelligent methods to curb it. If you use force, it will become more turbulent and mischievous. It cannot be controlled by force. It will jump and drift away more and more. Those who attempt to control the mind by force are like those who endeavour to bind a furious elephant with a thin silken thread.

A Guru or preceptor is indispensable for the practice of Yoga. The aspirant in the path of Yoga should be humble, simple, gentle, refined, tolerant, merciful and kind. If you have a curiosity to get psychic powers, you cannot have success in Yoga. Yoga does not consist in sitting cross-legged for six hours or stopping the pulse or beatings of the heart or getting oneself buried underneath the ground for a week or a month.

Self-sufficiency, impertinence, pride, luxury, name, fame, self-assertive nature, obstinacy, idea of superiority, sensual desires, evil company, laziness, overeating, overwork, too much mixing and too much talking are some of the obstacles in the path of Yoga. Admit your faults freely. When you are free from all these evil traits, Samadhi or union will come by itself.

Practise Yama and Niyama. Sit comfortably in Padma or Siddhasana. Restrain the breath. Withdraw the senses. Control the thoughts. Concentrate. Meditate and attain Asamprajnata or Nirvikalpa Samadhi (union with the Supreme Self).

May you shine as a brilliant Yogi by the practice of Yoga! May you enjoy the bliss of the Eternal!

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