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The Raja Yoga Meditation Technique It is now recognized by physiologists that daily yoga meditation could play an extremely useful and beneficial part in our daily routine. In order to balance the intensity of our increasingly intensive and very active lives. The raja yoga meditation technique can help calm the mind and bring composure, it also enables one to centre ones mental power. The words of meditation and meditation techniques bought to you daily on this page are the words of the great raja yoga technician Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda is an expert in raja yoga and an exponent of the raja yoga meditation technique the highest yoga, the yoga of the mind. Swami Vivekananda passed away some years back and whilst a living raga yoga meditation teacher is preferable to the words of a dead teacher. This man was truly remarkable and his words have a resonance even today so many years after his demise. Swami Vivekananda's words convey exactly what he was trying to say. His mediations contain profound spirituality, his raja yoga meditations are alive with his power. So with out further a do take the first step now to improving your life, to becoming more connected to humanity in daily raja yoga meditation. Today's meditation Listern - Meditation Radio - Read more - Introduction to Raja Yoga - Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda - The Spirit of Man Your first step The first step in the raja yoga meditation technique is to sit. Sit quietly for some time and let your mind run on. You simply wait and watch. Knowledge is the power says the proverb, and it is true. Until you know what the mind is doing you can not control it. Give it the rein. Many hideous thoughts may come into it, you will be astonished at what it is possible to think. But you will find each day the minds vagaries become less and the mind becomes calmer. Always start your daily raja yoga meditations in this manner. Now Think! The second step in the raja yoga meditation technique is to think. Think of your own body and see that it is strong and healthy. Your body is the best instrument you have. Think of your body as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the week. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. The mind lake 16 The bottom of the lake we can not see because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided and the water is calm. It the water is muddy or agitated all the time the bottom will not be seen. If it is clear and there are no waves we shall see the bottom. The bottom of the lake is our true self: the lake is the ‘chitta’ (Yogic term for the mind ‘talk’) and the waves the vrittius (thought waves). Again the mind is in these three stages one of which one is called tamus, found in brutes and idiots, it only acts to injure. No other idea comes to that state of mind. Then there is the active state of mind rajas whose chief motives are power and enjoyment. I will be powerful and rule others. Then there is the state called sattva, calmness in which the waves cease and the water of the mind lake becomes clear. (1 202)
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