When dhyan is at a deeper level, you feel at peace with yourself, there is a feeling of love and tenderness for all. Love not just for family or friends but for everyone you meet.
Don’t fight your thoughts when you meditate, just be aware and detach yourself from them says When dhyan is at a deeper level, you feel at peace with yourself, there is a feeling of love and tenderness for all. Love not just for family or friends but for everyone you meet.
Don’t fight your thoughts when you meditate, just be aware and detach yourself from them says yogacharya Surakshit Goswami
Know your mind. Mind is composed of different thoughts that keep flowing one after the other. Often, we attach ourselves to our thoughts. Pleasant thoughts or happy memories make us happy, while some thoughts make us sad. The practice of meditation helps us become aware of our thoughts. If we are unaware of our own thoughts, feelings and emotions then our mind wanders during meditation. When you meditate, you become a witness, an onlooker, looking at your thoughts from a distance without being involved in them.
Without feeling the pleasure, pain or disappointment that thoughts bring with them. Let thoughts flow during meditation. We make a mistake when we try to suppress or fight thoughts. Don’t fight thoughts, just observe them. Slowly detach yourself from them. Know yourself; know what’s in your mind. When we are aware of our thoughts, of what’s going on in our mind, we can detach ourselves from it.
Mind doesn’t have power of its own. It thrives on prana, the vital energy or life force. When mind is weak, it becomes a wanderer seeking solace in different thoughts. But when it is stronger, it concentrates on a single thought. It is in a state of flow. Mind is weak when the prana is weak. If we make the prana stronger, we can concentrate better. In yog sadhana, pranayama comes before meditation. After pranayama the mind is calm and centred.
Prepare for meditation by practising Anulom Vilom pranayama, try at least 11 chakras (one chakra is complete when you inhale from the left nostril and exhale from the right), you will feel calmer. The best time to meditate is when it is quiet outside, in the brahmn muhurt at dawn as sattva gur (explain) is prominent during this hour. The prana tattva (life force) is highest in the morning. When your body’s rhythm merges with nature’s rhythm, you get into a state of dhyan. Meditation is a state of being, it is not something that can be done, but it happens.
When you think, ‘I sit for meditation’ you are fuelling your ego. This feeling ‘that I’m doing something and this will be rewarding’ involves a sense of doership and brings in ego. When you feel burdened by ‘doership’, it’s difficult to get into the state of dhyan. When you detach yourself from your ego, it’s the beginning of dhyan. Meditation is awareness. Awareness of your body, mind and prana; when this awareness is maintained for a longer period of time, you enter the state of samadhi.
You are in dhyan when you are detached from maya, cosmic illusion, and one with the Supreme Being. Bliss is within us. You just have to be aware of your own feelings and emotions. This process is called dhyan. When dhyan is at a deeper level, you feel at peace with yourself, there is a feeling of love and tenderness for all. Love not just for family or friends but for everyone you meet. Love doesn’t differentiate between rich and poor, educated and ignorant, urban and rural.
The more we become aware, the more we are able to detach ourselves from our thoughts, the more we are able to love others. One feeling for all liberates us. That’s the true meaning of meditation; it goes beyond calming the mind for a few seconds. It’s a spiritual journey. Dhyan becomes an integral part of every moment of your daily life; it’s there in all the karma that you do. Dhyan is the medium to karma yoga. When you are not attached to any karma, or seeking rewards and the bhav is to seek good for all, then you connect with Supreme Being and you become a karma yogi.
Question My mind wanders during meditation sessions. What should I do to be able to concentrate?
Know your mind. Mind is composed of different thoughts that keep flowing one after the other. Often, we attach ourselves to our thoughts. Pleasant thoughts or happy memories make us happy, while some thoughts make us sad. The practice of meditation helps us become aware of our thoughts. If we are unaware of our own thoughts, feelings and emotions then our mind wanders during meditation. When you meditate, you become a witness, an onlooker, looking at your thoughts from a distance without being involved in them.
Without feeling the pleasure, pain or disappointment that thoughts bring with them. Let thoughts flow during meditation. We make a mistake when we try to suppress or fight thoughts. Don’t fight thoughts, just observe them. Slowly detach yourself from them. Know yourself; know what’s in your mind. When we are aware of our thoughts, of what’s going on in our mind, we can detach ourselves from it.
Mind doesn’t have power of its own. It thrives on prana, the vital energy or life force. When mind is weak, it becomes a wanderer seeking solace in different thoughts. But when it is stronger, it concentrates on a single thought. It is in a state of flow. Mind is weak when the prana is weak. If we make the prana stronger, we can concentrate better. In yog sadhana, pranayama comes before meditation. After pranayama the mind is calm and centred.
Prepare for meditation by practising Anulom Vilom pranayama, try at least 11 chakras (one chakra is complete when you inhale from the left nostril and exhale from the right), you will feel calmer. The best time to meditate is when it is quiet outside, in the brahmn muhurt at dawn as sattva gur (explain) is prominent during this hour. The prana tattva (life force) is highest in the morning. When your body’s rhythm merges with nature’s rhythm, you get into a state of dhyan. Meditation is a state of being, it is not something that can be done, but it happens.
When you think, ‘I sit for meditation’ you are fuelling your ego. This feeling ‘that I’m doing something and this will be rewarding’ involves a sense of doership and brings in ego. When you feel burdened by ‘doership’, it’s difficult to get into the state of dhyan. When you detach yourself from your ego, it’s the beginning of dhyan. Meditation is awareness. Awareness of your body, mind and prana; when this awareness is maintained for a longer period of time, you enter the state of samadhi.
You are in dhyan when you are detached from maya, cosmic illusion, and one with the Supreme Being. Bliss is within us. You just have to be aware of your own feelings and emotions. This process is called dhyan. When dhyan is at a deeper level, you feel at peace with yourself, there is a feeling of love and tenderness for all. Love not just for family or friends but for everyone you meet. Love doesn’t differentiate between rich and poor, educated and ignorant, urban and rural.
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