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PERCEPTIONS

DHYAANA (MEDITATION - UNION WITH GODHEAD

After long searches here and there, in temples and in churches, in earths and in heavens, at last you coarse back. Com- pleting the circle from where you started, to your own soul and find that He for whom you have been seeking all over the world, for whom you have been weeping and praying in churches and temples, on whom you were looking as the mystery of all mysteries shrouded in the clouds in near- est of the near, is your ownself, the reality of your life, body and soul. That is your own nature. Assert it, manifest it. It is truth and truth alone, that is one's real friend, relative. Abide by truth tread the path of religious inquiry. Meditation is nothing else but rising above desires; renunciation is the power of bat- tling against evil forces and holding the mind in check. - Baba

N I RVAANA

"Dhiyo yonah prachodayat" We meditate upon the supreme effulgence of the Divine creative sun, that he may give impulse to our intelligence. Rig Veda, III. 62.10 Translation by David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)

Grow in love, meditating on the Em- bodiment of Love, called Krishna. When the heart has not melted and softened to the cry of distress, when the fountain of love therein is blocked with the tinsels of pride, Krishna will not play the flute in your ear. You may claim to have spent decades in the service of Krishna, but, without the key of love you cannot gain entrance to the Go- Loka where he resides.

The three states of Man (Waking, Sleep and Dream states) The mind gets fixed during the time of sleep. Whether a person concentrates his mind or not, whether a person does Ishvar- abhakti or not, automatically the mind gets happiness during the time of sleep. When the man gets up in the morning for a few minutes immediately after getting up, his mind is peaceful and calm and quiet. Inside the body of every living being, there is some Shakthi or power. This is the jeevaatman, during the sleep, the jeevaatman gets merged in the Paramaatman. “Only when one is able to combine the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states, or combine the gross, the subtle and the causal aspects of the body into one, that one will get a chance of having a glimpse of the divine soul.”

Enlightenment

Baba

Enlightenment

(Manas)

Mind

Sparsha Indriyas

(recognise the objects of perception by touch) : tongue, skin.

STAGES OF SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENT

Praana:Praana-Vaayu

(located

in

the

Apaana-

heart), Vaayu

(responsible

for excretion), (responsible

Samana-Vaayu

for

Udaana- (belching

digestion),

Vaayu sound

after

eating),

Vyaana-Vayu

(when

we are tired) Gross body ( Sthoola-Shareera ) Subtle body ( Sookshma-Shareera ) Causal body ( Kaarana-Shareera)