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Breathing- a Link between Body and Soul
Breath will easily carry you to soul. Therefore I adopted the medium of breathing. If you recite a mantra or an incantation, repeatedly reciting of that mantra is japa, not meditation. To recite mantra (japa) is not an evil, it is good, but it is not meditation. We have meditated. Nothing to align with breathing, nor mantra, no form, no colour, no shape, nothing; except pure natural and inherent breath. Sitting in calm afterward.
Self-Realization - Self-Purification
Following aspects are included in the self purification: Physical Purity- through various ancient Yogic activities. Purity of Speech-through restraint in speech and practice of silence, Purity of Food-like food like mind, feeling and experience of pure diet.
Vital Purity-through breathing exercises (pranayama) and various sounds.
Purity of Mind- Purification, through meditation and equanimity, of mind vilified by vices and ill thoughts, realization of pure consciousness.
Thus it is a complete practice, total purity of soul. In the practice of self-realization, there is a special experiment on above-mentioned purification.
Self-Realization: Purity of Self
Bliss is our nature, peace is within us and we are knowledge ourselves.
