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Art & Science of Meditation Patanjali's Eight Stages of Yoga and Meditation goal of life of your choice. Self-realization is the ultimate goal of meditation, but a high level of concentration can be used to improve upon other goals in life, like sports or art, music, work, studies, etc. All these goals require high concentration level.
Lord Krishna plays the flute with so much joy and concentration. Similarly, Lord Shiva dances with full concentration. His dance has a symbolic meaning - all atoms and sub-atomic particles of the world are dancing around its nucleus. Earth is also dancing on its own axis and also around the Sun. The whole Solar system is dancing around its own Galaxy. And so on. It requires not only high concentration level, but also meditation because through meditation they have to know their own weaknesses, correct them and become perfect in their art.
7. Meditation - Mediation is best done in a comfortable position by concentrating on any object, subject or your breathing - inhalation and exhalation. During meditation let your thoughts come and go, observe them objectively and not subjectively, and analyze them objectively to find out your own weaknesses, without blaming yourself or others. During meditation, you create awareness about your own self, including your weaknesses. Gradually awareness helps you resolve these weaknesses, leading your mind
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