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ry practice in your daily routine. Just as you brush your teeth and bathe each day, take time out to think of God. You owe your Creator a gift; that gift can be willing meditation. Try it and take to it! But meditation is better done without an attitude of expectancy.
In loving devotion, surrender and offer all you do at the feet of the Divine. When the time is ripe, in more ways than one, He will make His presence felt. The receiving will be limited only by your ability to receive; and then you will say, "It matters not my Lord, if Thou dost not reveal Thyself to me; I shall keep loving You all the same."
The science of meditation empowers one to be strong, to take charge of one's life and future, instead of simply leaving it in the hands of nature. Meditation brings us in direct contact with the inner core of our being and of our mind, and with the pith of our very existence. We realize that we are not our bodies, or our feelings and thoughts, but individualized sparks of consciousness, actually made in the image of the one Supreme consciousness.
Through self-realization, meditation initiates you into realizing yourself as a luminous being of light and color. In meditation we touch the yarn of the fabric of the Creator and awaken to the glory of His creation. We understand that our minds are but part of His mind, our breath is but a manifestation of His life, and our thoughts are but His power flowing through us. We comprehend that our voice was given to hum His glory, our hands to do His work, and our hearts to feel Him through the glow of His love.
As we sail further over the eternal sea of meditation, through His grace and our humble receptivity, we learn to understand the limitlessness of existence. The mystery of the little pollen nurturing into a flower and of the tiny bit of protoplasm flowering into a child mingles into our understanding with amazing simplicity. All that seemed out of reach and beyond comprehension.
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now becomes incredibly plausible.
The inner mysteries of the chakras (astral centers), the ethereal nerves, and energy patterns enthuse us with their wonders. The subtleties of the energy world open their windows to our panoramic view, and the principles of the macrocosm in the microcosm (the reflection of the Universe in our little bodies) welcome us in the softness of their luxury.
Different techniques in meditation yield proportionately different levels of benefits and at relatively different speeds. There are bullock-cart techniques and the airplane methods. The more scientific the technique, the more profound is the impact.
Scientific techniques in meditation spiritualize our consciousness, and little by little we begin to manifest qualities of spirit. Deeply embedded grooves of past negative karma get decimated, our innate goodness surfaces, and the positive benefi cence of good karma begins to manifest. We do not just learn to, but automatically also become more compassionate; our powers of feeling, reason, and of the sense organs develop; concentration improves; restlessness and nervousness lessen; sleep becomes increasingly unnecessary; there is improved coordination of the subtle bodies (etheric, emotional, mental); and alignment of chakras becomes more the norm than the exception, all together resulting in overall improved. health (in body, mind, and soul).
Meditation is Panacea to almost all our health problems. Yogis do not need medicines and surgeries to heal themselves. Surgical cases are mostly endured by them according to karmic and Divine laws, and through discipline and deep. journeys into their inner cave of meditation, they really do succeed in nipping in the bud the root of most illnesses and diseases. Contemporary medicinal practices primarily work through the outer composition of the bodily cells and do not penetrate.
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