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THE WAY OF LIFE WHEN CAN A PERSON GO TO THE CEMETERY FOR MEDITATION ?
First, one must have cultivated the ability to remain in a state of meditation in a house throughout the night. After this kind of practice has become natural and common, one must develop the ability of remaining nude and performing meditation even in severe cold and biting weather. Until one can naturally bear with such cold, one must continue to practise it. Then, one must practise the same exercise of performing meditation thus outside the house, at the door throughout the night. Even if a mouse or a cat or a dog or any such animal bites one, one must not move or shake, and one must not move or slip away to a distance. When even this practice becomes natural and when one has acquired the practice of doing this without the fear of impediments, one can go to the corner of a street in the night and perform there meditation with kayotsarg. One must be able to remain there in meditation not caring for thieves or robbers or watchmen passing by. After practising this kind of exercise for some days, one must go outside the city, to the gates of the city and there one must practise remaining in meditation throughout the night. Wild animals may appear there and cause trouble or disturbance. Poisonous snakes may come near and at such times one must rem absolutely motionless. After this exercise has been practised successfully for sometime, one must learn to spend a whole night in meditation in a vacant house or a ruined and deserted house. One must be able to remain in meditation in such a house throughout the night. Throughout the night, one must stand there and concentrate one's mind completely on the Paramatma and become totally merged with him. In old and ruined houses there may be disturbances caused by animals and birds but one must acquire the ability of remaining motionless there bearing with all those disturbances. In such houses ghosts, goblins and evil spirits may appear and cause disturbance and fear. At such times one must be able to remain fearless and to continue his meditation. After having performed such a meditation, in deserted and ruined houses, one can go to perform meditation with Kayotsarg in the night, in a cemetery. In a
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