Meditation

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Meditation Ananda Marga Yoga
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1- Knowing the Mind

• The mind is the instrument to be utilized during
  the practice of meditation. Knowing how it works
  and its potential is the first step in the
  practice of meditation.

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Functions of the Mind

• Thinking
• Only one object at a time.
• Fast moving from one thought to another.

Remembering Recollection of previous thoughts.
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Meditation is concentrated thinking
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Layers of the Mind

• Crude mind Conscious mind
• Subtle mind Subconscious mind
• Causal mind Supramental mind
  Subliminal mind Subtle
  causal

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Conscious mind Crude mind

• Sensing
• Eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin.
• Desire (attraction or aversion)
• Acting
• Hands, feet, vocal cord, sexual and excretory
  organs.
• Activates basic instincts
• hunger, sleep, sex and fear.

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Subtle Mind Subconscious Mind

• Deep thinking
• Memory
• - Cerebral memory
• - Extra-cerebral memory
• Experience pain and pleasure
• Dreaming

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Meditation Is Practiced at the Subconscious Layer
of the Mind

• Meditation develops the potential of the deeper
  layers of the mind.

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Causal Mind Supramental Mind

• Creative insight
• Intuition Para-normal phenomena
• The seed of samskaras (potential reactions)
  find first expression here

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Causal Mind Subliminal Mind

• It can grasp the total existence
• of the objective world.
• -Discrimination
• -Non-attachment

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Causal Mind Subtle Causal Mind

• The feeling of I is latent.
• Intense attraction for the Supreme Consciousness.

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Pure Consciousness Atman

• The Spiritual Self
• Beyond duality, change, pain and pleasure. The
  realm of pure peace

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Atman
Subtle
Causal
Subliminal
Causal
Supramental
Causal
Subconscious
Subtle
The Mind
Conscious
Crude
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Science of Mantra
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First Step

• Mind Withdrawal

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Posture

• Weight on the base
• Back straight
• Shoulders relaxed
• Chest open

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Breathing

• Abdominal
• Gentle
• Deep

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Ideation

• I Exist
• (Here and Now)

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Yoga Psychology
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• The relation between body and mind is very close.
  Understanding this link is essential for a
  successful practice of meditation.

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Cakra or Plexus

• It is a collection of gland and sub-glands
  located at specific nerve centers.
• These sub-glands influence the mental
  propensities (emotions) attached to each cakra.
• Cakras are sub-stations of the mind.

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Cakras are located at the intersecting points of
the three subtle energy channels which run along
the spinal chord .
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Mental correlation Layers of the Mind (kosas)

• Conscious Mind
• Subconscious Mind
• Supramental Mind
• Subliminal Mind
• Subtle Causal Mind
• Mind Controlling Point
• Seat of Consciousness

• Muladhara Cakra
• Svadhistana Cakra
• Manipura Cakra
• Anahata Cakra
• Vishuddha Cakra
• Ajina Cakra
• Sahasrara Cakra

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Mental Propensities (instincts and emotions)

• Psycho-spiritual longing
• Psychic longing
• Physical longing
• Spiritual longing
• Indifference
• Lack of common sense
• Indulgence
• Lack of confidence
• Helplessness
• Cruelty

• Shyness
• Sadistic tendency
• Envy
• Staticity
• Melancholia
• Peevishness
• Yearning for acquisition
• Infatuation, blind attachment
• Hatred, revulsion
• fear

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Mental Propensities

• Hope
• Worry
• Endeavor
• Attachment
• Vanity
• Conscience
• Nervous break down
• Ego
• Avarice
• Hypocrisy
• Argumentativeness
• Repentance

• Sa, Rs, Pa, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni.
• Sound of creation
• Kundalini rising
• Practication
• Expression of Mundane knowledge
• Welfare in subtle sphere
• Performing noble actions
• Surrender to the Supreme
• Repulsive expression
• Sweet expression
• Mundane knowledge
• Spiritual knowledge

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Yoga Postures (Asanas)

• Physical benefits
• Keep the body healthy
• Cure specific diseases

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Yoga Postures (Asanas)

• Psychic benefits
• Balance emotions and moods by regulating the
  hormonal secretion

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Second Step Ideation

• Meditation is concentrated thinking.
• Ideation is the specific thought to be
  concentrated on during meditation.

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Ideation
I feel infinite love and peace all
around me
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Food for Thought
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• We are what we eat.
• Food Habits Directly Influence the Mind.
• A Balanced Diet Is Condition for a Balanced Mind.
  

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Food Classification

• Static harmful for body or mind, may or may not
  be harmful to the other.
• Mutative beneficial for body but is neutral to
  mind, or vice versa.
• Subtle beneficial for both, body and mind.

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Static or Tamasic Food
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Mutative or Rajasic Food
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Subtle or Sattvika food
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Vegetarian DietFor Physical Health and Mind
Expansion
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Health reasons for a vegetarian diet

• Human anatomy and physiology are naturally
  develop for vegetarian diet.
• Meat consumption brings a great deal of diseases
  to human organism.

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Humanitarian reasons

• Animal life has existential value in itself.
• Animals dont give their life willingly, they
  undergo fear and pain before being slaughtered.
• It is possible to be more healthy without causing
  unnecessary suffering to animals.

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Spiritual reasons

• To maintain the own existence without taken
  others brings peace of mind.
• To feel compassion and respect for any form of
  life expands our mind beyond our limited
  individual self.

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Fasting

• Purifies body and mind
• Eliminates toxins
• Rest for digestive system
• Mental strength and concentration

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Water Drinking

• The body is composed of 80 of fluids
• Balance liquids in the body
• Eliminates toxins
• Keeps the system cool
• Prevents diseases

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Third Step Chanting the Mantra

• Baba Nam Kevalam
• Love Is All There Is

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Yogic Ethics
Meditation affects every aspect of our lives.
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The Ethics of Love

• Niyama
• Principles of harmony with the self

• Yama
• Principles of harmony with the environment

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Yama

• Ahimsa not inflicting pain or hurt on anybody by
  thought, word or action.
• Satya proper action of mind and the right use of
  words with the spirit of welfare.
• Asteya not to take possession of what belongs to
  others.
• Brahmacaryacosmic feeling for each and every
  object.
• Aparigrahanot indulge in amenities that are
  superfluous for the preservation of life.

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Niyama

• Shaoca purity of body, mind and environment.
• Santosa state of proper ease or containment.
• Tapahshoulder sorrows and miseries of others to
  make them happy. Service.
• Svadhyaya clear understanding of any spiritual
  subject.
• Iishvara Pranidhanaestablish oneself in the
  Cosmic Idea.

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Golden Rule
Proper adjustment according to
Time Place Person
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Fourth Step

• Review of previous steps
• Mind withdrawal
• Ideation
• Mantra

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Life is God-given desire for self-preservation
with the simultaneous urge to expand into
perfection.