................................................. Understanding Meditation
Meditation is allowing your mind to relax, that's all. Meditation is not concentration as people make it out to be. When you concentrate, you actually try to exclude everything from your mind, which is an impossible task.
Just sit for two minutes and try to exclude everything from your mind; you will go mad! Every single thing that you try to exclude will come back and torture you. So meditation is not concentration. Meditation is simply including everything and relaxing. When you are not concentrating on excluding anything, you can relax.
When you nurture yourself with meditation, your capacity will expand and you will be able to do so many things in the outer world. There will be no limit to what you can do and express. You will find yourself growing in different dimensions.
Daily Meditation Practice
Y Whenever you find time, just relax and be aware of everything around you. Listen with your heart to all the sounds happening around you. It may be the sound of birds, the sound of the calendar in the breeze, the sound of the fan above you, the sound of people around you, or whatever. Just listen with an open heart. Mind you, they are all not distractions. You are flowing with them and so they are not distractions. When you flow with them, they cease to be distractions.
As you do this, you will realize that there is a certain silence, a composite core inside that is actually witnessing all this and you will become more and more aware of that silence inside you. You will get glimpses of that silence in you. Slowly, you will lose consciousness of your body also. You will only have awareness.
You will feel yourself only through your awareness, not through your body or through your mind. Your body will not be numb but you will not be able to feel it, that's all; only your awareness will remain. This can take you beyond your mind if done intensely.
........................................................ Divya Netra Meditation (Total duration: 25 minutes)
The ājñā chakra is considered to be the master of all chakras. It is the chakra concerned with the pituitary gland which regulates the whole body's growth.
The powerful ājñā chakra is unique in that just awareness of and attention to the chakra activates it*.*
The ājñā chakra meditation is a beautiful meditation technique to show us how to drop the connection with false 'i', the ego and realize the true 'I', to connect with the cosmic intelligence.
This technique has two parts - one to cleanse the ājñā chakra and the other to energize it. The ājñā chakra or the third eye is known as the destroyer of illusion and lust. It helps open the super-consciousness in you.