Part 3: Nithya Yoga🔗

I have practiced vipassana but not able to practice properly. Is it the wrong technique for me?

Neither are you doing it wrong nor is it the wrong technique for you. First, you should have experienced the psychological revolution of clarity about you, the world, and God. Then, the technique should have been added to you. Without that clarity, if the technique is directly added, it leads to boredom, and dullness, and naturally, you drop the technique. In the inner journey, if you just skip the understandings and enter into the meditation technique without going through the psychological revolution or the understanding, it is a problem.

Going deeper

Patanjali describes the eight limbs of yoga as: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM explains:

Dharana, dhyana, samadhi is not only deeper than the yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara; dharana is deeper than dhyana, samadhi is deeper than dhyana. It is not a shift in quantity but in the quality of the experience.

Till pranayama and pratyahara, your time investment was enough. Any guy who spends time on it will have the results; guaranteed. That is why asana and pranayama have become so popular all over the world but not dharana, dhyana, samadhi.

In dharana, dhyana and Samadhi, not just your time, your awareness is required. An ordinary working mentality is enough till pratyahara. You don't need awareness or consciousness. Your conscious part is not required to be participating. Just stretch your body, do the breathing etc. but for Pratyahara to become Dharana, a new entity in You needs to be awakened. An individual needs to be awakened, and should be present - Pratyahara chaitanya(individual consciousness).

You need to be responsible for the space or position you are in. That will make the quantitative shift in you; for you to move from Pratyahara to Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. If you take up responsibility and allow the creativity to happen in that responsibility, then you will sail from Dharana to Dhyana to Samadhi. When you take up responsibility for the space or position you are in, a tremendous courage and security will happen around you and you will be pushed into the next and next level. Otherwise you will be stuck in your spiritual growth at pratyahara, have negativity and depression.

Meditations

A good collection of meditation techniques can be found online.

Please visit the site and choose from the vast variety of available meditation techniques on the site. .