Meditation is the most practical science...



Meditation is the most practical science...
Meditation is the science of God-realization. It is the most practical science in the world.3 Most people would want to meditate if they understood its value and experienced its beneficial effects. The ultimate object of meditation is to attain conscious awareness of God, and of the soul’s eternal oneness with Him. What achievement could be more purposeful and useful than to harness limited human faculties to the omnipresence and omnipotence of the Creator? God-realization bestows on the meditator the blessings of the Lord’s peace, love, joy, power, and wisdom.
Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration consists in freeing the attention from distractions and in focusing it on any thought in which one may be interested.Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness and is focused on God. Meditation, therefore, is concentration used to know God.
To begin a meditation... Sit on a straight chair, or in a cross-legged position on a firm surface. Keep the spine straight and the chin parallel to the floor. If you have assumed the correct posture, your body will be stable, yet relaxed, so that it is possible to remain completely still, without moving a muscle. Such stillness, devoid of restless body movements and adjustments, is essential to the attainment of a deep meditative state.
With the eyelids half closed (or completely closed, if this is more comfortable to you), look upward, focusing the gaze and the attention as though looking out through a point between the eyebrows. (A person deep in concentration often “knits” his brows at this spot.) Do not cross the eyes or strain them;the upward gaze comes naturally when one is relaxed and calmly concentrated.What is important is fixing the whole attention at the point between the eyebrows. This is the Christ Consciousness [Kutastha Chaitanya] centre, the seat of the single eye spoken of by Christ: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” (Matthew 6:22). When the purpose of meditation is fulfilled, the devotee finds his consciousness automatically concentrated at the spiritual eye, and he experiences, according to his inner spiritual capacity, a state of joyous divine union with Spirit.
A breathing exercise to prepare for meditation... When you are established in the meditation pose just described, the next preparation for meditation is to rid the lungs of accumulated carbon dioxide, which causes restlessness. Expel the breath through the mouth in a double exhalation: “huh, huhhh.” (This sound is made with the breath only, not the voice.) Then inhale deeply through the nostrils and tense the whole body to a count of six. Expel the breath through the mouth in a double exhalation, “huh, huhhh” and relax the tension. Repeat this three times.

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