Meditation Quote
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find
there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the
pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility
for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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'Each soul is potentially divine . The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature , external and internal. Do
this either by work , or worship or psychic control or philosophy - by one or more or all of these and be free'.
Swami Vivekanand
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'Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers and let
them go their own way'.
Swami Vivekanand
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'THE more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.'
Swami Vivekanand
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing
without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Swami Sivananda
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First, mental negativity is called defilement.
. . . The difficulty is that we are not aware when a defilement starts. It begins deep in the unconscious mind, and by the
time it reaches the conscious level it has gained so much strength that it overwhelms us . . ..
. . . whenever any defilement arises in the mind, simultaneously two things start happening at the physical level. One is
that the breath loses its normal rhythm. At a subtler level, a biochemical reaction starts in the body, resulting in some
sensation.
. . . Thus, by observing the respiration or the sensations, we are in fact observing the mental defilements.
By allowing these defilements to manifest and pass away, eventually negativities dissolve. One can change the entire
pattern of one's life through this technique, by learning to remain balanced in the face of everything experienced inside .
. ..
The mind remains fixed on a single object . . . the breath. By practicing this simple yet powerful meditation, one's view of
reality changes.
Ultimately:
From the gross, external, apparent truth, one penetrates to the ultimate truth of mind and matter. Then one transcends
that, and experiences a truth which is beyond mind and matter...
By S.N. Goenka
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find
there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the
pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility
for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Each soul is potentially divine . The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature , external and internal. Do
this either by work , or worship or psychic control or philosophy - by one or more or all of these and be free'.
Swami Vivekanand
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'Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers and let
them go their own way'.
Swami Vivekanand
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'THE more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.'
Swami Vivekanand
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing
without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Swami Sivananda
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
First, mental negativity is called defilement.
. . . The difficulty is that we are not aware when a defilement starts. It begins deep in the unconscious mind, and by the
time it reaches the conscious level it has gained so much strength that it overwhelms us . . ..
. . . whenever any defilement arises in the mind, simultaneously two things start happening at the physical level. One is
that the breath loses its normal rhythm. At a subtler level, a biochemical reaction starts in the body, resulting in some
sensation.
. . . Thus, by observing the respiration or the sensations, we are in fact observing the mental defilements.
By allowing these defilements to manifest and pass away, eventually negativities dissolve. One can change the entire
pattern of one's life through this technique, by learning to remain balanced in the face of everything experienced inside .
. ..
The mind remains fixed on a single object . . . the breath. By practicing this simple yet powerful meditation, one's view of
reality changes.
Ultimately:
From the gross, external, apparent truth, one penetrates to the ultimate truth of mind and matter. Then one transcends
that, and experiences a truth which is beyond mind and matter...
By S.N. Goenka
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