Meditation - An Act to a State

Описание: When an experienced and seasoned meditation practitioner says that Meditation is a state of mind, what does it exactly mean?

Watch this video that answers some important questions in meditation:

How to identify the hurdles and obstacles in your meditation?
The more you are able to see the obstacles, the faster you would be able to correct and progress

*How to clear these obstacles in meditation?

How to bring yourself in the state of meditation, where it becomes an act from practice, so that it becomes your second nature?

Initially when people sit down to meditate they come across a few hurdles. These are in the form of overpowering thoughts, restlessness, laziness, feeling sleepy and all kinds of images flashing across your mind. The mind is dragged into all this and it starts to pursue these thoughts and before you realise a lot of time goes by and meditation does not happen. But if you learn to drop your thoughts as soon as they arise then you will keep progressing towards good meditation.
A good meditation session requires great effort and attentiveness. To start with you have to hold short, sharp, lucid, clean, crisp and clear sessions of meditation for five minutes with no thoughts coming to disturb you and even if thoughts come they just don’t stay but pass. With alertness and attentiveness you can watch your thoughts and once you champion five minutes you can build on for longer sessions without problems. When you keep progressing with great effort the act of meditation becomes a state you are in. You then don’t have to meditate but you are in that state. A super conscious state in which you can hear all sounds and are totally alert and conscious. But to get to this state of awareness you have to practice and review and keep practising.

The question is what is the correct way to meditate? People sit down to meditate and after about a period of three to four seconds they start to get all these thoughts. The thoughts are like on a battlefield firing from the other direction and they are trying to resist those thoughts. Before even they start to meditate they are battling with the thought of how can it be like this? They start to think that here I am trying to meditate, trying to experience peace and thoughtlessness and I am having all these thoughts and I am feeling more restless. Many people after about 10-15 minutes start to get the urge to move, scratch or stretch. After another 10- 15 minutes later they start to feel lazy, sleepy, relaxed and feel that they had good meditation.

If you feel relaxed after mediation, chances are you have tired yourself out by doing it incorrectly and now you are feeling sleepy. These are the hurdles of meditation.

Listen to this discourse by Om Swami to find out more.
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