Himalaya Tirtha Sangha - Esoteric School of Yoga, Tantra & Ayurveda

Many people in contemporary world wonder what exactly is MEDITATION and what processes stand behind Art of Meditation, praised and promoted by Sages and Saints of all ages. Some people are afraid of meditation exercises and practice but after all even Jesus or Lord Buddha were know from long and intensive Meditations alternated between Holy Prayers, Psalms and Hymns. The word “Meditation” comes from Latin and adequate Old Polish word is “Consideration”, “Contemplation” or “Reflection”, immersing called thought, picture or feeling. If you think about something intensively, than it’s Meditation on this subject. All Teachers of Spiritual Life recommend many various exercises, in fact meditation processes. We say that Meditation is thinking connected with feeling, so it’s thinking deeply connected with commitment of Heart and Intuition.

First stage of Meditation is in fact an attempt of focusing and concentrating on something, attempts of keeping reins on your thoughts, so your mind could keep the chosen subject or item. Focusing on the item, person, thing or a subject for Consideration is very important step, because people of chaotic, distracted minds don’t like contemplation or reflection, they don’t want Meditation and often critically attack Meditation, although is Holy, Divine Art. To work of meditating aspire usually two categories of people, Good people or people with plenty of problems and worries, and both these categories gain great, immense profits from deeper and deeper studying Art of Meditation, from tiding up the flow of chaotic thoughts, imaginations, thinking affects. Who has reached the point, that can always think and maintain focusing on item he had chosen as long as he wants, than he’s in final phase of the first stage of Meditation Art, of Controlling and Mastering the Mind.

Chaotic mind that can’t focus, lazy one that looses woofs and thoughts, full of fears or depression, sadness or sorrow is in fact seriously ill, and the Art of Meditation at this pre-introductory, kindergarten level is rather like a Therapy, Healing the sick mind, and usually also heart sick of pain, the whole Self. Chaos, accidental flow of various appearing thoughts and associations is your human very serious mind disease and the root of all psychical and psychosomatic suffering. A man has been created to be the Lord and Master of Thought, Thinking Self, so chaos, fears, sadness, depressions, weakness should be purified and eliminated. And that is kindergarten level of work for you, people, that all of you should quickly master. Exercise focusing on chosen thought, feeling, picture, experience through longer and longer periods of time in order to be totally wrapped up in the issue and not to digress form the subject. For some people it’s hard to maintain the image of bonfire at leas for one minute, but a man should be able to do it for long hours. We strongly recommend maintaining the image of a flame or sun, the source of natural light, because such image helps to remove hard depressive or timid thoughts, experiences, mind reactions and finally develops ability of Focusing attention and Meditating.

In second stage of teaching the Art of Meditation, thinking, words and phrases repeating, imaging the items, persons, ideals, deities, angels, signs or scenes, recollections is deepening with the feeling of this, what you’re thinking about. Than we can talk about deep Meditation, or about Feeling-Thinking and this way we discover internal sphere of Intuition, sensual experiencing, sensing, feeling and precognition. Work of Mind, Self becomes live and flexible, easily adapts to situations, conditions and circumstances because it’s neither firm nor schematic, what enables deep creative work, innovation, inventiveness, improvements. So in second stage appear signs of artistry or scientific genius and intuitional accuracy enabling being on time, fulfilling duties, being conscientious man and appearing exactly where is something wonderful for you and helpful for your realization.

As far a man at the first stage uses rather his knowledge and remembered information, than on the second stage he becomes soft and adjustable and very creative. By process of feeling and focusing people, who have experienced tough moments in life can quickly and effectively raise, reborn and rebuild their life in totally new edition, usually also in new place. Than there is no problem with choosing what’s appropriate or with keeping commitments or using necessary things, which are the consequence of their own choice. We can say that in the second stage, after tiding up the flow of thinking, silencing the chaos of thoughts, imaginations and experiences a man stops gathering problems and troubles. He stops getting lost in life and in that place appear creative and sometimes surprising solution of situation, and everything is supported by the depth of interior, which is none in a person who can’t focus on any subject, at least for an hour or two.

During meditation sessions a man should not miss the subject, woof, and keep all the time total consciousness and he should be fully committed, immersed in the exercise, practice, that is taking place. Being, thinking and feeling what is happening at the moment is very important and helpful, and relaxing and silencing, dispersing all unpredictable reactions of mind, especially discouragements, impatience and irritability is a beginning indeed. Focusing on read or listened Meditation instruction and keeping the process of thought or imagination or recollection is a beginning indeed. Deepening and boring the subject or item of focusing is exactly meditation, consideration till total immerse, reflection and deep feeling or what we think and imagine. Of course you should not lose consciousness and the process of leaving reflection, finishing Meditation must be always rapid if there is such need or if the exercises ends and there is no need of loosing connection with time, place and surrounding. Déjà vu, takes off or clearances from reality is not Meditation, but beginnings of psychical disease of schizophrenic type and such tendencies should be healed the same as thinking not about the subject, somewhere behind it, what is happening during lessons and exercises.

Meditation is the way of mastering the mind, self by development of a thinker, the feeling and conscious creature to Perfectionism. Higher, third level of work enables constant feeling Divinity, Ecstasy, Delight and Joy, likely from interior, no matter what happens in external life. Experiencing the felicity, Anandam as we call it in the East, doesn’t mean tearing off daily life activities, but overcoming difficulties with the feeling of internal Joy, Ecstasy, without narcissism, without gathering suffering, without discouragement, but reasonably with deep ability to analysis and synthesis of situation, circumstances, events.

Fourth stage is much more magical, because it’s called the phase of Becoming and Being. It means rapid realization of every thought, because of waking up the whole potential of creative power of the thought. What you think just happens and then a man creates the world and surrounding the way he wants it to be, but not always and not in every particular matter yet. Ability of maintaining in focused and constant Divinity, Contentment, Joy or Ecstasy is a basis for development of the Power of Becoming and Being, the Over-Sensual Power!

The Himalaya Master L.M.