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Yogi Shanti Desai's PublicationsMeditation Practice Manual 2008 Edition
Meditation Practice Manual: 2008 Edition
$16.99 Yogi Shanti Desai's classic Meditation Practice Manual has been reprinted! This book focuses on the art and practice of meditation. Shanti's background as a teacher of Yoga and transformation offers the reader a wealth of personal experience, which covers many aspects of meditation. Anyone can enhance the quality of their life through meditation. For those interested in meditation and the spiritual path, Shanti's writing style is clear and simple enough for the novice, and full of inspiration for the yoga student or teacher who has been meditating for many years. Practical guidance includes specific aids and preparation for meditation. The various techniques of Gnana, Bhakti, Karma and Raja Yoga meditations are also explained. Discussions on the value of mantra chanting and the role meditation can play in prayer, dream, death, faith, love and daily activities are illustrated by chapter. The concept and philosophy of non-attachment is extensively discussed. Every aspect of our lives can improve through the peace and clarity meditation provides.  The NEW Meditation Practice Manual is also available through Amazon.com. Buy this book along with Personal to Global Transformation and be eligible for Amazon's free shipping. From the book...Excerpt BENEFITS OF MEDITATION Meditation is always rewarding. No effort in meditation is ever wasted. Even surface meditation brings fulfilling rewards. Meditation produces instant relaxation, removing stress and tensions, It brings peace and harmony in life. One taps the hidden sources of energy and becomes creative in physical and mental enterprises. This gives him success in sports, business, or human relations. One becomes peaceful and composed and can work efficiently without rushing. One attains clarity of mind and develops intuition, which help solve many problems. Most problems are created by confusion of mind and are imaginary. With meditation, one's vision expands and one can sort out life and its values. This clarity also helps in removing deep-rooted problems, complexes, tensions and wrong habits, and works out Karmas. Meditation purifies body and mind. It removes physical ailments and heals the body. It removes emotional problems and heals psychosomatic diseases. It purifies the spirit. Purity of spirit means freedom from attachment to body, mind, world and lower self. One becomes stable of mind (Sthitapragnya). One remains peaceful under all circumstances. One attains the knowledge of Self (the highest knowledge), which removes ignorance, the cause of all suffering. Our conscious life is like the surface of the ocean, with waves of restless thoughts. Meditation takes us to the ocean floor where there are no waves. In meditation one dives deep within Atman and comes out with valuable wisdom. After experiencing the inner light, one's false attachment to the mundane life disappears, as the glow worm's light disappears on a moonlit night and the moon's light disappears in the presence of the sun. One recognizes himself to be a reflection of God (Atman), deriving all his energy from this source. Table of Contents1. Meditation And Its Purpose Page..... 1 2. Concentration And Meditation..... 5 3. Stages Of Meditation..... 7 4. Experiences In Meditation..... 9 5. Benefits Of Meditation..... 10 6. Aids To Meditation..... 11
7. Obstacles To Meditation..... 24 8. Preparation For Meditation..... 26
9. Ending Meditation..... 31 10. Bhakti Yoga Meditation..... 32
17. Meditation And Faith..... 115 18. Meditation And Love..... 118
20. The Spiritual Path..... 132 21. Initiation..... 136 22. Preparation For Initiation..... 141 |
