Audio and notes from Sunday morning/ Wednesday evening meditation group session.
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Group Meditation Sunday 3 November
Jangama Dhyana – The Technique | In Quest of Truth – Q&A, No.156
In the session we played:
14:53 What is the importance of sitting comfortably in a relaxed way?
16:25 The instruction to ‘gently close your eyes’
20:53 The position of the ‘third eye’ where we concentrate the mind and sight
22:38 The instruction ‘do not repeat and mantra or name, do not imagine anything’
Notes:
•When agitated, the mind starts spinning, generating thoughts – it needs to relax and cool down, become stabilized.
•Forget the outside world. You can attend to those things afterwards
•Fix the eyeballs. Movement of the eyeballs is one of themajor reasons the mind cannot go into samadhi.
•Eyes don’t come to one direction easily. Peacefully, slowly just watch the front portion – just gently on the same level as the eyes.
•Whether darkness or light, good or bad, don’t bother – just keep watching
•If you can achieve watching 100% you stop thinking automatically.
•You are preoccupied with thinking so you are unable to watch yourself.
•If the mind becomes quiet it regains the pure consciousness form, the origin, the ultimate truth
•The Divinity is in silence. When mind becomes silent, thatis the real worship of God.
•Mind has no third way – either it is into imaginations or it goes towards God.
Group Meditation Wednesday 6 November
Ashtavakra Gita – Baba’s Commentary – ch 1 vv 14-20 | In Quest of Truth – Q&A with Babaji, No.196
In the session we played:
6:07 How have we misidentified ourself from birth?
8:11 Until you regain consciousness of your real Self ignorance will be there.
8:59 By watching, the mind eventually becomes quiet and goes back to the Self, rather than imagining. Without paying attention, you cannot gain awareness of what you are. “Just Watch” explained.
13:11 Eventually the consciousness of existence will be there always, it doesn’t disappear. The process of gaining awareness of the Self: watching, paying attention, and awareness.
15:55 When you just watch, thoughts and visions dissolve within the mind and it returns to where it came into existence. Purnamadah Purnamidam sloka explained.
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