Meditation

Meditation gives relaxation and rejuvenation to your mind and body.

First imagine the form of the Lord from top to bottom. Slowly focus your mind on the form of the Lord. Then find out your self “Who gives existence to the mind?”
There you have to understand and experience divinity.
(Such a person can accept every thing and negate whatever negative experience influences him. He can turn adversities into advantages).

Steps for Meditation:

• Ensure physical cleanliness.
• Choose a clean place; ideally have a permanent room for doing Sadhana.
• Sit on a “natural fibre” mat. Do not use a plastic material.
• Light up a lamp.
• Sit in a comfortable posture.
• Keeping your hands in “CHIN MUDRA” (thumb touching the tip of forefinger), sit in an erected posture without bending.
• Do Pranayam keeping your mind and body alert.
• Visualize the form of the Lord.
• Recite Japam; after each Japam, mentally offer flowers at HIS feet (for at least 20 minutes).
• After surrendering there, every thing should disappear – body, mind or even the feet of the Lord. Feel absolute Presence and awareness.
• Again take deep breaths and while getting up, accept yourself as the DASA of the Lord.

Take a vow that whatever activity you are supposed to do is the opportunity given by the Lord and whatever experience you get as HIS Prasad. Express joy and happiness in and around you.
HariOm!

Temple Worship

The Importance and Significance of Temple Worship in Our Spiritual Development:

According to our Vedic literature and especially as Lord Krishna emphasizes in the Bhagavad-Gita (18^th Chapter), the structure of the temple represents the human body. The divine power in the Deity is the same divinity in each one of us.
Though evolution has started from Consciousness, human mind which is the first manifestation of Consciousness, has the potentiality to identify with the body and continuously become conscious of everything except Consciousness itself. Mind can think everything because of the power of Consciousness.

Nama Japam

Nama Japam

We all live with the mind, governed by the countless thoughts that race through the mind. The mind can provide you with a healthy or unhealthy life. Memories of the miseries one might have encountered in the past and worries about the future, both can destroy the healthy state of mind. Only a healthy mind can produce all the required secretions, chemicals, enzymes etc. in the body, thus harmonizing health. A disturbed mind not only disturbs the quality of your life, but also has negative effects at the physical level producing toxins that make you physically unhealthy. Living continuously with a disturbed mind would ultimately result in a totally depressed, suppressed state of life.
How can one develop mental health? Japam is the medicine for developing a healthy mind.

Meditation

Meditation is the mental enrichment with positive energy. As the body needs the food, mind needs positive energy. A positive mind alone can become a strong mind.
Today we are disturbed because of ill health, stress and strain, competition and criticism from others, al because of our weak mind. A weak minded person always justifies himself by blaming others and situations. A strong minded person thinks creatively, acts positively and accepts boldly.

Breathing Therapy

The nose has a left and a right side; we use both to inhale and exhale.
Actually they are different; you would be able to feel the difference. The right side represents the sun, left side represents the moon. During a headache, try to close your right nose and use your left nose to breathe. In about 5 mins, your headache will go?

If you feel tired, just reverse, close your left nose and breathe through your right nose.  After a while, you will feel your mind is refreshed.  Right side belongs to ‘hot’, so it gets heated up easily, left side belongs to ‘cold’.  Most females breathe with their left noses, so they get “cooled off” faster. Most of the guys breathe with their right noses, they get worked up.