Metaphysical Meditations

85 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h4min.
Metaphysical Meditations The reprint of the original 1952 edition By Paramhansa Yogananda  Most people want to meditate but do not know how to do so. The purpose of meditation is to connect the little joy of the soul with the vast joy of the Spirit with focused practice. Meditation is not the same as concentration which consists in freeing the attention from objects of distraction and focusing on one thing at a time. Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness, and is focused on the Infinite, to be focused only on God or sacred thoughts and ideas. Meditation consists in certain physical, psychological, and metaphysical processes—by which the static of restlessness can be removed from the body, mind, and soul radios, which can then be tuned in with the Infinite. By calm, continuous, one pointed attention the ego must be kept connected to the Spirit until they both become merged into everlasting bliss. In Metaphysical Meditations Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the best-selling spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, gives some concrete metaphysical methods of meditation, for the student who has already struggled through the mobs of rowdy thoughts and crossed the portals of silence. The instructions will be found in the various sections of the book preceding each type of meditation: prayers or demands addressed to the Divine, affirmations about God, and those spoken to the individual consciousness.Excerpt from Metaphysical Meditations Publisher’s Note: This book is a reprint of the 1952 edition,copyright 1932. The only changes made in the text have been in punctuation and correcting typographical errors. © Copyright 1932, by Swami YoganandaSixth Edition 1952, Revised and Enlarged Foreword Most people want to meditate but do not know how to do so. The purpose of meditation is to know God—to connect the little joy of the soul with the vast joy of the Spirit by disciplining body, mind, and soul. Meditation is not the same as concentration. Concentration consists in freeing the attention from objects of distraction and focusing it on one thing at a time. Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness, and is focused on God. A man may concentrate on divinity or on money, but he does not meditate on money or any material thing. Meditation is focused only on God or sacred thoughts and ideas. Meditation consists in certain physical, psychological, and metaphysical processes—by which the static of restlessness can be removed from the body, mind, and soul radios, which can then be tuned in with the Infinite. All forms of meditation involve the one who meditates, the process of meditation, and the object of the meditation. By calm, continuous, one pointed attention the ego must be kept connected to the Spirit until they both become merged into everlasting bliss. The meditator must know a definite method of meditation, and have a definite spiritual thought or experience to meditate on. In this book I am giving some concrete metaphysical methods of meditation, for the student who has already struggled through the mobs of rowdy thoughts and crossed the portals of silence. The instructions will be found in the various sections of the book preceding each group of meditation. The meditations given are of three types: prayers or demands addressed to God, affirmations about God, and those spoken to the individual consciousness. Select one that meets your need and speak each word slowly and purposefully until you become absorbed in its inner meaning. To Begin a Meditation Lock the eyelid doors and shut out the wild dance of tempting scenes. Drop your mind into the bottomless well of your heart. Hold the mind on your heart, bubbling with your life-giving blood. Keep your attention tied to the heart, until you feel its rhythmic beat. With every heartbeat feel the knock of almighty Life. Picture the same all-pervading Life knocking at the heart-door of fifteen hundred million human bodies and of billions of living creatures. The heart-throb constantly, meekly announces the infinite power standing behind the doors of your awareness. The gentle beat of all-pervading Life says to you silently, “Do not receive only a little flow of My life, but expand the opening of thy feeling powers. Let Me flood thy blood, body, mind, feelings, and soul with My throbs of universal life.”Contents to Metaphysical Meditations Foreword vii Devotion & Worship 1 Meditations: To God 17 Expansion of Consciousness 33 On Finding God 49 On Material Concerns 65 On Self Improvement 85 Special Christmas Meditations 107 About the Author117 Further Explorations 119