Stages and Forms of Meditation and Contemplation (Dhyana)

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There is considerable confusion
about what exactly meditation

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is.
This is compounded by the fact

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that there are numerous
different techniques that are

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taught as meditation, ranging
from practices that are called

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mindfulness to those, that
include detailed visualizations,

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SRI aurobindo provides an
overview of various practices

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that fall under the concept of
Gianna, which is not precisely

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translated as meditation.
There is us, not one.

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Absolute, and perfect method of
meditation.

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Rather meditation can be
practiced variously by different

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individuals based on their
capacity, their background, and

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the inner need SRI aurobindo
observes quote.

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There are two words used in
English to express the Indian

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idea of Gianna meditation and
contemplation meditation means

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properly the concentration of
the mind on a single train of

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ideas, which workout a single
subject, contemplation means

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regarding mentally, a single
object image idea.

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So that the knowledge about the
object image or idea, You may

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arise naturally in the Mind by
force of the concentration.

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Both these things are forms of
Tiana.

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For the principle of Tiana is
mental concentration, whether in

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thought Vision or knowledge,
there are other forms of Tiana.

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There is a passage in which
Vivekananda advises you to stand

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back from your thoughts.
Let them occur in your mind as

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they will and simply observe
them and see what they are.

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This may be called concentration
in self-observation.

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This form leads to another the
emptying of all thought out of

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the mind.
So as to leave it, a sort of

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pure Vigilant blank on which the
Divine knowledge may come and

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imprinted Itself undisturbed by
the inferior, thoughts of the

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ordinary human mind and with the
clearness of a writing and white

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chalk on a Blackboard, You will
find that the Gita speaks of

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this rejection of all mental
thought as one of the methods of

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yoga and even the method it
seems to prefer this may be

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called the Dianna of Liberation
as it frees.

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The Mind From Slavery to the
mechanical process of thinking

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and allows it to think or not to
think as it pleases and when it

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pleases or to choose its own
thoughts or Us to go beyond

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thought to the pure perception
of Truth called an hour

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philosophy.
Mignogna meditation is the

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easiest process for the human
mind, but the narrowest in its

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results.
Contemplation more difficult,

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but greater self observation and
Liberation from the change of

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thought the most difficult of
all, but the widest and greatest

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in its fruits One can choose any
of them according to one's bent

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and capacity.
The perfect method is to use the

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mall each in its own place and
for its own object.

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But this would need a fixed
faith and firm patience and a

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great energy of Will and the
self application to the yoga and

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reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 5. growth of

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Consciousness means and methods
Pages, 85 to 86,