Various Forms of Meditation and Their Potential Benefits

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Most people are confused about
what meditation is one of the

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causes of this confusion, is the
variety of forms of meditation

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that are recommended in
practice, by various Traditions.

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Some forms of meditation require
strenuous efforts and

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considerable time to bear fruit.
The mother provides insight into

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meditation and proposes a
method.

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She finds most suitable, her
preferred method harnesses, the

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power of aspiration, which
reminds us of the focus of the

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refuse of the rig Veda, who
placed ogni.

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The Mystic fire, the flame of
aspiration in front as the first

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power to be engaged in achieving
realization.

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The mother writes quote, it is
very difficult to meditate.

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They're all kinds of
meditations.

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You may take an idea and follow
it to arrive at a given result.

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This is an active meditation,
people who want to solve a

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problem or to write meditate in
this way without knowing that

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they are meditating.
Others sit down and try to

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concentrate on something without
following an idea simply to

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concentrate on a point in order
to intensify one's power of

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concentration.
And this brings about what

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usually happens when you
concentrate upon a point.

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If you succeed in gathering your
capacity for concentration,

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sufficiently upon a point.
Whether mental, vital or

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physical at a given moment, you
pass through and enter into

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another consciousness.
Others, still try to drive out

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from their head all movements
ideas, reflexes reactions, and

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to arrive at a truly silent
Tranquility.

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This is extremely difficult.
There are people have tried for

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25 years and not succeeded.
For this something like taking a

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bull by the horns.
There's another kind of

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meditation which consists in
being as quiet as one can be.

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But without trying to stop all
thoughts for there are thoughts

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which are purely mechanical and
if you try to stop these you

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will need years and into the
bargain.

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You will not be sure of the
result.

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Instead of that, you gathered
together all your Consciousness

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and remain as quiet and peaceful
as possible.

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You detach yourself from
external things as though they

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do not interest you at all.
In all of a sudden you brighten

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the flame of aspiration and
throw into it.

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Everything that comes to you so
that the flame may rise higher

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and higher.
Higher and higher.

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You identify yourself with it
and you go up to the extreme

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point of your Consciousness and
aspiration thinking of nothing

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else, simply an aspiration,
which mounts mounts mounts

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without thinking, a minute of
the result of what may happen

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and specially of what may not
and above all without Desiring,

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that something may come.
Simply the joy of an aspiration,

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which mounts and mounts and
mounts intensifying itself more

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and more in a constant
concentration.

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And there I met assure you, that
what happens is, the best that

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can happen.
That is it is the maximum of

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your possibilities, which is
realized.

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When you do this, these
possibilities may be very

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different according to
individuals, but then all these

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worries about trying to be
silent, going behind

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appearances, calling a force
which answers waiting for an

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answer to your questions, all
that van.

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It's like an unreal vapor.
And if you succeed in living

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consciously in this flame in
this column of mounting

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aspiration, you will see that.
Even if you do not have an

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immediate result after a time,
something will happen.

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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother living

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within the yoga approach to
psychological health and growth

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exercises for growth.
And Mastery.

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Dynamic meditation Pages, 155 to
156.