Tag: meditation
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53. Prāṇayāma – the Mind, and its Prāṇic nature
prāṇá vai visve devʰáḥPrana is all “gods”[controlling breath is to control the “god” forces](Taittiriya Samhita 5.4.6) brahmaṇas patir etā saṃ karmāra ivādhamat “Brahmaṇaspati filled these gods with breath as a blacksmith (with his bellows); in the first age of the gods the existent was born of the non-existent.”(Rig Veda 10.72.2) prāṇá evá paśubandʰáḥ Prana indeed is…
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16. Meditation and Yoga – what, why and how?
[Through meditation] let the intelligent human sinks speech into mind, sink that mind into intelligence, sink that intelligence into the mahat (great) atman, and sink that mahat atman into the unmanifest (peaceful) atman. …
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11. Meditation and Ritual
ko dadarśa prathamaṃ jāyamānam asthanvantaṃ yad anasthā bibharti | “Who has seen the primeval (being) at the time of his being born; what is that endowed with form which the formless sustains” Rig Veda 1.164.4 This line of thinking is very integral to the yogic thought… While the translation provides the exoteric view,…
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