Meditate: First Edition (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) - Hardcover

Swami Muktananda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873954718 ISBN 13: 9780873954716

Publisher: State University of New York P, 1980

Synopsis

This is a practical how-to book of meditation techniques. "Meditation," Swami Muktananda explains, "happens through the grace of a Siddha Master; it is our birth-right. All we must do is to shift our focus from the outside to the inner Self." This book is highly recommended for the new meditator and for anyone wishing to deepen their meditation experience.

About this title

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Meditation is such a great purifier that it washes away the sins of countless lifetimes and removes all the impurities and tensions which beset the mind. Meditation rids us of disease and makes us more skillful at everything we do. Through meditation, our inner awareness expands and our understanding of inner and outer things becomes steadily deeper. Through meditation, we travel to different inner worlds and have innumerable inner experiences. Above all, meditation stills the mind, which constantly wanders, which constantly causes suffering, and establishes us forever in the state of supreme peace, which is independent of any external factors. Ultimately, meditation makes us aware of our own true nature. It is this awareness which removes all suffering and delusion, and this awareness comes only when we see face to face our own inner Self.

Review

“This book is a specific and practical how-to primer of meditation, but it is more than an outline of a method. It is itself a meditation experience when read with a certain open detachment and sense of venture.” ― from the Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Muktananda is not someone who merely theorizes, but someone who speaks from his own experience. ...To Muktananda, meditation is a necessity, an essential ingredient for a well-lived life, because it is only through meditation that a person can discover the permanent happiness which he has found not only in himself, but in everything and everyone around him.” ― from the Preface by Marsha Mason

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York P
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0873954718
• ISBN 13: 9780873954716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 84