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| Purpose of Meditation |
Meditation is
a time-tested technique to concentrate our energies. Normally, we waste
our energies. Not only are they squandered in all directions by the tornado
of exterior impressions, but also even when we manage to shut doors and
windows, we find chaos within ourselves.
The powers of
the mind are like rays of dissipated light-when they are concentrated
they illuminate. This is our only means of knowledge. The purpose of Meditation
is to bring about a complete harmony between our Mind, Body and Soul.
Once this harmony
is achieved, we are then in a position as an individual to achieve the
"Infinite Potential" for action that lies within every human being.
Meditation helps
us to achieve a state of total awareness through the following six practices
as per Vedic philosophy.
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Samia |
Mental quietude and subduing of passions |
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Dama |
Self
restraint and the subjugation of the five sense organs, the five organs
of action and the four internal organs
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Uparati |
Complete
cessation of the perceiving and acting sense faculty |
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Titiksha |
Endurance
and patience (the power to endure, without the slightest discomposure,
extremes of heat and cold, joy and sorrow, honor and abuse, loss and
gain, and all other pairs of opposites)
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Samadhan |
Constant
concentration of mind |
| 6. |
Shraddha |
True
faith, conviction and devotion |
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