You Are Not The Mind

February 19th, 2008 Remez Sasson Posted in Meditation, concentration, mind, mouni sadhu No Comments »

Meditation requires the ability to focus the mind, otherwise you will be constantly distracted and your mind will move from one thought to another, and that is not meditation.

Concentration exercises teach you to direct the mind according to your own will, and therefore enhance your ability to meditate. The ability to concentrate and to dominate the mind brings in a new understanding that helps concentration and meditation, and is a great step toward self-realization. This is the understanding that you are not your mind.

Being able to direct your mind according to your will shows that you are not your mind, but something higher and above the mind.

Here is an excerpt from Mouni Sadhu’s book ‘Meditation - An Outline for Practical Study, where he says that you and your mind are not one and the same thing:

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The Direct Path

February 8th, 2008 Remez Sasson Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sri Ramana Maharshi, mouni sadhu, self realization No Comments »

Written by Mouni Sadhu
Excerpted from www.hinduism.co.za

The great Rishi, Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi - unlike most yogis and many saints of the present day, does not recommend yogic practices as a condition for the highest and perennial spiritual achievement, called by him ‘Self-realisation’. He dismisses from that aim, all the cumbersome postures, breathing exercises, control of the pranic-currents (currents of the Prana in the human body and so of Nature itself), and so on. In fact, he seldom even mentioned them in his talks.

So the Direct Path to spiritual attainment, as shown by the Maharshi, does not require any unnatural body postures, often so difficult to perform for the majority of people; none of the efforts of Hatha Yoga, which can be dangerous unless practised under the direct supervision of a competent teacher, and no artificial mental practices of concentration. All such things lead nowhere unless accompanied by the elements of spiritual enlightenment, a fact which is firmly underlined by Sri Shankaracharya in his ‘Viveka Chudamani’.

Now I see clearly that these things belong to a closed and bewitched circle. For years, I and some of my closest occult friends practised many kinds of ‘outer-yogas’ but without any results worthy of our efforts. Of course, some of these exercises were good for our physical health, especially for stilling the nerves, cultivating a beautiful voice, and so forth. But these advantages only remained with us as long as we continued regularly to perform the exercises. A pause for even a few weeks deprived us of all the hard earned benefits we had gained at the cost of such effort and waste of time. No true and permanent peace of mind could be obtained, although for that purpose I made intense use of Japa (repetition) with the best mantras.

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