Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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HIGHLIGHTS OF ANTAR MOUNA
MEDITATION
Swami Janakananda Saraswati
I came to the Bihar School of Yoga in 1968, and I came at a very good time when Paramahamsa Satyananda was teaching everything himself. He was teaching yoga asanas, shankaprakshalana, neti and, of course, all the meditations. So, I got a string of pearls, a mala of meditations. One of those meditations, Paramahamsa Niranjanananda has asked me to talk about today, and that is a meditation which starts with your personality the way it is, without having to change it.
Of course, you can change your personality, but maybe it should happen a little bit more by itself, rather than by force and struggle. Maybe you should not change it, but you cannot help it, if you use this meditation. This is a meditation which starts not only from within your personality, habits, thoughts and emotions, but also from outside, listening to the sounds, experiencing your environment as a whole. This is very valuable and I will give you some examples of that. Then the awareness travels all the way in, through the different dimensions of your being to your essence, to your innermost being from where you experience everything. This meditation was found in the ancient Indian tradition.
se, I have also found traces of it in the Scandinavian truuition, but that I will return to a little bit later. The great yogis have taught similar things to what I learned from Paramahamsaji, but he was putting it in such a way that you could not avoid it.
Ramana Maharshi was a great inspiration to me when I read about his life. He talks about the other side of the heart, the right side. You put yourself there, and from there you experience everything. Swami Yogananda talks about going back to the spinal cord, and from the spinal cord experiencing everything
Sri Aurobindo talks about something that has inspired me
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