Meditate - Softcover

Swami Muktananda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791409783 ISBN 13: 9780791409787

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1991

Synopsis

Swami Muktananda offers, in straightforward and often humorous language, an understanding of meditation.

This revised edition includes a new chapter by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. “Meditation is looking within,” says Gurumayi. “Look within. Meditate. You will find your own peace. You will find your own treasure.”

About this title

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

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.” ― Joseph Chilton Pearce

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0791409783
• ISBN 13: 9780791409787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 97