Meditate - Softcover

Swami Muktananda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873954726 ISBN 13: 9780873954723

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1980

Synopsis

Swami Muktananda belongs to the rare and ancient lineage of Siddhas, self realized masters who are known for their ability to awaken the spiritual potential in others. Revered in his own country and tradition for his spiritual attainment and the universality of his teaching, he has in recent years become one of the most highly regarded meditation masters in the world.

In these pages he offers, in straightforward and often humorous language, an understanding of meditation as it is and can be.

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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

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0873954726
• ISBN 13: 9780873954723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84