Meditation and Mantra Pt.2

Part 2 (followed on from 28th August)

If we can initiate nature’s own native state and create own quiet uneventful period we can control our destiny and future, instead of being like a leaf that is blown and a life subject totally to events and people around us.
Note that all people may not feel used or abused by life’s “evolutionary direction”. We are usually happy to procreate! However a seeming inability to create a quite space can be take as positive in the world. We are seen as engaged, and therefore quite “sane’. Being engaged are often however what is actually forced upon us by circumstance, just .we don’t like to feel “powerless”
Having free time is therefore not always an easily acceptable thing, despite what the self-help books say.
So it may be very difficult to create a space in one’s a busy world, where sitting down becomes possible, and can be seen as indulging in selfish introspection!
What a shock then if you clear time and space, stop agitation, distraction, and wants, and you just fell bored or worse, all your cravings go ballistic! So much for the newfound freedom
Free time is a wonderful and necessary thing but we also have to be able to deal with it and use it advantageously.
We probably have heard eulogies given to the scientific benefits of meditation relaxation or quiet prayer. Just try sit down for 5-10 minutes in absolute stillness with calm and reposed mind.
Can be like trying to tame a bucking Bronco.
The mind is a wild animal, or part of a relatively civilized mammal called human.

To reach a state of perfect happiness peace or self-knowledge, may requires more application then just sitting in medication for half an hour twice daily
To get to a state of perfect yoga one needs to be perfect Yogi.
May be ok for one who can sit in a cave for months at a time living on a very sparse diet and not watching any TV.
Certainly not the Kardashians or Coronation Street!
However it doesn’t really actually matter whether one is in New York the Himalayas the outback
The setting is not too important although there are optimum environments diets and guided practices.
One should have access to useful materials. This can vary insert job with one’s needs as one progresses. Then potentially even a noisy place is doable if meditation needs to take place. Yes suitable food and water, medicinal herbs, and good company, always helps in their search and endeavor in the spiritual path

However to become the controller in terms of spiritual awareness need the ability to sit on a rather different plane completely.
The philosophy of Gyana or Knowledge Yoga, says we are already Divine. We already have Divine experiences every single moment, and every single moment has a Divine purpose
However the path of Bhakti, Devotional Yoga that says that we can’t just be inviting you live Enlightenment. We need the grace of an external God, a Higher Power, a Person we surrender to, who then sorts everything out!
The path of Karma or Action Yoga says we need to serve others, including our God or Guru, or church to attain a higher state.
Raja Yoga, (kingly yoga), says we need to control the senses, & management of all aspects about daily routine, & be able to sit in yoga posture, & control the mind. Then food and drink is also vital because intake forms not only the body but also the mind. Also
As well as what you get rid of also important. Enemas are the “go to”!

The Truth will always be that, regardless of religion, spiritual path, culture, or circumstance.
Who AM I? What am I? What is my purpose & function really all about?
Then what do I do next?

To be continued……………….