How To Start Meditation

Namaste,

I am Rohit Bhardwaj.

When a beginner takes a decision to start meditation,

He is plagued by two questions.

One is where to start and second is what will I get in the end.

Let me try to explain these two questions with the help of a process of simplest of the meditations.

The simplest of the meditations has got three components.

The first component is calming your body.

Second is calming your mind.

And third is visualization of a concept.

How do we calm our body?

We do that by observing the breath.

We don't force the breath to become faster,

Neither we force it to become slower.

We simply observe the breath going in from the nostrils,

Getting into the throat,

Into the lungs and the energy gets transferred right up to a navel from inside.

Similarly,

It moves out and we continue to observe this breath.

When while sitting comfortably,

We close our eyes and observe our breath,

The body calms down.

The second part is.

Calming the mind.

For that,

Along with focus on the breath,

We superimpose on it chanting of Aum.

With each exhale,

We chant a OM.

This kind of a thing,

A very long one,

As long as the breath can carry.

This calms down the mind in a very big way.

All the thoughts which are rushing into the mind,

The monkey mind which is jumping from one thought to another,

It calms down.

And finally the teacher introduces a visualization when the mind and body are calm a visualization is introduced by the teacher which takes the entire thing inside deep deep deep inside one goes and and touches that part of us which is ultimate bliss the joy is because of the external world the happiness is because of some internal memory,

But bliss is the one which has no reason.

And once these visualizations hit us,

Once we get involved in these visualizations,

The bliss is touched.

Once a bliss it is touched,

It remains with us throughout the day.

And by regular repeated meditations on these three.

Attains internal happiness and there comes a paradigm shift in the outlook to the world.

You get transformed.

Meditation transforms at the body level,

At the mind level,

At the spirit level.

This is what you get and this in a nutshell is the simplest of the meditation.

Namaste.