Meditation is a path to the light

What is meditation? What is it for? Why do we want to learn the practice? What do we seek? Where do we want to go when we meditate? What state of consciousness do we aim for when we meditate? Here we will discover why meditation is a path to the light.

Let us close our eyes and reflect on each question. In the beautiful book Rosa Ignea by Samael Aun Weor, the master is clear about self-mastery and how meditation helps us in this process. "You have to gain total control of yourself". concludes.

To meditate is not to think. It is to put the intellect aside and to seek silence. In this silence we meet our soul, we unite with our inner Self. We meet with what we really are, without concepts, without distortions and distractions of the mind. That is why meditation is a path to the light, to our Self.

The Mind and personality, make us have a distorted perception of ourselves. This makes us victims of systems, which become a veil that keeps us further and further away from our inner reality and from seeing it for what it is. The lower intellect makes us see the world and ourselves in a way that we are not really. We think many things about ourselves, we often think we are better or worse, wise or ignorant. We always fall into an eternal dualism, where thesis and antithesis are always in combat. Meditation is a way to transcend this dualistic state of mind, and to make us experience Samadhi, a state of consciousness that allows us to sense the real and to intuit the truth behind every mystery.

Meditation brings us innumerable benefits. It brings us the feeling of wholeness, of union with God, of inner peace, of happiness. As the Venerable Master Samael Aun Weor emphasises in the same work mentioned above: "Meditation is the esoteric discipline of the Gnostics".

Meditation also gives us a better understanding of everything around us. Again, this Master guides us with his wisdom on the subject: "A master of Samadhi enters all planes of consciousness. With the Eye of Dagma, he seeks all the secrets of the Wisdom of Fire". In addition, meditation helps us to develop a greater sensitivity to life, making our hearts more sensitive and more intuitive. We have clearer and more lucid dreams, as well as greater control over our mental and emotional states.

Only with daily, untiring practice, day after day, can we see the benefits of meditation. Staying in the realm of theories, reading countless books on meditation will get us nowhere. We will only get information. What leads us to experience and have effective checks on our body and mind is PRACTICE.

But how to meditate?

Meditation is a "state of awareness". To achieve this, we can use various techniques or practices. Some with the help of mantras or songs, but all meditation techniques are summarised in fundamental stages, which we must achieve to succeed in this science and they are as follows:

Asana

Posture of the physical body. There are different postures for the exercise of meditation, for example:

● Five-pointed star position (lying down with arms and legs open).

Dead Man's Pose (lying dorsal decubitus with heels together and hands along the body or on the waist).

Lotus posture (sitting with legs crossed over each other).

● Semi-posture (sitting cross-legged).

Siddhasana or perfect posture (which consists of closing the thumb with the index finger in a magnetic circle, resting the back of the hand on the knee).

Vajrasana or diamond posture (as the Incas and Japanese sit, with the hands resting on the thighs and the trunk of the body resting on the heels).

Egyptian posture, the simplest posture for Westerners (sitting in a comfortable chair or armchair, forming 90° right angles at the knees and elbows, hands resting on the legs).

The important thing, regardless of whichever Asana; or posture is adopted, is to keep the spine straight.

Pratyara

Blank the mind, abstraction of the senses. Withdraw the mind from the senses to give way to Consciousness. Keep your attention fixed on one point, for example your heart, or simply feel yourself in the moment, here and now. And serenely observe the thoughts that pass through the mind, without identifying with them (do not let any thought attract your attention). Let them pass like birds in the sky while we remain with our attention fixed on the same point. (Hint: imagine yourself, feel like a big rock or mountain, fixed, immovable, immutable, eternal; while thoughts are like birds, wind, time, ages, they pass, but we always remain there, motionless).

Then the mind relaxes and the thoughts are gradually exhausted. And we begin to perceive the impermanence and dual nature of thoughts and soon transcend this struggle of opposites.

Dharana

Concentration, which means to fix the mind on one point or thing. For example, on the heartbeat, on the breath, on a mantra, on a song, on some part of the body (the most indicated choices, for the fastest results, are the heart and the pineal, at the top and centre of the head).

Dyana

Meditation, which means reflecting on the substantive content of the thing you are focusing on. Reflection is the use of "awareness" or "attention" as a cognitive capacity, and not "reasoning" as we are used to. Therefore, for this reflection to be perfect, it must occur in the absence of thought (hence the steps above). Meditation is a "State of Consciousness", a "State" of "Passive Mind" and "Consciousness" or "Attention". "Active". In this state, Consciousness has the capacity to know or apprehend in any direction.

Samadhi

It is ecstasy, a deep state of meditation. In such a state, the Essence escapes from the Ego momentarily and the Consciousness dissolves like a drop in the Great Ocean of Life. Free yourself and feel at one with the object of concentration, or on deeper levels (for there are levels and levels of Samadhi) with the Universe itself and the Creator.

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