Traditional Yoga School in India, School of Santhi Yoga School, Trivandrum, Kerala, South India for spiritual seekers!
Santhi, Swami Santhi Santhiprasad, School of Santhi Yoga School
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Registered as IRYS200 & IRYS500 with  International Yoga Federation and as RYS200 & RYS500 with Yoga Alliance.



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How to be still when meditating?

July 2006


Dear friends,

Loka Samasta Sughino Bhavantu!
Let all creations be well!


MY TEACHINGS
at School of Santhi are very basic and essential for effective living. It is very simple and offers practical solutions to aching, mental and physical problems. My teachings doesn't pertain to any religion. It just talks about the essence of human living. It is the sum and substance of all religions.

THERE IS A GREAT significance for these teachings in a world where human beings are so pressed and tensed due to their way of thinking and living. The benefits of my teachings are tested and proved over a period of time. It should be reached to one and all as a means of HUMAN WELLBEING!

I often get this question when people have started to meditate:

"For a beginner starting to meditate it is very difficult to be still and calm down. The mind is thinking about so many things, you see a lot of pictures and so on. Can you please explain what is happening?"

NOT ONLY A BEGINNER even one who is meditating regularly may come across restless moments. Meditation means restfull alertness and is a temporary moment of suspension of the mind from its own activities such as comprehension, misapprehension, imagination, sleep and memory.

IT DOESNīT MEAN the mind is totally at rest while one sits for meditation. Sitting for meditation and meditation are two different things.

IN MEDITATION THE MIND entertains the idea you introduce into it voluntarily. The idea could be anything ranging from sound to silence. It could be anything that is from visual to light. It could be anything that goes with the liking of the person. When the mind flows to the point of attention continuously for a long period of time without effort and strain the mind is in a state of meditation. When the mind stays in this face for a time it naturally gets into a state of integration called Samadhi. Samadhi is the extension of meditation.

IN MEDITATION
there are three reference points. One is the meditator itself; the second is the object of meditation and the third is the process of meditation. Though the mind is in meditation it is not suspended totally. In this process mind starts to withdraw from its own natural activities and can flow to the point of attention continuously for a long period of time towards the idea that is planted voluntarily.

AS THE MIND IS in a process any impression registered in the memory could pop up in the mind. It is quite natural as far as this process is concerned. If you let loose the pop-ups it will naturally withdraw to the source from where it came and the meditator gets a possibility to go along with the pop-ups with his awareness to the source of thought from where the pop-ups came.

SOURCE OF THOUGHT IS the memory hidden in the subconscious. Subconscious mind is like an innocent child. As you simply observe the pop-ups when it receeds you will get into more and more relaxation as you are moving from the conscious mind to the subconscious. When you arrive at the subconscious you are absolutely innocent and what ever is presented to the subconscious mind during the meditation appeares to be true to the meditator.

THE MEDITATOR WILL integrate with the source easily if he is not trying to reject the impressions that are creeping up in the mind during the process of meditation.

SO DONīT CONSIDER the impressions coming up in the mind while meditating as obstacles. Consider it as helping tools to cross the conscious realm of the mind to reach to its depths.


Start this journey by giving yourself time for daily meditation.


I have commited myself
to be available always for all of you and share whatever I have understood during the course of journey of my life, both in the Indian spiritual traditions and beyond, as a seeker if it is of help for you. What we need in this world is few individuals who could commit themselves to explore their own inner world! It is really difficult to find few of them. However I commit myself to be available always!
Love Santhi

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School of Santhi Yoga School in India - guided by Swami Santhiprasad
T.C. 15/1572, M.P. Appan Road, Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum 695 014, Kerala, India
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