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CONTENTS
| PREFACE | 6 |
| INTRODUCTION | 8 |
| STORAS | 13 |
| CHAPTER ONE THEORY OF CONCENTRATION |
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| 1. What is Concentration? | 3 |
| 2. Where to Concentrate? | 4 |
| 3. Aids to Concentration | 6 |
| 4. Antarmukha and Bahirmukha Vrittis | 11 |
| 5. Know the Ways of Mind | 12 |
| 6. Reduce Mind-Wandering | 17 |
| 7. Tap All Powers | 19 |
| 8. Story of Concentration | 22 |
| 9. Yoga Prasnottari | 37 |
| CHAPTER TWO PRACTICE OF CONCENTRATION |
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| 1. Attention | 39 |
| 2. Practice of Concentration | 44 |
| 3. Concentration in Every Walk of Life | 46 |
| 4. Gist of Yoga of Concentration | 48 |
| 5. Exercises in Concentration | 53 |
| 6. Concentration on a Chair | 55 |
| 7. Concentration on Anahata Sounds | 57 |
| 8. Trataka or Gazing | 59 |
| CHAPTER THREE PRELIMINARIES FOR MEDITATION |
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| 1. What Is Meditation? | 61 |
| 2. Necessity for Meditation | 62 |
| 3. Fruits of Meditation | 63 |
| 4. Brahmamuhurta—Best Time for Meditation | 70 |
| 5. Meditation Room | 72 |
| 6. Places for Meditation | 73 |
| 7. Cave-Life for Meditation | 75 |
| 8. Preparation for Meditation | 77 |
| 9. How to Meditate | 78 |
| 10. When and Where to Meditate | 84 |
| 11. Requisites for Meditation | 85 |
| 12. Three Sittings for Meditation | 89 |
| 13. Qualifications for Practising Meditation | 90 |
| 14. How Many Hours to Meditate | 93 |
| 15. Aids to Meditation | 94 |
| 16. Asanas for Meditation | 95 |
| 17. Regularity in Meditation | 96 |
| CHAPTER FOUR PRACTICE OF MEDITATION |
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| 1. Practical Aspect of Meditation | 98 |
| 2. Real Rest in Meditation | 100 |
| 3. Visualisation | 101 |
| 4. Yoga of Meditation | 101 |
| 5. Seclusion and Meditation | 105 |
| 6. Reach the Highest Peak | 110 |
| 7. Errors in Meditation | 112 |
| 8. Instructions on Meditation | 114 |
| 9. Twenty Hints on Meditation | 121 |
| 10. Exercises in Meditation | 124 |
| 11. The State of Meditation | 127 |
| 12. Practice of Samyama | 132 |
| 13. Prasnottari on Meditation | 133 |
| CHAPTER FIVE KINDS OF MEDITATION |
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| 1. Selection for Meditation | 138 |
| 2. Meditation in Different Paths | 141 |
| 3. Preliminary Meditation | 145 |
| (A) Meditation on a Rose | 145 |
| (B) Meditation on a Buffalo | 146 |
| (C) Meditation on Mahatma Gandhiji | 148 |
| (D) Meditation on 12 Virtues | 148 |
| (E) Meditation on Divine Songs | 149 |
| (F) Meditation on Gita Slokas | 149 |
| 4. Saguna Meditation | 150 |
| (A) Meditation on Ishta Devatas | 150 |
| (B) Meditation on Virat Purusha | 152 |
| (C) Meditation on Gayatri | 152 |
| 5. Nirguna Meditation | 153 |
| (A) Meditation on Ideas | 153 |
| (B) Vedantic Meditation | 156 |
| (C) Assertions for Vedantic Nididhyasana | 157 |
| (D) Vedantic Contemplation | 158 |
| (E) Meditation on Om | 160 |
| (F) Meditation on “Soham” | 162 |
| (G) Meditation on Mahavakyas | 164 |
| (H) Positive Meditation | 165 |
| (I) Negative Meditation | 166 |
| 6. Saguna and Nirguna Meditation Compared | 166 |
| 7. Meditation and Action | 169 |
| CHAPTER SIX PHYSICAL OBSTACLES IN MEDITATION |
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| Introduction | |
| 1. Aimless Wandering | 171 |
| 2. Cessation of Sadhana | 172 |
| 3. Doha-Adhyasa | 173 |
| 4. Diseases | 173 |
| 5. Discussing Too Much | 174 |
| 6. Environments | 175 |
| 7. Evil Company | 175 |
| 8. Fault-Finding | 176 |
| 9. Habit of Self-Justification | 177 |
| 10. Impulses | 177 |
| 11. Impure and Immoderate Food | 177 |
| 12. Irregularity in Sadhana | 178 |
| 13. Jerks | 179 |
| 14. Lack of Brahmacharya | 179 |
| 15. Ojas | 180 |
| 16. Lack of Yama and Niyama | 181 |
| 17. Lingual Diarrhoea | 181 |
| 18. Need for a Preceptor | 182 |
| 19. Overeating, etc. | 184 |
| 20. Poor Health | 184 |
| 21. So-called Friends | 185 |
| 22. Social Nature | 186 |
| 23. Tandri-Alasya-Nidra | 186 |
| 24. Vulgar Pleasures | 188 |
| 25. Wealth | 188 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN MENTAL OBSTACLES IN MEDITATION |
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| l. Anger | 190 |
| 2. Backbiting | 192 |
| 3. Depression | 193 |
| 4. Doubt (Samsaya) | 194 |
| 5. Dreams | 195 |
| 6. Evil Thought | 196 |
| 7. False Tushti | 199 |
| 8. Fear | 200 |
| 9. Fickleness | 201 |
| 10. Five Hindrances to Meditation | 201 |
| 11. Force of Old Samskaras | 201 |
| 12. Gloom and Despair | 202 |
| 13. Greed | 202 |
| 14. Hatred | 203 |
| 15. Impatience | 205 |
| 16. Independent Nature | 205 |
| 17. Jealousy | 206 |
| 18. Lower Nature | 207 |
| 19. Manorajya | 211 |
| 20. Memory | 212 |
| 21. Mental Talking | 214 |
| 22. Moha | 214 |
| 23. Obstacles in Yoga | 215 |
| 24. Other Obstacles | 217 |
| 25. Prejudice, Intolerance and Bigotry | 217 |
| 26. Rajas and Tamas | 218 |
| 27. Sankalpas | 218 |
| 28. Tamas or Inertia | 219 |
| 29. Three Obstacles | 220 |
| 30. Trishna and Vasana | 220 |
| 31. Vikshepa | 220 |
| 32. Vishayasakti | 222 |
| CHAPTER EIGHT HIGHER OBSTACLES IN MEDITATION |
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| 1. Ambition and Desire | 223 |
| 2. Moral and Spiritual Pride | 224 |
| 3. Religious Hypocrisy (Dambha) | 224 |
| 4. Name and Fame (Kirti and Pratishtha) | 225 |
| 5. Elementals (Bhuta-Ganas) | 228 |
| 6. Visions | 228 |
| 7. Siddhis | 228 |
| 8. Kashaya | 230 |
| 9. Laya | 230 |
| 10. Rasasvada | 231 |
| 11. Tushnimbhuta Avastha | 231 |
| 12. Stabdha Avastha | 232 |
| 13. Avyaktam | 232 |
| Valediction | 233 |
| CHAPTER NINE EXPERIENCES IN MEDITATION |
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| 1. Various Experiences in Meditation | 235 |
| 2. Anahata Sounds | 239 |
| 3. Lights in Meditation | 240 |
| 4. Mystic Experiences of Sadhakas | 244 |
| 5. In the Hours of Meditation | 247 |
| 6. Vision of God | 251 |
| 7. Feeling of Separation | 252 |
| 8. Cosmic Consciousness | 254 |
| 9. Blissful Experience | 258 |
| 10. Mind Moves | 261 |
| 11. Bhuta-Ganas | 262 |
| 12. Glimpses of the Self | 263 |
| 13. Jyotirmaya Darshan | 265 |
| APPENDIX | 267 |
| GLOSSARY | 272 |
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