MEDITATION  2

The second meditation is concentration meditation. It includes focusing  the mind.

Without doing the first meditation, that is relaxation meditation, we cannot come to this meditation. This meditation is all about mind only.

Here we are directing the mind to do only one thing without distraction. We are doing it with much effort.  For every second ,one or more thoughts are created.  By this meditation, we align the thoughts in one direction. For example any nama of God is given  as om namasivaya  and directing all thoughts behind this continuously. This is called as japa.

We have to see whether any other thoughts are coming and interrupting. If it is so then we are removing it. It is called as concentration meditation.

It may take many months or years to do so. But every day we  have to do this for 15 minutes . Saint Thygaraja  had done this japa for more than one crore times ,at last he got Lord Rama’ s darsan.

We can have any nama for japa. If it is done continuously, then we can get a concentrated mind.

MEDITATION  3

The third meditation is expansion meditation. After concentration, we have to expand the mind. Because by concentration, we  may get some strength, power. It should be channelized  to right path. For example, Ravana got many power and bliss by tapas. But  he did not expand the mind , so it led to destruction. He was full of narrow thoughts, greed and selfishness.

In expansion meditation,  we are expanding our narrow mind to wider one.   By doing this we are removing our ego.  For example, a mother is happy on seeing her son or daughter eating their favourite  food. Here she loses her abhiman and she sacrifices all. The mind is expanding a lot.

Family life is a good  dharma to donate things to needy persons. There we are reducing our ego. A single individual is seen as a whole world. We see the whole world as a single entity.

This meditaion removes individuality and makes us equal. It imparts totality to eveybody’ mind. In this time we withdraw our likes and dislikes,fear,selfishness,and greddiness. Also we get divine values  to accept everybody which is most wanted.