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Pranayama and Yoga Meditation

Pranayama is

*awareness and expansion of breath in the body,

*freeing up of the diaphragm, and

*breath control through various breathing techniques,

which alter the rhythm, duration, pauses, and processes of the breath                                                                   to train the breath to be serene, silent, and smooth,

in preparation for deep meditation.

 

Meditation comes naturally after one systematically 

releases the hold of the senses on the mind (pratyahara),

deep relaxation of body and breath and mind are achieved,

the breath is serene, silent, and smooth,

the body is in a comfortable, straight, and steady posture, and

one is able to hold one’s inner awareness in focus

for longer and longer periods of time.

 

Yoga Meditation is

the art and science of systematically

observing, accepting, understanding, and training

each of the levels of one’s being,

such that one may coordinate and integrate

those aspects of oneself,

and dwell in the direct experience

of the centre of consciousness.

 

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is an exposition of Yoga Meditation,

its meaning, goal, methods, processes, and experiences.

Sutra I:2 describes Yoga as the mastery of and cessation of the thought waves, the activity of the mind.

When the mind becomes still, one is able to join, unite, make as one,

all the aspects of oneself with the Higher Reality.

Sutra I:12 declares that control of  the activity of the mind is achieved

by abhyasa (persistent practice)

and by vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment, pure witnessing).

 

Vedanta as elucidated in the Upanishads and practiced in Tantra

further sets out the practices of Yoga Meditation

as the process of awakening to one’s innate nature and

uniting with the Oneness of All.

 

 

Experience

Self

And

Supreme Consciousness

The Inner Practices of Yoga