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Ananda Sutras

Meditation

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443. Meditation is the way to keep the mind, body and spirit from collecting unwanted things.

444. Meditation rejuvenates you and cleanses your being.

445. Meditation is anything that awakens you from your dream.

446. When you start meditating, you will start hearing the sweet voice of Existence.

447. Meditation is the path of your journey inwards.

448. Any technique that brings you to the present is meditation.

449. Meditation is a ‘wake up’ call!

450. Meditation is a deep romance with oneself. Who else can be more intimate to you than yourself?

451. Meditation will open out all the talents that you know you have and you don’t know you have.

452. With meditation, your understanding, sensitivity and receptivity will increase multifold.

453. Meditation is sheer intimacy with the Divine.

454. In prayer, you talk to God. In meditation, you keep quiet so God can talk to you!

455. When you become a meditator, others will derive strength from you.

456. Your very existence is meditative. If you understand this, you will not ask how to meditate.

457. When you pray, you pray to God. When you meditate, you become God.

458. Infusing silence into your unconscious is what I call meditation.

459. Meditation heals and integrates your being.

460. Living every moment in total awareness is meditation.

461. Turiya or samadhi is the space of thoughtless awareness where intuition and intelligence are expressed.

462. The whole process of meditation is to start communing and finding the silence within you.

463. Meditation is just being blissful in the moment.

464. Meditation is needed to infuse deep awareness into both your waking state and deep sleep state.

465. Meditation is a proven way to improve concentration and memory power.

466. You will be amazed to find how much love rises and floods your being when you enter into meditation.

467. Meditation makes the psychological revolution happen in your inner space.

468. When the psychological revolution has happened in you, anything you do becomes meditation.

469. Nithya Dhyaan will prepare your body and mind to experience the state of pure consciousness and bliss.

470. Nithyam means understanding the truths. Dhyanam means internalizing all these truths. Anandam means living them. That is why I say, Nithyam, Dhyanam, Anandam.

471. Samadhi means reaching the source of your being.

Mind

472. Have a beautiful bed to sleep on. But remember to have a restful mind also.

473. With the right attitude, work becomes meditation; else even meditation becomes work.

474. Any work when done intensely becomes meditation.

475. You are like a dish antenna. Tune yourself to joy and only joy will happen to you.

476. You start becoming holistically healthy when you start falling in tune with Nature.

477. Stop thinking and start living!

478. When you generalize, you feel bored. Every moment is fresh. Why do you want to generalize?

479. Live moment to moment. You will remain fresh!

480. Stop verbalizing! All your problems will disappear.

481. Your heart is natural; your mind is societal. Always follow the heart.

482. The mind is a sump between the past and the future. Just evaporate it!

483. The mind empowers words by constantly repeating them. So repeat only positive words.

484. Bad memories are like energy clots in your Consciousness. Just dissolve them.

485. When you are tuned to the physical plane, you see objects. When you are tuned to the spiritual plane, you see God.

486. Flood your mind with awareness and watch your desires, fears and sorrows disappear!

487. Mind your mind before it minds you!

488. You have the potential to make your dreams into reality... and realize what you think as reality is just a dream.

489. Go deep into your mind and see the emptiness in it.

490. Un-clutch from your thoughts and feel the lightness of your being.

491. Witness your mind like a friend. Then you will become your best friend.

492. When you link thoughts and form a pattern, you create unrest within you.

493. When you become restful within yourself, violence disappears in the world!

494. All your negativity has only one power: your faith in it.

495. The only relationship between all our thoughts is that they come from the same source!

496. When you are unclutched, physically you are active and alive, and mentally you are restful.

497. When you unclutch, the inner healing will radiate as physical wellbeing.

498. Drop the idea that you have an addiction, and it will drop you!

499. You are not a byproduct of your actions. You are far bigger than your actions.

500. Thoughts cannot survive the arrow of your watchfulness. So be watchful at all times.

501. When you have a strong identity that you are a ‘separate person’, you lose the innocent way of relating.

  1. What happens in your mind affects not only you but also those around you.
  1. This whole world is a beautiful dream. You look at it as reality because you have experienced it so.

504. The body is the gross manifestation of the subtle mind. So keep your mind healthy.

505. When we infuse healing thoughts into our system, we harbor positive words and thoughts.

506. Withdrawing from the mind, from the five senses itself can happen only when the mind merges with the inner Self!

507. Once you integrate, you know who you really are.

508. Integrating the mind is the essence of life.

509. Our mental setup is the root cause of disease and imbalance in our body-mind system.

510. If your mind is open, you will not resist the healing energy.

511. Mind needs to exist only if you need to develop something constantly externally or internally. There is nothing to be developed.

512. Just drop the old mind; you will create a new body!

513. When the shoe fits, the leg is forgotten, when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten, when the mind fits, the body is forgotten. Living with a fit mind and a forgotten body is what I call a ‘yogic body and vedic mind’!