Essentials of Meditative Life

Contents Prayers & Meditations ...........................................................4 The Path before us ................................................................9 Be spiritually hungry............................................................10 What Brahmananda taught .................................................10 Early stages .........................................................................12 Don’t complain about environment.....................................13 Train the body first ..............................................................14 Moral discipline....................................................................14 Cultivate mental harmony ...................................................15 Posture (Asana) ..................................................................16 Pray for all ...........................................................................17 Significance of breathing ....................................................17 Spiritualize desires ..............................................................18 The temple of the Divine .....................................................18 How to meditate ..................................................................19 The Guru is within ...............................................................20 Self-surrender to the Lord...................................................21 Cultivate a definite attitude .................................................21 One Self in all ......................................................................22 For one’s salvation and world’s welfare .............................22