Self developed

THREE STAGES OF MEDITATION There are three stages of  Meditation. The first is what is called  [Dharana],  concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to concentrate my mind upon this glass, excluding every other part from my mind except this glass. But the mind is wavering....  when it has become strong and does not waver so much, it is called  [Dhyana] , Meditation. And then higher state when the differentiation between the glass and myself is lost -- [Samadhi or absorption] . The mind and the glass are identical. I do not see any difference. All the senses stop and all powers that have been working through other channels of other senses [are focused in the mind]. Then this glass is under the power of the mind entirely. This is to be realized. It is a tremendous play played by the Yogis.  FIRST STEP : DHARANA  Dharana (-dha- “to hold) means being able to hold attention on an  object for progressively longer periods of time with...

A TREMONDOUS TASK  According to the Yogis, there are three principal nerve currents; one they call the Ida, the other the Pingala, and the middle one the Sushumn, and all these are inside the spinal column.  The Ida and the Pingala, the left and the right, are clusters of nerves, while the middle one, the Sushumna, is hollow and is not a cluster of nerves. This Sushumna is closed, and for the ordinary man is of no use, for he works through the Ida and Pingala only. Currents are continually. Going down and coming up through these nerves, carrying orders all over the body through other nerves running to the different organs of the body.  The task before us is vast; and first and foremost, we must seek to control the vast mass of sunken thoughts which have become automatic with us. The evil deed is, no doubt, on the conscious plane; but the cause which produced the evil deed was far beyond in the realms of the unconscious, unseen, and therefore more potent. ...