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Meditative Trainings
Meditation is a means of developing oneself as consciousness, as well as the only possible way of cognizing God and Merging with Him.
There are four principal kinds of meditative trainings: a) refinement of consciousness; b) augmentation of it; c) transferring concentration of consciousness within one eon, as well as to other eons, d) mastering methods of merging of individual consciousness with Consciousness of God.
Actually, the entire Path to the Mergence with the Primordial Consciousness can be expressed as an astonishingly simple scheme: developing one’s spiritual heart inside one’s body — growing it gradually up to the size of our planet accompanied with coincident exploring of more subtle eons of the multidimensional universe — and Merging oneself (as a spiritual heart) with the Creator in His Abode.
God is Love. And the only thing we need to do in order to become a Part of Him is to also become a large, strong, wise, and refined Love. This we can achieve through developing ourselves as consciousness, expanding from our own anahata chakras.
In this context, it is becoming clear for us what we should cultivate in ourselves and what we should cut off. We should grow ourselves as wise, strong, and refined Love. We need to purify ourselves of everything that is Not Love: all kinds of rudeness, anger, and egocentrism, including emotions of condemnation, jealousy, greed, envy, violence, egotistic sexual desire (lust), etc.
We already know one meditation that helps develop consciousness in this way. This is the cross of Buddha. This meditation, performed regularly, teaches us to firmly look at the world from the anahata chakra and to tune it correctly, as well as wonderfully trains our power of love.
The next principal stage of development of the spiritual heart will be its expanding, “overflowing” in lucid calm of mornings on open natural landscapes (for example, seashores, prairies, fields, hilltops or mountain summits). The correct direction of “pouring out” of the body is backwards, for this favors exiting the body in more subtle state. After that “swim off” far behind the body, merge with Love of the Holy Spirit there and then being one with Him flow forward through and above the body, stop, move back again, feel that He and you are Love, that you are One.
The third stage is finding Living Light of the Holy Spirit inside our planet. There He is even subtler, than above the Earth surface. One should start expanding the spiritual heart in this eon — until one fills it up with consciousness. The most important advice at this stage would be to try to feel the hands of consciousness that come out of one’s expanded spiritual heart. The palms of the hands should face upwards. One can move around smoothly by making “strokes”. A touch with these hands, which are attuned to the Light of Consciousness of the Holy Spirit, can heal almost any disease, working incredible wonders.
Such meditations of love can be practiced throughout the year, but they can be successful only during daytime. The best season for this kind of self-perfection work is spring, when exultation of nature tunes us to the correct emotional sate and gives us its power — power of the emotion of Love.
The next step for the one, who has successfully mastered the meditations discussed above, is hard work on filling all subtlest eons of multidimensional space with oneself as a spiritual heart. The last eon one will need to fill up is the Abode of the Creator.
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Sathya Sai Baba says the following about the highest forms of meditation:
“The term meditation implies any means that help to dispel the illusion that God and the essence of each man, as well as the essence of the whole material world, are different.
The right meditation is merging of all thoughts and indriyas with God.
Correct fruits of meditation are … when all actions come out of Consciousness of God and not from the mind.
Mergence with the Absolute means removal of the veil of ignorance, i.e. of the illusion of dual existence of the differentiated parts — as opposed to the One Absolute.
Man can observe the Absolute, manifested in divided, in the life of an Avatar.”
I can assure you that all of this is reality.
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