{"id":7244,"date":"2019-01-31T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kriyayogasydney.com\/staging\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:19:28","slug":"concentration-and-meditation-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kriyayogasydney.com\/staging\/concentration-and-meditation-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Concentration and Meditation Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"> \n#cmsms_row_6a09c703bc19b .cmsms_row_outer_parent { \n\tpadding-top: 0px; \n} \n\n#cmsms_row_6a09c703bc19b .cmsms_row_outer_parent { \n\tpadding-bottom: 50px; \n} \n\n<\/style><div id=\"cmsms_row_6a09c703bc19b\" class=\"cmsms_row cmsms_color_scheme_default\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_margin\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_embed_wrap\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GteWfNeMs4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"cmsms_text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You see one of the main factors about healing is to give people a lot of space. Our camps\/Satsangs here are very intense. When I do, I do it with you very intense meditation. You have a lot of free space in the afternoon to fly around, you know and then again you come and we sharpen and it becomes intense till the time you sleep. Your mind is very focal, thinking on the blue of the GOD. Don\u2019t fritter away the energies of the mind. Don\u2019t waste them. They are precious and I tell you do not be disappointed; sometimes you try to meditate and chant \u201cOM NAMAH SHIVAY\u201d but everything else but the thought of \u201cOM NAMAH SHIVAY\u201d comes in your mind. You are thrown about. How many of you have had this experience that in spite of you trying to meditate other thoughts which you do not want sweep you aside. How many of you have had this? \u00a0So all of you are sincere meditators. Those who have not had this they are telling a lie, don\u2019t believe them don\u2019t keep their company b\u2019coz they are too perfect! So a person who sits on the horse is bound to fall. \u00a0If you are learning how to ride you are bound to get injured. \u00a0If you learning how to meditate you are bound to come across these difficulties. \u00a0These are scars of an old warrior, which shows that you been trying through thick and thin and I tell people the worst the meditation, the more the rejoicing you should have. Rejoice\u2026\u2026\u2026and if that\u2019s what I am saying, then you ask me Gurunath that means we should rejoice every day, every meditation gets screwed up at one point or the other. \u00a0But this is bound to happen b\u2019coz you are swimming upstream. \u00a0You know there are only handfuls of people in America who are practicing in depth meditation. \u00a0There is only a hand full of you. \u00a0One in 10 million who is practicing this in-depth meditation. \u00a0Therefore, you are bound to come across these difficulties. \u00a0But the good news is this that if you are meditating, you are trying to do the japa of \u201cOM NAMAH SHIVAY\u201d and while you are doing the \u201cOM NAMAH SHIVAY\u201d, a picture of the goddess Saraswati comes; now you think she is also a goddess, she is also divine but still for the subtler and higher meditation you should only meditate on the subject of your focus. Your mind substance should gel and somehow try as we may, the American word is, we cannot gel the mind. Gel is the word! Gel means when it\u2019s a liquid before you form jelly, it\u2019s all like liquid. When you put it in the fridge or whatever, then it comes like a slice; it\u2019s gelled. \u00a0So yoga is , in American Language, yoga is the practice to gel the mind. \u00a0And if your mind can gel only on \u201cSHIVA\u201d and nothing else, only on \u201cShiva\u201d. \u00a0(Showing a picture\u2026) This is \u201cSHIVA\u201d , here is \u201cPARVATI\u201d. Very correct proportion. \u201cSHIVA\u201d is nothing \u00a0\u201cPARVATI \u201c is everything She is creating galaxies in a regular sequence, just bailing them out like this you know; just making diwali sweets you know, just making ladoos throwing them out . But then when are focusing on HIM(SHIVA) , suddenly \u00a0you focus \u00a0on her, then you focus on the galaxies, then you say oh, which one could be mine, milky way, this is the Andromeda, this is the milky way and in the milky way galaxy, how small are you and then your thoughts get distracted step by step and then you see you have gone far from SHIVA , b\u2019coz then you have located your little solar system, your planet, your house in the bay area, house in san Francisco and LA and in your house is your little dog and you say ooooppps! Where have I gone; from SHIVA to my dog, I have gone from SHIVA to my little dog, what\u2019s the name of your little dog, say it all at once, Samadhi, Nirvan, Bhakti, Shakti, Puja.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You see what I am trying to tell you is that when you go to advanced meditation, when you try to bind your mind substance on a particular object.. well, what is concentration? \u00a0Concentration is binding your mind substance upon a single object. And the mind wanders again and is brought back to the single object. It wanders again and is brought back to the single object. \u00a0This is called the effort of concentration to bring your mind again and again and bind it to the single object of your meditation. \u00a0Is this description simple enough or you want me to simplify it more? \u00a0Who cannot understand it? To whom is this description new? \u00a0Raise your hands! I have not learnt it, its new to me myself so I would raise my hands; b\u2019coz concentration is usually defined as, concentration is the faculty of exclusive attention. \u00a0Who has heard of this? Raise your hands! This is concentration but this you have not heard of that concentration is BINDING THE WHOLE OF YOUR MIND SUBSTANCE UPON A SINGLE OBJECT AND BRINGING IT BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN TO THAT OBJECT EACH TIME IT GETS DISTRACTED . \u00a0This is very deep, you have not heard of this, right? \u00a0Because you do not know that mind substance is a vast ocean, your mind is like a storm, like the hurricane Katrina, it\u2019s not organized it\u2019s not gelled. \u00a0Your mind is like the hurricane Katrina. No mind is organized or gelled. That\u2019s why we have what is called Satsang; sitting in the company of a Master where he sits and you are looking at him, you have a connection with the master , an empathy, a unity with the master and when you look at him eye to eye and goes into his still consciousness, and your mind stills with his mind, your mind stills into his consciousness, so in one minute, in fraction of a second he has done with your years of practice, which you cannot get with years of practice, you get it in a flash. \u00a0Now when you practice concentration; concentration is not only focusing your mind on one object, concentration includes your mind wandering from that object and the effort to bring it back to the focal point of your concentration. \u00a0This is what you have not heard and known; this is never told to you by your teachers. \u00a0Firstly in western education they do not tell you what is concentration. \u00a0They say come here and pay attention! They just say that, right! That\u2019s what you know about Concentration. Then you concentration is focusing on a single object, but that is not concentration alone. \u00a0Concentration is bringing the mind back, bringing the wandering mind back again and again and again like a traught child bringing it back to the object of your attention. \u00a0When the mind is totally not wandering and on the object of attention, it is flowing effortlessly, that is called Meditation. Is the distinction clear to you? \u00a0Even I thought concentration was when mind flows on a single object without distraction. So meditation is a deeper concentration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see one of the main factors about healing is to give people a lot of space. Our camps\/Satsangs here are very intense. When I do, I do it with you very intense meditation. 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