Vinod Samprasad - 9 secrets of successful meditation : the ultimate key to mindfulness, inner calm & joy

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Yogi Dr Samprasad Vinod MD, PhD, DSc has taught yoga and meditation all over the world for over 36 years, including India, the USA, the UK and continental Europe. He has written many books, innumerable popular articles in leading newspapers and research papers in international journals. He regularly appears on radio and television in India and Europe. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute, and a patron member of the Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland, Yoga Therapy Ireland and Yoga for Health and Education Trust, UK. He received the coveted National FIE Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to the field of yoga and the Vijayshri Award, which was also given to Mother Teresa. He lives in India.

The foreword is written by the late B.K.S. Iyengar, who was the founder of Iyengar Yoga (which has 180 institutes in over 40 countries) and was one of the most highly respected yoga teachers in the world. He has written many books on yoga practice and philosophy, including international bestseller Light on Yoga (which has been translated into 17 languages), Light on Pranayama and Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

In 2004, Iyengar was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. The President of India conferred Padmavibhushan, one of Indias highest civilian honours, on Iyengar on 26 January 2014. He left his mortal body on 20 August 2014 for heavenly abode at the age of 95. His worldwide legacy is a monumental body of work in the field of yoga. May his soul rest in peace!

This book is dedicated
to my revered father
Maharshi Nyayaratna Dhundirajshastri Vinod
and my mother
Maitreyi Vinod

My father was a true spiritual master. He always cherished the idea of spreading Indian classical wisdom to people across the world. This book is a sincere step in that direction.

Yogi Dr Vinod is the author of 11 successful books on yoga and meditation and one co-authored book on Ayurveda and yoga. 9 Secrets of Successful Meditation is his first book to be published in English, and is also available in Portuguese.

Mental Health and Peace of Mind, 1998, Anmol Publishers, Pune

Inner Transformation through Shavasan-Meditation, 1998, Anmol Publishers, India

The Royal Way to Fulfilment of Aspirations, 1997, Dr Mrs Rujuta Vinod

Meditation Personal Insights and Guidance, 1999, Anmol Publishers, India

Reflections on Yoga, During Travel Abroad, 1999, Pramod Publishers, Pune

Being Happy and Sharing it with Others, 1994, Maharshi Vinod Research Foundation, Pune

Guidelines for Sharing Happiness with Others, 1994, Maharshi Vinod Research Foundation

Yoga and Mind, 2004, Proficient Publishing House, Pune

Yoga Practices (An Inward Journey), 2010, Proficient Publishing House, Pune

Mirror of Life, 2011, Proficient Publishing House, Pune

Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy (co-author), 2014, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan, Delhi

I am grateful to the late Yogapitamah (grandfather of yoga) B.K.S. Iyengar Guruji for his Foreword. His appreciation was always a blessing to me. He was associated with our family for more than six decades. He had given demonstrations on yoga during the huge Vyasapooja Mahotsav for three years in a row at the age of 30. My father initiated this unique social programme in 1944 and it was very popular, attended by thousands of devotees from across India and abroad. He started this event to commemorate Vyasa Maharshi, the guru of all gurus.

My grateful thanks also to the late Howard Kent, Director of the Yoga for Health Foundation, UK (now the Yoga for Health and Education Trust), who kindly offered his help when this book was originally published. May his soul rest in peace.

My special thanks to Dr David Frawley alias Vamadeva Shastri for writing a scholarly Introduction in support of this book. I am grateful to scores of my students of yoga from India and abroad who provided the source material.

My warm thanks to Liz Comerton, Lilias Folan and Dr M.L. Gharote for their generous comments and endorsements.

I am indebted to my better half Rujuta, who looked after all the activities of our Yoga Clinic in India, allowing me the free time to write this long-overdue book on meditation.

I acknowledge with thanks the help and encouragement I received from my brothers Dr Hrishikesh, Udayan and my sister-in-law Dr Arundhati. My warm thanks to my friends Dr Subhash Ranade, Ian Frame, Joy Monkoo and to my yoga students Suneel Chinchanikar, Devendra Kotwal and Shyam Bapat for their help.

I am also grateful to Michael Mann, Kelly Thompson and all the staff at Watkins Publishing for their support.

Dr Samprasad Vinods work on 9 Secrets of Successful Meditation is well worth reading as he logically presents the rhythmic movements of nature as well as our way of living. This is bound to help one understand the flow of life.

Nature moves rhythmically, but we as humans bestowed with freedom of thought create tsunamis and lose the path of rhythm, concord and balance and create disturbances in our thoughts, words and deeds.