Dr Yogini Shubh Veer - Meditation & Yoga: Discovering the Higher Spheres of Existence

MEDITATION
&
YOGA

MEDITATION
&
YOGA

DISCOVERING
THE HIGHER SPHERES
OF EXISTENCE

(DR) YOGINI SHUBH VEER

PH.D. (A.M.) INDIA

D.SC. (A.M.) INDIA

PH.D. (Y, M & A.M.) USA

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DEDICATED

WITH ALL LOVE AND GRATITUDE

TO MY GURUS

SHRI SURYANARAIN
&
SHRI MAHAVEER

All yoga postures shown in the book are by the author, when aged above 40.

Photographs were taken by the authors students.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Almost five decades ago, our meditation course was started. Since, it has been taught to thousands with superb results.

Offered as an initiation in Siddha kundalini mahayoga meditation, it was intended for those interested in the metaphysical form of the science of yoga. Our aim has always been to reach a maximum of genuine seekers.

However, many had come for their personal troubles, either health, professional or otherwise. After getting reprieve from mundane problems, most continued with meditation. Attempting to delve deeper into the mysterious realms of the mind.

Our first book was centred more on hatha yoga with a hint at the principles of meditation. After an excellent response, most have expressed their wishes for further knowledge about the intricacies of meditation.

Repeated requests for deeper insight into the higher spheres of the mind have given shape to this manuscript. Our endeavour is to allow finer access to this eternal knowledge.

We have also included a section on hatha yoga exercises to supplement the yoga course of our first book. The new postures may well be merged into the postures already being followed by previous readers.

We again thank all those students who have helped make this endeavour possible. We have a special thought for those loving souls who have helped us keep the torch of meditation and yoga burning.

Yogini Shubh Veer

September 27, 2017

INTRODUCTION

From time immemorial Indian mystics, the first seers of truth, in their relentless struggle to solve the mystery of creation, unravelled the subtle forces of nature. Constant search and personal experience revealed to them the laws that control our physical, mental and spiritual existence.

In this distant pilgrimage through time, they took care to record in detail their practice and their findings. What they experienced, they preached to their disciples and to public gatherings, who in turn put them into practice. Over time, earnest seekers would replicate them and realise their authenticity for themselves.

These will further develop into different disciplines to help advance mans spiritual growth. They will be known under one name, Yoga. Of Sanskrit origin, Yoga refers to the practical aspect of religion. Yoga means the union of Jivatma with Paramatma, the individual soul with the universal soul, the Absolute.

Religion means individual personal experience, through the practice of the different paths of yoga. Religion is not mere theorising or speculation. Book knowledge will not make us any more religious. Yoga is gaining control over the mind through concentration and meditation. The end and aim of religion is freedom from the cycle of life and death.

Men are not all the same. Some are less developed, others more and some, highly developed; the primitive, the literate and the scholarly; the unawakened soul, the half awakened soul and the awakened soul. We have an array of possibilities to choose from and it depends entirely on us. There are different types of yoga to suit these different tendencies or temperaments.

Hatha yoga helps us cater more to our physical needs. This has been dealt at length in our first book. Suffice to say that it is a branch of the science of Yoga.

Hatha yoga deals with our health, hunger, sleep; how to enjoy perfect health and alleviate disease; how to keep young and increase our store of prana. The primary object of hatha yoga is to gain control over the involuntary functions of the body. Some breathing exercises and eye exercises help to increase concentration and gain psychic powers.

Hatha yoga has different kinds of asanas, yoga postures for sitting in meditation. Before any attempt to meditation, one has to be physically and mentally prepared and fit. A sitting posture has to be mastered where the back and spinal cord has no obstruction. Breathing being an important component, the body has to be maintained upright, that breathing is easy and smooth. Prana, vital force, is stored up in the nerve centres of the spinal cord. Keeping the back and spine straight facilitates prana circulation through the spinal cord. Prana is also responsible for the motion of the lungs to allow breathing to take place freely. Keeping the body straight will facilitate all body systems working perfectly.

In modern times many yoga postures have been altered by laymen to include elements of acrobatics etc. Those basic yoga postures which realised gurus spontaneously get during meditation are of help to the seeker in his meditation. It is advised that only such hatha yoga exercises be practiced which are helpful to Raja yoga, the yoga that leads man to realisation of cosmic consciousness or God consciousness.

Raja yoga is considered the surest path to perfection. It deals exclusively with the power of the mind. It is also known as the science of applied psychology. Raja yoga teaches how to control the mind, strengthen the will power, and develop the powers of concentration and meditation, opening the way to the state of Cosmic Consciousness. The practice of meditation, the highest form of concentration, transforms the mind into pure consciousness.

Our spiritual ancestors established meditation as a necessity for humanity and evolved the science of Raja yoga, a perfect science within reach of every human being. Sage Patanjalis Yoga aphorisms are accepted as the highest authority on Raja Yoga. Known as Ashtanga yoga, it comprises eight steps: Yamas and Niyamas are the first two steps, Asana the third; Pranayama the fourth; Pratyahara is the fifth, sixth is Dharana, Dhyana is seventh and the highest step is Samadhi, the state of super consciousness.

Bhakti yoga is the path of complete devotion to a personal God, a chosen ideal. It is one of the spiritual paths to realise union with God. Bhakti is the means as also the end result. It is a practice based entirely on complete surrender to the Lord, through extreme intensive love to Him.

Bhakti yoga as a path will undoubtedly lead to the same goal as any other path of yoga. It represents the ideal path for those who are highly emotional and sensitive. It is for those who are best at outwardly expressing their love and devotion for God.