Beginning the Practice of Meditation By Swami Rama

Part 3 Preparation for Meditation Before one is ready for meditation, there are two necessary steps one has to practice. First one should learn to train one’s attention, and then one should learn to concentrate: only then can one learn meditation. One should learn to...

Doshas

A living being is made up of five mahabhutas and the atma. Panchamahabhutas form the material aspect of the body while atma forms the spiritual aspect. The panchamahabhutas are space, air, fire, water and earth. The constant interaction between agni or fire, and jala...

Theory of the Chronic Miasms

The Syphilitic Miasm (continued) Since the mental, pranic and physical bodies represent a continuum of different frequencies of vibrating energy, any suppression of the perversions of syphilis on the structural level will force the underlying morbific energy inward to...

In Memoriam

Hailing from Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), Shri Vishnu Sharan graduated from Allahabad University and then got his Civil Engineering degree from the University of Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee). He started his professional career with the U.P. Irrigation...

Beginning the Practice of Meditation by Swami Rama

Part 2 Meditation Is Not Religion Meditation teaches one how to be; it is an inward method for knowing oneself on all levels and for experiencing the higher levels of consciousness. The basic instruction for meditation is “Be still, and know that I am God,” and this...