the same way, for a mind immersed in sensuality, examples can be given from the lives of the Sages and their sayings about the benefits of meditation. Thus it is possible, at least for a time, to arouse the interest of the mind and draw it to meditation.
7) If this does not help and the mind continues to be distracted by daily worries, you can convince it to wait a little with these questions, and then deal with them as much as you like. Such уступка может быть сделана при строгом условии — "если сейчас ты полностью оставишь развлечения и посвятишь себя моей медитации". In most cases the mind, after a moment's hesitation, yields to such a request.
8) There are times when even the most tender mother has to punish her child. Fearing punishment, he quickly weaned from bad habits. Likewise, the mind must be severely rebuked and punished for serious misdeeds. The only means of punishing the mind are fasting or fasting. If the mind does not obey, promise it a fast for the next 24 hours, and in cold weather, a cold shower. At the same time, beware of the flu! Not перестарайтесь. A healthy mind can only exist in a healthy body.
Having imposed a punishment, be consistent and do not soften it, for with connivance, the evil inclinations of the mind can only be aggravated. Having decided to fast, one should not give in to temptation under any plausible pretexts. Notобходимо, однако, отметить, что чрезвычайные наказания вредны, ибо ум при этом хоть и становится послушным, но в то же время — бессильным и малоэффективным, а такой ум бесполезен для высокой медитации. The most effective punishment is when you kind of look critically at the mind from the outside.
9) If the mind is uncontrollable, then one can identify oneself with the intellect and follow it with benevolent skepticism. For some time the mind will go on about its business, but when it realizes that it is under the watchful eye of the dispassionate intellect, which watches it ceaselessly and skeptically, it becomes ashamed of itself, leaves dubious pleasures, and subsides at the feet of the intellect. When this happens, you will feel that the mind is ready for meditation. itт метод в Шастрах называется Сакшибхва. The most important thing in such training should be a deep sense of sincerity, complete conviction in your work, born in faith and a clear understanding of what you are doing. There is no hope of success in spirituality if these noble qualities of mind and heart are absent. Not надейтесь, что эти качества появятся у вас сами собой или будут ниспосланы Notбом или Учителем.
Fight with yourself, be prudent.. Meditate daily, continuously seek the Truth. Be kind. Do good. Love everyone. Eliminate weaknesses. Keep Brahmacharya, good company and health. Refrain from lust, passion, deceit, even if you had to pay for it with your life. And then meditate. Meditate, meditate, meditate and meditate. it — единственно правильный путь к самосовершенствованию.

Chapter XVIII. Secret of success

Any profession can be mastered if you study from books, communicate with specialists and train. It is the same with meditation: it can be mastered and improved by reading the sacred books, by communicating with worthy and spiritual people and by daily practice. Notкоторые хотят найти короткий путь к совершенству. Unfortunately, there is no such way, although speculators from spirituality are trying to assert the opposite. No one, even the greatest Guru, can show such a path.
However, however difficult this path may be, it is quite possible and surmountable, since the psychological defects of a person can be removed by regular meditation. No matter how good the medicine is, the only way to cure the disease is by taking it. It is impossible to improve oneself only by reading books on philosophy and religion. We must live according to the theories described in them. Be sincere in your practice.
May all life, every hour of every day be illumined by the Divine Consciousness and the Supreme Eternal Truth. Play well the part you are placed on the vast stage of life, but do not forget the Great Purpose. Play it as best you can to follow the instructions of the director, God, exactly. His instructions are written in the Great Textbook of Life - the Drachma, which teaches the Highest Values, that is, the ethical and moral rules of life. Live in kindness, love and understanding. Attach your soul stronger and stronger to a higher and nobler life. We are the more successful in this, the farther we move away from the low and vicious. Progress is not possible without renunciation. If you want to move forward, leave the present and move forward. Life is a constant movement from birth to death, from moment to moment. We surrender each moment in order to experience the next.
Until we are ready to leave the place where we now stand, we will not be able to take a step forward. When moving up the stairs, we must leave the passed steps behind us. Let's leave the false values ​​of selfishness, vanity, greed and passion and go straight to the Highest Values ​​of the Perfect Life by accumulating the corresponding good qualities. A diligent practitioner absolutely needs good qualities, and success is achieved quickly and imperceptibly. In essence, all obstacles on the way of spiritual growth are put by ourselves. With regular meditation, we make our path straight. The low values ​​of worldly life have become our essence due to the false idea that this world is real, and with its help, through our feelings, if not today, then tomorrow we can get great happiness. But this is just a false dream. The objects of the world cannot give us even a shadow of happiness. The more we are convinced of the truth of what has been said, the stronger will be our alienation from the outside world and the greater our attachment to the inner world.
Secret of success в медитации заключается в успешном продвижении по пути чистой жизни, когда медитирующий полностью живет ею. The more he lives by true values, the more he succeeds in meditation. Vedanta is by no means a pessimistic denial of life. it жизнеспособная и здоровая философия, планирующая возможность роста и счастья человека в его индивидуальной и общественной жизни; it points the way to the beyond through the conscious experience of life. The more concentration a person masters in daily life, the greater will be his success. And every person who conducts correct meditation will certainly be able to achieve a high degree of concentration. In addition, with the improvement of meditation, he is more and more improved in ethics and morality, in devotion to God, giving himself to the Highest, which will certainly give mental balance and spiritual peace.
Improving his inner world, increasing concentration, having achieved mental balance, peace of mind, regardless of character, in any life situation should achieve success that is not available to any average person.
In this way, meditation becomes a true method of study and covert preparation for resisting the pressure of changing circumstances and impermanent values. With the right meditation, from an ordinary person, you can become incomparable in your abilities. Rishi's example shows how from ordinary people they became Immortals in their Wisdom, power and glory! Meditate and grow!

Chapter XIX. internal expansion

If we look at a banyan tree up close, it seems huge to us, but as we move away, it gets smaller and smaller. From the mountain, it looks like a small dot. In ordinary life, we are blinded by the idea that we are only made up of body, mind and intellect. If we move even a little away from them into the higher spheres of imagination and spiritual practice, then we will understand that our feelings of the selfish "I" are a petty and meaningless nothing.
If our little self is anything like a person, it is only because we have given it a part of ourselves because of our delusions. It has no more reality, strength and power than our shadow. In order to understand the insignificance of our selfish delusion, we need to get away from it, even for a moment, and in such separation learn to observe it through the microscope of pure discrimination.
Our eternal closeness to the selfish "I" has led to the birth of the myth of its invincibility and reality. Is it true? We are sure, beyond any doubt, that the world is real. But let's try to analyze this idea. We live in one room of the house - an integral part of the street; the street is a small part of the city, the city is a small piece of land on the territory of the state: the State is a particle of our Planet, and the Planet is an indistinguishable speck of the Infinite Universe. Well, now can you assert your importance with the same confidence?
Thinking about this, you begin to understand how insignificant, helpless and microscopically small our personality is in comparison with the God of Gods, the Supreme Reality, the All-pervading. Having known our insignificance and limitation by external conditions, we come to the wrong concept that we are not people, but worms. The rediscovery of ourselves in our own, basic spiritual nature enables us to realize that we are an infinite homogeneous mass of consciousness of the Absolute and the Eternal. it и есть the only medicine that can cure us of the sorrows caused by doubts about our True-Nature.
Expand! Expansion is the evolution of man. Expand internally. Grow! Grow to full height to touch the border of the