MEDITATION MEANS YOGA OR UNION WITH THE EXISTENCE…….

Meditation means YOGA. Yoga here means union or being one with everything and not in the sense as we usually understand i.e. yogasanas. One can therefore say that meditation is Yoga and Yoga is meditation. An enlightened being is one who has become one with the existence. There are four ways to achieve this state of union or yoga – karma yoga (yoga of action), bhakti yoga (yoga of devotion); gyaan yoga (yoga of intelligence) and kriya yoga (yoga of internal action). Whatever the yoga or combination of these one may follow but the purpose of all this is to achieve the state of union with the existence. In that state the person is in tune with the existence i.e. to have become pure awareness or an observer or a witness or a simply knower as we know them by different names. The five bodies which we are made of are – annamaya kosha (physical body), manomaya kosha (mental or mind body), pranmaya kosha (energy body); vigyanmaya kosha (transitory body) and anandmaya kosha (bliss body). In the state of yoga we experience bliss for which we have to work upon our first three bodies which are physical in nature. Once these physical bodies are in perfect tune then only we can experience blissfulness or Ananda or state of union with rest of the existence, the so called turiya state. When one is meditative then his suffering ends because in that state he becomes a part of the whole and hence is in touch with the reality or truth. That’s why one can say that meditation is awareness and awareness is meditation…………………….BeAware

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