These are some of the important kinds of yoga, There is Karma Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Gyana Yoga. And taking the best of all these things constitutes Raja Yoga (Kriya Yoga), which is part of (SRF) Self-Realization Fellowship, there you will freely receive Raja Yoga to hasten your evolution. Most important whether you are more advanced or just a beginner there are three states of consciousness in the way you hold your physical eyes. When keeping your eyes in a downward position that is the subconscious sleep state and keeping them downward when trying to meditate can cause you to induce sleep, when keeping the eyes straight that is the worldly state and non meditative and to reach the super-conscious state is turning them upward.
When you turn both eyes at the point between the eyebrows you neutralize the positive and negative current of the medulla oblongata. If you don’t put your attention and eyes at the point between the eyebrows you are just sitting and not meditating. You must use your will to keep the attention there.
You have heard this before. If you are distracted or torn apart by worries when you sit down to meditate, make a really strong command right at the beginning of your meditation to dismiss all thoughts of the world. Pretend that you are dead to the world and dead to your worldly duties. That’s logic and that kind of reasoning quickly helps you to weaken the hold that your problems have on you. If you have ever faced a real crisis or illness, you know how quickly all these petty worries and concerns start to recede; those things that seemed so important are suddenly not so important at all. Remember this: it it’s not the length of your meditation that is most important; it is the depth of your attention during meditation that is necessary.
The moment you meditate the Master has said “I don’t care how lousy your meditation might be you have placed yourself at the service of God, you cannot do a greater action then to sit on the chair be still and let God work through you. You begin to work through a channel and since there are so few who want to meditate those who do make double good karma.”
Lets clear up some misconceptions about meditation. There has to be clarification between what real meditation is and all sorts of misconceptions like visualization, contemplation, reflection, introspection, deep thought, pondering, daydreaming, musing, self-absorption, self-examination, self-observation, self-questioning, soul-searching, reasoning, speculation, analyzing, doing any of these is not doing true meditation. There are many paths and scores of teachers with different explanations of meditation and real meditation has nothing in common with the unscientific techniques of breath control taught by a host of ill-advised zealots.
Next is the cultivation of concentration upon your spiritual eye. Your eyes must be turned upward to the center of your eyebrows. The moment your eyes go down you can fall asleep and lean forward like many do when concentration is not locked up at the point between the eyebrows. One of the true signs of advancement is seeing cosmic light and that light is right between the eyebrows and if it turns opal blue with a gold ring you are seeing Christ Consciousness. If you see that light in meditation beneficial changes will take place in your mind. When advanced enough upon penetrating that light you may see the five pointed star. However to enter the star in the spiritual eye one must have mastered the breathless state of yoga by learning the techniques of Kriya Yoga.
The Karmic Fate For Those Who Don’t Meditate and The Karmic Fate For The Ones That Do.
What is the fate of those who do not meditate and for the ones that do? Those who ‘save their lives,’ keeping themselves identified with the demands and comfort of the body, and who are reluctant to make the required spiritual labor in the struggle to sit and meditate, will discover eventually he will ‘sacrifice his life,’ of transitory happiness that he sought after to defend and protect. At the end of his life the material man finds he is without God-realization as well as without riches by his worldly life. Daya Mata said: “If you are not regular in your meditation, you will be a beginner even after 20 years.”
Each time we meditate the master says, “When seeing the light in meditation, beneficial changes are taking place in our brain cells. Even if we do not see that light when we meditate, eventually we will.” To see the light during meditation you must break the connection between the body and the mind. As long as you are conscious of your body you cannot go deep into meditation. You have to have complete forgetfulness of your body and that means a “state of absolute immovability.”
So remember this, no matter how many good works you do; no matter how much service you render to humanity; no matter how vast your philanthropies they are not enough to know God, direct communion through meditation is necessary.
