Description
Book SynopsisA book permeated with faith and spiritual experience.Written after a lifelong study of the matter and based on experience, Meditation opens a new realm in human consciousness, to be appreciated by all those who believe that continuing spiritual and intellectual progress is needful to enrich our daily lives. 'Cosmic Cliches' open the widest of vistas for them.Apart from providing material for study, the inestimable value of the book lies in the way in which it treats the subject from every possible angle and from an interdenominational approach. In this way adherents of any religion or any philosophic system will not fail to find suitable themes and instructions.Initiatory teachings about the mind, its workings and possibilities; the origin and control of the thinking processes; human destiny and the true aim of life, are accompanied by a logical and scientific exposition of those exercises needed for the development of the meditative process.In brief, many will find Meditation the work for which they have been seeking and longing ever since they realized the necessity for taking their destiny into their own hands.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
FOREWORD
PART I - THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES
- Definition of Meditation
- The Science of Cliches
- Adaptations of the Laws of Cliches
- Some Basic Questions Answered - Achievements Made Possible by Regular Meditation
- Obstacles to Meditation
- Assistance on the Path of Meditation
- Further Questions Explained
- Different Types of Meditation
- Subconsciousness or Hyperconsciousness
PART II - TECHNIQUES OF MEDITATION
- The Main Difficulties for Beginners
- Introductory Exercises - Series I
- Introductory Exercises - Series II
- Introductory Exercises - Series Ill - Elementary Meditation - Series IV - Intermediate Meditation - Series V (Dealing with the Mind)
- The Creation of Cliches XVIII Meditation in Diagrams
- Japa
PART III - REGULAR MEDITATION
- An Ethical Group of Meditations - Series I
- Sankaracharya's Meditations - Series II
- From the Maharshi's Wisdom -Series III
- Exercises Dealing with the Mind -Series IV
PART IV - ADVANCED MEDITATION
- The Sermon on the Mount - Series I - Meditation about Mastership - Series II
- Meditation on God - Series III
- Meditation on The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis - Series IV
- Axioms of Truth and the Bhagavad-Gita - Series V
PART V - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPLATION
- Mute Meditation - Mute Prayer
- Contemplation as a Synthesis of Both
- Mystical Powers in Contemplation
- The Possibility of Miracles
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
