Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Sri Ramakrishna

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Has a good vibration yes this is my good vibration it's like it's the church basically and there have been some holy thinking some meditation which has gone on here
so a temple a church a meditation the hall where people have thought about God or contemplated quietly for a long time so this meditation Hall this idea spread everywhere but the way they execute it sometimes
I found an International Airport fantastic and they say proudly they will announce meditation room in such-and-such place meditation and interfaith room

Sri Ramakrishna

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

so good I must go and see I saw just next to the bathroom that's the only place they could find because it's low down on the priority, big food coat is their big coat for like you know all sorts of shiny objects are there duty-free but in one corner next to the washroom, there is the embedded
meditation because that's not high priority no it should be a holy place which has associations the right time and right place immediately when you sit down it's a big support to your mind and people do feel a vibration it is not enough to say just because you've conditioned your mind this is a holy place this is a temple

Sri Ramakrishna

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

so it will feel holy there but that might have something to do with it but I have seen in value room at our main monastery, thousands of people come many people are just like tourists they're just coming there

I still, see how they entered the gate and they say ah he's hunted I go wow what a peaceful place now it's not at all pleased peaceful at that hour there thousands of people coming in but just entering the gate they feel peaceful

so it's not just association they are not regular devotees, they've come maybe for the first time in their life but there is something their association with place regularity time place you know one of the most powerful meditations

Sri Ramakrishna

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
I have is a very simple thing it's I year after year every day in the morning and evening in balloon mud we have this pronounced we offer our salutations to the temple of Shri Ramakrishna to the temple in Swami Brahman and the Maharaja's temple swami Vivekananda temple and the place where the monks are cremated the direct disciple the samadhi star and it's a routine now because

I have done it quietly attentively day after day month after month year after year for maybe 12 to 14 years of my life more than that 15 16 16 years of my life now it's effortless and just sits down quietly I can recall the feel of the pavement below my feet the stairs as

I can climb them the whole thing is vivid before this close my eyes it's so vivid the image of Sri Ramakrishna and the temple it's very cool that cool touch up the marble on my forehead when I bow down everything is the tactile the visual the feeling around and the mental feeling inside it's very clear every path every step of the path to the temple of the holy mother that temple itself what thoughts come when you go there now it's just repetition time and place and regularity and it's a powerful effortless visualization but effortless now because 1516 years it's been repeated every day so this is the power of repetition regular time the place

I remember a nice M analogy was given to me by a yogi in Gangotri

I was sitting by the river so we used to go for begging for food but that was not adequate so it feels hungry so there where there are apples I would pluck from the trees and

I would eat the apples and sit near the river munching dapples now once one yogi came and sat next to me and the river was in full spate at that time Ganga it's narrow and fast there it was just after the monsoon season

Sri Ramakrishna

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
so a lot of water and he said Swami you know what's the difference between a worldly mind and a yogic mind the mind of one who of the meditator and the one who does not meditate what is the difference is this look at this river it's full of water and flowing fast and the water is dirty and it's dangerous you can't cross it easily and if you get swept away if you actually somebody had died the day before and been swept away now he says the water is but if you come in winter when you come in winter the same the river it will be mostly frozen the higher reaches are frozen

so there is less water and it flows slowly and it's crystal-clear water now it's dirty because landslides a lot of mud a fall has fallen into the water but at that the time it's crystal clear and

Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 3)