Meditation Booklet - by Sri Swami Satchidananda

Sri Swami Satchidananda gives a remarkably thorough overview of the various techniques of meditation in relatively few pages. The booklet describes the use of mantras, yantras, and specific breathing practices. Included in the Guided Meditation audio cassette package.

Booklet, (5" x 7" / 32 pages / Paper)

Prayer and Meditation- by HH Sri Swami Satchidananda:
Sincere and whole-hearted prayer is meditation. You are one-pointed in your attention. When you focus your mind on a particular idea connected with God, then prayer is a form of meditation. An unmeditated prayer without full concentration will not be very powerful, and it is not surprising if such a prayer brings no satisfaction. There has to be proper attunement; the mind should be one-pointed, focused, and free from selfish motives.

Choose what you like for meditation or prayer, but mean what you say and what you do. When the thinking-speaking-acting all go together, then they will bear fruit. When I speak, my hands move this way and that without my consciously willing it. Without my knowledge, my body automatically cooperates helping me to express something. Mental expression is foremost; the body will act accordingly.

The same thing happens with your prayers and daily actions. Prayers transform themselves into actions. Actions offered up are prayers. In time every action is a prayer; it's a meditation. You won't be able to live any other way. In the beginning you may be able to separate them: "This is action and this is prayer." It's a good way to start. Set time for one and the other. But gradually it expands until the prayerful attitude pervades your entire life. In the end everything is prayer.