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Dhyana Yoga

by Krishnananda Guruji

📖 50 pages 🗓 2007

About This Book

This companion book for Dhyana Maduvudu Hege provides information on the instruments and faculties of perception within us, the Creation, its beginning, it purpose and its end, our journey and purpose. It also explains in brief, the concepts of Destiny, Karmas, Life and Death, Yoga, Chakras, Astral Travel etc. Considered as a Spiritual textbook, a must read for serious aspirants.

What You'll Learn

• Understand the eight limbs of yoga (ashtanga) as they specifically relate to meditation: how yama, niyama, asana, and pranayama are not optional preliminaries but essential foundations whose absence limits how deep meditation can go
• Grasp the crucial distinction between dharana (concentration — the deliberate directing of attention to an object) and dhyana (meditation proper — the sustained effortless flow of attention toward an object) that most Western practitioners conflate
• Learn Guruji's detailed teaching on pranayama as a meditation preparation: the specific breathing patterns that calm the nervous system, the relationship between prana (life force) and citta (mind-stuff), and why breath regulation is the most direct route to mental stillness
• Recognise the signs of genuine samadhi states as described in the classical tradition: how they differ from the pleasantly relaxed states many practitioners mistake for deep meditation, and what the transition into genuine absorption actually feels like
• Appreciate the understanding of the kleshas (afflictions of consciousness) and how they function as the primary obstacles to meditative depth: how avidya (spiritual ignorance), asmita (ego), raga (attachment), dvesha (aversion), and abhinivesha (clinging to life) manifest in meditation practice and what to do about them

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