Hello Neel – I have just finished listening to the three Audio Meditation Course, you sent to me on Relaxation, Preparation for Meditation, and Meditation Proper. They are the answer to the many questions I would want to ask you about Authentic Yoga, if I were smart enough to know how to word those questions. The tapes are superb! I loved the background guitar music (I think it was a guitar!), pleasant, non-intrusive. At the end of the third tape I recognized the melody of “Greensleeves,” a melody I have always loved, but all the music before that seemed extemporaneous. Very nice. I am thinking how wise you are to introduce meditation and preparation for meditation after first teaching a relaxing method. Otherwise someone new to meditation might think that meditation is just a process of getting to the relaxed state, an end in itself, and miss the whole point of meditation I thought your explanation of choosing an object of concentration was beautifully done, and how the relationship of the meditator and his “object” changes during meditation. Years ago when I first tried to read Patanjali I despaired of ever understanding what he was saying. I knew he was talking about cows, but I had a hard time figuring out how a cow leads to spiritual enlightenment. I liked that you said meditation is doing “nothing special.” I found much wisdom in your “obstacles to meditation” especially talking too much, trying to do too much, or too little, not having a proper goal. And then what you said about music was phenomenal. That the importance of music is maximum. That all yoga is reaching the state of chanting, and that chanting is of God’s name. That Ohm is the sound of the universe, its unchanging soul. This is only the first time through your tapes, so I may have gotten some things wrong . Please forgive. And thank you for your wishes of “all the best” and “several “best luck”s as your gave us your yoga of meditation.
6/22/2006 |