How to start to meditate ?

• What is meditation? How to meditate?
• Benefits of meditation.

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Everything starts with simple steps and as you progress these very simple steps become a foundation.


I have seen people planning but not implementing due to innumerable reasons. But unless you do you cannot accomplish. so JUST DO IT whatever it takes.


" Execution of a plan is more important than the plan itself "


As a beginer you may find it difficult to meditate but as time passes it will become as easy as drinking water. Never lose hope. Patience, perseverance and determination is necessary.


Start with 10 minitues a day. Then gradually increase it to 15-20 mins in the  second week. Then 30 mintues in third week. Maintain this consistency of 30 minutes for a month or 2 months. This way you build a habit of meditating daily. Don't change techinques, don't expect everything to happen very fast, the progress depends on the intensity of meditation.


Do it with full heart and don't stop. You will succeed. 


Lord Budhha: "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." 

Authored by GANDHARV

Self Created Cage

If you clearly examine our present times, people are fancied by the idea of becoming rich, gaining power and having popularity. But in reality all these ideas are created by whom?

All these are created by the people and now they are chasing their own fancied ideas.

Does the pursuit of these goals have any true meaning?

Is this life?

Is it worth wasting our valuable life chasing artificially created desires?

When we were born we had nothing. We came empty handed. When we die we will have nothing. We go empty handed. And in this short life the basic necessity that a person requires is food to fill his stomach, few clothes to cover his body, a small place to live. Keeping apart what people's beliefs are if you see in reality these are the only few basic essential requirements that a person requires for his survival.

Why should we not live in contentment with just enough to fulfill reasonably the few needs imposed by nature, devoting the time we could save thereby to the acquirement of assets of a permanent nature, which would be with us forever, a lasting ornament to the unchanging eternal Self in us instead of serving merely to glorify the flesh?

The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity

Think about it.

Is this all there is to life - going to work, making money, eating, watching TV and sleeping?

Or is there some thing we are missing or we are not seeing and we are ignorant.

What is the difference between us and animals then? Are we not living blindly like animals in our self created cage?

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Authored by GANDHARV