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Posture of sitting:
The state of sitting during meditation is crucial for a meditator to progress in their meditation practice. This state should be maintained such that one can sit for a long time in meditation without any movement or showing any signs of discomfort or pain.
Relax:
Mental stability is essential along with physical stability to meditate. It is necessary to relax to maintain mental stability in meditation, by moving all other thoughts aside.
Elimination:
When we sit for meditation, we should eliminate memory of and consciousness of the place, person, thing, thoughts of past-present and future activities. We should eliminate all these by knowledge and body consciousness. To become stealy in the form of Maharaj during meditation.
Awareness of knowledge (who am I?):
After eliminating the memory of this world, one should recollect parbhav so as to say, stabilize in parbhav, regain the awareness of knowledge that I am Anadimukta, Maharaj has kept me certainly in Murti. One should relieve such conception.
Tratak :
One should gaze at each and every organ of the Murti of avarbhav, we have affection for, and we are fascinated by and thereby solidify the entire Murti. We should study the Murti so much by practice, that as soon as we close our eyes, we can visualize the entire Murti at a time.
Pratilom :
After solidifying the entire Murti by the practice of Tratak, we should study the entire Murti in pratilom position means head of the Mukta, in the head of Maharaj. Similarly, hand in hand, belly in belly, foot in foot. In this way, instead of visualizing Murti in front of one, one should study by practice to visualize the Murti in the position and direction as one is sitting (pratilom).
Elimination of chain of thought:
We should stop the chain of thoughts occurring in the mind. We should eliminate their chain of thoughts and stabilize Murti. If we face difficulty in stopping the chain of thoughts occurring in the mind, we should chant Swaminarayan Mahamantra emanating from navel and thereby try to stop the chain of thought and stabilize in Murti during meditation. Despite these, if the chain of thoughts does not stop, we should pray to Maharaj and Motapurush for help.
Accomplishment of status:
Visualizing Murti in pratilom position after stopping the chain of thoughts during meditation, one should stabilize in conception that Maharaj has kept me in Murti after transforming me into Anadimukta, now I am certainly dwelling in Murti, only Maharaj is here. As more and more one stabilizes in this concept, one would accomplish that much status during meditation. When the concept that only Maharaj is here, is solidified and one stabilizes in it, complete status is accomplished in meditation.
