This makes me thing if getting into the silence via mantra's leading quality and going through dharana->dhyana states to reach it are the same things. Could you please explain this?
quote:This makes me thing if getting into the silence via mantra's leading quality and going through dharana->dhyana states to reach it are the same things. Could you please explain this?
Yes.... In Deep Meditation there is first concentration on an object....we gently come back to the mantra I AM every time we notice that we are off it. This is dharana.
Then....when taken by the mantra (or led by it, as you call it).....when falling deeply inwards with its resonance....there is dissolving of the object (we "lose" the mantra). This is dhyana.
In the gap that follows (this gap increases with consistent daily meditation sessions and eventually spreads to all of life)....before coming back out with thoughts, emotions, sensations or images...... there is absorbtion in inner silence. This is Samadhi.
mantra's leading vs dharana->dhyana
Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 09:27:55 AM
