VIVEKANANDA STUDY CIRCLE

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - MADRAS

Hints for meditation

(Note: Detailed instructions and personal guidance will be provided during the Guided Meditation sessions that are usually arranged at the beginning of every academic year)

Preliminaries

1. Purity:

Wash or take bath before starting. Put on clean clothes.

Sit in a clean, quiet place.

2. Prepare a mood:

By reading spiritual texts (elevating passages from books like Gita).

Keep flowers or burn incense to create a conductive atmosphere in your room.

3. Posture:

Sit with chest, neck and head erect. Be relaxed and don't move.

4. Prayer:

Prayer for everyone's welfare.

5. Pranayama:

Give auto suggestions that you are breathing in purity, love, strength, bliss.

Breathe out the opposite qualities.

Breathe rhythmically.

6. Awareness:

Observe your body and mind.

Meditation

1. With Open Eyes :

with the object of meditation in front of you.

2. With closed eyes:

With thinking of the object outside.

3. Imagine:

A space within your heart with a blooming lotus. Above it think that there is a glowing light like a sun.

Inside it think of the object of meditation.