Self-Realization through Yoga Meditation of the Yoga Sutras, the contemplative insight of Advaita Vedanta, and the intense devotion of Samaya Sri Vidya Tantra

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Dwell
Ultimately, we want to Dwell, or remain in the Center...

Yoga meditation is the art and science of systematically 
observing, accepting, understanding, and training 
each of the levels of our being, 
such that we may coordinate and integrate 
those aspects of ourselves, 
and dwell in the direct experience 
of the center of consciousness.

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First seek a moment of direct experience 
Allow that direct experience to expand 
Then come to DWELL in that direct experience

First seek a moment of direct experience 

The goal of yoga meditation has to do with the realization of the Absolute center of our being, that which is eternal, and not subject to death, decay, or decomposition. 

However, the experience of enlightenment comes in stages.

First, seek one second of 
direct experience of the Absolute. 

To seek permanent realization, 24 hours per day, every day, seems to most of us to be something unattainable for us individually. Maybe some elite spiritual people may do this, the mind may think, but not us. 

A good starting place, as a goal, is to seek even one second of direct experience of the Absolute Reality at our Center of Consciousness.

Allow that direct experience to expand

That one second of direct experience of the Absolute is then allowed to expand. At first, it is a matter of finding our way back to that moment of direct experience, which can seem quite elusive once found and lost. (Although even one second of direct experience creates a groove of memory in the mind-field which is extremely motivating in a positive way.) (See Yoga Sutra 1.50)

Then come to DWELL in that direct experience 

Eventually one comes to dwell in that Absolute Reality 24 hours per day, every day, permanently. The shorter periods of direct experience of the Absolute Reality are as qualitatively deep, but now the sage remains in that place, and is called a master. Ultimately, this is the goal of yoga meditation. 

 

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This site is devoted to presenting the ancient Self-Realization path of the Tradition of the Himalayan masters in simple, understandable and beneficial ways, while not compromising quality or depth. The goal of our sadhana or practices is the highest Joy that comes from the Realization in direct experience of the center of consciousness, the Self, the Atman or Purusha, which is one and the same with the Absolute Reality. This Self-Realization comes through Yoga meditation of the Yoga Sutras, the contemplative insight of Advaita Vedanta, and the intense devotion of Samaya Sri Vidya Tantra, the three of which complement one another like fingers on a hand. We employ the classical approaches of Raja, Jnana, Karma, and Bhakti Yoga, as well as Hatha, Kriya, Kundalini, Laya, Mantra, Nada, Siddha, and Tantra Yoga. Meditation, contemplation, mantra and prayer finally converge into a unified force directed towards the final stage, piercing the pearl of wisdom called bindu, leading to the Absolute.

 

 

 

 

 
Yoga Nidra Meditation CD by Swami Jnaneshvara
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