Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study

by Mouni Sadhu

Overview

A book permeated with faith and spiritual experience.

Written after a lifelong study of the matter and based on experience, Meditation opens a new realm in human consciousness, to be appreciated by all those who believe that continuing spiritual and intellectual progress is needful to enrich our daily lives. ‘Cosmic Clichés’ open the widest of vistas for them.

Apart from providing material for study, the inestimable value of the book lies in the way in which it treats the subject from every possible angle and from an interdenominational approach. In this way adherents of any religion or any philosophic system will not fail to find suitable themes and instructions.

Initiatory teachings about the mind, its workings and possibilities; the origin and control of the thinking processes; human destiny and the true aim of life, are accompanied by a logical and scientific exposition of those exercises needed for the development of the meditative process.

In brief, many will find Meditation the work for which they have been seeking and longing ever since they realized the necessity for taking their destiny into their own hands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904658061
Publisher:	AEON BOOKS LTD
Publication date:	12/31/2005
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mouni Sadhu (1897–1971) is the pen name taken by Dymitr Sudowski an occultist, spiritual teacher and author. The word 'mouni' means silent and 'sadhu' refers to a wandering holy man. The author has studied many paths on the route to self-realization, from Western Magic and Hermeticism to the bhakti yoga teachings of Ramana Maharshi. His writings are a wealth of practical and useful information and advice. His books cover subjects such as concentration, meditation, spiritual growth, the higher consciousness Theurgy and the Tarot.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PART I - THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES
- Definition of Meditation
- The Science of Cliches
- Adaptations of the Laws of Cliches
- Some Basic Questions Answered - Achievements Made Possible by Regular Meditation
- Obstacles to Meditation
- Assistance on the Path of Meditation
- Further Questions Explained
- Different Types of Meditation
- Subconsciousness or Hyperconsciousness

PART II - TECHNIQUES OF MEDITATION
- The Main Difficulties for Beginners
- Introductory Exercises - Series I
- Introductory Exercises - Series II
- Introductory Exercises - Series Ill - Elementary Meditation - Series IV - Intermediate Meditation - Series V (Dealing with the Mind)
- The Creation of Cliches XVIII Meditation in Diagrams
- Japa

PART III - REGULAR MEDITATION
- An Ethical Group of Meditations - Series I
- Sankaracharya's Meditations - Series II
- From the Maharshi's Wisdom -Series III
- Exercises Dealing with the Mind -Series IV

PART IV - ADVANCED MEDITATION
- The Sermon on the Mount - Series I - Meditation about Mastership - Series II
- Meditation on God - Series III
- Meditation on The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis - Series IV
- Axioms of Truth and the Bhagavad-Gita - Series V

PART V - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPLATION
- Mute Meditation - Mute Prayer
- Contemplation as a Synthesis of Both
- Mystical Powers in Contemplation
- The Possibility of Miracles

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Editorial Reviews

A book permeated with faith and spiritual experience.

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