Message #2519

[Jitendra Hydonus]

My initial thought on this would be that Dharana (Concentration) and Dhayana (in these techniques) are the goal of practicing the Hong Sau and Om techniques while making an effort to meditate. But true meditation is one pointed concentration on God alone this is what is meant by Dharana. When this state has been achieved we then can enter Dhayana. All of the meditation techiniques that we have been given helps us to realize the state of Dhayana. We don't say we must practice one technique to get to one state of consciousness and another technique to get to another state of consciousness. Yogananda is merely decribing the 8 fold path so that we know where we are in our spiritual evolution and practice and where we are headed by practicing all the techniques given. We are practicing concentration in the Hong Sau technique so that we can achieve the state of Dharana which is true concentration. By the way; there is no gaurantee that we are going to be in these higher states just by practicing Kriya. Kriya is just one more method to help us get there. Any one of these techniques can also help us get there or be there. So we are talking about techniques that help us towards different stages of the 8 fold path-states of consciouness that we achieve by practicing all these techniques every session.

i think the important thing with all this practice is to realize we are not talking about hair splitting mental gymnastics. i mean just about the time you think you got it figured out intellectually someone will come along and practice devotion and will already be where we are trying to get. But it does help to focus on the concepts that the great ones have left us. So Kashiraja in that sense i thank you for bringing these teachings to the forum.

Steve Hydonus