MANTRA & MEDITATION
by Swami Sivananda
🕉️ Om Namah Shivay
When you do JAPA (Repetition of a mantra) and Meditation, if evil thoughts enter your mind, do not use your will-force in driving them.
You will lose your energy only. You will tax your will only. You will fatigue yourself. The greater the efforts you make, the more the evil thoughts will return with redoubled force. They will return more quickly also. The thoughts will become more powerful.
Be indifferent. Keep quiet. They will pass off soon. Or substitute good counter thoughts or think of the picture of thy Ishtam (Beloved dorm of God) and the Mantra again and again. Forcibly pray.
Never miss meditation for a day. Be regular and systematic in your spiritual practices.
Take Sattvic food. Fruits and milk will help mental focusing.
Chant everyday 108 times
OM LOKAH SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTU
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 