Acharya Shree, can you please shed light on how we can meditate?
Meditation is very simple to go beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond the thoughts. If you want to begin how to meditate, first thing begin with your body.
I call it Kayotsarga. Kayotsarga is a Shithilikara. Shithilikara means in total relaxation. Because your body is born before your mind.
So you have to focus on the body, not on your mind first. People are wrong when they focus on the mind first.
The mind is developed later. But your body is born first. So if you want to meditate, how anyone need to know how to meditate...first thing you focus on your body. I call it Kayotsarga.
Kayotsarga means total forgetfulness of your body. Like when you go to bed sometimes you sleep continuously 8 hours. You totally forgot your body.
Where were you 8 hours? Even if you can lie down, but you are awake, when you are awake even 5 minutes you are able to forget your body same way when you are asleep.
So I will suggest to you drop your body fully on the floor if you want to do lying down meditation. But if you are sitting or standing there are many ways to do meditation.
So if you're lying down...total no resistance in anywhere - in the vessels, in the bones, in the tissues. Everywhere from your toes to your head total relaxation.
When it is total relaxation, your body will cooperate with you, will not fight with you. It will fully go into relaxation. So I call it Kayotsarga. Means you total forget your body first thing.
Second thing, you can do, you can focus on your third eye. Third eye is very powerful center in the body. It is between your eyebrows. And when you focus there, that focus, that concentration brings a lot of power from inside of you.
That's why the meditation is very powerful. You can focus, the more you focus and your all these thoughts which is everywhere scattered or your mind everywhere scattered...
Once it is focus all these thoughts will be in one direction. And you know how much power it has. Like the Sun.
The Sun has trillions of rays, but no power in it. But if you collect only 100 rays, have a one lens and collect 100 rays of the Sun, it becomes 1 ray.
Because you're concentrating 100 rays to 1 ray. And that it can create fire. Same way if you concentrate on third eye, you are flowing in one direction in one way. And that one direction will give you lot of power.
You don't have to believe me, you have to believe yourself. That you begin to see something and you begin to visualize something. Maybe a light appears in front of you.
Maybe some kind of view, some kind of scenery, some not imagination, some kind of secret. A light coming from the sky, coming from somewhere. You will be shocked, you will be surprised. So focus on your third eye. Third eye is very important.
It is the doorway to enter into the meditation. That's what I suggest second technique.
How to meditate - focus on your eye, third eye. Because these eyes which is visible, they have lot of power but third eye has lot of power. The more you focus, the more you go deep and deep and deeper into your consciousness.
And once the consciousness is open, begin to open even, meditation begins. Maybe you have glimpses. That's what you do this. I can tell you another way to meditate.
You have your half eyes open. And when you have half eyes open you concentrate on the tip of the nose. And your all thoughts will disappear. When your all thoughts disappear you are already meditating.
Best thing is go beyond your body. Go beyond your mind. Go beyond your thoughts. Go beyond your senses. And sit quietly, peacefully.
And you will be really divine. Because when body is forgotten fully you become divine.