Why Meditation ?

• We exist in two forms : body and mind.

• At some stage you realize that peace

and happiness is not outside.

• The quest for the god.

• All great people have done meditation.

 Fundamental Principles
• Key Elements in our lives
– The Mind
– Feelings
• The Mind
– A superb tool
– We use it 24 x 7
– Everything that we experience originates in the mind
• Feelings
– Provides direction
– The ‘Humane’ touch
– Togetherness
 Food for Thought

• What have we done to nurture

these?
• If we were to improve its functioning,
what impact will it have on our lives?
 A look at our lives today
Career Happiness

Family

Health

$$$

Education
Achievement Self
Development
 A Realistic look at our lives
today…
Happiness

Career
Famil
y

Health

$$$
Education

Self

Achievement Development
 The Net Effect

• Being pulled in different directions

• Stress  Breakdown
• Sense of emptiness
Question:
– Can we change this?
– Where to begin?
• Change the situation or change ourselves?
The Solution

Outer Growth

Inner Growth
 Transformation

What was What am What will

I? I? I be? Balance

Past Present Future

♦Your ‘present’ is the result of the
‘Past’
♦‘Act in the present’ to create your
future
 Balance

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ter e
Mat we Hav Wha itual
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 Meditation
♦ Meditation is to think of one thing continuously

Wandering mind  Focused mind

 Benefits of Meditation

• Relaxation  Constant inner calm

• Regulate the functioning of the mind
• Concentration: Ability to focus on a single object
• Makes us more effective in all walks of life
• A better future:

 ‘Circumstances have not changed’ but ‘we

have changed’
 Unique Aspects

• Cleaning
– Impressions
– Sets us free from our past
• Transmission
– All energies flow from High to the low
– Transmission of Divine energy
– Makes our progress independent of our
capacities
• Role of the Guide
Meditation
 What is meditation

• Exercise of mind to keep it healthy and clean, as

we do for body.

• A state of altered consciousness.

• Fourth stage of consciousness.

• Spiritual ecstasy with neurological manifestation.

• Not really a Hallucination

 Spirituality
Meditation

Philosophy
Devotion
Karmayoga
Charity
Character
RELIGION
Morality
Rituals
 What is meditation? Definitions

• Stability of mind

• Wavering of mind is stopped

• Concentration on one target

• Unified thought process

• Thoughtlessness

• Introspection

• Lack of activity

• To leave, to give away

• Mental aerobics

• Intentional self regulation

• Dedication

• Patanjali
• Buddha
• Narad
 Meditation : advantages

• Physical, mental and emotional health.

• Cure / control of psychosomatic disorders including high blood
pressure, coronary artery disease, DM, asthma, rheumatism etc.

• Stress relief.
• Spiritual health.
• Better concentration and sharpness.
• Produces relaxation and reduces reactivity.
• Job performance.
• Interpersonal relations.
• Control of anger and conquering fear.
 Meditation : advantages

• Brings change of attitude

• Inner peace, patience and happiness.
• Cultivates and promotes positive emotions and removes
negative thoughts.

• Control over thought process.

• Improved quality of life.
• Intuitive knowledge, healing power, magnetic personality
and occult powers.
 Meditation is an antidote to stress

• The neuro chemistry and neuro physiology of

meditation is just the reverse of stress.
Stress : Over activity of Sympathetic
system.

• Meditation: Over activity of Parasympathetic

system.
 Caution
• However, it is not a push button system, you need patience.
Hence there is a 90 to 95% -drop out rate. You need to have
right guide, right method, correct understanding, appropriate
place, constant practice, extreme faith and full conviction.

• Please do not sleep.

• Meditation industry is at height, because of

commercialization, so one should be careful.
• Meditation is hard work. It demands
the highest form of discipline which
comes through constant awareness,
not only of the things about you
outwardly, but also inwardly.

- J. Krishnamurti
 The Real Purpose Of Meditation

• Elimination of Ego

• Elimination of Mind
 MEDITATION :
PHILOSOPHICAL PURPOSE

• Philosophical self realization

• God realization

• Total bliss (total relief of pain)

• Total liberation
 Meditation techniques
• Focus on Breathing
• Focus on an object
• Focus on a sound
• Focus on a thought
• Focus on sensual object
• Focus on sensory perception
• Imagery
• Soul meditation
 Meditation Practice
• Choosing a place and atmosphere
• Sitting Posture
• Time of meditation
• Importance of Consistent Practice
• Mental attitude –
“bare attention,” or neutral witness
• Pure moment-to-moment awareness, or mindfulness
Non-judgmental inner listening, equanimity

-WARMING UP-

• Prayer
• Pranayama……… internet connection……... Broadband
 Meditation : methods

 Jain Dhyana  Kayotsarga

 Preksha Dhyana  Tratak
 Vipashyana
 Suryasamyam
 Adarshdhyana (mirror)
 Patanjal Dhyana
 Swaminarayan Dhyana
 Anapan Sati  Arup Dhyana
 Smriti Upasthan  Purnayoga Dhyana
 Spand Dhyana  Atit Dhyana (past)
 Mantra Dhyana  Bhavidhyana (future)
 Nabhi Dhyana  Sarpalanchan Dhyana
 Swapna Dhyana  Samarpana Dhyana
 Nidra Dhyana  Tathata
 Yoga nidra  Hoo-Dhyana (Dynamic
 Nyas Meditation)
 Mrutyu Dhyana  Sahaj Dhyana
 T.S Meditation
 Your own system
 Atmadhyana

• Meditating on the soul is one of the best meditations.

• To remain constantly aware of the soul and its

characteristics and its functions. To dissociate soul
from the body at every moment and the sentinence –
the application of knowledge is the ultimate
meditation.

• Samayam api ma pamayae GOYAMA !

Thought

• SPECT studies :

Mana, vachana, kaya,

Pudgala.
 Meditation-Techniques

• Prekshadhyana : To see –To observe ( Jain Method-Lord Mahavir)

Acharya Tulsiji – Acharya Mahapragyaji

- Breathing (Shwas-Preksha)
- Thoughts (Vichar-Preksha)
- Body (Sharir-Preksha)
- Mind (Anupreksha)
- Leshyadhyana etc.

Prerequisites : Mitahaar, Mitbhashan, Maitri,

Pratikriya - Shunyakriya, Bhavkriya

Truth, Non-violence, non-stealing, celibacy and non-collectiveness

 Meditation-Techniques
• Vipashyana : To see –To observe ( Buddha)
Goenkaji through mahasi sayado

Breathing –
control of emotions & perversions

Thoughts

Body and perception of sensations

control of Raga and Dwesha
 Vipashyana

• Calm and quiet mind

• Awake and attentive mind

• Equanimous mind
 PATANJAL RAJ YOGA
• Yama : Nonviolence, truth, non-stealing
celibacy and aparigriha
(Non-collectiveness)

• Niyama : Purity, Penance (Austerity)

Satisfaction
Spiritual learning
Worship & dedication
• Asana :

• Pranayama :

• Pratyaahar :

• Dharna :

• Dhyana :

• Samadhi :
 Meditation over an
object, place or thought
 Basic Instructions for Meditation
Anapan Sati

• To bring the attention to the breath, but not to control the

breathing. It is not pranayama.

• Give full attention to the feeling of the breath as it goes in

and out.

• Dwell in the present, moment by moment, breath by breath.

• Observe your mind with moment-to-moment awareness.

 Basic Instructions for Meditation

• When attention wanders, note it and then gently bring awareness

back to the breath.

• Why breathing ? Truth, vital, secular, present tense, carrier of

mind – Emotions, thoughts, and perversions

• Continue to watch the breath, accepting each moment as it is for

1 hour. Not to loose single breath

- The power of ‘NOW’

- The concept of VOID

• When breathing takes consciousness into each cell, there is a

vital dance
 Meditation-Techniques
• Anapan Sati : Concentration on breathing

• Smriti Upasthan : Observation & awareness of thoughts

Budhha, Krishnamurti
Avoid conflict with mind.
The route cause of miseries is thought
Study beginning, end, structure &
content of thoughts.
Study movement of mind and feel separated

This will lead to detachment with thoughts.

Observer will realize that himself is being
observed.
• Purnayoga : Maharishi Aurobindo’s
method of combination Yoga
Sri Sri Ravishankarji

• Sudarshan kriya

• Art of living course has

changed thousands of
lives
SILENCE / CONTEMPLATION

In the silence of the heart God speaks

Let God fill us, then only we speak.

Do small things with great love.

The fruit of silence…..is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer….. is Faith
The fruit of Faith……..is love
The fruit of Love …….is Service

- Mother
Teresa
 The Sound of Om in a Drop of Oil
CHANTING MEDITATION
"Since all things are made by the power

 
of sound, of vibration, so can we create
this world by the same power. The
knowledge of sound is supreme, for it is
                              beyond all form. By the knowledge of
sound we obtain the knowledge of
creation, And the mastery of that
knowledge helps us to rise to the
formless. This knowledge acts as our
wings, helping us to rise from the earth
to heaven and penetrate through life
seen and unseen."
-- Pir Hazrat Inayat Khan

To do chanting on mantra, its meaning and vibration

A Yantra is a graphic representation
of the sound of Mantra
 Effect of sound chanting
Mr. Emoto decided to see how thoughts and words affected the formation
of untreated, distilled water crystals by typing words onto paper and then
taping them on glass bottles overnight.

                                                                                                

These are effects of the words These are the effects of “You make
“Love and Appreciation” me sick. I will kill you!”
Mr. Emoto decided to see what effects music had upon the
structure of water. He placed distilled water between two
speakers for several hours while playing music and then
photographed the crystals that formed after the water was
frozen. The results of the effects of these two very different
types of music speak for themselves.

                                           
 
                                              

This is the effect of This is the effects of Heavy

Bach’s “Air for the G String” Metal Music
 The seed of the spiritual is found in

 
"

the physical. In the heart of the cells,

in the spiral of the DNA, is written
                        the divine story. When scientific
research, spiritual practice and
artistic expression work together,
heaven and earth are in resonance.
This is the vibratory promise which
is the gift of our musical universe."
- Fabien Maman

This is a picture showing a healthy hemoglobin cell

exposed to a voice singing of the note G '392'. The
cell clearly is pulsing with vibrancy and life as it
entrains to the frequency of the sound, becoming
clearly more alive and healthy. It appears to
actually soak up the sound, until it eventually
pulses and emits the sound.
 Mindfulness Practice

• Observing the body and mind intentionally

Letting experiences unfold from moment to moment and accepting them
as they are.

• Observing thoughts without getting caught up in them.

No effort to control anything except the focus and direction of the
attention. Not a passive process, yet does not involve trying to get
anywhere.

• Eating meditation, sitting meditation, working meditation and meditation

during each act is the goal of mindfulness practice.
 DHYANA YOGA

• Perfect relaxation

• Observer ship

• Non Decisiveness

Dynamic Meditation
 Transcendental
Meditation (TM)

• Movement
founded by
Maharshi Mahesh
Yogi of India.
T.S.MEDITATION
First Practice Silence of body, speech and learn to get isolated
 INTEGRATIVE MODEL TO HEALTH AND HEALING
Anatomical & Related Diagnostic Related Medical
Question Our Experience
Conceptual Design Science Methods Healing Rx

• Spirit • Self Healing

What is • Bliss • Religion • Knowing
• Soul • Prayer
Your • Oneness • Spirituality • Awareness
• Higher • Spiritual Counseling
Goal? With God
Consciousness • Religious Affirmation

5th SOUL
• Dreams • Quantum
How are • • Dream Interpret • Hypnotherapy
• Trance Physics • Labyrinth Garden
you reacting Unconsciousness • Dowsing
• Meditative State • Radioing /Magnets
To current • No Mind
• Regression Therapy
Situation? • Family
• Systemic Family
• Consciousness
4th Intuitive Body Therapy
• Mind:
How do you • Psychotherapy
• Beliefs Consciousness & • •Psychological
React to your • Music Therapy
• Attitudes Psychology Testing
Feelings? • Bio-feedback
• Thoughts Unconsciousness • Mind-Body
• Deep
(logical) rd Medicine
3 Mental Body Meditation
• Guided Imagery
• Laughter Therapy
• Nervous System •Physiolog • Kinesiology • Aroma Therapy
What do • Feeling
• Meridians y • Thermogram • Massage
you Feel? • Emotions
• Chakras •Functional • EEG/EKG/EMG • Reiki
Medicine • Light Meditation
2nd Electrical Regulation Body • Acupuncture
• Mechanics
How is illness •Structure
• 5 senses • Chemistry •Physical Exam • Drugs
Affecting your • Movement •Bones, cells
• Pathologic/ •Laboratory • Surgery
Physical Body? •Biochemistry
Allopathic Test • Herbs/Vitamins
Medicine • Imaging: X-Ray • Physical Medicine
•CT Scan MRI • Supplements
1 Physical Body
st
• Organ Support
 Medical benefits of meditation
Researching the Benefits of  on Meditation :

• With 7 weeks of meditation, cancer patients decreased their degree of

depression, anxiety, anger, confusion, and chest and stomach
symptoms by 50% - and felt more vigor.

• With 10 weeks of meditation, 2/3’s of chronic pain patients had a 30%

reduction in pain, and half had more than a 50% reduction.

• With 10 weeks of meditation, chronic pain patients had less pain, less
mood disturbances, used less pain medication, and could be more
active.  The benefits were still present one year later.

• Three years after an 8-week meditation instruction, patients with

anxiety and panic disorders still showed a benefit.

• All patients with fibromyalgia who meditated for 10 weeks improved,

and over half showed moderate to marked improvement in pain,
fatigue and quality of sleep.
 Medical benefits of meditation
Meditation has been found to be quite useful in most of the psychosomatic disorders including asthma, rheumatism, gut
• problems, blood pressure, diabetes etc.

With 6 weeks of meditation irritable bowel syndrome patients had less flatulance, belching, bloating and diarrhea.
•

Even though daily fluctuations in cortisol are unchanged, people who meditate don’t have the daily fluctuations in the cortisol-
• stimulating hormone (ACTH), or beta-endorphins, suggesting a change in feedback sensitivity.

People trained in and performing an imagery-based relaxation prior to injection, had less inflammatory reaction to chili pepper
• “extract” (capsaicin) injected under the skin.  

With 6 months of meditation, athletes had less increase in the CD8+ suppressor T cell response to strenuous physical stress,
• improving the immune system’s helper to suppressor cell ratio.  It also reduces post-traumatic stress.   
 Medical benefits of meditation

• Patients who meditated during ultraviolet light treatment for psoriasis

had quicker clearing of their skin disease.    

• With 6 months of meditating for 20 minutes twice a day, hypertensive

African Americans had a decrease in the carotid artery wall thickness.

• With 4 years of daily meditation, coronary artery narrowing showed

regression rather than progression.

• Over a 5 year period, people who meditated had over 50% less doctor’s
office visits, and an average of  50% less hospital admissions (including a
reduction all 17 major treatment categories such as benign and
malignant tumors, heart disease, infectious disease, and nervous system
disorders).  Only childbirth rates were the unchanged.
 STATISTICS

• Physicians, Psychotherapists, and other

Professionals are increasingly adding
Meditative Techniques to their practice.

• Over six thousand Physicians have begun

the practice of Transcendental Meditation
and regularly recommend the TM
technique to their patients.

• Many Physicians consider Meditation a key

element of an Integrated Health Program.
 Physiology of Meditation

• Meditation produces a specific physiological response pattern that

involves various biological systems.

• Mechanisms producing meditative effects include metabolic,

autonomic, endocrine, neurological, and psychological manifestation.

• Physiological response to meditation occurs on a multidimensional,

interactive basis.
Effect of meditation

BETA: Alert/Working
14-20 waves per second

ALPHA: Relaxed/Reflecting 8-
13 waves per second

THETA: Drowsy/Meditating 4-7

waves per second

DELTA: Sleep/Dreaming
3-4 waves per second

DELTA: Deep & Dreamless

Sleep .5-2 waves per sec
BETA brainwaves are the fastest frequencies ranging from 14
cycles per second up to 38 cycles per second. Beta is your
normal thinking state, your active external awareness and
thought process. Without beta you would not be able to function
in the outside world.
ALPHA brainwaves are the brainwaves of relaxed detached
awareness, visualization, sensory imagery and light reverie.
Ranging between about 8 cycles per second and 13 cycles per
second, alpha is the gateway to meditation and provides a
bridge between the conscious and the subconscious mind.
 Important features of EEG
changes
related to meditation are :
Establishing alpha activity in spite of open eyes

• Increased amplitude of alpha activity

• Slower frequency of alpha rhythm
• Rhythmical theta waves
• Increased synchronization (hypersynchronization)
• Dissociation of perception from the external sense organs
• Transcendent signal
• Occasional fast wave activity
THETA brainwaves are the subconscious mind. Ranging from
about 4 cycles per second up to 8 cycles per second, theta is
present in dreaming sleep and provides the experience of
deep meditation when you meditate. Theta also contains the
storehouse of creative inspiration and is where you often have
your spiritual connection. Theta provides the peak in the peak
experience
DELTA brainwaves are your unconscious mind, the sleep
state, ranging from about 4 cycles per second down to 0.5
cycles per second. But when present in combination with
other waves in a waking state, Delta acts as a form of radar –
seeking out information – reaching out to understand on the
deepest unconscious level things that we can't understand
through thought process. Delta provides intuition, empathetic
attunement, and instinctual insight.
The MEDITATION brainwave pattern is a combination of
alpha and theta where theta provides the depth and
profundity of the meditation experience – the
subconscious inner space from which creativity, insight,
and healing spring – and alpha provides the bridge, or the
link, to the conscious thinking mind so that you can
actually remember the contents of your meditation.
AWAKENED MIND brainwave pattern

It is a brainwave pattern shared by people in higher states of

consciousness regardless of their philosophy, theology or
meditation technique. This brainwave pattern can be found
during “peak experience” and in all forms of creativity and
high performance
 Neuroelectrical Effects

 Mediation was shown to

- increase Alpha (8-13 Hz or cycles per second) production
- increase Theta (4-7 Hz) production
- increase high Beta (20 - 40 Hz) activity ( with experienced
meditators).

 Alpha patterns are associated with calm and focused attention.

 Theta patterns are associated with reverie, imagery, and

creativity.

 High Beta activity is associated with highly focused concentration

 Neurophysiology of Meditation

 Imaging, such as rCBF (regional Cerebral Blood Flow), real time MRI
(Magnetic Resonance Imaging), MEG (magnetoencephalography), and
improved EEG (electoencephalography) allow detailed studies in
understanding the effects of meditation on neural behavior.

 SPECT study shows- Parietal area of the brain is responsible for giving us
a sense of our orientation in space and time. By blocking all sensory and
cognitive input into this area, meditation results in the sense of no
space and no time.
 cms
DYNAMIC BRAIN MAPPING

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temporal resolution
SPECT Images at Baseline and
During Meditation

Prefrontal Cortex Prefrontal Cortex

Baseline Meditation
SPECT Images at Baseline and
During Meditation
Baseline Meditation

Superior Superior
Parietal Lobe Parietal Lobe
 Comparison of Baseline to
Prayer : Limbic inhibition
Baseline Scan Prayer Scan

LIMBIC LIMBIC
Comparison of Baseline to Prayer

Baseline Scan Prayer Scan

Superior Superior
Parietal Lobe Parietal Lobe
 Results from Meditation SPECT Study
Part of the Brain P-value Baseline Meditatio Percent SD
Mean n Mean Change

Anterior Cingulate 0.0074 1.25 1.34 7.2 0.08

Cingulate Body 0.0001 0.91 1.14 25.3 0.13

DLPFC 0.0001 1.31 1.45 10.7 0.08

Inferior Frontal 0.0025 1.25 1.36 8.8 0.09

Midbrain 0.0166 1.16 1.29 11.2 0.14

Orbital Frontal 0.0075 0.97 1.22 25.8 0.24

Cortex

Posterior 0.0114 1.19 1.29 8.4 0.09

Cingulate
Sensorimotor 0.0017 1.19 1.26 5.9 0.06

Thalamus 0.0114 1.40 1.60 14.3 0.21

 Summary of SPECT findings

 Increase rCBF in frontal lobe and shut

down of rCBF in OAA in parietal lobe is
the key finding.

 This is not hallucination.

 All Meditators have same findings.

fMRI changes
during Meditation
 Results

• Significant signal increases were observed in the

dorsolateral prefrontal and parietal cortices,
hippocampus/parahippocampus, temporal lobe, pregenual
anterior cingulate cortex, striatum, and pre- and post-
central gyri during meditation.

• This indicates that the practice of meditation activates

neural structures involved in attention and control of the
autonomic nervous system.

– Neuroreport. 2000 May 15;11(7):1581-5. Functional brain mapping

of the relaxation response and meditation. Lazar SW,…, Benson H.
 Neurochemical Effects

 Meditation has been shown to increase serotonin

production. Serotonin is an important neurotransmitter
and neuropeptide that influences mood and behavior in
many ways.

 Meditation has also been associated with increased

melatonin availability
 
Neurochemical Changes During Meditation

Neurochemical Observed Change CNS Structure

Arginine Vasopressin Increased Supraoptic Nucleus

GABA Increased Thalamus, other

inhibitory structures
Melatonin Increased Pineal Gland

Serotonin Increased Dorsal Raphe

Dopamine Increased Basal Gangia

Cortisol Decreased Paraventricular

Nucleus
Norepinephrine Decreased Locus Ceruleus
 

β-Endorphin Rhythm changed; Arcuate Nucleus

levels unaltered
 Meditation and the
Autonomic Nervous System

• An increase in the skin resistance.

• Galvanic skin responses, showed that meditators recovered from stress more
quickly than non-meditators.

• Decreased limbic arousal in the brain-reduces stress and increases autonomic

stability to stress.

• Reduction in limbic arousal may explain how meditation strengthens and

enhances the ability to cope with stress.
 Meditation and the
Central Nervous System

 The practice of meditation decreases muscle reflex time.

 Accelerates neural conduction or augments the release of

neurotransmitters, thereby decreasing synaptic time, resulting in a
change in muscle firing threshold and pattern.

 By inhibiting the left cortical hemisphere, the sense of time and

logic no longer dominate consciousness during
meditation.Suppression of Ego faculty and later on Mind.
 The Plausible Hypothesis

• When meditation acts as a constant repetitive stimulus, certain

permanent qualitative and quantitative changes develop in
nervous system.

• Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators may stimulate growth

of dormant neurons to develop a centre higher than neocortex-
God module.

• This higher centre will exert inhibitory control over present

neocortex and thereby over mind as a whole- thereby
suppressing consciousness and all mental activities.

• Spiritual ascent is from the least evolved state of consciousness

to near perfect state with which the mind itself will cease to be
and there will remain only non-dual experience.
 Meditation and the Endocrine System

• Reduced blood levels of lactate, cortisol, and epinephrine.

• Reduces sympathetic adrenergic receptor sensitivity, producing a decreased

response to stressful situations .

• Increased levels of gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), melatonin and

dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.

• Meditation produces its anxiolytic effects by promoting GABA action in

specific areas of the brain.

• Similar effects can be achieved by Reiki, Acupuncture.

 Meditation and Metabolism

• A wakeful state accompanied by decreased metabolism.

• Decreased breathing pattern, decreased heart rate, and decreased blood pressure.

• Blood flow to the kidneys and liver declined in the practitioners, with an increase in
cardiac output.

• Decrease in the level of oxygen utilization and carbon dioxide elimination by muscles.

• The metabolic changes arise from a natural reduction in metabolic activity at the
cellular level, not from a forced reduction of breathing.

• Longevity and delayed aging !

 Meditation and Psychology

• Practice of meditation improves cognitive task performance,

increases mental concentration, and reduces susceptibility to
stress.

• Both subjective and objective examinations reveal that

meditation enhances perceptual sensitivity.

• It improves the attitude and personality of a person.

 Attitude
• “ The Longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the
past, than education, successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or
break a company…….. a church…. a home. The remarkable thing is we have
a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We
can not change our past..... we cannot change the fact that people will act
in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do
is to play on the only string we have, and that is our attitude……. I am
convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you….. We are in charge of our Attitudes ”.
- Charles Swindoll
 Four way Truth

• That there is a problem

• That there is a cause
• That there is a way
• If you follow the path, you will get the solution
 WAIT AND MEDITATE,

TILL I CALL YOU BACK

- Swami
Vivekananda
 Happiness
• “Spirituality is difficult to define or measure…
[but is essentially] a journey toward, or
experience of, connection with the source of
ultimate meaning. Spirituality includes
connection with one’s self, with others, with
nature, and with a higher power. This
connection is often with a greater story that
makes sense of one’s life. Spirituality may or
may not involve formal religion.”
—Gregory Plotnikoff MD, Director, Univ of Minnesota Center for Spirituality
and Healing, from Rakel,Textbook of Integrative Medicine
 REFERENCES
• Jain Agam
• Dhyana Dipika, Dhyana Shatak
• Patanjal Yoga Sutra
• Holy Vedas, Puranas and Upanishadas
• Tripitak
• Dhyana Yoga - Swami Vivekananda
• Meditation - Osho
• Dhyana Kumbh - Suresh Vakil
• Meditations - J.Krishnamurti
• ‘Why God will not go away’ – Andrew Newberg
• Medical References from several journals