SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 16 SEPTEMBER ON SECLUSION
As the will power in many persons has become very weak, as they had
no religious discipline or training in schools and colleges when they
were young, and as they are under the sway of materialistic
influences, it is necessary for them to go in for seclusion for some
weeks, months or years, to practise rigorous japa (repetition of
God's name) and undisturbed meditation.
Calm the bubbling emotions, sentiments, instincts and impulses
through silent meditation. You can give a new orientation to your
feelings by systematic practice. You can entirely transmute your
worldly nature into divine nature. You can exercise supreme control
over the nerve centres, the nerves, the muscles, the five kosas
(sheaths), emotions, impulses and instincts through meditation.
Those who have fixed up their sons in life, who have retired from
service and those who have no ties in the world can remain in
seclusion for four or five years and practise intense meditation and
tapas (austerity) for purification and self-realisation. When they
have attained self-knowledge, they should come out and share their
knowledge and bliss with others. They should disseminate knowledge of
the self through lectures, conversations, discourses or heart-to-
heart talks.
A householder (grhasta) with yogic tendencies and spiritual
inclinations can practise meditation in a solitary and quiet room in
his own house - or in any solitary place on the banks of any holy
river, during holidays or throughout the year if he is a wholetime
aspirant or if he is retired from service.
The aspirant should be free from hope, desire and greed. Then only
will he have a steady mind. Hope, desire and greed make the mind ever
restless and turbulent; they are the enemies of peace and self
knowledge. He should not have many possessions. He can keep only
those articles which are absolutely necessary for the maintenance of
his body. If there are many possessions the mind will be ever
thinking of the articles and attempting to protect them. Those who
want quick progress in meditation during seclusion should not keep
any connection with the world by way of correspondence, reading
newspapers or thinking of the family members and possessions.
no religious discipline or training in schools and colleges when they
were young, and as they are under the sway of materialistic
influences, it is necessary for them to go in for seclusion for some
weeks, months or years, to practise rigorous japa (repetition of
God's name) and undisturbed meditation.
Calm the bubbling emotions, sentiments, instincts and impulses
through silent meditation. You can give a new orientation to your
feelings by systematic practice. You can entirely transmute your
worldly nature into divine nature. You can exercise supreme control
over the nerve centres, the nerves, the muscles, the five kosas
(sheaths), emotions, impulses and instincts through meditation.
Those who have fixed up their sons in life, who have retired from
service and those who have no ties in the world can remain in
seclusion for four or five years and practise intense meditation and
tapas (austerity) for purification and self-realisation. When they
have attained self-knowledge, they should come out and share their
knowledge and bliss with others. They should disseminate knowledge of
the self through lectures, conversations, discourses or heart-to-
heart talks.
A householder (grhasta) with yogic tendencies and spiritual
inclinations can practise meditation in a solitary and quiet room in
his own house - or in any solitary place on the banks of any holy
river, during holidays or throughout the year if he is a wholetime
aspirant or if he is retired from service.
The aspirant should be free from hope, desire and greed. Then only
will he have a steady mind. Hope, desire and greed make the mind ever
restless and turbulent; they are the enemies of peace and self
knowledge. He should not have many possessions. He can keep only
those articles which are absolutely necessary for the maintenance of
his body. If there are many possessions the mind will be ever
thinking of the articles and attempting to protect them. Those who
want quick progress in meditation during seclusion should not keep
any connection with the world by way of correspondence, reading
newspapers or thinking of the family members and possessions.
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