Deepening Your Meditation with Sri Swami Satchidananda
Format: CD

This lecture by Sri Swami Satchidananda gives you practical advice for the formal practice of meditation: how to prepare and how to deal with obstacles. Also learn how to expand the practice of meditation into your daily life.

Prayer and Meditation- by HH Sri Swami Satchidananda:
Sincere and whole-hearted prayer is meditation. You are one-pointed in your attention. When you focus your mind on a particular idea connected with God, then prayer is a form of meditation. An unmeditated prayer without full concentration will not be very powerful, and it is not surprising if such a prayer brings no satisfaction. There has to be proper attunement; the mind should be one-pointed, focused, and free from selfish motives.

Choose what you like for meditation or prayer, but mean what you say and what you do. When the thinking-speaking-acting all go together, then they will bear fruit. When I speak, my hands move this way and that without my consciously willing it. Without my knowledge, my body automatically cooperates helping me to express something. Mental expression is foremost; the body will act accordingly.

The same thing happens with your prayers and daily actions. Prayers transform themselves into actions. Actions offered up are prayers. In time every action is a prayer; it's a meditation. You won't be able to live any other way. In the beginning you may be able to separate them: "This is action and this is prayer." It's a good way to start. Set time for one and the other. But gradually it expands until the prayerful attitude pervades your entire life. In the end everything is prayer.