Yoga goes much beyond the physical exercises. In this presentation one can understand the depth of the complete Yoga practice that includes meditation as the central piece. Yoga means unification of the individual with the Cosmic.

1. Meditation
For Inner Peace
and
Social Harmony
by Dada Rainjitananda

2. In this vast Universe…

3. …there are so many galaxies, stars
and planets
 …and amongst them

4.  The planet
Earth
In this
planet
there are
so many
beings,

5. Undeveloped and developed beings

6. …amongst them…
…human beings

7.  Every being, every entity has a
characteristic of its own.
 The cause of its existence
 The essential factor that keeps it alive,
that makes it exist.
 It may be a developed entity or any
element, take for example:

8. Fire
 What is the essential characteristic of
fire?
 What is the reason for its existence?

9.  To burn.
 It exists because…
 …it burns

10. Human Beings
 What is the essential characteristic of
human beings?

11. Human life
 What is human life for?
 What are human beings searching for?
 The Yogis say:
 Happiness, love
 Peace
Bliss

12.  How much of that?
 How much of happiness / peace do we
want?
 How many minutes, hours or days?

13. Are the people finding that
peace and happiness?

14. What is the difficulty?
 The senses
 The mind

15. For how long are the senses
pleased?
 Eyes – Movie – 2 hours
 Ears – Music CD – 1 hour
 Feeling – roller coaster ride – 10 min
 Taste – Ice Cream – 5 min
 Smell – Flower – 10 sec
 The senses have a limited capacity to satisfy

16. What is Meditation
 It is a system to develop the human
mind in all aspects
 To attain harmony, inner peace and
happiness.

17. The Human
Mind
 In YOGIC
science the
mind is
divided into
layers

18. The First
Layer
 The
Conscious
Mind

19. The
Second
Layer
The
Subconscious
Mind

20. The Superconscious Mind
 Third Layer: Supramental – intuition,
creativity
 Fourth Layer: Subliminal – conscience and
non-attachment
 3. Fifth Layer: the golden layer.

21. How to
reach
there?

22. The Microcosm and …
The human being

23. …the Macrocosm
 The Cosmic Consciousness

24. Mental Expansion
 The microcosm is like a drop of water
 The Macrocosm is like the ocean
 When the microcosm thinks of the
Macrocosm…
 …human mind expands to infinite

25. The “Mantra”
 Thinking about the Infinite…
 … the Macrocosm,
 … the Cosmic Consciousness.
 It is a thought or a word which expands the
mind …calms the mind
 …and liberates it from limitations

26. Meditating

27. Meditating

28. Meditating

29. MANTRA
 Meditating with a mantra helps the
mind to reach the deeper layers

30. Regular
practice is a
must to attain
progress in
Meditation.

31. How does meditation affects
the society?
 By expanding the mind the feeling of
Universalism is awakened.
 The feeling of closeness with everyone
and everything.
 Meditation changes the individual
psychology and the social psychology.

32. Social Psychology
 To build a society, there are two
distinct psychologies.
 One is service psychology, which
inspires people to promote collective
interest.

33.  The second is group psychology, which
only tries to promote the limited interest
of a small group.

34.  Those who are guided by group
psychology want to establish the
authority of their group and impose
their interests on others.
 This leads to inter-personal and inter-
group conflict.

35.  Only the psychology of service, the
synthetic approach leads to unity and
cohesion amongst numerous
individuals and groups.

36. What is the best psychology?
• The idea to promote the welfare of
the universe.

37. Human society
…is one and…
…indivisible

38.  For psychic progress and to make the
mind light we take the idea of
“Universal welfare”…
 And for Self-Realization we meditate
on the Universal Consciousness with
the help of a Mantra.
 This is the formula of the path of bliss.

39. Universal Mantras
Baba Nam
Kevalam
Everything is an
Expression of
Infinite Loving
Consciousness

40. Let us experience meditation
 Baba Nam Kevalam
 Everything is an Expression of Infinite
Loving Consciousness

41. THE END