Mantra refinement

[Christi (Tristan Dorling)]

@qspadone

“Let it go how it will (the mantra)”. (Lesson ???)

Hi qspadone and Michael,

p.p.s.

This quote is from here:

Procedure with Mantra

Hi Weaver: It sounds like you are having good results with the mantra without interrupting the process to introduce the thought “let the mind be relaxed.” So I do not recommend adding that extra thought, which is a move to less inner silence not more. It is not necessary to keep picking the mantra up over and over if you are absorbed in it. It is okay to be absorbed like that. It is not concentration. It is samadhi, which is absorption in inner silence. In Patanjali’s yoga sutra’s it is a thre…

The full quote is:

"In Patanjali’s yoga sutra’s it is a three stage process comprising the last three of the eight limbs of yoga:

1. Concentration - attention on an object (dharana)
2. Meditation - dissolving of the object (dhyana)
3. Absorption - pure bliss consciousness with no object (samadhi)
   All of these are included in our easy deep meditation procedure. First we pick up the mantra (1). We don’t try and keep it as a rock solid clear pronunciation – we just easily repeat it inside, letting it go how it will to less and less distinctiveness (2). At some point we will lose the mantra completely (3). Then we will be out again on some thoughts or feelings and pick it up again (1)." [Yogani]