Paramahamsa Hariharananda
Paramahamsa Hariharananda Quotes about Mind
Meditating for a short period is like getting fuel to keep the body and mind functioning throughout the day, through good and bad, pleasure and pain.
Married or not married - no matter. If your mind is pure then you will attain God-realization.
Kriya Yoga includes techniques that are entirely scientific, every step being based upon experimental realization. Yoga and science are inseparable, just as religion and science are necessary complements. The scientist sets the task of controlling the physical forces, whereas yogi is concerned with the mental forces. A scientist is an unconscious yogi whose mind works on external grooves. Yoga is an exact science based on immutable laws of nature.
Kriya Yoga is based on scientific breathing that pacifies, slows the breathing process and makes the breath flow inside the nostrils, not outside. By the practice of Kriya Yoga, in a short time, the mind becomes calm, quiet and thoughtless. The blood, absorbing sufficient oxygen and getting de-carbonized, brings better living. We may become free from the stress and strain of life.
When you are free from thinking of ordinary things, your mind will be absorbed in God, in the formless state of divinity.
You recharge your body and mind in prayer and meditation. All of your actions in this world should be done with that inner consciousness.
If your mind remains below, in the lower centers of delusion, illusion, and error, then you will get bondage, and if you come above, to the higher centers, you will get liberation. You have to work and struggle for this.
When breath flows through the right nostril, the body, mind, and brain power are all active and when it flows through the left, usually the mind is less active and dull.
When the breath is calm, as when you are only listening, your mind is calm. Transformation of your breath is the easiest way to calm your mind and life.