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Anandamayi Ma in meditation

What Is Meditation?

Meditation is the practice of bringing the mind inward by concentrating on a single thought (or object) to exclude all other thoughts. It cannot happen without complete concentration, since the mind is continuously creating thoughts and bringing your attention from one thing to the next. Only when the concentration increases, thus excluding all thought waves, the mind becomes calm and…

Om Aum - Traditional Ashtanga Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga: Eight Limb Yoga

Yoga means “union” in the sense of union with the Divine. In this sense, yoga is the path and goal of all human existence, that is, the realization of the Self as our true, inner nature. In the West, yoga has come to mean only hatha yoga or yoga postures (asanas). In fact, this is only one aspect of the…