To Meditate Is to See: Learn Authentic Meditation: The Perception of Internal Images - Padma Mohan

In all of the most ancient spiritual traditions, meditation is the method to solve problems and investigate profound questions. This happens through conscious perception: seeing, but not with physical senses. n nIn real meditation, one consciously sees images to acquire information. In the state of meditation, by reflecting on a problem or question, we can find reliable answers, insight, wisdom, and guidance.

This occurs not by thoughts, feelings, or sensations, but by having a silent, still mind, by seeing internal visions, and by knowing how to discriminate the true from the false. n nIf when you try to meditate you only see darkness, or are swarmed by chaotic thoughts, emotions, images, and sensations, or you slip into fantasies, distractions, or dreams, then you do not know how to meditate. It is time for you to learn the real science of meditation. n nTo Meditate is to See guides the reader through the eight steps of meditation as taught in Raja Yoga. This was the method relied upon by many brilliant meditation masters, such as Krishna, Patanjali, Vivekananda, Sivananda, and Samael Aun Weor.

The wonderful thing about Raja Yoga is that it is very simple and easy to understand, so you do not need to rely on external guides or masters to learn it. You can do it yourself, provided you understand the steps accurately. This book is a practical handbook that anyone can use to experience the steps in daily life.

If you follow each step carefully, you will learn how to see images in meditation and acquire information that is inaccessible to the intellect or the senses. n nRaja Yoga is the royal road to freedom from misery. It treats of the four great principles: misery, its cause, freedom from misery and the means. The practice of the methods prescribed in Raja Yoga leads to the cessation of all miseries and attainment of eternal bliss. --Swami Sivananda