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Originally posted by krcqimpro1

Shanti,I would like to be included in the list for healing. Do I have to name the problem/s to receive healing.

Krish (krcqimpro1)

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Originally posted by krcqimpro1

Shanti, pl. add me to the list. Do I need to detail the problems that I require healing for ?

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Originally posted by krcqimpro1

I have not yet started Samyama, as I am just 3 mths into the AYP processes, and I think- just think-, I am begining to experience some inner silence, and would like it to deepen before starting Samyama. What is happening is, about 10 mins. into DM, I just "blank out", and after a little while, jolt out of this "blankness", and pick up the mantra again. It happens twice or thrice each sitting. Is this what is "inner silence", or am I just "nodding off" ?

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Originally posted by Shanti
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....D=4717#40432


When Yogani says, the only prerequisite is some "inner silence".. I think he is talking about some sense of silence in meditation. When I started meditating, I had a very active mind.. and I would have 20 million thoughts arising at the same time.. it was utter confusion.. and I guess adding samyama at such a point would be useless.. but if you have even a bit of silence during meditation, you can add samyama.

Here is what Yogani has to say:

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http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....C_ID=306#103Originally posted by yogani

It only takes a little inner silence to begin to gain some benefit from samyama practice. In the AYP lessons we can leap-frog to samyama as soon as we feel we are ready. See the recent lesson on this at http://www.aypsite.org/269.html

Leap-frogging is not recommended for any other practice in AYP. But for samyama, it can serve us well if we have some inner silence coming up.

How do we know if we have some inner silence? If we find the mantra fading naturally and we are picking it up at very refined and fuzzy levels when we go back to it, then that is inner silence. That is also where we do samyama, at that fuzzy level on the edge of no thoughts at all. It is very simple. It is usually easy to notice if we are picking up the mantra at a refined level. We cannot force this to happen. It happens according to ongoing purification. It will not be refined like that all the time either. It depends on what purification is going on in our nervous system at the moment. If it is refined like that from time to time, then we can benefit from samyama. In fact, samyama will improve our ability to pick up the mantra deep in the mind.

So, if we are having that experience of fuzzy mantra fading away, then samyama will not be a waste of time. If we start too early with samyama, we will not do ourselves any harm either. As always, it is up to you. Here it is: http://www.aypsite.org/150.html Make sure to read the lessons before and after too, so you will get the whole picture.

The guru is in you.

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http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....D=3696#31999
As is the case with core samyama, inner silence is the prerequisite for effective cosmic samyama. Even just a little abiding stillness from deep meditation will go a long way with samyama, and everything else too.

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http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....D=3551#30996
In the AYP lessons, the practices are put more or less in the order of influence and importance. But there can be some shuffling according to individual need. For example, samyama can be moved up the list with good effect. Other things are best left in the order given for undertaking them, like deep meditation, spinal breathing, and the mantra enhancements.

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I would recommend adding samyama with sitting practice only to being with.. and once you are comfortable with that, adding cosmic samyama before sleep. Adding sitting samyama and cosmic samyama before sleep at once may not be a good idea... may lead to too much purification.

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http://www.aypsite.org/17.html
Meditation sometimes produces a sleep-like state, like you described, but the physiological parameters are different. The metabolism goes much lower than in sleep. Heart rate and breathing are much slower than in sleep, nearly stopped. The body and mind come to a state of complete silence, while still awake inside. The level of rest in the body and mind in meditation is deeper than sleep. It is a different kind of rest that removes impurities; obstructions to consciousness that sleep cannot reach.

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Originally posted by Ananda

namaste Shanti, could you plz add on "Jamila" to your samyama healing list.

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