what do you mean by Meditation?

Answer 1

Quieting the mind and moving energy throughout the body.

Answer 2

Meditation has been defined as an act of an individual aimed at emptying of the content of his consciousness. This is the meaning and the depth of meditation is, the emptying of all the content- thought, coming to an end. Easily said. What are the thoughts we get during meditation. The nature of thoughts encountered by us are all intentional. It is intentional consciousness that we always encounter. The thoughts can be personal-intentional transpersonal- intenational or universal-intentional.


But what we first encounter are the noises or sounds etc., of the surroundings in which we meditate. For totally annihilating all the thoughts that we encounter during meditation we must understand these thoughts as different from the thoughts that have already become our memory which is a bundle of experiences. Also the valuational judgements we have made on such past experiences and the attitudes and goals that we have formed based on such experiences have to be made as not disturbing. In the system of Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga the meditational practices are aimed at just achieving these two. The morning meditation in which we are asked to start with a suggestion that there is Divine Light without luminosity (not a fact of experience so far) in the heart does not permit any intentional consciousness to operate. Thus the consciousness is kept free not from the Freedom to Choose but is given the Freedom not to Choose. This makes us possible to not apply any of our intention to the sensory and other inputs to consciousness. This leads us to a state of Outer silence from Outer Noise. Thus the habit of forming intentions is kept under control.


As the meditation practices advance the nature of forming additional loads of intentional consciousness ceases and this is what is called by the state in which no future samskaras are formed.

Answer 3

Meditation describes a state of concentrated attention on some object of thought or awareness. It usually involves turning the attention inward to a single point of reference. The benefits of the practice can engender a higher state of altered consciousness. Meditation is recognized as a component of eastern religions, where it has been practiced for over 5,000 years. Different meditative disciplines encompass a wide range of spiritual and/or psychophysical practices which can emphasize development of either a high degree of mental concentration, or the apparent converse, mental quiescence.

The word meditation comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, then later evolved into the more specific meaning "contemplation."

Eastern spiritual teachings, including meditation, have been adapted and increasingly practiced in Western culture

Answer 4

It is a state of being. Initially, we may require some practices which are also called as 'meditation', to get us into that state of being. It is more of experiential nature, and the perception of it requires a little more depth than the sensory levels, hence any verbal definition may seem inadequate to explain or convey the experience to another person.

Answer 5

Space between two thoughts is Meditation.Meditation,by silencing gradually the activities of body, mind and intellect, dwells on that empty space where there are no thoughts but pure silence that opens of our inner being which is the source of all energy!

Answer 6

mediatation is the way to control your inner sense,mind,body from diversion and makes you stay calm

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Be one with God.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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