Brahma Sutras : ( 10/04/2013. )

  ======================================================================================= Friday 11 April 2025, 07:45.  Chapter 10: Vaishvanara Vidya - 2. Chapter 11: The Preliminaries to Sadhana:1 Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== Thus the entire thing conceivable becomes the object of meditation – even beyond the skies, the mind can go. You take the mind beyond, beyond the limit of conception and if it feels there is something outside – bring that outside thing also inside it, so that there is a tremendously inclusive inside. This is how the location of the object in one place is avoided. The second thing: it is not inside; because if the object that you think is inside your mind, then it cannot be called an object – it becomes part of your subjectivity; nobody will want to have a thing which is inside the mind itself. So it has to be outside, but truly no object can be entirely outside the mind because...

  ==================================================================================================== Saturday 08 March 2025, 08:00.  Chapter 10: Vaishvanara Vidya - 1. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== The loftier aspect of meditation is the principle of Vaishvanara Vidya. Isolated meditations on different conceptual entities were considered by the great teacher, Ashvapati, the king, mentioned in the Chhandogya Upanishad, as defective. If you meditate on any particular thing, you are excluding something thereby. You cannot think one thing without excluding something else. The thought that something is excluded – you must be very careful to hear this – the thought that something is excluded from the thought that something is being concentrated upon is also a thought. Exclusion of the thought of some object from the thought on which the concentration is carried on is not possible because the thought that som...