Have you ever come across Vedic meditation? If you haven’t, then it’s high time you did, because the benefits this type of meditation offers are amazing.

Would you like to know more? Keep reading!

What Is Vedic Meditation?

Vedic Meditation is a constituent of Transcendental Meditation (TM), which is a special form of mantra meditation. The technique began in India in the 1950s, and Maharshi Mahesh Yogi is the person responsible for introducing transcendental meditation to the world.

Meditative Practices:

Meditative practices usually fall into two categories: either concentrative or contemplative.

Contemplative techniques typically employ visualization, imagination, memory or evocative objects for meditation.

Conversely, a Concentrative technique involves directing the awareness on an object, like a candle, the bridge of your nose or your breath.

Vedic Meditation is also known as ‘effortless transcendence’. It is a category by itself. It’s not about calming the mind or centering your thoughts. What practitioners do is learn to transcend thinking.

The Technique:

It is easy to perform Vedic meditation.

1. Sit down on a yoga mat.
2. Cross your legs over each other.
3. Keep your spine erect.
4. Close your eyes and try not to think about anything at all. Don’t concentrate on anything, not even on thinking about nothing.

Benefits Of Vedic Meditation:

Your mind is always thinking, always worrying, either about the future or the past, imagining or remembering something. Vedic meditation aims to help you transcend the activity, keep your mind still, and stops all those thoughts that keep flooding your head.

Our minds are designed to function all the time, act, react, analyze and assume. What meditative techniques assume is that your mind is like an unchained beast, which must be tied down.

However, Vedic meditation follows the philosophy that your mind is like a vast expanse of water, and your awareness is restricted to the surface, the frantic and buzzing state that we normally experience. The deeper parts of this expanse are quieter and more blissful. The intense activity on the surface keeps your mind occupied, and Vedic meditation can help you delve deeper and calmer into the vast expanse of your mind. You get more in tune with yourself; you revel in your solitude.

Vedic meditation provides the technique or the submarine to let you delve deep into the ocean of the mind. The medium that Vedic meditation stands by is the Mantra.

The Mantra:

You might wonder what the need of the Mantra is, or how it helps. Let’s look at that here:

Mantra is a Sanskrit word, formed by combining the words ‘manas’ or mind with ‘tra’ or vehicle. Thus, the word Mantra means a vehicle of the mind. Vedic tradition contains thousands of mantras and every mantra is specific to something.

The human mind experiences 60,000 to 80,000 different thoughts daily. When you are meditating, try thinking about a mantra. You find your mind drawn to it, despite the buzzing activity all around it. The mantra entices your mind, and your mind begins to drift towards it. As the mantra tails off, or fades away inside your mind, the mind moves towards deeper levels of consciousness.

The Mantra aims at helping the mind delve deeper. Vedic tradition believes that your mind is perennially locked on the surface of the ocean. The mantra helps you transcend it.

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