Yogic explanation as to how the mind works and how to elevate and expand the mind.

1. Meditation
- The Laser of the Mind

4. Spiritual Benefits of
Meditation
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Peace = a state of mental equilibrium
and equipoise.
Systematic spiritual practices leads to
psychic balance.
To be free of sorrows and afflictions is
the principal aim in human life,
otherwise one cannot hope to attain
peace.
Spiritual practices enable you to attain
permanent relief from sorrows and
afflictions.
As you perfect your spiritual practices
you experience tremendous physical,
psychic and spiritual benefits.
- Anandamurti

5. Spiritual Practices
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Spiritual practice does not encourage
a person to give up all worldly duties,
rather it teaches one how to make the
best utilisation of properties
- physical, subtle and causal.
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Spiritual practices should be
formulated in conformity with the
physical, psychic and social needs of
people from all walks of life.
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Spiritual practices should be
appropriate for the existence and
development of a dynamic social
structure in a changing world.
- Anandamurti

6. Practical Spirituality
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Attainment of permanent mental
balance and peace - and physical,
mental and spiritual progress - requires
a system of meditation which is
methodical and scientific.
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Spiritual practice should be practical
and universal, rational and
psychological.
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There should be an adjustment
between body and mind to keep pace
with the fast speed of the development
of the external world.
- Anandamurti

7. What is Mantra?
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It is a sound vibration that
has the effect of liberating the
mind from darkness and
mental bondage.
From 2 Sanskrit words:
 man = mind +
 tra = that which liberates.
By practicing meditation with
the help of mantra, it can
elevate us to the
superconscious mind.

9. 1st Quality of Mantra
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PULSATIVE :
a mantra must be composed
of 2 syllables to accompany
the breathing.
One syllable for inhalation
and the other for exhalation.

11. 2nd Quality of Mantra
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INCANTATIVE :
it must resonate with our
own personal rhythm, your
entitative rhythm.
What is entitative rhythm: it
is the sum of all the
vibrational patterns of our
physical organs, of all our
thoughts and emotions – our
vibratory signature.

13. 3rd Quality of Mantra
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IDEATIVE :
it must have an elevating
meaning – so that with every
pulsation the meditator thinks
“I am Infinite” – “I am That”.
The goal of yoga is to merge
with the Infinite Consciousness,
beyond mantra, beyond
pulsation – merge in union with
the Infinite - dissolve in Infinite
Bliss.

15. BABA NAM
KEVALAM
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a universal mantra:
 Baba - means Beloved;
 Nam - means name;
 Kevalam - means only.
 Taught
and practiced
in Ananda Marga.

16. BABA NAM
KEVALAM
So, Baba Nam Kevalam
means:
“ Only the name of
the Beloved ”.
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“ Everything is an expression
of the Infinite
Consciousness … Love is
all there is ”.
 Or spiritual sentiments to
that effect.
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17. Our Essence
Our essence is pure
consciousness.
The quantum level is a
‘vacuum’, vibrating with
cosmic energy from
Cosmic Consciousness.
“ The universe is a living
mind ”– said physicist
Schroedinger.

18. All is Cosmic
Consciousness
When we penetrate deep
into our cells, through
molecules, atoms, and
subatomic particles …
finally we reach the realm
where there is no matter.
This ‘nothingness’ is the
pure Consciousness.
“ All is Brahma – Cosmic
Consciousness. ”

19. Pure Consciousness
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It is in the ultimate level, of pure
Consciousness, that is hidden the
essence of our lives.
Our nervous system,
neurotransmitters, DNA
– this is the hardware of our being.
Our mind, intelligence, thoughts,
feelings and emotions
– this is the software.
And the level of pure
Consciousness is the programmer
– the creative source code.

21. Layers of the Mind
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CONSCIOUS MIND
- controls the 5 sensory and the
5 motor organs.
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
- is the level of deep thinking
and memory.
SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND
- is the level of creativity,
spiritual realization and
intuition.

25. The Superconscious Mind
“ Those who have attained this
superconscious level of
awareness develop the true
discrimination, the ability to
transcend the illusion of life and
discern the eternal which
underlies all the changing forms.
The result of true discrimination
is non-attachment. Those who
are established in nonattachment realize that
everything of this universe is the
manifestation of the Supreme.
They cannot hate or neglect
anything of this universe. ”
- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

26. Supreme Consciousness
“ The universe is changeable,
while Supreme Consciousness is
unchangeable, true and absolute.
But non-attachment does not
mean to leave all pleasures and
remain in a state of indifference
to the world. It does not mean to
leave everything and go to the
seclusion of a mountain cave.
Those who are truly nonattached do not deny the world
(worldly life), they embrace it,
for they feel the touch of the
eternal hidden within all the
changing forms of their lives.
They are with everything. ”
- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

27. Thought-waves
“ An infinite Cosmic flow is in
continuous motion in this universe.
When humans … let themselves
drift in the eternal flow of
Consciousness, when the human
psychic thought-waves flow in
parallel rhythm with the Cosmic
thought-waves, the finite human
merges in the infinite Cosmic
flow. … That is, the little human
being experiences the taste of the
Infinite. ”
- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

29. Brain Waves - β
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BETA WAVEs
- Are generally irregular,
associated with a mental state
of extroversial movement, or
of restlessness, worry,
frustration, anger, fear, and
for sensory perception.
- They have a rapid rhythm
of more than 13 cycles per
second and up to 24 cps or
more.

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BETA brainwaves are
the fastest frequencies.
Beta is your normal
thinking state, your active
external awareness, and
thoughts generated by
sensory processes.
Without beta you would
not be able to function in
the outside world.

32. Brain Waves - α
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ALPHA WAVEs
- With the repetition of mantra
[internal music], we gradually
calm the restless beta waves and
they are transformed into the
slow and rhythmic alpha waves.
- This is the state of serene
alertness.
- They have a frequency of
around 8 – 13 cycles per second.

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ALPHA brainwaves are
the brainwaves of
relaxed detached
awareness, visualization,
sensory imagery and
light reverie.
Alpha is the initial
gateway to meditation
and provides a bridge
between the conscious
and the subconscious
mind.
Relaxation assists alpha
waves.

35. Brain Waves - θ
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THETA WAVEs
- As one’s meditation
progresses, the frequency of
the brain waves diminish still
further, and alpha waves
become theta waves.
- Long term meditators
produce theta waves, which
are associated with profound
states of internal awareness
and inner peace.
- They have a slow frequency
of 4 –8 cycles per second.

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THETA brainwaves
are the subconscious
mind.
Theta is present in
dreaming sleep, but
more importantly
provides the
concentration needed
for deep meditation
when you meditate.
Theta also contains the
storehouse of creative
inspiration and is where
you often have your
first spiritual
connections.

38. Brain Waves - δ
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DELTA WAVEs
- The lowest frequencies are
delta waves.
- They occur in very deep states
and also during experiences of
the ‘empathy state’ – which
means being involved with our
ability to integrate and feel
oneness.
- They reflect peacefulness.
- Their frequency is less than 4
cycles per second.

39. Delta : Takes you
closer to the Cosmic
flow
– psycho-spiritual insight

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DELTA brainwaves are
your unconscious mind or
superconscious mind.
When present in
combination with other
waves in a waking state,
delta acts as a form of
radar – seeking out
information – reaching out
to understand on the
deepest unconscious level
those things that we can't
understand through
thought processes alone.
Delta provides empathetic
attunement, intuition and
psycho-spiritual insight.
They take you into the
Cosmic flow.

42. Omni-telepathic
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“ The physical sense of the body is telepathized
on the mental plate. In other words, the physical
sense is awakened in the mental plate due to the
reflection that follows the impact of the crude
physical waves on the mental plate. Similarly, the
sense of every crude object is awakened in the
mental plate as soon as the reflection takes place
following the impact of the waves of the objects
on the mental plate. Identical mental waves hit
the soul entity, causing the reflection of those
mental waves, and this awakens in the unit a
sense of its indivisibility from the soul. If, in the
language of philosophy, mental waves, that is,
thought, be called thought-waves, then the
reflection of the mental waves on the soul-plate
will have to be termed telepathic waves. And so
in reference to the soul-plate, we may say that it
is telepathic to the mind. All mundane objects,
crude, subtle or causal, consist in mental waves
or thought-waves, and so in the fullest accord
with reasoning and logic, we may call the Soul
omni-telepathic. It is because of this omnitelepathic A'tman (Soul) that the existences of all
mundane objects, visible or invisible, large or
small, find their factual substantiation and
recognition. Had there been no A'tman, the
existence of everything would have been in
jeopardy. ”
- Ananda Sutram 1-1
- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

43. MEDITATION
AS LASER
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During meditation, a
meditator’s mind becomes
like a laser beam because all
his/her mental and physical
energies are in a constant
phase due to intense
concentration on the
mantra, its rhythm and
ideation.
The meditator acquires
psychic force.

51. Well – you will need to
practice!
Anyone can do it 
Start today.