Here’s a few reasons:
greater happiness, better concentration, self-discipline, improved health, inner strength, reduced stress, improved relationships, mastering the ego, service-mindedness, greater creativity, mental clarity, better sleep, self-acceptance, greater confidence, inner peace, Self-realisation
In short, meditation is the key to developing our higher potential, to moving to the next stage in our human development. According to Yoga philosophy, human beings ultimately seek unlimited happiness, yet our efforts to gain this through gaining wealth, possessions, name and fame always fail. Why? Because those things are finite while the human desire for happiness is infinite. Therefore, only by attaining something that is itself infinite is the human desire for happiness fulfilled. What is truly infinite? Supreme Consciousness.
All genuine methods of spiritual meditation centre on Supreme Consciousness – the Supreme Being. As you think, so you become. What are we to become? The word “Yoga” answers that question: Yoga means “union” – union between individual consciousness and Supreme Consciousness. That is the ultimate destination of everything within the entire creation – we’re all on one grand journey to merge our individual consciousness (soul) into the Supreme Soul, the Supreme Being. In the process of doing this we attain the state of enlightenment or Self-realisation and experience supreme happiness, joy and bliss. Such a state of bliss is not the result of anything external – an object, a relationship or recognition – rather it is completely internal as we experience our own pure consciousness, which is always with us, never depletes and is absolutely free!
It is this pure consciousness that we begin to experience in meditation and in so doing, begin to experience that supreme happiness, joy and bliss. This is life transforming as we begin to find what we’ve always been seeking, yet never attaining.
Genuine meditation practices – which are always taught free of charge – are something every human being can learn and master, thereby, fulfilling the desire for supreme happiness, all round fulfillment and success.
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