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Method of Meditation
My form - symmetrical, gracious, gentle, with four long and beautiful arms, well-developed and beautiful neck, beautiful cheeks and a graceful smile.
With Makara Kundalas or shining pendants adorning symmetrical ears, clad in a cloth of gold, dark complexioned like a cloud, with the splendid Srivatsa mark and Lakshmi on the chest.
Adorned with conch, disc, mace, lotus and a garland of wild-flowers [1], with feet adorned with ringing anklets and the chest resplendent with the effulgence of the Kaustubha gem.
Decked with a brilliant crown, bracelets and a waist-band beautiful in every feature, captivating to the heart, with the face and eyes beaming with graciousness and very tender, one should meditate on this form of the above description keeping the mind steady. He should concentrate the mind on all the features. He should withdraw the senses from their objects with a strong mind, and with the help of the charioteer intellect as guide, he should direct the mind to My whole body. Then he should concentrate on one part only, My smiling face. He should not meditate on anything else. Then withdraw the mind from the face and fix it on Akasa or the supreme cause. Give up that also. Rest on Me as the pure Brahman devoid of all attributes. Think of nothing at all.
Let the Triputi viz., Meditator, object of meditation and meditation vanish. Let them become one. Forget the triple differences. This is the highest Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
He who has thus attained perfect absorption, who has completely merged his mind sees himself in Me and also sees Me in himself like light united to light. The delusion about objects, finite knowledge and action shall then completely disappear for the Yogin, who thus concentrates his mind through intense meditation and attains oneness with Me or Samadhi. This is the fruit of Samadhi.”
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