THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDITATION

 Meditation has been practiced since ancient times as a part of many religious customs and beliefs. The history of meditation is closely bound up with the religious background within which it was practiced. Even in prehistoric times, civilizations used rhythmic chants and offerings to appease the gods. Religion is a thing weak enough to be endangered because it is not God-made. But meditation is a natural phenomenon. It is a spiritual practice in which a person trains his or her mind or induces a style of consciousness to realize some advantage. Meditation blesses those who practice it sincerely. Meditation works wonders when practiced devotedly. The readers are provided with adequate fundamental understanding of meditation in this book for their routine practice. The book has been planned both soundly and comprehensively; the treatment scrupulously and most sensibly fulfils the promises implicit in that plan; emphasis is rightly laid rather upon what to do than upon what not to do; the numerous facts, besides being practical, are pointed, readable, even entertaining. The author Vikram Singh, a thoroughly trustworthy guide, has a sense of humour that never deteriorates into mere facetiousness. The general aims of the book are to develop reasoning, thinking, imagination powers of the readers and to develop their interest in the moral discipline while the specific aims are to help in making use of moral discipline in day to day life and to provide opportunity for the development of physical and mental faculties.