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Challenges with the Hong-sau Technique

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from deepak pradhan: When I am practicing Hong Sau, my breath starts becoming restless and its frequency increases. Please guide me.

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What Meditation Can Do

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from goswami: Can meditation heal every disease? Can we gain God attention by meditation? What are powers of meditation?

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Tunnels, Glitters, Pressure, and Tingling

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from hariom sharan: I have been meditating 1 hour daily for 5 months. One month before I started feel tingling, pressure, and like heartbeat on my forehead. I can feel it 24 hours especialy concentrating on any thing. But it is not painful. One week before, during meditation, I felt a journey through a dark long tunnel, in the way I saw glitters.…

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Restlessness During the AUM Technique

Nayaswami Savitri

Question from Barry DeStein: My problem is with the OM technique. I’ve been practicing regular for months now I can’t seem to to get away from my restlessness, my other practice of energizing excercise, and hong sau are going well. I feel great benefit through their practice, but the practice of the OM just leaves me frustrated. I don’t know what my problem is.

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Facing Evil Presences in Meditation

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from Marisa: Hello, i was going through a guided meditation today and was a little less than halfway through when something started feeling wrong. I was supposed to be traveling to a beautiful place but instead found myself in a place with dark shadows and what felt like evil presences. It was absolutely terrifying, and it’s never happened before. I couldn’t get…

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Smelling Incense While Meditating

Nayaswami Bharat

Question from pankaj: Namaste, One of our devotee smells incense during Aum Technique. Any correlation of Aum technique and smells? any guidance we can share with him to put him at ease? aum guru pankaj

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Use the Hong-Sau Technique for Concentration

Nayaswami Dharmadevi

Question from venky: Namasthe Swamiji,S How to concentrate on one point in meditation. Swamiji I can concentrate on the wall by placing dot but I am unable to concentrate on one point in kutastha (place between eye brows) please help me Swamiji.

Does Our Meditation Practice Benefit Others?

Question from maia: The question arose from a spiritual friend “Who do we (Yogananda’s disciples) dedicate our meditations to?” I naturally thought that when I meditate I dedicate everything to God but the result of the meditation is expansion. My friend being from another path said she dedicates all her meditations for the benefit of all other sentient beings. Can you comment on…

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Sticking with My Meditation Practice

Nayaswami Parvati

Question from R.Nandini: Hi, I had started meditation. But unfortunately stopped practicing for a few days in between. How do I firmly stick to the practice? Besides I have a very tight schedule and sometimes compromise on my sleep to get up early and meditate which makes me tired. Guide me as to how I can firmly stick to this path in spite…

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How Do I Focus on The Spiritual Eye?

Nayaswami Anandi

Question from Daniel Boland: How can I focus and concentrate correctly on the third eye ? How also, do I know that I’m moving through it ?