Path to Mindfulness, Inner Calm & Joy

Only those who enjoy meditation will do it regularly and experience its many life-enhancing benefits, from an increased sense of inner calm to a feeling of deep joy in everyday life. In this eBook,  uses his “9 keys” approach to guide both newcomers and existing meditation practitioners alike in how to really embrace and get the most from a steady practice.

This eBook is an important contribution to the field of meditation that removes many distortions and misconceptions about the realities of the practice. It helps readers to understand problems that they may encounter along the way and offers reassuring solutions for them to try. A wonderful blend of spiritual and practical wisdom.

Secret Key Number One – Take a Broader View

1. Understand the Laws of Nature
2. Meditation Should Help us Solve our Problems

Secret Key Number Two – Know What Meditation is Not

1. It is Not a Forced Concentration of Mind
2. It is Not for a Select Few
3. Meditation is Certainly Not Difficult

Secret Key Number Three – Know What Meditation is

1. Meditation – A Natural State of Being
2. What is Meditation?
3. Study your Thoughts to Go Beyond Them
4. Meditation Should be Practised with Utmost Ease
5. Being in a Meditative State is our Very Nature
6. The Body is the House, the Life Principle its Owner
7. Meditation Should Bring Joy
8. Meditation – The Divine Play

Secret Key Number Four – Develop a Genuine Taste for Meditation

1. How to Develop a Taste for Meditation to Improve Mental Concentration
2. Differentiate between Taste for Meditation and Taste for Other Things
3. Differentiate between Inner Joy and Outer Joy
4. Relationship between External Joy and Joy of Meditation

Secret Key Number Five – Find Proper Help from a True Master

1. Don’t Judge the Person by External Appearance
2. How to Develop Inner Vision
3. The Usefulness of Inner Vision
4. Understand the Limitations of Outward Expression
5. Unseen and Seen are Both Equally True
6. How Does One Become an Authority?
7. The Qualities of a True Master
8. Make the Right Choice

Secret Key Number Six – Find a Congenial Atmosphere within Yourself

1. Significance of Outside Atmosphere
2. Atmosphere at Home

Secret Key Number Seven – Grow Beyond Dreams and Desires

1. Differentiate between Meditation and Sleep
2. Why do we Dream?
3. Freedom from Desires is Freedom from Dreams
4. Freedom from Desires is a Mental State

Secret Key Number Eight – Be Creative at Worldly and Spiritual Levels

1. Dreams and Creativity – A Psychological Perspective
2. Spontaneity of Spiritual Creativity
3. What Is More Important? Manifest Creativity or Unmanifest Ability?

Secret Key Number Nine – Be Receptive to Spiritual Grace Appendices

1. Shavasan Meditation (S.M.)
2. ‘Who Am I?’
3. An Experience of Absolute Stillness