Stages of Mind
Stages of Mind
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Vishvas meditation, as propagated by Swami Vishvas Ji, is not a practice. It is a process. All concentration points are dissolved in meditation, only consciousness remains.

Swami Vishvas Ji explains, Meditation is a state of complete relaxation, a state where there is no effort. If there is effort, there is no relaxation. Meditation is our true nature. To understand this, we must first understand the different stages of the mind:

COGITATION:
Thinking is undirected, vague; try to go back from your thinking to where the thought came. Retrace the steps, you will see one thought leads to another without any direction from you. The mind moves like a mad man, leading nowhere.

CONTEMPLATION:
The madman is led, directed, he cannot escape. The mind always tries to escape from one path to another, to some association. You cut off all paths. You direct your mind to one road only — this is called contemplation. As a scientist, mathematician, or a person working on some problem, you are in contemplation. Many things distract you, but you do not allow your mind to wander, the mind must move in only one line. Science is based on contemplation, it is logical and rational, it is not absurd.

CONCENTRATION:
The mind is not allowed to move at all. It is only allowed to stay at one point. The entire energy, the whole movement stays at one point. Yoga is concerned with concentration. The yogic mind has its thinking focused, fixed at a point; no movement is allowed.

MEDITATION:
All concentration points are dissolved in meditation — only consciousness remains. “I am not the mind, I am the consciousness, though my consciousness goes frequently with the mind — I bring it back. I retreat from the mind's border, the mind's play.” Meditation is a process of retreat, where you simply watch the mind's play as a neutral energy. That is why meditation cannot be grasped by the mind. Till the point of concentration, the mind has a reach. Mind can understand concentration, a mental exercise, but not meditation. In ordinary thinking, all directions are open; in concentration, only one point is open. In meditation even that point is taken away. Thinking is an ordinary state of mind and meditation, the highest possibility — yet so simple and easy to achieve.

Source: www.vishvas.org

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