- Make sure you are comfortable and relaxed because it will allow various yoga Asana, kriya, bandh, mudra and pranayam induced by awakened Kundalini to happen freely without obstruction.
- Keep your eyes closed during meditation.
- The meditation can be done at any time of the day and in any place you find suitable. You can face any direction.
- Meditate on an empty stomach or two hours after you have consumed a meal. Meditating immediately after a meal will make you sleepy and you may doze off during meditation. Rapid involuntary yogic kriya may make you feel nauseated if you have eaten right before meditation.
- If you are not able to imagine Gurudev’s image at Agyachakra for all 15 minutes of meditation, don’t worry about it. Try to imagine the picture for a couple of minutes. If after that the image fades away, simply keep focusing at the Agyachakra and chant the mantra.
- Having thoughts during meditation is perfectly natural. The more you chant the mantra throughout the day, the more focused the mind becomes about the spiritual practice. This in turn means that you will not be troubled by thoughts during meditation. When thoughts do occur, don’t break your meditation. Continue with it, and your mind will settle down after a while. Also, with regular practice, your concentration will improve.
- During meditation you may also have various other experiences in the body like vibrations, sensation of electric current running along the spinal column, gyrating, leaning forward or backward, rolling on the ground, rapid movement of the head, clapping, shouting, crying, laughing, singing etc. You may also experience seeing bright lights, sensing fragrant smell, and hearing tinkling of bells or thudding of drums, thunder etc. In exceptional cases, you may also see some frightening scenes like floods or earthquakes, etc. Do not break your meditation due to excitement, joy or fear. Divine Shakti Kundalini is inducing these experiences to cleanse your body and mind and free you from diseases/ addiction etc and thus ensuring your spiritual progress.
- If you do not experience any of the above yogic movements or sensations, do not break your meditation. Absence of these experiences does not mean you are not making progress. Sometimes, these experiences begin occurring after a few days or months of regular spiritual practice.
- Meditating at least twice daily is the key to progress.
- Meditating without chanting of the mantra will not give any result. Chanting of mantra during meditation is a must.
- The mantra should be chanted round-the-clock. This means the practitioner should chant it during routine activities like brushing teeth, shaving, bathing, eating breakfast / lunch / snacks /dinner, commuting to office in bus, train, car etc., and working in the office or at any field site or even when watching TV at home. In short, chant the mantra relentlessly as much as you can.
- If you are speaking to someone, you may find it hard to chant the mantra but resume it again when the conversation is done.
- Since chanting of mantra is to be done silently (mentally) without moving tongue and lips, it will not cause you any social discomfort. The chanting will not disturb anyone around you in the office, outside or at home.
- When you chant the mantra continuously like this for four to five weeks, the chanting becomes involuntary. This state is called Ajapa Japa — the chanting that happens without any effort on the part of the practitioner. When you reach this stage, you don’t have to chant the mantra; your guru takes over that duty on your behalf.
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