Categories: Student Experiences & Reflections
How Can There Be Two
By: Steve Ridley
In meditation practice it is not enough to achieve bodily relaxation and relative mental quiet. This state of calm is only the foundation from which a steady, applied intensity of internalized, surrendered focus issues.
Resting within the initial calmness of the mind-body, following pranayama, one’s intention must be directed through the heart, brow or crown point with relaxed yet constant effort, feeding the point of focus with full ambition. This can only be done properly once the mind-body has been brought into relative harmony-ease, otherwise the effort will be sporadic and nervous in nature, and success will not be possible.
Applied intensity of internalized, surrendered focus, with an intent of realizing the Highest Reality will result in samadhi (super-consciousness; soul-knowing).
Always affirm and acknowledge: I am the Radiant Light indwelling this body temple.
Reason that: “If GOD indwells me, as me, how can there be two?”
Originally appeared in: September 1992
