SVETASVATARA
Meditation can be learned, and it must be practiced according to accepted rules. By its means it is possible to realize the personal Brahman, who, in union with Maya, creates, preserves, and dissolves the universe, and likewise the impersonal Brahman, who transcends all forms of being, who eternally is, without attribute and without action.
Know God, and all fetters will be loosed. Ignorance will vanish. Birth, death, and rebirth will be no more. Meditate upon him and transcend physical consciousness. Thus will you reach union with the lord of the universe. Thus will you become identified with him who is One without second. In him all your desires will find fulfillment.
The truth is you are always united with the Lord. But you must know this. Nothing further is there to know. Meditate and you will realize that mind, matter, and Maya (the power that unites mind and matter) are but three aspects of Brahman, the one reality.
Fire, though present in the firesticks, is not perceived until one stick is rubbed against another. The self is like that fire: it is realized in the body by meditation on the sacred syllable OM
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Let your body be the stick that is rubbed, the sacred syllable OM the stick that is rubbed against it. Thus shall you realize God, who is hidden in the body as the fire is within the wood.
Sit upright, holding the chest, throat, and head erect. Turn the senses and the mind inward to the lotus of the heart. Meditate on Brahman with the help of the syllable OM. Cross the fearful currents of the ocean of worldliness by means of the raft of Brahman—the sacred syllable OM.
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