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Writer's pictureBrijendra Robert William Eaton
Jul 25, 20221 min read

The Decision to Meditate


Brijendra at the Ganga, Rishikesh

As we have become accustomed to knowing the world through the medium of our bodies using our senses, and our minds have concluded “I am my body, my mind,” we can also become accustomed to being aware of the knowingness that is our source of being.


The means to cultivate awareness of our unchanging identity, our eternal I, is meditation.


The eternal knowingness is always there, but without bringing attention to the source of knowing, awareness of the background knowingness does become part of our life.


The default in our life is to attend the world forms through our senses and mind—that just happens by itself. Therefore, it takes a decision to say, “I will meditate now.”


Eventually, meditation is who we are, but in the beginning, it is a practice that is decided upon, even if it is only to try the practice and see what happens.


Meditation on the Knower is the gateway to knowing: “I existed before body and mind.”


2022-07-24

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Introduction to Space Light

I am starting these blog entries with some issues of my original Space Light offerings. Back in 1999, inspired by my newly acquired email account, I offered to send out emailed issues of writings I was doing on meditation and the philosophy of Yog to people I thought might be interested in receiving them. These writings tended to be on topics of yogic Self-knowledge that I chose to explore mixed in with snippets of satsangs with Guru-ji, Swami Shyam. Since much of the time I was musing in these writings, I later called them just that, musings.

So, I am beginning this blog with some of those early Space Lights.

With Knowledge Love Light,

Brijendra

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