Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume I Stage Two

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. How to get in touch with God through meditation
Part I
Definition
Meditate with the Right Method
Form a habit of meditation
How to achieve true silence
Be free from material delusions
Revisiting the first part

Part II
How to Achieve Deeper Consciousness Through Meditation
The nature of your soul's omnipresence
How to acquire universal consciousness
social path
Path of discipline
spiritual path
Revisiting the second part

Part III
The Scientific Technique of Meditation
Explanation of OM vibration
Application method
The sound of all elements and the essence of their vibrations
Restatement of the third part
Technique

Part IV
The value of thinking
Sound
Time for prayer
Signs of high spiritual development
Weekly approval
Revisiting Part Four

Part V
Mirror of Silence
Prayer for Preceptum
How to know your oneness with God
2. Invocation
3. Important exercises to increase energy
Abdominal exercises
Walking and running exercises around the room
Other Important Exercises
Healing exercise
To strengthen the knees
To strengthen the spine
For strengthening digestive power
Against a headache
To improve brain power
To strengthen the nerves
To strengthen the eyes
Happiness in God
Spiritualization of creative force
How to regulate the creative impulse
Exercise and Diet
May joy and happiness be the purpose of your life
Influence of Outer Joys and Pleasures
An ocean of peace and joy
4. Divine healing laws
Part I
Human methods are fickle
Healing through prayer to God

Part II
Keep the windows of your life open
Spiritual diseases
Psychological illnesses
physical illness
Causes of other diseases
Life Treatment and Exercise
mental healing

Part III
Carry out your duties with joy and attention
Heliotherapy method of self-healing
Against the common cold
Against chest cold
Against a headache
Against eye diseases
Against rheumatism
Against anemia and nervousness
For wounds, abscesses and skin lesions
Obstacles for sunlight
The sun gives life to everything
5. Internal laws for magnetic development
Part I
What is magnetism
Origin of Evil
Electronic magnetism
solar magnetism
Magnetism of atoms and molecules
chemical magnetism
vegetable magnetism
animal magnetism
material magnetism
Hypnotism
Mutual magnetism
How to develop spiritual magnetism
Revisiting the first part
Part II
Your behavior at home indicates the degree of your magnetism
Peace and joy at home
Control your actions and your words
Formulas for the development of magnetism
Revisiting the second part
Magnetism that liberates the spirit
6. The art of developing memory
Part I
Why you need to improve your memory
How the superconscious, subconscious and conscious mind works
Where is your consciousness concentrated?
Revisiting the first part
Part II
psychological method
physical method
Revisiting the second part
7. Laws of habits
force of habit
The Law of Spiritual Habits
Everything is achieved through meditation
Non-attachment is the path to happiness
Cling to God!
Weekly approval
Abode of God and Truth

1. HOW TO GET IN CONTACT WITH GOD THROUGH MEDITATION
Part I
Definition
Meditation is that specific kind of concentration, which is used exclusively only in those cases when one consciously wishes to be included in the Cosmic Consciousness. The student who practices this method will eventually be able to achieve not only everything that the power of attention is capable of and what he needs to accomplish, but he will also be able to develop his ability to control his destiny to prevent misfortune and disease.
Contemplation is the ax that destroys all barriers of consciousness and reveals God's eternally youthful source. Contemplation is complete relaxation (relaxation) - the only way to God. Whatever you do instead of meditation, you will never find the joy that comes when thoughts stop. You may ask - how can I know that such joy actually arises, as described here. I affirm this: if you practice this lecture daily deeply and consistently, you will find this joy that will manifest in you always real, always conscious, always new and always growing. After a long practice, this joy will never leave you, neither at work, nor at rest, nor even in your sleep. This joy will guide you always and everywhere to do the right thing and will answer your prayers. You need to experience this yourself. And I again affirm the following: when you achieve this, you will see how insignificant in comparison with this all aspirations for any other achievements. Your consciousness will expand. You will stand indestructible in the fire of annihilating trials. The whole universe will not be able to tempt you, to drop this bliss. This happiness will replace all other things for you. Jesus felt the same way when he said:
Get away from Me, Satan.
(Matthew 4:10)
All satanic material desires dissipated before the acquired divine joy.
Meditate with the Right Method
Perfection is not a prohibition, but a positive acquisition. Although pleasant, human life is only a bubble of laughter, but in God life becomes a sea of ​​joy.
You, my God, are the ocean, and I, an insignificant bubble of laughter, have become a sea of ​​joy.
This feeling of joy can only be obtained through the right method of concentration and meditation. You can look for the doors of your room on the ceiling for years until you find the right way to look for them in the wall. When your prayers are correct, they will reach God, and then he will send you a true mediator who will teach you and call you to Him.
No one comes to the Father except through Me,
(John 14:6)
Jesus said. He got him. The joy generated by meditation is this ever-new, triumphant proof of the existence of God. Once I knew this, oftentimes when I was feeling sleepy, I would say, "Leave me, you shameless hopper, I don't want to lose this joy."
Often, indulging in meditation, your whole body is transformed, because, entering into true contact with God, all things become harmonious, all things melt in the ocean of the world. But for this you need to practice this lecture honestly, earnestly, consistently and continuously, in order to acquire a full understanding of this supreme authority.
Form a habit of meditation
Your business commitments are important. But your determination to serve others is even more important, and your commitment to meditation, home, God and Truth are the most important. Do not say that you are too preoccupied with the cares of life and the anxiety of food to devote the necessary time to the development of divine attributes.
Break with your old, bad, stubborn, and selfish habits of deifying trivial obligations with wisdom. No one else will be responsible for your affairs, although, often. other people are the ones who interfere with your vain frivolities and so-called important matters.
You, the sleeping likeness of God, wake up - take it and spare no effort to familiarize yourself with the correct laws, which will give you the strength to fulfill your most important obligation in relation to yourself - to know your soul.
Don't say, "I'll review the Cosmic Entity tomorrow." That "tomorrow" will never come: start your lesson today. Today's study will strengthen your desire to delve deeper into tomorrow's study, while negligence today will dampen your thirst.
The deeper and longer you meditate and affirm, the more you will feel and realize the ever-increasing joy in your heart. Then you will know without any doubt that there is a God, and that He always exists, is always conscious, omnipresent, and is always a new joy. Then ask:
Father, now, today, daily, every tomorrow, every moment, in a dream and in reality, during life and death, in this world or in that world - be with me a felt and responsive joy in my heart.
Do not get up from prayer immediately on your feet, after one or two flights of the spirit, but with true burning, with increasing heart thirst and consciously, in your mind, say the above statement for renewing your lost oneness with God until you feel an ever-increasing trembling of joy., covering your heart and your entire body. This increased joy after meditation is the only evidence that God has responded to you through the radio of your heart tuned into submission. Prayers should remember that during deep meditation, when the breath calms down, a very pleasant state of peace is created, but due to self-consciousness, thoughts revolve about the body and then rapid and noisy breathing resumes, causing all material aspirations and distraction of the senses. The one who prays, therefore, should not lose heart, but he should learn to calm the breath and the senses through deep meditation.
Those who are indifferent to sensual joy and meditation will not be able to advance for a long time. It should be remembered that even when one is not able to conquer the body, one should also indulge in meditation, because then there is a balance between small feelings and great spiritual joy. Those who leave meditation and cannot overcome their feelings are in an almost hopeless state.
If, after deep meditation, anxiety arises as a result of memories of sensual joys, then the worshiper is dissatisfied and embarrassed and no longer finds either inner joy or transient sensual joy and concludes: “Oh, great Soul, I do not want inner joy, nor that, that gives self-realization and spiritual development, nor sensual joy. Such a state of mind must and can be overcome by regular and deep meditation and the imagining of ever-new happiness felt in the depths of contemplation.
How to achieve true silence
The scientific method for creating true silence was taught in a lecture on concentration. This lecture on meditation teaches what to do after achieving silence and how to use the freed attention to turn it to God. Silence means calming both the muscles and the thoughts. You can easily calm the body, but it is difficult to calm the mind. They still thrash about rebelliously, jumping from object to object at amazing speed, but by using scientific methods you can pretty much calm your mind as well. As long as the water is rippling in the pond, you will not be able to see a clear reflection of the moon in it. Keep in mind that until the restless thoughts and body movements are over, you will not be able to hear the inner voice or see with the inner eyes. In other words, God will not enter your temple. God will enter the temple