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• Asan and attitudes for Meditation:
Be seated with spinal column erect
And turn your senses and mind deep within. With the mantram echoing in your heart, Cross over the dread sea of birth and death.
Train your senses to be obedient.
Regulate your activities to lead you
To the goal. Hold the reins of your mind
As you hold the reins of restive horses.
Choose a place for meditation that is
Clean, quiet, and cool, a cave with a smooth floor Without stones and dust, protected against
Wind and rain and pleasing to the eye.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad From The Upanishads, translated
• The wise see the Lord of Love in the year,
Which has two paths, the northern and the southern.
Those who observe outward forms of worship And are content with personal pleasures Travel after death by the southern path,
The path of the ancestors and of rayi, To the lunar world, and are born again.
But those who seek the Self through meditation, Self-discipline, wisdom, and faith in God
Travel after death by the northern path,
The path of prana, to the solar world,
Supreme refuge, beyond the reach of fear And free from the cycle of birth and death.
-Prashna Upanishad 327