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day or two about things which need to be attended to. As I point my attention towards the divine light in 5 or 10 minutes these thoughts get reduced and I get into absorption in the thought on the divine light. When I orient myself well before the meditation I get into absorption soon after starting the meditation.
To remember a few of the thoughts relating to work or activities during the past few days is but natural tendency of the mind and since they get reduced as you report you need to ignore their arousal.
9. Some days I get very old thoughts. During meditation sometimes I feel happy, sometimes empty and at times feel like got sucked or pulled into something.
When we get thoughts which are relatively old it is a happy thing since we are getting rid off the impressions of the past. Some times we get ideas or thoughts or visions totally un¬understood and they relate mostly to previous lives we have had.
10. After meditation calmness is there. Sometimes get a pleasant feeling.
The calmness or pleasant feeling are qualities of the Divine but we should remember the Divine and not His qualities. (Remembering the qualities is the realm of religion-not bad; but we need to go beyond)
11. During Morning meditation, feeling of absorption, calmness is generally felt; Love to master is felt more at times with emotion. Feeling soft at the heart; Few days felt like the grace is flowing into the chest region freely and then, that feeling stopped; Love towards others is increasing.
These are all good feelings and as you move further in the path you will lose the emotional states and all feelings will be balanced.
12. In general the grace felt nowadays are plain (No feeling of happiness).
What you mean they are not exciting. You have not read the literature of ISRC. We are not to be bothered about Torpor or Excitement. They are not meditative moods.
13. Mostly thoughts during the meditation are less and they don’t affect the