Meditation on Spiritual Concepts
according to
I. K. Taimni
It is a well known law of psychology that if we think of any quality persistently that quality tends to become more and more a part of our character. This effect is heightened by meditation in which the concentration of mind is far more intense than in ordinary thinking. The effect is increased tremendously in Samadhi for the following reason. When the Yogi performs Samyama on any quality his mind becomes one with that quality for the time being as has been explained in I-41. The positive qualities like courage, compassion etc. are not vague nebulous things as they appear to the lower mind but real, living, dynamic principles of unlimited power which cannot manifest fully in the lower worlds for lack of adequate instruments. A principle or quality merely sheds its radiance feebly, as it were, while we merely think of the quality, the radiance becoming more and more bright as the thinking becomes deeper and more persistent and the mind gets more and more attuned to the quality. But when Samyama is performed on the particular quality and it fuses with the mind it can manifest through it to an unlimited extent. Even when this condition of being en rapport with the quality ends on the cessation of Samyama the effect of this direct contact is to make a permanent impression on the mind and to increase enormously its power to manifest that quality under normal conditions.
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