It is a very good thing that you had only few thoughts during mediation when you did the meditation for the first time on the day of Gurupurnima. You continue to do meditation in this way for 15 minutes in the morning and evening. For the first five minutes do naam-smaran with love and tenderness in your heart. Ask for the help and grace of Bhagawan with love and devotion. Begin with the bhavna (intent and feeling) of establishing stillness in your mind. While doing this observe any thoughts that arise as a witness. Do not give consent or approval to these thoughts. What it means that you should not add any connected thought to the thought that has already been observed by you as a witness. In short you should not add another thought yourself and create the chain of thoughts. For now this is what you should do. Write to me with open heart whatever is observed when you do this.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sopan
Edition 3; page 32 - 33.
My two cents --
This is written in a letter to a lady devotee in 1951. It is worth noting that Pujya Shree Mota has not mentioned any thing about concentrating on breathing or heart center at this juncture. Establishing bhava and bhavna in the process seems to be the key in the early practice of meditation.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sopan
Edition 3; page 32 - 33.
My two cents --
This is written in a letter to a lady devotee in 1951. It is worth noting that Pujya Shree Mota has not mentioned any thing about concentrating on breathing or heart center at this juncture. Establishing bhava and bhavna in the process seems to be the key in the early practice of meditation.
