RAJYOGA

MEDITATION

day 1

“KNOWING
MYSELF”
 In this session we shall find the
answer to the following question

Who am I?
 Knowing Myself - The Soul

+ =
SOUL – A POINT
OF LIGHT

SKELETON OF HUMAN
BONES AND BEING
FLESH
 THE SOUL AND THE BODY

MAN WHEN BOTH MEET THE

COMPUTER COMPUTER CAN BE USED

Just like a computer cannot operate on its own

and needs a programmer, a body too cannot
carry out actions without the soul.
A soul uses the physical body to perform its role.
 THE SOUL AND THE BODY

CAR A DRIVER DRIVING

THE CAR

A car cannot move on its own and needs a driver.

The body is equivalent to a car and the soul is
equivalent to the driver.
Knowing Myself - The Soul
 Knowing Myself - The Soul
The soul has 3 faculties –
• MIND
• INTELLECT
• RESOLVES
 The Mind
THE MIND CREATES THOUGHTS.

EXAM
 FOUR TYPES OF THOUGHTS
• POSITIVE- Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Mercy,
Honesty, Harmony, Tolerance, Enthusiasm,
Cooperation, Understanding
• NEGATIVE- Anger, Stress, Ego, Laziness, Lust
Revenge, Carelessness, Criticism, Jealousy,
Attachment, Greed
• NECESSARY- Work, career, routine,
profession, studies
• WASTE- Past, Future
• A Human Mind creates as many as 35-48
thoughts every minute.
• Scientific research shows that 95% of
these thoughts are negative and/or
waste
 The Intellect
• Through the intellect the soul decides whether
the thought created by the mind should be
brought into action or not.

It’s just
Don’t
one
smoke
cigarette
 Sanskaars/Habits
• Each action when performed repeatedly
becomes a habit/sanskaar.
• Each soul has 5 means of acquiring sanskaars.
1. Original sanskaars of the soul (purity, peace,
love, bliss, happiness, knowledge, power)
2. Sanskaars from past births
3. Inherited from parents
4. Influence of company
5. Will Power
 WILL POWER

INHERITED
FROM FAMILY ORIGINAL SANSKAARS
OF THE SOUL

SANSKAARS
INFLUENCE BY PAST LIFE
PEERS SANSKAARS
 TODAY’S HOMEWORK
“Practice visualizing yourself
as a point of light in the
centre of your forehead”
LET US MEDITATE FOR A
FEW MINUTES
 OM SHANTI

HAVE A
BEAUTIFUL DAY !

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY…