Homework: Meditation & You

Here are questions for your next homework. The next reading is the next chapter (you can skip the rest of the text of the current chapter, as you have been recieving chakra-specific handouts from Ruchi). Lets set a deadline for this as next Tuesday, as the chapter is quite lengthy long.

1a) What are the further benefits of meditation described in the reference book (page 82)? Which of these benefits do you feel in your own personal experience with the practice of Sahaja Yoga? What is it that makes you want to meditate regularly?

1b) If you skip meditation do you feel a difference in your day-to-day life?

2) According to the reference book (pg 88) what is, perhaps the most fundamental questions that human beings have? Have you ever asked yourself this kind of question?

3) What is the relationship between vibrations and Divine communication (pg 93)? Can you give examples ofhow vibratory awareness may help in our daily lives?

4) Describe in a few sentences the 3 distinct stages of meditation.

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