How Can Yoga and Meditation Help in Self Realization?

Chanting mantras, doing yoga and meditation, chakra meditation, fasting, penance, meditating upon a light, concentrating on breath and kundalini yoga are all tools that are used to keep the mind and inner complainers in control. These are merely tools until one attains Self Realization, they are not the ultimate goal. There are various health benefits of yoga however, a person will experience peace for the duration he remains engrossed in these practices and when they are over, he is back to where he started. Therefore, the mind never comes in his control. When the mind remains constantly under control, it can be considered cured.

In contrast, when you reach a state of absolute unaffectedness amidst all stresses within the thoughts, speech and actions you have achieved nirvikalp samadhi. Only a Gnani Purush is in such samadhi where no mental or physical circumstances can affect Him. He is the one who can place the true Meditation of the Self in your hands by gracing you with Knowledge of the Soul.

Let us learn more about yoga and meditation from the Gnani Purush Param Pujya Dadashri.

Real Meditation

Real meditation is always spontaneous, you don't have to do it. If you do then ego comes that I am meditating, I am concentrating but what is that 'I'? If you don't realize soul and you say I am doing then that is ego

Spiritual Quotes

Once you decide on the dheya (goal); dhyan (focused awareness or meditation) is the result of that.
These karmic accounts are due to the four different types of dhyan: artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts one's own self) , raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others), dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) and shukladhyan (awareness and contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul). Whatever the prevailing dhyan, so are the consequences.
Why trouble the poor mind unnecessarily? There is nothing wrong with concentrating the mind, but there is no need to trouble the mind if you want realization (darshan) of the Supreme Self.
Mantras are not eternal. Nothing in this world is eternal except the Self (the Atma). Everything else is a temporary adjustment. All these relatives are temporary adjustments! Only the Self is permanent.
Meditating as the Self is the true meditation.
There are two types of yogas (yoga means to join or union). One is Gnan yoga, that is the yoga of the Self and the other is agnan(ignorance) yoga and that is the yoga of the nonself. Non-self yoga includes yoga of the mind, body and speech. What does one unite with? Is it that which one has knowledge of, or that which one is ignorant about? Until the Self is known, how can the yoga of the Self be possible? That yoga can only be called yoga of the body because only the body is known.
There are two types of spiritual practices. One is done to attain the final goal (experience of Pure Soul) and the other is done simply for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the ultimate type of spiritual practice.
When the Self (Atma) becomes engrossed (tanmayakar) in the resultant states of the mind, then meditation (dhyan) arises.
Wherever there is ego, meditation (dhyan) does not exist. The inherent nature of the ego is such that dhyan does not exist when the ego is present. Therefore, when dhyan arises it is a resultant state, it is not an activity. Dhyan is the effect that arises from whatever activity the ego does.
Without attaining Gnan (Absolute Knowledge) through the path of yog, one cannot go to moksha. Without attaining Gnan, through the path of worship, one cannot go to moksha. Without attaining Gnan, through the path of karma, one cannot go to moksha.

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