Brahma Kumaris

Brahma Kumaris Meditation and Other Uplifting Programs

Brahma Kumaris Meditation and other spiritually uplifting programs are conducted by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University headquartered at Mt. Abu in Rajasthan, India. The university has over 7,000 centers in more than 130 countries across the world.

It holds spiritual free meditation and positive thinking discourses, programs, seminars, retreats and so on for the benefit of humankind. Some of the widely acclaimed programs conducted by the BK University are:

• The Million Minutes of Peace

The program was launched in 1986 during the United Nations International Year of Peace, It gathered around one billion minutes in the form of meditation, prayers and positive thoughts. The objective of the program was to emphasize that peace begins with the individual and the peace process therefore must start with the individual.

• Global Co-operation for a Better World

Encouraged by the popularity of this effort, another program called Global Co-operation for a Better World was launched from the Houses of Parliament in London in April, 1988. The project sought to increase co-operation and understanding between nations, communities and individuals.

• Sharing Our Values for a Better World

The next international project called Sharing Our Values for a Better World was launched in September, 1994. The objective of the project was in line with the Preamble of the UN Charter, "To reaffirm faith in the fundamental rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person". The Project aimed to raise awareness of core spiritual values and the development of those values at both an individual and collective level.

• Living Values: A Guidebook

The fourth program was of educational nature and revolved around the publication of “Living Values: A Guidebook". The book contains the guiding principles and tools for the development of the whole person, recognizing that the individual is comprised of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.

All these projects elicited the attention and participation of millions of people in around 130 countries across the world.

What distinguishes the Brahma Kumaris from a horde of many other spiritual and religious organizations is its concept and practice of Yoga and meditation.

Yoga, in its true sense, is not doing breathing exercises and practicing physical exercises like asans. These exercises, without doubt, relax the body and the mind and facilitate the process of Yoga. The physical exercises are just means, and neither very important nor indispensable for attaining a state of yoga.

Yoga basically means being added, united, and totally absorbed in thinking about some spiritual entity, a person or an object to the extent of losing the body consciousness or ego.

Translated into simple spiritual terms ‘yoga’ is being absorbed in thinking blissfully of God. It is like a lover getting lost into the thoughts of his beloved or a mother feeling pleased when thinking about her son. Both the lover and the mother do not need to make any effort to think of their loved ones. When deeply absorbed, both almost lose their body consciousness while thinking about their loved ones. They get transported to a world of bliss as they think about them or talk with them in their thoughts. They do not need to do any physical or breathing exercises to relax their mind in order to think about them.

Let us now substitute these relations with God. It hardly matters if some consider God as their father, while others as their mother or master, guide and so on. The basic thing is to feel related to God. You can make Him as your son if you like. You do not need to make any effort to remember your son. This is Yoga in its most simple, natural and fundamental form-- a natural effortless and blissful remembrance.

Since the word ‘Yoga’ in its purest sense has no equivalent in English language, the next approximate substitute is ‘meditation’.

If ‘meditation’ means ‘thinking deeply’ then meditation is the best way to arrive at a state of yoga with God. Since we have not seen God in physical form just as we see our sons and daughters, therefore establishing such bonds of natural love with God is easier said than done. This is where ‘meditation’ helps. Thinking deeply, constantly, and lovingly -meditating-- about God Father/brother/mother/friend/son and son and affectionately remembering His virtues such as His being an ocean of love, bliss, compassion and so on, or, about His role in this World Drama as a creator, preserver and destroyer gradually transforms this ‘meditation’ to a state of true yoga where the person feels an elevated and spiritual bliss.

When you are in a true state of yoga, you receive an endless stream of godly bliss, which has no exact equivalent on the earthly plane. This type of bliss is known only to the true friends, companions and lovers of God. A true yogi remains in a state of divine intoxication. At ground level, it is like a mother being deeply absorbed in thinking and being happy about how handsome/brave/intelligent her son is, or, it is like being intoxicated about your relationship with someone truly ‘great’ in whatever sense you interpret ‘greatness’.

Meditation, or, thinking about God gradually helps a person to quieten the mind, clear it of the negative associations, fill it with positive and uplifting thoughts and experience a supreme spiritual bliss, It is in this sense that meditation/yoga is an exercise that must be practiced daily and regularly in a quiet and relaxing environment.

Some excerpts on Meditation taken from various websites of Brahma Kumaris Meditation

The most important journey you can take is the journey within. This is a journey to the truth of who you really are. This is the place, just beyond every day consciousness, where spiritual empowerment begins. Spiritual power gives you the power to choose creative thinking rather than automated thinking, response rather than reaction, peace, love and harmony rather than stress, conflict and chaos.

Meditation enables you to embark on this inward journey. Raja Yoga meditation gives you a clear spiritual understanding of yourself, helps you re–discover and use the positive qualities already latent within you, enables you to develop your strengths of character and create new attitudes and responses to life. You begin to remember things about yourself that you once knew, but had long forgotten. You start to enjoy moments of silence and to savour periods of introspection and reflection.

Meditation also helps you disconnect from damaging habits of thought, feeling and reaction. This results in a conscious, positive release of energy which improves the quality of your attitude, actions, and interactions. The process of going within, disconnecting from harmful habits, connecting to your innate spiritual resources, and reconnecting with your external life, is personally empowering in a lasting way.

Meditation is taught as a method of raising self-awareness leading to self–realisation. Meditation stills the mind and empowers the intellect to achieve insight and understanding of the spiritual laws and principles which sustain harmony and can bring natural renewal at all levels of life on earth.

Raja Yoga Meditation

“Meditation, accurately directed, makes God accessible to everyone.” –Sr. Jayanti, God’s Healing Power (Michael Joseph, Penguin Group, 2002)

Raja Yoga meditation redefines the self as a soul and enables a direct connection and relationship with the Supreme Source of purest energy and highest consciousness. Raja Yoga can be translated as ‘supreme union’, or as ‘highest connection’. Every soul has a right to experience this ultimate relationship.

Experience Meditation

Like any skill, meditation requires practice to achieve satisfying results. More and more people are adding some kind of meditation to their daily routine either as an effective antidote to stress, or as a simple method of relaxation. By doing a little meditation every day, it soon becomes a natural and easy habit, which generously rewards you for the effort it involves.

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