Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You by Muktananda

Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You Reviews

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  Clara

  This book it's amaizing. With the most simple way, Swami Muktananda share the way to live meditation.
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  Sam

  I am more interested in Buddhism than Kashmiri Shaivism, but I was hoping for some gems. I didn't really find them. Shiva is the god(dess?) of destruction and the book shed no light upon the place of meditation in this particular facet of Hindu cosmology. The only real description of higher meditative states were of phenomena that seem supernatural, and strangely mystical, and they were described in the context of sudden awakening via the guru's word, touch or even just a look. Such awakenings are not impossible in my view, but it seems Muktananda has exaggerated them and clouded them in the confusion of mysticism.
  Of course as a beginner intermediate in meditation, what would I know? Very little, and Muktananda has dozens of centers all over the world. At least he did have. One in my city, that I think at one stage more than a decade ago, I visited, but it made almost no impression on me and if anything his method triggers some skepticism on my part as to the potency of the awakenings caused simply by chanting this or that mantra.
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  Sirpa Grierson

  A basic and practical manual for meditation by one of the former "gurus" of Siddha meditation. The book was about the practice of receiving shaktipat from a guru, which connects you more quickly to the universal consciousness. This was published as a SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology by the University of New York Press. Scandals surrounded his latter years but I still think the teachings are interesting to ponder. Around the world, in almost all religious traditions, it seems to be about interconnectedness and discovering the love of God and how we are made of light :) I like the connection to our own goodness but wonder at the idea that we should "worship" ourselves. “Meditate on your own Self. Worship your Self. Respect your Self. God dwells within you as you.”
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  Victoria

  Meditate by Swami Muktananda if a relatively theoretical and super-fast read to get through if your looking for not only suggestions in the best, and most basic, ways to meditate (more towards the end), but also for "answers", theory, and an understanding of exactly what it is, how it behaves, and why one uses is. Make a note to yourself, however, this book is based in Kashmiri Shaivism, but very lightly, so anyone and everyone should be able to fully relate to it.
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  Michelle

  I kept putting off reading this book and initially it felt a little out there. I was even caught off guard by the word God. I kept substituting it with Consciousness or Truth or Bliss or Self and was fine. Blue is my favorite color so hopefully one day I will see the blue pearl.
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  Abhijeet Parihar

  Very thin book but has all the essential parts of meditation for a spiritual seeker.
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  Jennifer Kyrnin

  Good introduction to meditation.
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  Patrik Gudlin

  It looks good