Adhikarana VI — Meditation should take place

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Adhikarana VI — Meditation should take place

in a sitting posture

In the Shvetashvatara we read its follows (II., 8):

Let a wise man hold his body with its three erect parts (chest, neck and head) even, and turn his senses with the mind towards the heart, he will then in the boat of Brahman cross all the torrents which cause fear.

Doubt: This description of the posture is enjoined by the Revelation. The question arises: Is this posture compulsory in every Japa or recitation or is it optional?

Purvapaksha: The recitation of Om is a mental process. No particular bodily postures are absolutely necessary for the due carrying on of any mental process. Therefore, the Asana (posture) taught in the above Shruti is not compulsory.

Siddhanta: This view is set aside in the next Sutra.

SUTRA IV. 1. 7.

आसीनस्सम्भवात्॥४.१.७॥

āsīnassambhavāt ..4.1.7..

… Asinah, sitting, … Sambhavat, on account of possibility.

7. (Let him recite the name of the Lord Hari) in a sitting posture, (for prayer is) possible in that posture only. — 488.

COMMENTARY

The Lord Hari should be meditated upon by the devotee, hi a sitting posture. Why? Because meditation is possible only when one is sitting. It is not possible when one is lying down at full length, or is standing or is walking. Meditation is possible only when one is quietly seated.

Moreover, in the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, 1. 3, we read:

The sages, devoted to meditation and concentration, have seen the power belonging to God Himself, hidden in its own finalities (Guna). He, being one, superintends all those causes, time, self, and the rest.

This declares that those who yearn to know God should perform meditation (Dhyana). Now Dhyana can he performed only by him who is in a sitting posture and not in any other state. The next Sutra makes it still more clear.

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