And the Smritis also teach the same (that meditation must be performed in a sitting posture). — 491.

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SUTRA IV. 1. 10.

स्मरन्ति च॥४.१.१०॥

smaranti ca ..4.1.10..

… Smaronti, it is mentioned in the Smritis. Cha, and.

10. And the Smritis also teach the same (that meditation must be performed in a sitting posture). — 491.

COMMENTARY

Thus in the Gita, VI., 11. 13, we have the following:

In a pure place, established on a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low, made of a cloth, a black antelope skin, and Kusha grass, one over the other.

There, having made the mind one-pointed, with thought and the functions of the senses subdued, steady on his seat, he should practise Yoga for the purification of the self.

Holding the body, head, and neck erect, immoveably steady, looking fixedly at the point of the nose, with unseeing gaze.

The above verses of the Gita also teach that the persons meditating should practise the motionlessness of their bodily limbs and sense-organs. Such a motionlossness cannot take place without the sitting posture, Therefore, the meditation must be performed in a sitting posture. And the above verses specifically mention this posture by using the words Upavishya Asane, sitting on a seat, etc.

Adhikarana VII — The devotee may face any direction

in his worship and meditation

With regard to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (IV., 5. 6 and other texts to the same effect) which declare that «the Self is to be seen, to be heard, to be constantly thought over and to be meditated upon», which have already been mentioned before, here arises another point for discussion.

Doubt: In this form of meditation and prayer, is there any condition of direction, locality and time or is there no such condition?

Purvapaksha: In all Vaidic ritual and Upasana» we find particular direction, etc., mentioned. Such as the Sandhya should be performed facing east, just before the sunrise on the bank of a river, etc. Since Vaidic rituals lay down these conditions of prayers, and the Vedantic meditation and prayers being in no way different from the Vaidic Sandhya, the conditions of direction, time and locality must apply to it also.

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

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