title: Meditate
author:  Swami Muktananda 
description: This book is a specific and practical how-to primer of meditation, but it is more than an outline of a method. It is itself a meditation experience when read with a certain open detachment and sense of venture.  Joseph Chilton Pearce
zlib_text: Meditation
  and other spiritual
  discipiines
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  SWAM I SWAHANANDA
  
  MEDITATION AND OTHER
  SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
  By
  swami SWAHANANDA
  Distributed by
  j^^Vedanta Press
  1946 Vedanta PI. - Hollywood CA 90068
  e-mail: info@vedanta.org
  7\dK>ana .As Firama
  (Publication Department)
  5 Dehi Entallv Road
  Cal( tttaTOOOH
  
  Published by
  Swami Mumukshananda
  President, Advaita Ashrama
  Mayavati, Pithoragarh, Himalayas
  from its Publication Department, Calcutta
  © All Rights Reserved
  First Edition, February 1983
  First Reprint, September 1994
  Second Reprint, Januaiy 1997
  2M8C
  All rights in this book are reserved. No part
  of this book may be reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever (except in the case of
  brief quotations embodied in critical articles
  and
  reviews)
  without
  prior
  written
  permission from tlie publisher.
  ISBN 81-85301-85-9
  Printed in India at
  Gipidi Box Co.
  3B Chatu Babu Lane
  Calcutta 700 014
  
  CONTENTS
  1
  Types of Meditation
  2. Japa or Repetition of Holy Words
  3. Japa in Different Traditions
  4. The Divine 