During a discussion period one Sunday afternoon, a boy asked Swamiji about an experience he had had in meditation. “I have been practicing meditation by repeating my mantram and trying to feel that the Guru is seated on the crown of my head. One day last week I began to feel an unusual pressure on the top of my head while meditating. I became frightened and stopped. What should I do?” Swamiji answered, “If you want the Guru to sit on your head, you must be prepared to hold his weight. Gurus are heavy, you know. All these days you have been imagining him sitting on the top of your head. Now you feel his presence, why do you stop?” Understanding what had happened, the boy asked, “When I feel the presence, should I continue to repeat my mantra?” “When someone is standing in your doorway waiting to come in, you say, ‘Come in, please come in.’ Once that person has entered the room, will you continue to say, ‘Come in, come in?’ No, you will offer him a seat and listen to what he has to say. The mantra is like that–a calling or invocation. Once the presence is felt, there is no need to repeat the mantra. Just sit and listen to what it has to say to you.” (Excerpted from the booklet, Meditation: Excerpts from Talks by Sri Swami Satchidananda, 1975 and reprinted in the IYTA Newsletter, November, 2010) - See more at: yogaville.org/2014/06/meditation-by-sri-swami-satchidananda/#sthash.osdwtDda.dpuf
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