Go to your room and shut the door --make no fuss. Sit down and talk to God.Practice meditation.Let your mind become so intense that the next time you sit to meditate you won't have to make the effort; your mind will be fixed immediately on Him. If you don't make a great effort to conquer physical and mental restlessness in the beginning,you will have difficulty every time you meditate through out the years. But if you make the supreme effort at the start, you will soon be happy and free.
When I utter the name"God" my whole being melts away in His joy. But that I had to work for. Make the effort. I was not at first the devotional kind. My mind used to be very restless. But now it is just like fire. As soon as I put my mindat the Kutasha center, all thoughts are gone--breath, heart, and mind are instantly still, and I am aware only of Spirit.
---Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
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