Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.133
Monday 5/12/11
The Master Said:
"The yogi seeks to realize the ParamAtman, the Supreme Soul.
His ideal is the union of the embodied soul and the Supreme Soul.
He withdraws his mind from sense-objects and tries to concentrate
it on the ParamAtman. Therefore, during the first stage of his
spiritual discipline, he retires into solitude and with
undivided attention practices meditation in a fixed posture."
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