薄伽梵歌 18.52

獨處有其獨特的魅力。獨處中的靈性振動能奇妙地提升心靈。冥想會自然而然地發生，無需費力。所有已達「真我」實現的聖者和賢哲都曾獨處多年。若您坐在河畔、洞穴中、海邊或叢林裡，將會獲得良好的冥想體驗。在聖誕節和復活節假期期間，大家都可以享受獨處的寧靜。對於居家者而言，每年至少獨處一個月或半個月是非常必要的。與其在加爾各答或任何其他城市浪費時間、精力和金錢，不如在假期期間居住在瑞詩凱詩（Rishikesh）、烏塔爾卡西（Uttarakasi）或奈米沙拉尼亞（Naimisaranya）等聖地，透過進行「阿努什塔那」（Anushthana，即密集而系統的靈修實踐）或「曼陀羅」（Mantra）的「賈帕」（Japa）來飲用這些地方的和平甘露，並獲得不朽。一旦您嚐到獨處的幸福，您將永不忘懷，每年都會嘗試再次品嚐。食量過多者（饕餮者）完全不適合冥想或靈性道路。過多的食物會導致懶惰、半睡半醒的狀態，甚至深度睡眠。為生存而食，適度飲食。您將擁有輕盈的身體和輕快、愉悅、寧靜的心靈。這將有助於您的冥想練習。遵守「摩那」（Mauna，即禁語）誓言一週或一個月。每天遵守兩小時的誓言。控制身體。實踐「阿希姆薩」（Ahimsa，即不傷害）和「梵行」（Brahmacharya，即禁欲）。冥想「真我」，或冥想四臂的哈里主（Lord Hari），或克里希納主（Lord Krishna）、羅摩主（Rama）或濕婆主（Siva）。定期冥想，並逐漸將冥想時間從十五分鐘增加到一次三到六小時。如果您是全職的尋道者，請將所有時間用於冥想。如果您無法做到這一點，請進行「里基塔賈帕」（Likhita Japa，即書寫曼陀羅）和「基爾坦」（Kirtan，即歌頌主的名號和榮耀）。在間隙時間研讀宗教書籍。只有進階的尋道者才能長時間冥想。觀察心靈並培養無欲。如果您粗心大意且不警惕，能量會透過感官洩漏。如果能量洩漏，您就無法進行良好的冥想。無欲是對今生和來世感官享樂的漠不關心，是對可見和不可見對象的無欲。您必須擁有穩定、持久和持續的無欲。它不應減弱，而應是一種恆常的心態。您必須完全確立於無欲之中。在進行「阿努什塔那」的四十天裡，只食用牛奶和水果或清淡飲食。只攝取三到四種食物，只吃一餐。睡在地板上。遵守獨身和禁語誓言。不要離開房間。如果您不遵守完全禁語，則少說話。在恆河（Ganga）或任何聖河岸邊進行「阿努什塔那」。嘗試進行一次或多次您所選「曼陀羅」的「普拉沙拉那」（Purascharana）。如果「曼陀羅」有五個音節，重複五十萬次「曼陀羅」即構成一次「普拉沙拉那」。

Solitude has its own charms. The spiritual vibrations in solitude are wonderfully elevating. Meditation will come by itself without exertion. All saints and sages who have attained Selfrealisation have remained in solitude for a number of years. You will have good meditation if you sit on the bank of a river? in a cave or on the seashore or in a jungle. During the Christmas and Easter holidays you can all enjoy the peace of solitude. It is very necessary to live in solitude at least for a month or a fortnight in a year for the householders. Instead of wasting time? energy and money in Calcutta or any other city? during the holidays? live in holy places like Rishikesh? Uttarakasi or Naimisaranya drink the nectar of peace in such places by doing Anushthana (intense and systematic spiritual practice) or Japa of a Mantra and attain immortality. If you once taste the bliss of solitude you will never forget it. Every year you will attempt to taste it again. He who takes too much food (a glutton) is ite unfit for meditation or the spiritual path. Too much food will produce laziness? a halfsleepy state and deep sleep also. Eat to live. Eat in moderation. You will have a light body and light? cheerful and serene mind. This will help you in your practice of meditation. Observe Mauna or the vow of silelnce for a week or a month. Observe the vow for two hours daily. Control the body. Practise Ahimsa and Brahmacharya. Meditate on the Self or on the Lord Hari with four hands? or on Lord Krishna? Rama or Siva. Be regular in your meditation and gradually increase the period of meditation from 15 minutes to 3 or 6 hours at a sitting. If you are a wholetimed aspirant? spend the whole time in meditation. If you are not able to do this? do Likhita Japa (writing the Mantra) and Kirtan (singing the Names and glories of the Lord). Study religious books in the interval. Only advanced aspirants can meditate for a long time. Watch the mind and cultivate dispassion. Energy will leak out through the senses if you are careless and nonvigilant. If energy leaks out? you cannot have good meditation. Dispassion is indifference to sensual enjoyments herein and hereafter? absence of desire for visible and invisible objects. You must have steady? lasting and sustained dispassion. It should not wane. It should be a constant attitude of the mind. You must be fully established in dispassion.In doing the Anushthana for 40 days live on milk and fruits or light diet. Take only 3 or 4 articles of food. Take one meal only. Sleep on the floor. Observe celibacy and the vow of silence. Do not come out of the room. Speak little if you do not observe perfect silence. Do the Anushthana on the banks of the Ganga or any sacred river. Try to do one or several Purascharanas of your Ishta Mantra. If there are five letters (syllables in English) in the Mantra? 500?000 repetitions of the Mantra will constitute one Purascharana.