Gurani Anjali presented weekly meditations and monthly lectures for many years at Yoga Anand Ashram in Amityville, NY. Most of the meditation sessions were held on Sunday mornings. The lectures were mostly held the last Friday evening of each month, although she also presented occasional lectures on special topics at local libraries and book shops.
Transcripts of these meditations and lectures are the foundation for many of Gurani Anjali’s published works. These published works include Ways of Yoga, Meditations Through Yoga, many articles published in Moksha Journal, and various essays on many diverse topics related to living an enlightened life.
Gurani Anjali on Yoga Meditation
Yoga Meditation is much needed in today’s fast and competitive life. Trying to find peace, solace and contentment in the material atmosphere of society is a very painful endeavor. Many have tried this and have come out broken hearted. Some have entered and delved into the spiritual sacred world, after not finding solace in the material world. Yoga meditation is a great help.
To contemplate and realize the existence of all existence within you.
Gurani Anjali
Meditation is not just sitting and feeling good. Meditation is a state that has to be achieved. In meditation there is a lot of emptying that has to take place. Meditation is a very sacred place. It is a place to give, not a place to take. Meditation is a place where we surrender. It is the giving of all we have, all that is most dear to us, most honorable, most sacred, most kind, most gentle. That is what we have to give away. The place of meditation is a place where you sacrifice, where you give your love, where you give everything that you have. Give it all up to be free.
True meditation is a very wonderful offering – and one has to achieve the state of meditation. You have to work at it – with every breath that you take, with every action that you perform, with every word that you utter. All that you do becomes meditation. In that state of meditation there is no me, there is no you. There is no this or that. The seeker after truth must always seek the truth. Find that which always is.
The state of meditation happens when one purifies the mind. When one harbors no ill thought, one is nearing the state of meditation. From the state of meditation one goes further, one goes into the state of samadhi (conscious awareness).
Om shanti,
Gurani Anjali