Meditation

 

The Art of Reflecting on the True Self
 
Flood your Mind with Thoughts of Peace, Love, Freedom, and Joy

Discover the Joy of Meditation
Raja Yoga Meditation is a gentle practice where you consciously focus on uplifting spiritual thoughts. By doing so, you invite into your mind a cascade of positive feelings—peace, love, joy, freedom, security, equality, and many more that can empower you every day.

What It’s All About
Begin to understand yourself as a being of consciousness, a soul, a living light operating the body from the center of the forehead. Here are some thoughts you might use to ignite that awareness of the self as living light:

  • I am a being of light—a tiny star of living, conscious energy.
  • I am the soul, invisible and timeless, and my body is just my temporary vehicle.
  • I am a guest in this body and in the physical world.
  • Peace, love, power, joy, and purity are my soul’s natural qualities.

Meditation is simply the process of reminding yourself that you are not your body, nor the limited human personality—you are a vibrant, spiritual being with an amazing inner nature.

Why Practice Meditation?
With regular practice, meditation can empower you in surprising ways. It’s a skill anyone can learn, requiring only an open mind and a little curiosity. Once you know the steps, you’ll find that meditating is both easy and fun.

How to Begin Your Meditation Journey:
Meditation is not about emptying the mind, but about filling it with elevated spiritual thoughts.

  • Awareness: Recognize that you are the creator of your thoughts and feelings—a silent, powerful, invisible presence operating from the center of the forehead, just behind your eyes.
  • Choose Your Focus: Pick a few spiritual thoughts that resonate with you.
  • Keep Your Mind Centered: Hold these thoughts gently in your mind, inviting only related images and ideas to join.
  • Embrace the Feelings: Allow the positive, uplifting feelings connected to these thoughts to naturally fill your mind.

Meditation is a practice of remembrance—remembering who we truly are and re-emerging our innate nature of peace, love, and wisdom.

Yamila Mottley

Meditation helped me recognize my true self.

Meditation explained to me why it is important to forgive, be a bestower, accept, love everyone unconditionally. All the things that religion told us to just do having blind faith that it was the right path. Stress used to be normal. Now, even though the external circumstances have not changed, I am at peace.

Abby Zahn

I have studied with the Cinnaminson Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center for over 3 years.

My meditation practice has been the key to my connection to God. The Meditation classes at the center are very helpful in teaching us to find inner peace in our soul and enjoying life in a peaceful manner.

The Sisters and Brothers are like family to me. I am very grateful.

Robert Mackerron

 Meditation, thank you for teaching me how to reset. The Watertown center is a safe place for me, and it provides me a guided path to connect to God, the source of life’s energy. It’s teaching me to emotionally reset and spiritually recharge. It’s teaching me to become soul conscious and to transform foul energy into positive blessings for myself and the world. It’s teaching me to align and flow with the natural state of grace and ultimately how to love myself. Om Shanti.

Anoli Patel

As a producer working in high levels of stress in the TV and video production industry, meditation taught me that the soul is eternal and everything around me is just a temporary scene.

Brianne McCarthy

Meditation gently opens my heart and inspires me to live more authentically. In this nurturing space, the unlimited treasures of joy and creativity fill my life in equally authentic ways.

Michael Burke

I was born and raised in New York City and introduced to the Brahma Kumaris in 2017 after retiring from the fire department. It was shortly after I realized true courage is found in discovering our authentic selves, the soul, and learning that true peace resides there. Om shanti.

Neha Bangia

Neha Bangia is a Board Certified Primary Care Physician who practices Medicine in New Jersey. Being a meditation practitioner, she enjoys applying this practice in her daily routine to empower herself and her patients.

Namrata Shah

I am a Senior Lead Engineer at JPMorgan Chase Inc. Daily practice has enhanced my focus, emotional intelligence, and resilience, improving decision-making and team dynamics while promoting personal well-being and stress management in a demanding environment.

Claudia Eisinger, Qualitative Research Specialist, Certified Convening Leader

I began Raja Yoga meditation over 25 years ago. It has had a life-changing impact by showing me a pathway to experience true inner freedom. This daily practice has allowed me to apply spiritual truths, which satisfy the soul practically in my life, enabling me to express my authentic and unique self in service of humanity and the world with deep joy.

You Are Powerful

Your thoughts have power and can touch others

 

The Power of Thought and Awareness

  • Thoughts shape our reality—the quality of thoughts influences emotions, relationships, and external circumstances.
  • By holding spiritual and elevated thoughts, we create a powerful, positive energy field around us.
  • Awareness of the eternal self leads to actions that are wise, peaceful, and beneficial.

Make time every day to fill your mind with uplifting, spiritual thoughts. By doing so, you’ll create positive energy that not only strengthens you but also ripples out to others, creating a positive and maybe even an elevated atmosphere everywhere you go.

When more individuals awaken to these thoughts and inspiring habits, the collective energy shifts. One spark of light can inspire many more.

When we change, the world changes.

You are light, you are timeless

You are the living, conscious being inside the body

You are a spiritual being, a soul

Your essence is of peace and love

The Soul – The True Self – The Invisible Traveler
The true self is not the body but the soul, an eternal, invisible being of light.
The soul is the conscious being who operates the body, thinks, feels, and experiences.
The soul is a guest in this physical world, temporarily residing in the body.
Our original nature is one of peace, love, wisdom, power, joy, and purity.
We carry impressions from past experiences and lives, shaping our present tendencies and habits.

The Mind, Intellect, and Sanskaras – The Inner Kingdom
The soul has three faculties:
Mind – generates thoughts, feelings, and attitudes.
Intellect – discerns and makes decisions.
Sanskaras – stored impressions, tendencies, and habits from past experiences.

The intellect is the ruler of the mind; when guided by spiritual wisdom, it can guide thoughts and actions positively.
Negative sanskaras from past experiences can be changed through meditation and soul-conscious living.

Going Beyond

Discover the Dimension of Silence and Light

The Home of All Souls

The Eternal Home – The Soul World
Beyond the physical universe lies the Soul World, a silent, luminous dimension where souls originate.
It is experienced as a realm of golden-red light, of absolute silence, stillness, and peace.
The Supreme Soul eternally resides there, untouched by the physical world.
The soul belongs to that world and we can experience that dimension through meditation.

Is there a Source of Unconditional Love and Wisdom?

HOW TO CONNECT WITH GOD?

The Supreme Soul – The Eternal Parent
The Supreme Soul (God) is an eternal being of light who never takes birth or experiences suffering.
The Supreme is completely selfless, an ocean of wisdom, love, and purity.
The soul’s eternal relationship is with the Supreme, but when we started to identify with the body and get attached to perishable, material things, this connection was forgotten.
God is not physical, nor bound by form, religion, or gender—He can be experienced in any relationship the soul seeks:

  • A Parent – offering unconditional love and guidance;
  • A Teacher – imparting spiritual wisdom;
  • A Friend – always present and understanding;
  • A Beloved – a source of deep, divine love.

Through meditation, one can reconnect and draw power and peace from the Supreme.

KARMA

Our thoughts, words, deeds, and attitude are seeds


These seeds create the landscape of our life

The Law of Karma – Deposits and Withdrawals in the Soul’s Bank Account
Karma functions like a bank account:
Positive actions (aligned with virtues) create deposits, leading to positive inner and outer returns.
Negative actions (driven by ego, attachment, anger, greed, lust) create withdrawals, leading to suffering and loss.
Awareness matters: Actions done in soul-consciousness bring good karma, while those done in body-consciousness lead, sooner or later, to suffering.
Healing negative karma:

  • Recognizing: Patterns of thoughts and actions that sooner or later cause suffering.
  • Meditation: Aligning your awareness to the Supreme Soul to emerge your innate higher nature.
  • Elevated actions: Performing selfless, uplifting deeds without expectation.

The Journey of the Soul through the Physical World – Reincarnation & Karma
The soul never dies; we only shed the body and take a new one.
At death, we carry our accumulated impressions (habits, tendencies) to our next birth.
Our thoughts and feelings at the time of death influence the destination.
Each birth and life situation (wealth, health, relationships) are karmic results of past actions.
The law of karma is absolute: As you sow, so shall you reap. Every action has a corresponding result, whether in this life or another.
The cycle of rebirth continues until the soul returns to the original state of peace