How must one start...
* Have a special room for your prayers.
* Keep a charming picture or idol of your Ishta-Devata (Favourite Lord)
* When you sit in front of the picture, the Lord's feet should be at your eyes level.
* Spread a plain but firm seat - Aaasana - for your sitting.
* Keep a 'Maala' of 108 beads - made of rudraksha, crystals or commonly available ones
* Close the door of the room.
* Sit on the Aaasana, in any comfortable 'legs-folded-pose'.
* Start chanting your selected Mantra, using maala beads.
* Gaze at the Lord from head to toes and then from toes to head, repeatedly.
* Visualize the Lord exactly as in the picture.
* This visualization of the Lord should be done in your love-heart, on the right side of your physical
heart This is the spiritual heart centre.
* Feel, feel----- feel His presence.
* Repeat the Mantra 108 times. When you reach the 'Meru'- the end bead of the japamaala, you have done one Maala. |