When I started seeking meditation and joined a yoga and meditation class, my teacher encouraged me to read books on meditation. It is in one of the books by Deepak Chopra I learned about transcendental meditation. Reading more about meditation, I came to know that this is most popular method of meditations. I naturally wanted to practice this. When I met the qualified and official teacher of this meditation, I came to know that I need to pay for learning it. Not having money I could not learn transcendental at that time but I continued my interest in it and started reading more about it. To my surprise, there is no book which actually teaches the steps of that kind of meditation. What I was looking for was to learn free transcendental meditation and there was no free course anywhere, If at all I wanted to learn then I had to pay thousands of dollars.
I continued to search for a way to learn the transcendental meditation freely as I did not like the teacher whom I met years back. He has not looked like a person who meditates daily. During my search, I came to know that transcendental meditation is just mantra meditation which many people in India practice without knowing that it is called Transcendental Meditation in the West. Mantra is just a sound. Mantra meditation technique involves chanting a mantra. The official transcendental meditation people claims it to be scientific, but for me meditation should be more of spiritual and mental.
Fortunately enough I visited a website on meditation where I could download meditation CDs and came to know that the type of meditation taught in that CDs are very similar to transcendental meditation. The lessons also gives you the mantra. Only thing you have to do is try all the mantras to see which takes you to a state of concentration fast and stick to it. Yes the effect of mantra is indeed different to different people. Oh yes, you can download the meditation course and try a free transcendental meditation type of course from (url removed on Oct 12, 2008 by Soham).
Update
I have removed the url (which someone thinks a link) to the website which offers course of meditation to be downloaded freely. Meditating always benefits you. If you cannot afford official transcendental meditation,
go for any type of meditation taught freely. My personal opinion is meditation should be free of cost. I am an Indian and meditation is spiritual for me and I never paid for learning either meditation or yoga. Fee structure for both meditation and yoga is a "Western concept." I will write about the meditation which you can freely download in some other post where I will leave a link to the website.
I continued to search for a way to learn the transcendental meditation freely as I did not like the teacher whom I met years back. He has not looked like a person who meditates daily. During my search, I came to know that transcendental meditation is just mantra meditation which many people in India practice without knowing that it is called Transcendental Meditation in the West. Mantra is just a sound. Mantra meditation technique involves chanting a mantra. The official transcendental meditation people claims it to be scientific, but for me meditation should be more of spiritual and mental.
Fortunately enough I visited a website on meditation where I could download meditation CDs and came to know that the type of meditation taught in that CDs are very similar to transcendental meditation. The lessons also gives you the mantra. Only thing you have to do is try all the mantras to see which takes you to a state of concentration fast and stick to it. Yes the effect of mantra is indeed different to different people. Oh yes, you can download the meditation course and try a free transcendental meditation type of course from (url removed on Oct 12, 2008 by Soham).
Update
I have removed the url (which someone thinks a link) to the website which offers course of meditation to be downloaded freely. Meditating always benefits you. If you cannot afford official transcendental meditation,
go for any type of meditation taught freely. My personal opinion is meditation should be free of cost. I am an Indian and meditation is spiritual for me and I never paid for learning either meditation or yoga. Fee structure for both meditation and yoga is a "Western concept." I will write about the meditation which you can freely download in some other post where I will leave a link to the website.
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