why did I learn to meditate and how it is so profound ?

    Do you know that sitting and doing nothing is the most simplest forms of meditation, but the crudest way ?. You would have tried to sit down and do nothing, all of the sudden your unpaid bills, unanswered emails and unresolved issues just pop up and your mind is very much busy processing all of those things. Your body gets so restless that within 10-15mins you cant just sit still and wanted to move. This was where i was some years back. Now, i can mediated for like 30-45 mins without disturbance and there is just waves after waves of deep peace and bliss flowing towards me as i sink deeper into meditation. What happened in between those phases is where my greatest journey lies.

I like to do online research and listen to stuffs that is making lot of noise online. I initially tried the breath observation and chanting a single mantra. It was terribly hard to go deeper with this techniques, because our life force is going outward in a very powerful way, it doesn't like to go inward when we sit in meditation. Its has been trained that way, from school, home to be aware of surroundings and to focus outwards. How can it change all of a sudden when you sit for meditation. That's why having a consistent routine is necessary. It is really hard to insist the importance of keeping a schedule for your meditation, even if its just 5 mins daily at a specific place and specific time. 

Then, after you can establish the consistency, the techniques and devotion to the divine is necessary to keep your meditative practice of high effectiveness. So, I was just in search those for many years and was so desperate in finding and using them. I have read books on kriya yoga "Science of life force" by Swami Nithyananda Giri. So, all of the secrets is in effective manipulation of your life force.  The techniques that's described in this books go from the simple to the most advanced that is taught with strict secrecy in many meditation centers.  

There was some emotional turbulence in my life sometime back, that i was forced to find a place to freely meditate outside of my home and workplace. As the known place, people just adds fuel to the emotional turbulence and not reduce it. I live in Chennai, so i just googled and searched for a place to just peacefully meditate. After few hunting down, i found a center called "Ananda Chennai". It is built by the follower of Paramahansa Yoganada. They are spread all around the world. Since, i was a fan of him from high-school, having read many of his books "Divine Romance" and "How to be always happy". I just went to the Ananda Chennai and they have a temple with line of masters pictures. I just sat and meditated for an hour, i could just soak in the peace and serenity that the ambience emanated. Its just the accumulation of peoples vibrations meditating there for like 7 years, since the inception of it.

Then after some enquir, i found out that they were offering courses on meditations like level 1 to 4. You have to finish prerequisite to attend the next level. You can check the details in their ananda chennai website. I attended one level after another, it took around a year to complete all the levels. The techniques they teach is so simple and profound like the energization, Hong Sau, AUM technique, Maha-Mudra and Kriya Breathing. All these techniques directly act on the life force to gain more awareness and to manipulate it to meditate on the divine with ease. I was so grateful to end up there and the people who runs the place is so kind and supportive during the meditative learning and practicing phase and to over come difficulty all the way on the path. Now, after going through it all, i can experience so much more of peace and bliss during my daily meditation practices. What do you think about all this ? Please do share your experiences in the comments.