MIND : ITS MYSTERIES & ITS CONTROL - CHAPTER-32. MEDITATION - 11. Swami Sivananda
---------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 30, 2020. 5:15.AM. MIND : ITS MYSTERIES & ITS CONTROL : Chapter - 32. Meditation - 11. ------------------------------------------------------- 11. HOW TO DEVELOP VIRTUES BY MEDITATION : 1. Examine your character. Pick some distinct defect in it. Find out its opposite. Let us say that you suffer from irritability. The opposite of irritability is patience. Try to develop this virtue by meditation on the abstract virtue of patience. Regularly, every morning, sit down at 4 a.m. in Padma or Siddha Asana in a solitary room for half an hour and begin to think on patience, its value, its practice under provocation, taking one point one day, another on another day and thinking as steadily as you can, recalling the mind when it wanders. Think of yourself as perfectly patient, a model of patience and end with a vow: This patience which is my true self, I will feel and show from today. 2