What is Dhyana? in simple words?
Dhyana is an unbroken flow of knowledge of the object of concentration.
1. Sustained concentration (Dharana) is meditation (dhyana).
What is Dhyana? According to Patanjali Maharishi?
Deep study on dhyana
Some of the definitions of Dhyana/Meditation given by Maharshis, great people and in various scriptures are quoted below:
1. “Dhyana: continuity of mental process on one object or idea without having it” -Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswathi”
2. “An unbroken flow of knowledge in that object is Dhyana” -Sri Swami Vivekananda
3. “Meditation is the continuation of the cognition therein” -Sri Bengali Baba
4. “Meditation is an unbroken flow of thought toward the object of concentration” -Sri Swami Prabhavananda.
“Meditation is the continuance of one pointedness with reference to the effort of understanding directed to any object, there being absence of desire to understand anything else at the time” -Unknown source
