What is the best way for a beginner to start with mantra meditation?
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So how what is the best way that a beginner can start off with mantra meditation? See mantra meditation is like developing our inner muscles it’s like I have we have physical muscles and we do workout to improve the muscles so our physical muscles can help us say if somebody attacks us we may be able to resist them can fight against them so our mantra meditation develops our inner muscles by which when some unhealthy thoughts some unhealthy desires some short-sighted impulses when they come in we get the strength to resist them so when I when we start exercising we’re doing a work say weight lifting a we cannot just from the first day onwards lift maybe 30 kg 40 kg 25 kg whatever it is you have to see what is my present capacity and from that present capacity we can improve so usually we can start with 5 to 10 minutes of mantra meditation and then as we keep doing that we will ourselves see that okay now this is helping it is helping me to stay calm it is helping me to stay focused it is not necessary that during the mantra meditation we will at that time always be able to focus but just the effort to focus will help us to become more aware just the effort to focus will make us more aware of the dynamics of our inner world yes there’s some force within me which is pulling me here let me bring it back and as we become comfortable with that say we start with 10 minutes we become comfortable with that then we can increase a little more so there’s no need to no need to start by thinking that I have to come to any particular standard you start off with what is comfortable so just like when we go for weight lifting our goal is primarily to improve our muscles it’s not that I want to lift that level that can be also a secondary goal but the primary goal is to strengthen our muscles so like that mantra meditation will start with whatever quantity is comfortable for us and from that point onwards as we feel strengthened internally by the mantra meditation we can increase the quantity does it answer your question thank you