1. Wash your face, eyes, hands, and feet and sit in a clean, quiet, and dark place using any comfortable posture, with head, neck, and spine straight and vertical. No music or incense during meditation is recommended. The time and place of meditation should be fixed. Follow Yama and Niyama, the good principles of living, by thoughts, words and deeds. Some yogic exercises are helpful. Midnight, morning, and evening are the best times to meditate for 15 to 25 minutes everyday.

2. Remember any name or form of your personal God, Ishta Deva, you believe in and ask His or Her blessings.

3. Close your eyes; take 5-10 very slow and deep breaths.

4. Fix your gaze, mind, and feelings inside the chest centre, the seat of the causal heart, and breathe slowly. Mentally chant “So” as you breathe in and “Hum” as you breathe out. Think as if breath itself is making these sounds So and Hum (I am That spirit). Mentally visualise and follow the route of breath going in through the nostrils, up towards the mid-brows, and down to the chest centre, or the lungs. Do not try to control or lead your breathing just follow the natural breathing.

5. Direct the will towards the thought of merging yourself into the infinite space of the air you are breathing. If mind wanders away from following the breaths, start from step (3).

6. Be regular, and persist without procrastination.