It is hard to give instructions about the mystical seated posture. Generally, this posture starts with a mental posture, but not necessarily so. The mystical seated Posture, in contrast to previous postures, is not assumed through a conscious effort of the individual will, but it is a consequence of deep introspection, which make you forget the presence of your body and leads to full physical insensibility.
Certain souls complain sometimes and say they cannot meditate because their exercise is heavy and they get bored, and ask of their Superior a lighter routine of spiritual discipline. Superiors also observe how methods of meditation do not result according to their expectation in all cases; they do not see an evident advance in prayer and there is an apparent stagnation.
Here you shall find in detail main postures used in meditation and concentration.
For meditation, you should use the “mental seated posture” described above, but with your arms freely hanging from your shoulders at each side of the body.
A prayer cannot be complete and total if our whole being is not devoted to it. When we say “whole being”, this does not mean an intense sensible flight, but a being as a whole.
Also in lying down posture you can notice the difference between vegetative posture and mental and mystical postures.
Generally, you use the vegetative posture for sleep or physical rest. The bed should not be quite soft and the pillow rather thin.
Prayer shall be full when a man has to transform himself into testimony of faith, and to discern continuously obvious truths and possible truths in the teaching. A soul remains always on a state of perfect prayer when the divine truth is centered on it.
Postures to find in this teaching and in following teachings are described in detail according to the Sanskrit translation, and belong to Yoga. According to Goroskasatakam there are 840,000 postures in the human body, of which only 84 are the best, and of which only 32, that is, those described in this course as “Ancient Postures”, are named useful and healthy for Humanity.
Your prayer cannot be full when contains remnants of self-interest. However spiritual this egotism be, it cannot be an expansive universal feeling.
A man can go beyond his little miseries only through renunciation to his own miseries.
Posture 11. Lying down, in supine position, your face looking upward. Bend lightly your knees by forming a 150 grade angle. Join your ankles together and keep your soles of the feet and toes in straight angle outward.
In sensitive meditation you perceive the image through your five senses. It aims at refining your sensibility and sharpening your perception. But this exercise prevents from going beyond sensible evidences.