{"id":39,"date":"2007-06-18T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/a-good-article-on-meditation\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T16:35:41","slug":"a-good-article-on-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/contemplation\/a-good-article-on-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"A good article on Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read this article by Sri Swami Shivapremananda. A really good one in explaining meditation. <\/p>\n<p>In the West, the word \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmeditation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means a concentrated state of mind in serious reflection. The Latin root of the word meditation, mederi, means \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto heal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. It is an effort to heal afflictions of the mind, the hurt ego, by trying to understand the cause of the problem and finding a way to solve it, that is, by knowing what counter-measures to take. To meditate thus, is to deepen a state of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1103975&#038;CatID=19\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this article by Sri Swami Shivapremananda. A really good one in explaining meditation. In the West, the word \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmeditation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means a concentrated state of mind in serious reflection. The Latin root of the word meditation, mederi, means \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto heal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. It is an effort to heal afflictions of the mind, the hurt ego, by trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}