Create a quiet corner in your home . . . an Om Home . . . a launching pad to the infinite . . . a meditation seat . . . a shrine. Bring to it that which is simple and pure: a mat, perhaps a candle, maybe a picture of a realized being whose life has turned you on—Buddha, or Christ, or Ramakrishna, or Ramana Maharshi, possibly some incense. Create a seat in which you can sit comfortably with spine straight out and turn off your body. Those who have developed the triangular seat of padmasa (full lotus), siddhasa (half lotus), or even sukhasa (the easy pose) . . . remember, no suffering. In this
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