A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from The Himalayan Mystic

It's been almost six months; I have been reading and using this book for my meditation, and it has helped me a lot. I used the word "helped" because I was a patient of hidden depression, "smiling depression," for roughly 35 years, and conventional medication and therapies never worked on me. Before finding the author of this book, Om Swami, I tried meditation and pseudo-chakra healing too. When I started following his directions through his books and other online materials, my life changed. Now I'm in control; I know what I'm thinking and when I'm thinking, and this is the best thing I have ever achieved. This cleared all my doubts about meditation and showed me a clear path to follow. Anyone who wants to take his or her mind to any level (it's your choice which level you want to go) gets benefits from this book. If you are a patient with depression, this book is the answer. If you want to go beyond your limits, this book is the answer.

This book is Gold Standard. Written in the most engaging language and with nice short stories that introduce the chapters, it brings forth a very serious topic in an extremely simplified format for the mass to understand. The chapters are small, barely four pages each, and that makes it a light reading. The knowledge shared is profound, like I said, I found this to be of Gold Standard in terms of content.Now, let me come to the practicality of this book. Anything that is a gold standard, implies it captures the best practices, and when it comes to the best practices for a subject like meditation, well, they are extremely difficult to achieve and needs considerable investment to realize even partly. The same holds true for this book also. The steps and the methods shared in this book are the BEST practices to meditate to discover bliss. But I did not find them very suitable for me, and when I say me, I mean for urban people, who holds a demanding, salaried job and is dependent on the salary for maintaining their family. The kind of investment this book calls for, in terms of the time to be spent in practicing meditation, I found it hard to achieve. The stringent qualifications for being able to even say that I have been meditating, I did not find that I have the infrastructure (the quietness, the undisturbed environment, the cell-phone free ambience and many others). Thus for someone to get the best output from this book, it needs a really dedicated student who is willing to put this above everything else in life, and which is why I mentioned that I found it difficult to implement in my real life. The lessons are valuable and I am trying to inculcate the practices in my life, but the scale is really high.Having said that, this is a very valuable book and for a sincere practitioner, this is a gold mine.

Wow... What a book . This book has all the meditation techniques and how to do it correctly. Amazing book

Surprising that no pictures or images.Excellent content. Unconventional treatment of meditation.Binding quality is poor. After one reading some pages are coming loose.

Similar to other books of Om Swamiji, this book is also written in simple and clear language.The book acts as a reference for people on the path of meditation. It provides different techniques for a seeker to help him on the path of meditation. It warns of the various obstacles that one may face during the journey. It provides mechanisms to detect the obstacles and provides ways to overcome these obstacles.

Spuerb page quality, book binding and print is great. Content of book is also too good. We must read it to understand the concept of meditation, process. Step by step knowledge is given in this book.

This is the first practical book with all the nuances explained with crystal clear clarity I have read. If you read this book and if you have been meditating regularly everyday, then this book will definitely make a difference.This is a trouble shooting book of meditation and also a course correction book. This is a must read book for meditators. I have read so many meditation books in the past 15yrs and I have been groping in the dark trying to find out where I am going wrong and this books clearly explains all the troubles and difficulties one goes through. As the author says most of the problem is in the basics of posture, breathing, focus etc. This book is amazing (believe me, I am not exaggerating) in that as I corrected my posture and technique (he has described all the available meditation technique that is their in the world) I am experiencing the effect of the changes.This author is very practical and rips off all the spiritual superstitions , religious fanaticism and sycophancy associated with meditation. Well, if you are meditating then it doesn't matter which 'ism' you belong to. A very powerful book.I am a dental surgeon, just like how a surgical procedure is explained with emphasis on each and every step , the precaution , the post surgical care and complication and how to master the procedure. This book explains each and every step of all the types of meditations. A book of this calibre cannot be written without first hand experience. This book is an oasis for all the hardcore meditators.This book is underpriced , I feel. It's worth millions. They should have charged atleast 5000 rupees. Maybe it's the authors generosity that each and everyone should benefit from the book.I did attend his meditation retreat on dec 2016 in Bangalore after reading this book. This author is not an ordinary monk, I could feel the divine energy manifest in him. He's mystical and even his humors are transcendental and elevating. After meeting him, I could correlate how a Jesus, a Buddha , a Rama, a Krishna , a Sri Ramakrishna , a Prophet, a Vivekananda would have walked this earth in their lifetime. By seeing him you can bring all the divine personalities alive if you have read about them sincerely.Seriously, buy his books read them , reread them again and again. Then go and meet him. Your life will have a paradigm shift in your outlook and perception. I have already read two of his books twice.Go catch a glimpse of this divine soul and bask in the divine fountain flowing through his words and actions before he packs his bags to enter into the transcendental realm.I pray that he stays among us atleast as long as the Buddha lived.Very few people visit this planet with no expectations and desire, with no need to gain anything but to give everything as much as possible to everyone. This author is one among them.Believe it or not, the author