One does not have to be religious or even interested in religion to find value in it.Becoming more aware of your self and realizing your spiritual nature is something that transcends religion. Anyone who has explored meditation knows that it is simply a path that leads to a new, more expansive way of seeing the world around us

Man, in order to escape his conflicts, has invented many forms of meditation. These have been based on desire, will, and the urge for achievement, and imply conflict and a struggle to arrive. This conscious, deliberate striving is always within the limits of a conditioned mind, and in this there is no freedom. All effort to meditate is the denial of meditation. Meditation is the ending of thought. It is only then that there is a different dimension which is beyond time.

It is a vedic exercise which can be used as a powerful instrument to restrain sense organs, control autonomic nervous system and also to attain superconsciousness. Ordinarily there are two planes in which the mind functions, the conscious and unconscious. Yet there can be one more plane which is higher than both, one where the mind goes beyond the level of self consciousness called super consciousness.