What is the difference between Yoga & Meditation?

pls tell me what’s the difference & benefits between Yoga & Meditation…and shall we try doing yoga/meditation by ourselves (like learning from website, books, cds etc)

Let me tell you this in detail.
Meditation means Thinking constantly of one subject/object.
Yoga mean (came from Sanskrit word Yuja) union with the ultimate.

But, in today’s world yoga is termed for the physical exercises that they do for the well being of the body & Meditation is taken as just sitting & CONCENTRATING on one point like the nose tip or the light point or the center of a circle et.

But, in case when we think of Spirituality:
Let me clarify certain things.

Meditation has its own benefits. The ancient proven theory for meditation is “You become like the object upon which you meditate … or… you get the qualities of the object slowly & gradually upon which you meditate…”
That was the reason the genuine spiritual practices include meditation in it as the meditation means purely thinking of the Devine as we want to become God like to get mergence with him or with the ultimate.
In Meditation, usually, we think of the Devine constantly & we try to become God Like gradually.
It is like, if we think of our beloved or if we are in constant remembrance of the beloved or the most liked or influenced person, after a duration we find some of his habits & styles are automatically there in our behavior.
To follow the same principle, they meditate on The Devine.
Another positive point in Meditation is we train our mind & we regulate our mind but we don’t force it to do or behave in a certain way. As any thing suppressed for long, when it is released for a moment, bounces back with more strength, just like a spring. Mind as well will do the same if we try to put stress on it for a certain thing. Concentration is like suppressing the mind & forced to do a certain thing & meditation is training a mind gradually.
Just like a horse with a chariot is put with two plates attached to its eyes so as not to get distracted but the horse in a derby race is not. As the horse in a race is trained & the one with chariot is put to run in a forced route. That’s the difference in Meditation & concentration.

Coming to Yoga. Now a day, they take yoga for physical well being & they think that sitting in a posture (Mudra they call as) like Padmasana, Shirsasana etc & doing pranayam, we get the mergence with the ultimate or Devine.
But, the fact is, as the ancient Vedas, there are 8 steps to start spiritual practices & are called Ashtang yoga i.e (8 winged preparations for the spiritual practice).

Of course, there are many books to teach the things. But nothing, without a perfect spiritual guide, will take any human to the ultimate or the destination. They may reach to a certain extent but it’s surely not the destination.

Seek a Guru (Master) who himself has Mastered Himself.
If your pursuit is not spiritual but just something as physical well being, then May any book or a yoga teacher help you.

Please take an hour to visit “www.srcm.org “to get to know a little detailed about the things.

Thank you.

May God take you the correct path for you.

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