<div>To know yourself as a living soul is only the beginning stage of meditation and takes the longest time to reach. After that, the progress is much more rapid. This can be likened to the rocket used to send a capsule into space, with its different booster stages. The first stage of meditation, to neutralize your breath current and mental waves, is like the first stage of the rocket and requires a lot of hard work and energy. But once you have managed to still your mind you will find that everything flows easily and you will be able to function with relative ease.</div>