Aum Take a deep breath and exhale slowly three times. One, two, three. As you do that it helps to collect the mind which is generally scattered. Conscious breathing, deep breathing helps to focus the mind. You can practice it anytime during the day. Even two deep breaths would do. As you focus the mind with deep breathing, now there is an integration, yoga, of mind, breath and body. This is the beginning of meditation. A prayer consists of inhaling deeply and then after a very brief, a fraction of a second gap, in which the breath is held inside, you start a small, a slow exhalation and while exhaling slowly chant the sacred sound the Aum, sound Aum, a long Aum, while exhaling slowly. You may want to chant Aum while inhaling. That makes it one round, you do three rounds, so to summarise conscious breathing in follwed by slow exhalation, during which you chant mentally Aum. That completes one round, three rounds like that. Now, Aum ..Aum ..Aum..  The prayer concludes and after the prayer you remain silent. Outwardly silent, of course, but also inwardly silent. Silent does not mean the word silent, it does not mean the idea of silent, just pure silence. Do not try to formulate the silence, to understand the silence, do not do any of that because that would be a movement and then silence would be no more, just be silent. Generally when the mind finds something it wants to access or understand that something, that is the habit of the mind. Therefore, the mind wants to access the silence, that is how you lose the silence, don't access, don't understand. Drop that habit of the mind, just be silent. Mind has two modes, the active mode and the silent mode. When mind cognises things, accesses, estimates, that   is the active mode. When mind stops all this and just remains silently, that is the silent mind, another mode of the mind. So you know the active mind very well, now is the time to find, to discover the silent mind, simply by being silent. What do I get by being silent? This is how the mind tries to estimate the silence, kind of cost benefit. It is the habit of the mind, you don't need to get anything, you have everything, so this habit of the mind of seeking benefit, seeking reward, I drop it. I do not seek any reward for being silent, I remain silent. How long? Mind wants to know, silent how long? Because the mind is encased in time, it wants to fit everything into time. Again this is the habit of the mind, there is no time in silence. Time is of the thought only, therefore, I give up this attitude of time, this attachment to time, attachment to psychological time. Without caring to know how long, I remain silent. Silent After silence, what? Like, next what? This is the anticipating or expecting mind. That is all mind wants to know, the next move, always. The next move in meditation, the next thing in the day, in the week and the mind wants to know all about the next year also. It is a kind of a fixation that I have in the mind, always looking into the next, trying to find out the next, expecting something, anticipating something, that is very intrinsic to the mind. It's a deep rooted habit, that habit has to be broken to know the truth. I try to stop expecting or anticipating and become silent. This silence is not void, it is awareness, present moment awareness, that is the silence. When you are silent, not expecting, not anticipating, not seeking a reward, not knowing anything, you are aware of the present moment, abiding in the present moment is meditation. Be silent. Go deep. Aum Shanti Shanti ShantiH . Relax, keep the eyes closed, you may move a little and relax. You will want to keep the inner silence further and further, there is no reason to lose it immediately. Relax, slowly open the eyes.