Japa and Meditation - It's Significance

Today lots of people are turning towards meditation & yoga just to get relax and reduce stress from their daily (sombre?) routine. But meditation is not meant for just getting relaxed. Certainly it has some higher dimensions and benefits, other than spiritual, like it steadies the mind, improves efficiency in our everyday work, improves health, concentration, decision making power by better control over mind, etc.

Interested aspirants are recommended to read a book "The Mind and its Control" by Swami Budhananda and to go through an article on "Meditation and Concentration" by Swami Bhajanananda.......

Let us see what Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and others say about japa and meditation.