Activities for Spiritual Upliftment
Over the past twelve years that I
have been practicing Samarpan Meditation I have observed certain aspects which
help one in one’s spiritual upliftment. This post is about sharing these
observations or insights. Initially it was all about ‘doing’ meditation, going
to the centre for ‘doing’ group meditation and so on. It was all about doing.
Then slowly realisation dawned that where there is ‘doing’, there is the ‘I’-sense,
the ego. If we sit down to ‘do’ meditation we are sitting with an ego of ‘I am
meditating’. This will not do! The very essence of meditation is to lose the ‘I’.
After realising this, I started using the phrase ‘I am going for meditation’, I
stopped using the word ‘doing’, hardly every use ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘myself’ in
conversations and started using more collective pronouns than the individual
ones! This helped me substantially in dropping the ‘I’-sense.
Another thing that I realised was
whatever activity we are doing, if we do it with the feeling that we are just
mediums for this activity then the activity actually starts happening by
itself. You do not feel that ‘you’ are doing it; your workload increases, your
efficiency increases and people start asking how do you manage to do so many
things in such a short period of time. Frankly, I never do anything, things
just start happening, it is as if the universe is conspiring to help you on
your spiritual journey. While doing any activity your happiness content goes
up, there is joy of spirit and that automatically reflects in the quality of
your work. You get the feeling that whatever you are doing, you are doing it
for Him, so the karma of the activity does not get attached to you.
When you lose the sense of being a
doer, you begin to multitask automatically and several things get done through you
in the same given time frame – this is something like CPM-PERT training in
management school, but on a much more micro level!
With meditation, everything becomes
more focused, more intense, more joyous and that joy is reflected in your
actions, in your radiance, in your entire being – it is visible to the people
who interact with you. You are often told that your face is glowing and so on,
though personally I find myself basically to be the same person I was 50 years
ago, but with very little anger, and same sense of fun and laughter – basically
a teenager and not a 60-years old person. As they say, you age physically but remain a teenager mentally! That’s what spiritually uplifting activities do
to you!
1 comment:
Nice! Thankyou.
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