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Spiritual Practice – a State of No-mind
When you need to achieve or attain anything in life it
requires commitment and continuous practice. Spiritual practice or dhyan sadhana
by definition means following certain principles for progressing in one’s own
individual spiritual journey. To progress spiritually one needs to go through
life fulfilling all one’s desires and then achieving a state where no more
desires are left. Meditation helps in calming the mind and progressing to a
state of no-mind.
Meditation is a state of pure consciousness having
absolutely no content. An ordinary person’s consciousness is filled with a lot of
rubbish, like a dust covered mirror. The mind is in a constant state of flux,
thoughts trying to jump over each other trying to grab your attention, desires have
their own momentum and so do your memories – the mind is filled with so much of
traffic, it is just like having constant traffic in the mind. Day in and day
out – even when asleep the mind is at it – but in the form of dreams. It is
thinking, preparing itself for the thought onslaught to take care of the next
day’s activities.
This state is the opposite of a meditative state. In
meditation, there is no traffic, thinking has ceased, there are no thoughts, no
desires disturb you, you are completely silent – that silence is meditation.
When you find that silence – that is meditation. A state of no-mind.
Meditation cannot be found through the mind, because
the mind will always perpetuate itself. One can find meditation only by putting
the mind aside, by being coolly indifferent to it, by not thinking that I am
it. Actually, it is the awareness that, “I am not the mind.” When one goes
deeper and deeper in one’s inner journey, one finds moments of complete calm,
stillness, silence – those moments are meditation. In those still, silent, cam,
peaceful moments you will know who you are, you will know the mystery of existence.
Once one tastes those few moments of divine nectar, a
great thirst arises within you, to go deeper and deeper and discover more and
more of the inner world. And if these few moments are possible, then there is
no problem. More and more moments will come, the length of the silence will
keep increasing gradually as the mind starts gradually becoming silent for
longer periods of time.
As you learn to create a distance between yourself and your
own thoughts, meditation will start happening and the more it happens, the more
it transforms you. A day comes when meditation becomes your natural state – you
become meditation. The silence and peace radiate from your very being as it
calms and silences the minds which are around you.
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