Meditate Regularly

 

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Meditate Regularly

Swamiji keeps telling us to meditate regularly for half an hour in collectivity. The time of meditation should be fixed and so should the place. If you can do that, then with continuous meditative practice in a fixed place your energy gets established in that place and over time you will find it easier to slip into a meditative state because of that energy. This early morning meditation is done in union with the Guru-energies who are continuously transmitting their support from the Himalayas – this is done alone. Later in the day if you have meditation centres close by, you should also meditate in collectivity for half an hour. This, as Swamiji says, is necessary because like driving a car, when you meditate alone you are driving at speed and when you meditate in collectivity you get to control over the car, in this case yourself. So solitary meditation helps you in driving fast and collective meditation helps you control the car.

In fact, Osho explains: “A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators. Because whatever goes on happening within us is not only within us, it affects people who are close by. In this communion people are at different stages of meditation. To meditate with these people, just to sit silently with these people, and you will be pulled more and more towards your own intrinsic potentiality.”

Everybody should make a point of meditating. We need the mind. It’s with the mind that we do everything. The mind is our key. If that key is not kept in good shape, how are you going to perform your duties? The one and only way to keep the mind in good shape, to keep the mind clean and sharp, is by meditation. So, make all the effort that’s necessary to be regular in meditation.

If you meditate regularly, you’ll have no complaints in life. All of your problems would solve themselves if you were regular in your meditation. Through meditation, the mind gets the capacity to solve problems and rise above difficulties. The people who complain, “Oh, I am this, I am that, I don’t get this, I don’t get that. I feel this way, I feel that way, physically, mentally,” who have constant complications, would find that it all could be easily burnt out by regular meditation. So please do not make any excuses for missing that.