Meditation – Re-birth
People meditate for a whole lot of benefits which
accrue to the meditator, but the single most important reason why one should
meditate is that : meditation is nothing but the process of giving birth to
your soul, being born again as a soul!
There is nothing more noble than meditation. There
is nothing more divine either. Meditation is the bridge between the earth and
the sky, between the dust and the divine, between the base metal and gold.
Meditation is the process of rebirth. It is giving
birth to yourself. It is a process — magical in the sense that it is
incomprehensible to the intellect, also magical in the sense that it is
something which is not measurable by any scientific method. It is something
beyond science.
A person who is hungry cannot think of meditation;
it is impossible. He/she thinks of bread and butter. A person who has no
shelter thinks of shelter, of a house. A person who is naked thinks of clothes.
It is natural. But when all these needs are fulfilled, suddenly one becomes
aware that there is something more to life than all the comforts and
conveniences which science can provide, which money can purchase; there is
something which cannot be possessed. Which cannot be got from the outside,
which has to be grown in the inner consciousness.
For the first time one becomes interested in
meditation. For the first time one feels life is meaningless unless some
transcendental meaning is touched. Once the doors of something unknowable and
mysterious are opened to us, some splendour descends on us and fills us and all
our emptiness disappears, one begins to sense the reality of the moment, our
being is now filled with awareness.
Through meditation under the guidance of a Master a
state of thoughtless awareness arises in the meditator. Slowly one becomes
so alert, watchful of the whole process of thought that not a single thought
passes by unnoticed. Don’t fight with the thoughts, don’t try to push them or
throw them out, don’t repress them. Those are not the ways to transcend. Just
become alert — nothing else has to be done, nothing at all. Just watchfulness
is enough
As watchfulness grows our thoughts are reduced, automatically. If our watchfulness is 1% our thoughts are 99%. If our watchfulness is 99%, our thoughts are only 1%. If our watchfulness is 100% then there are no thoughts anymore, then the mirror is utterly empty.
And only in
that mirror is God reflected, only in that mirror do we encounter reality. And
that encounter transforms, gives us a new birth, for the first it time makes our
life significant, meaningful.
1 comment:
wonderful
simply wonderful
what an unique topic each day you come out that too with greater depth. just enjoying
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