Meditation – Re-birth

 

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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.