Going Higher, Going Deeper

 

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Going Higher, Going Deeper

There are certain qualities which grow as one meditates regularly over a period of time. We begin getting a sense of love, not the physical kind, but love which is transcendental – a uniform love for all beings, sentient and non-sentient.

If we feel that something is left out of our love – that means we are stuck. Our sense of love should spread to the whole of existence. As our meditation goes higher, our lower qualities start dropping away. We cannot manage both. We stop becoming angry as easily as in the past. Slowly, it almost becomes impossible to become angry. There is no way in which we can cheat, deceive, exploit in any way. We cannot hurt – our behaviour pattern will be changing with the change in our inner consciousness.

We will not fall into those sad moments that we would fall in the past – frustrations, failures, sadness, a feeling of meaninglessness, anxieties, anguish; all these are slowly, slowly, going to become foreigners. A moment comes when even though we want to become angry, it becomes impossible to do so. Laughter comes easily. Our face lights up, our eyes will be aglow with some inner light. We ourselves start feeling light as the negative emotions evaporate.

As meditation grows, we will feel ourselves becoming soft, vulnerable - just as laughter will become easy for us, tears will also become easy for us. But these tears will not be of sadness or sorrow. These tears will be of joy, blissfulness; these tears will be of gratitude, of thankfulness. These tears will say what words cannot; these tears will be our prayers.

People will find it hard if people insult us and we don’t react. We simply say `thank you’ and go on our way. This is hard to take because it deeply insults the person’s ego. He wanted to drag us down into the gutter and we refused; now he is alone in the gutter. He cannot forgive us. If these things start happening, we can be certain we are on the right path. And soon people of understanding, people of experience, will start finding the changes in us. They will start asking us what has happened to us, how it has happened to us. “We would also like it to happen to us.” 

As our meditation deepens all these things are going to happen - somebody will condemn us, somebody will think we are mad, somebody who has some understanding will ask us, “What has happened to us and how can it happen to me?” We remain centred, rooted, grounded in our being - whatsoever happens around us does not matter. 

We must become the centre of the cyclone. And we will know when we have become the centre of the cyclone. There is no need to ask, “How will we know?” How do we know when we have a headache? We simply know.