The Path of Meditation (Guest Post)

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Meditation is a process of purifying the mind and making it one-pointed, inward, and tranquil. Through the method of meditation, the mind will help you to fathom the deeper levels of your being and lead you to the highest state of realization. As an aspirant, it is always wise to be vigilant and firm in practicing meditation. Do not expect to do it right in the beginning. There is no instant method of meditation.

Modern students expect immediate results from meditation and this expectation causes them to fantasize, imagine, and hallucinate many things that they think are spiritual experiences. These experiences are products of their subconscious minds. As a result, they become frustrated and imbalanced, and either they stop meditating, or they start following strange methods that are harmful to their progress. Meditation is a technique that has only one way, and that is a scientific way that is very precise and clear. If you learn how to systematically practice meditation, it will not take much time for you to reach the summit, provided you know the whole technique.

First thing is to have an ardent desire, a burning desire within. When you have a burning desire to do your meditation, that burning desire leads you. Sankalpa shakti or in other words the determined power is needed. “Today I will sit in meditation. No one has the power to disturb me! Thought is a product of the mind. I do not belong to thought.”

 

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then the body, breath, and mind will not come in your way. They come in your way. You have not trained them, because you have not decided to do meditation. Finally, you should learn to decide and make time for meditation in the morning and before you go to bed. You have been taught to see and examine things in the external world. Nobody has taught you to see and find within.

There is no other way but the way of meditation. No object of the world has the power to give you what meditation can give you. Do not meditate if you are not inclined to meditate. If you want to meditate, you must form a habit, because habit weaves your character and personality. If you want to know who you are, you must take off all the masks, one after the other.

If you are prepared to do that, you can learn to tread the path of meditation. That momentary joy is evidence enough that there is something that is called joy. You are searching in the wrong place. If you receive everlasting joy, and if you have attained everlasting joy, then you will be free. It is for that freedom and for that extraordinary joy that you live.

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