Mukti By Meditation

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Mukti By Meditation

ONE of the great needs of the present times is a regular system of

meditative thought and spiritual self-training for all men. The practice of

meditation is a way of release from the troubles, sorrows and difficulties

of life. That release is the one thing which all men must see. If it is to

be complete and lasting, the release must at least be threefold:

(1) The release must be of or through out own inner powers, those diverse

qualities which we have developed in the hundreds of lives which lie behind

us. Those aspiring for spiritual life must not wait for stress of outer

circumstances to call forth that innate power. They must learn to release

and employ it deliberately. Meditation is the way to achieve that release.

(2) Release of the force of our own inherent divinity. As long as our

attention is turned outwards to the external, the temporary and the

fleeting, the God within us will remain asleep. It is within our power

consciously to awaken and to release our divine potentialities here and now.

There is incalculable energy behind every one of us. The real goal of

meditation is the discovery of, and union with, the source of power.

(3) Release from the sorrows and difficulties of life, from the

unsatisfactory nature of human existence, consisting as it does of much pain

that seems to last and of little happiness which seems so fleeting. We

search for bliss which is eternal and serenity which is unshakeable. We seek

eternal liberation. We must learn quickly the lessons that pain and sorrow

teach and turn inwards away from them into the heart of reality. We must

withdraw from all our troubles until we see them in their right perspective

as ephemeral shadows cast by our personalties upon the screen of time and

space. We must turn our faces away from the many shadows towards One Light.

Meditation is the way by which this great " conversion " may be achieved.

We must think our way inwards to the very centre of our being. There we

shall find the light eternal shining, there we shall find the place which is

unshakeable and which passeth understanding.

 

(Adopted from the Book Pearls of Wisdom by His Holiness Swami Kesavaiahji)