EXPERIENCES IN MEDITATION

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8. EXPERIENCES IN MEDITATION

 

BY SRI SWAMI KAMALANANDJI, NEPAL.

 

Meditation is the only real, royal road to the attainment of salvation.

Meditation kills pain, sufferings and sorrows. Meditation destroys all

causes of sorrow. Meditation gives vision of unity. Meditation induces sense

of Oneness. Meditation is a balloon or parachute or the aeroplane that helps

the aspirant to sour high into the realms of bliss, everlasting peace and

undying joy.

 

Reality or Brahma can be realised by man. Many have attained

self-realization. Many have realised the nirvikalpa samadhi: Sri Sankara,

Sri Dattatreya, Mansoor, Shams I Sabuz, Lord Jesus, Lord Budha and Sri Sai

Baba Maharaj of Shirdi were all realised souls who had direct perceptions of

the Truth or Cosmic Vision or Aparoksha- anubhuti. But one who has known

cannot communicate it to others for want of means. Even the knowledge

acquired by the five senses which are common to all cannot be communicated

to others; You cannot tell the taste of sugar-candy to a man who has never

tasted it; you cannot communicate the idea of colour to one born blind. All

that the teacher can do is tell his disciple the method of knowing the Truth

or the path that leads to the unfoldment of intutional faculty. Sri Sai Baba

of Shirdi is the concrete embodiment of the Vedanta Truth. Because in his

life he manifested in full, all the subtle truths that we read in the

Vedanta Philosophy. Pray for unflinching love and devotion and you will have

everything.

 

(Sai Sudha Feb 1944)