WAYS TO SPIRITUALISATION - 5

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WAYS TO SPIRITUALISATION - 5

 

Behold! You must be diligent and vigilant always. Do not give

leniency to the mind.

 

Be regular in your meditation. Meditation is the very essence and

life of all spiritual sadhanas.

 

Meditate on the form of Lord Krishna with flute in His hand.

Concentrate on Trikuti (the space between the eyebrows). Repeat

mentally ` Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.

 

May Lord Krishna be your centre, ideal and goal.

 

Meditation is a sound and safe method by which you can unlock your

inner power and attain Godrealisation.

 

When you are in meditation you will touch the level of cosmic

consciousness in a flash of illumination.

 

You will know that life is eternal and that you are eternal. God is

the only reality.

 

God is the only truth. God alone exists. Know this, realise this.

 

God is love. He dwells in your heart. Recite His name always. Sing

His glories, Do kirtan (chanting).

 

Conquer the whole world by truth and love.

 

In silence alone you can hold communion with God. When there is

conflict of duty, sit and meditate. Hear the inner voice and act

immediately.

 

During meditation one enters into a half sleepy state this is

called tandra. If one is really meditating, his body will be light

and his mind will be cheerful.

If he is sleeping, the body will be heavy, the mind will be dull

and the eye lids will be heavy.

 

During deep meditation you will forget the external world first and

then the body. You will feel that there is no body. You will

experience immense joy, indescribable peace.

 

Natural retention of the breath, without inhalation and exhalation,

will come by itself.

 

Meditate on a concrete form in the beginning. Meditate on any form

of the Lord. Think of his attributes omnipotence, purity, perfection,

etc. Gradually the mind will be prepared to take up the higher,

formless meditation.

 

Be patient. Be persevering. Cultivate burning dispassion, burning

longing for Godrealisation. Gradually you will enter into deep

meditation and samadhi.

 

Meditation is freeing the mind from thoughts of sense objects. Mind

dwells on God and God alone during meditation Have perfect ethical

perfection. Then alone you will be established in deep meditation.

 

Meditation follows concentration and samadhi (superconscious state)

follows meditation.

 

Be courageous. You will come across various obstacles in

meditation. You will have to conquer sleep, distraction, a taste for

sensual pleasure, laziness, etc.

 

Practise asanas regularly.

 

Do a little tratak (gazing) and pranayama (yoga breathing). Do

vicara (enquiry) . Cultivate vairagya (dispassion), You will conquer

all obstacles.

Samadhi is that state of pure consciousness, the supreme blissful

state where the jivatma (soul) becomes one with paramatma (supreme

being).

Light diet, dispassion, discrimination, contact with a teacher, are

necessary for the practice of meditation.

 

Meditation when persisted in and perfected brings about the

experience of superconsciousness or samadhi, the ultimate state of

self awareness or realisation.

 

When there is tension in the mind, when you cannot meditate, do

kirtan or singing the Lord's name. You will get relaxation and

concentration.

 

Kirtan is nectar. Kirtan is divine food for the soul Kirtan

develops divine love. Kirtan produces bhava samadhi. (ecstasy of

devotion).

 

Samadhi leads to direct, intuitive realisation of the infinite. It

is an inner divine experience, beyond the reach of speech and mind.

 

A jnani or sage will always be in samadhi, although engaged in

worldly actions.

 

One without full even mindedness will never be able to go into

samadhi even though he sits in padmasana for several hours. When all

cravings cease, when one gets equal vision, he attains jnana vision

and Brahmic bliss.