Meditation - Search for the Divinity Within - How Can We Recognize Progress? Part 03

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Meditation - Search for the Divinity Within - How Can

We Recognize Progress? Part 03

 

A miner knows success when he strikes gold. A racer knows

success when he crosses the finish line. A meditator knows

success when he transforms his character. Meditation must

enable us to practice truthfulness, love, inner peace, and

care for all beings. If meditation cannot change our lives,

it is a hollow practice. If we do not have the conviction to

act on our inner directions, we waste our time in listening

for the voice. If we do not practice our duty, we are only

putting on a show for ourselves or others. What is the use

of sitting in meditation if no result is achieved?

 

" Do you love more, do you talk less, do you serve others more earnestly? These

are the signs of success in dhyana. Your progress must be authenticated by your

character and behaviour " Baba

 

True meditation helps us to discover our inner identity. It enables us to hear

the divine voice in our heart, which illumines the path ahead. It allows us to

perceive and develop divine qualities

 

" Man is divine. He can purify himself into perfect divinity by the process of

dhyana, taken up with eagerness and followed with faith by virtuous individuals "

Baba

 

Progress in meditation results in the elimination of desire. Desire gives us no

peace; instead, it hides the divine light in our hearts. When the mind is

controlled and examined, it is seen to have no form of its own. Like a shining

mirror, it only assumes the image of that which is reflected in it. Our object

must be to see directly the light of atma, the inner divinity, without the aid

of this mirror. To do this, we must remove desire.

 

" The mind has no independent identity of its own; it is a conglomeration of the

desires that sprout from the impulses. A cloth is essentially a bundle of

threads. Threads, in their truth, are basically cotton. Similarly, desires arise

from basic impulses, and the mind is constituted of these desires. Just as a

piece of cloth disintegrates if threads in it are pulled apart, the mind too can

be destroyed by the eradication of desires " Baba

 

Continued...Meditation - Search for the Divinity Within - Make Joy Your

Priceless Possession Part 04