Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

The seventh flower is one of meditation---Dhyaana pushpam. Today, meditation is taking many forms. Many types of meditation that people are adopting today are against the culture and tradition of Bhaarath. To sit in padmaasana (lotus posture) and to make the Kundalini shakthi rise from Moolaadhaara (basal plexus) to Sahasraara (the cranium) is not dhyaana. True Dhyaana consists in recognizing the presence of God in all types of work. God is Sarvantaryaami, Sarvabhutaantharaathma and is Sarvavyaapi (the indweller of all). To make an attempt in your dhyaana to confine Him (God) to one place which you choose, cannot be Dhyaana.

 

When you are driving a car, the car is your God. When you are doing business in a market, the market is your God. According to the culture of Bhaarath, we first make obeisance to the work which we have to do. Before we undertake to do any work, we should regard that work as God. Thasmai Namaha Karmane---that is what the Upanishads are teaching us: "The work I have to do, I regard as God and make obeisance to God in that form." Let us see the person who plays tabla. Before he begins to play on it, he pays obeisance to the tabla. The harmonium player will make obeisance to the harmonium before he starts. A dancer before she begins her dance will make obeisance to her ghunghroo. Even a driver who is going to drive a lifeless car, before he holds the steering wheel, makes namaskaar to the steering wheel. You do not have to go so far. While driving, if the car hits another person, immediately we make namaskaar to that person. The significance of all this is the faith and belief that God is present in all things. Thus to regard the entire creation as the form of God and to perform your duty in that spirit is meditation.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XV, Chapter 9.