Meditation

             Complete Devotion with full faith in consultation with teachings followed by practicing Meditation is the key of success for those who believe in spirituality. Meditation is the process of internal purification. Never get confused or consider it as an exercise or recreation. It is a method of detachment from the external world and attachment with the divine God.

             Meditation should be started in consultation with a Guru or Master who has experienced all the stages of meditation. Without a guru the mediator may experience various kinds of troubles. If unable to find an experienced master, the best way is to consider the Lord as your Guru (Master). Lord is the universal guru. He is the fountain of all of the knowledge of the universe. Pray him and go ahead with full faith and devotion.

First of all improve your character for spiritual progress, make thoughts in one direction by ceiling on desires. Basic problems are concerned with Kama (desires), Krodha (temper), Moha (attachment), Lobha (lust) and Ahankar (ego). Be cautious and control over these elements. Avoid smoking and alcoholic drinks. Food we intake has great impact on our thoughts. Avoid spicy and non vegetarian food.

 

Method of Dhyanam (Meditation): 

 

The mediation technique is like this:- Though there is no need to follow any ritual in the meditation, but some sort of cleanliness one has to observe. One should see that the place where one is sitting must be very clean at the same time the surrounding is quite airy. It is preferable to select a wooden seat, if it is not available, one can do it over a floor. A non-conducting material e.g. blanket or any thick cloth can be used.

 One has to sit crossed legged over this seat. If it is found difficult to do it, one can choose a ‘Siddha’s Asana’. It is like this: one of the legs should touch the testicles, one hand should be placed over another and the tongue should touch the upper part of the mouth. One should feel quite relaxed and easy.

 Close the eyes, then feel that there is a huge globe like the earth and suggest or say yourself mentally that ‘I am sitting alone on this Globe and that I don’t belong to anybody and nobody belongs to me, then take the breath inside with the word ‘So’ and feel that the breath is going through the back bone and coming right up to the lower tip of the backbone. Imagine that the backbone is just in the centre of the body and not in the back then say ‘Ham’ with the breath coming out of the spinal chord and feel that light and happiness waves are coming out and concentrate between the two eyes, imagine a flame is burning or any ‘God’s’ image can be visualized.

 Repeat the mantra again and again with fixing the attention between the two eyes. One can follow this mantra to realize ‘Self’. Daily half-an-hour in the morning and half-an-hour in the evening one can do meditation. It is always advisable to seek this mantra from a realized Guru ho is well versed in the techniques of meditation. As meditation is the most difficult technique, the importance of an external Guru is very important. Experiences of meditation can only be directed through him. If at all no Guru is available, one can directly meditate upon ‘light’ or God in any form. Slowly, directly the communications will start coming from ‘Him’. One should not feel disgusted over not experiencing the Divinity immediately. The only thing in mediation is the regular practice. One should continuously sit in time and fix one’s Dhyana over the Mantra. Then only one can expect any useful results.

 Mind is the basic conflict in the meditation. The formation of the various fixations of the mind one has to experience within one self and then these formations are to be transcended. In the initial stages of meditation, it may be very difficult to sit and do the meditation, as the mind is very strong and it is very difficult to pull down the various fixations. It is always must be kept in mind that the mantra one should always recite. Slowly these fixations of the mind will automatically loose hold of and the pure consciousness i.e. ‘Self’ will start emerging out. Though the journey is very painful and difficult, one should sit with full patience and fully surrendering one’s Guru or ‘God’ even in the most extreme hour of time. One should develop the practice of sitting in the meditation posture right in time preferably the place chosen must always be same. This will result in fixing the mind more quickly. Actually initially it is the mind which one has to tune slowly and slowly and ultimately this mind by itself will start dissolving. It is the mind which is completely transcended and only the pure consciousness prevails every where. One experiences that state of awareness everywhere in every being.

 During the process of meditation, it will normally be observed that one’s dhyana is always shifting from mantra to the various fixations of the mind. The mind is so quick and naughty that it will never allow you to sit in the meditation posture for long and would like you to get up and move about. During the process of meditation these formations of the mind will come to the surface. One should not just suppress these formations. But slowly you are to recognize these formations and ultimately leave them. The psychic formations which are bound round over the consciousness will start coming over the surface. This will cause a great anxiety, suffering as well as tensions in the mind. As the mind has accepted all these formations as real and is moving in the world with those formations. It is only considering them as the existent things.  But these are not real and are not the part of the consciousness and ultimately they will vanish. These psychic formations are the very root cause of sufferings of the entire human race and ultimately they will loose their hold over the consciousness. The individual consciousness, which is bound with those fixations of the mind is in extreme stress and strain during the process of meditation and otherwise also in the normal day-to-day activities of the mind, man is confused with these psychic formations. He cannot find the outlets to seek freedom in the external world and hence remains the cause of suffering in the entire life. The only solution to his suffering is coming back to the goal i.e. realizing that state of awareness. This individual consciousness which is called Jivatman in the Hindu system of thought is the only real existing entity for the individual and everything else is false i.e. the rest is the part of mind only. It is just an illusion to the mind which is false or unreal .It just appears to the individual that only the external things with which he has made associations right from the childhood are real. But he lives in the world of great confusion and finds it difficult to adjust in the world. Due to some psychic trouble he comes under the grip of great suffering. This causes him a great suffering and he becomes for himself as well as for the society. The only solution to the psychic problems of his life is realizing his true nature i.e. ‘Self’ which he is. The process of meditation is the only solution to him. All the psychic case must immediately take up this mantra and start meditating up on. It regularly if they want to find the solution of their sufferings. No psychiatrist or psycho-analyst can help him. No pill or external agency can help him. It is only in the internal journey, which the individual makes, can free him from the bondage of mind. The process of meditation one should do in a very relaxed mood calmly and quietly. The various experiences in the meditation will automatically be known once the individual is on this path. The only requirement in the meditation technique is that the repetition of the mantra correctly is very important and one should always fix the dhyana between the two eyes.

                                 When the heights of Dhyana are reached, this understanding becomes so strong that one’s lower nature is destroyed and burnt to ashes! Then, only ‘You’ remains. The entire Creation is a delusion of your mind! One alone is Sathyam (truth), the Lord, Satchidananda Parmatma, and Sivoham – the One.

           The Sathya, the Truth, is so subtle and so soothing. Once that is reached, there is no meditation, no mediator, no Dhyana, no Dhyata, all merge into one. That is the fixed, illumined experience. Exulting within himself that is Pure Knowledge. That is the goal, the fruit of immortality.

        

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