We all know that when we are connected to the heart, we can tap into its wisdom to guide us.
We all meditate on something or the other. A student meditates on his studies, a businessman
meditates on his next deal, a philosopher meditates on an idea, scientist meditates
on the reason.
Namaste everyone.
Today I am going to take up this interesting topic, ‘Why do we meditate on the heart?’
What we do when we meditate with the Heartfulness system, is that we bring our awareness to
the heart. We gradually flow into a single stream of thought- thinking of the presence
of light, now it begins to transform into feelings.,and we begin to find a calmness,
a stillness. And it transcends into further states of
whatever comes in the form of flourishing Consciousness.
Either you go so deep into your subconscious, or you fly high into super-conscious
and derive intuitions from there.
How does one make decisions in life, when we are at cross-roads of mind versus heart,
feelings versus reasons? Today it is well understood that the heart has an intelligence
of its own. The heart is the organ that guides our capacity to make decisions and understand
ourselves. We all know that when we are connected to the heart, we can tap into its wisdom to
guide us. We all meditate on something or the other. A student meditates on his studies,
a businessman meditates on his next deal, a philosopher meditates on an idea, scientist
meditates on the reason. And prospective husband or wife-to-be, they go on meditating on whether
this person will be ‘suitable for me or not’. Meditation is a natural process to
all of us, where we bring attention and awareness to a subject, and from there something happens
that expands our understanding, and that helps us further into making decisions. A regular
meditation practice helps us imbibe the essence of the thing that we meditate upon.
In the words of my Guruji, Pujya Babuji Maharaj... he says, “We generally take up the heart
for meditation. The heart is the pumping station of the blood. It sends out blood after purification
to different nerves and cells of the body.”
Now we have taken the heart as the centre of meditation, the blood that runs throughout
our system, its effect. The solidity due to our own thoughts and actions begins to melt away.
This is the first thing that we begin to gain from the very first day, by this method
of meditation on the heart. The word heart in Sanskrit is Hrudaya (heart) – a word
with three letters – ‘Hr,’ ‘Da’, and ‘ya’ – Ha, Da, yam – Ha ithi,
Ekam Aksharam (single word). The first letter is ‘Hr’, a Sanskrit letter; what
does it convey? How do you contemplate on the import of this letter of ‘H’ ‘R’ or Hr?
Hr ithi, Ekam Aksharam. ‘Hr’is one letter. ‘Abi haranthi asmai swasthanye
cha ya evam veda’. ‘Hr’ means ‘to attract’ or ‘to draw’. This is the grammatical
root meaning of the word or the letter ‘Hr’- drawing to attract, to pull towards oneself,
to compel everything to gravitate towards oneself. ‘Swasthanye cha ya evam veda
abhi haranthi asmaya’ – this is the grand result that is proclaimed by mere meditation on the
implication of the root meaning of the letter ‘Hr’– to draw. Think, as I also pull
the cosmos towards myself, as the Supreme Consciousness which is the subject of all objects.
Under the Heartfulness way of meditation, we are making a Sankalpa(suggestion), that
I am meditating on the Source of Divine Light that is drawing my attention inward.
Along with - when we begin to receive- Pranahuti (transmission), then one begins to resonate
with the Source. In turn, begins a magical thing. We become one with what we nurture
via thought - the Divine Presence.
'Da’, the second letter in the word ‘Hridaya’ (heart), precisely means ‘to give’.
When we meditate on the heart, and as we focus on this ‘Hr’,we begin to attract
God's grace – let us call it as ‘Prasadam’ (divinized food) from our Lord. It is imperative
that we share it. So we first receive, ‘Hr’. ‘Da’is to give.
‘Yam’, the third letter - ithi, ekam aksharam, ithi swargam logam ya evam veda– the third
letter Ya’ means ‘to go’. We go to the higher dimension. You are automatically
transcended into the higher realm. So, that is the beauty of meditating on hearts. More
than all these explanations, I am sure that when you undergo the Heartfulness practices
offered by Shri Ram Chandra Mission, you will admire that it is indeed worth meditating
on our heart, our best friend.