Only when you have peace you can enjoy your joyful state or your happiness.
If you do not have peace, how are you going to be happy and joyful?
So, peace is a prerequisite.
Meditation
What do we do in meditation?
Think of an idea, of something,
and the best idea is that Divine Light is present in my heart.
That is all.
We start with this positive affirmation, with this thought
that Divine Light is present.
Now, with the meditation technique and if you do receive this Pranahuti
it will convert this thought process into feelings.
You start feeling the ‘Presence’.
Now, when you feel the ‘Presence’, is it enough?
Talking about money, for example, and actually having money - it is like that.
But having money, let us say, you have ten crores today and
you lose all that in one day.
That ten crores becomes a curse.
You wish that you did not have it, because you had seen the pleasures and
all the availability because of the ten crores and the pride that you get.
Suddenly, it goes off.
Likewise, these feelings also, when I say, “I believe in God”, and some
people go to some Yatra or some Tirtha (Holy place visit), they feel
the joyful state when they are in a state of pause and then they lose it.
Through meditation, when we repeatedly meditate, this feeling continues.
But feeling is not enough either.
If I felt this Transmission or Pranahuti, I felt a state of samadhi or I felt
a superconscious state, once or twice in my life, it is not good enough.
What do I become through the feelings?
Feelings must inspire me further to become something, someone.
Now, this ‘becoming’ is more important.
Only when you have peace, you can enjoy your joyful state or your happiness.
If you do not have peace, how are you going to be happy and joyful?
So, peace is a prerequisite.
Instead of feeling peace, for example, if I can become peace;
so ‘becoming’ is more important.
Instead of loving, if I become love, then this exercise of loving becomes redundant.
I become love in the process.
Now, when I meditate, and let us say, I become so proud that, “there is no one
better than me”, or “I am the perfect CEO.
I produce two hundred million a year, for myself, my family, and the
investors”, it is pride, arrogance that says, ”Nobody is better than me.” When
I also meditate with certain amount of arrogance, that I am serving God, that
day my meditation will not be as great and my experience will be compromised.
Per contra, when I become very humble and I offer myself as they say, sharanagati
to God, “My God, let Thy will be done.
I surrender to you” - when I have this attitude and I meditate,
that experience will be different.
So now, my focus is shifting from thinking of the Presence of God to the feeling.
Feeling is okay, but if I can become something out of all this…In life,
you get tired of many blissful states, you get tired of bliss also.
It becomes a burden on you.
And when you say, “Okay, my God, thank you for all this bliss.
Satchitanand is great, but I like to renunciate even this bliss.” Then, you
have come to real state of freedom, that you do not even care for bliss.
It is a true renunciation.
People renunciate house, wife, when they get fed up of it, actually.
And they say, “I am searching God.” It is not God who is
lost, it is you who are lost.
God is not to be sought for.
He is always there.
It is you who are lost.
So intuition, it becomes automatic, when we, on our own, in a very
natural way touch or reach out to a certain level of consciousness.
And what are all these spiritual practices for?
Only for one thing.
To play with consciousness.
You have heard of Swami Vivekananda.
He said that the purpose of any spiritual practice is simply only one.
He says that we have a very thin layer of consciousness with which we work; it
is a very thin layer, above which there is a giant ocean of superconsciousness
and below which, also, there is a giant ocean of subconsciousness and
you are sandwiched between that.
You have only a film of consciousness, very thin one.
Through meditation practices, you are able to expand this thin layer and allow
it to touch the superconsciousness, so that you can gather those
intuitions in a very natural way.