Today, I would like to go into greater depth and explore the subject of meditation.
Meditation is not a skill that we'll learn.
Neither it's a nack that you either have, or don't.
I would like to propose that meditation is something very natural to us.
It is something that you already know.
And even something that we already do, now according to this understanding of meditation, everybody meditates.
So person meditates on different objects, on different ideals.
This depends upon our individual interests and aims.
You'll find one person meditating on their job, perhaps under per as meditates on a job that they wish they had.
People meditate on so many things, so many object.
These examples represent case of accidental meditation shall we say.
You're not sitting down and trying to meditate on these things.
It just happens that way.
Somehow your mind becomes occupied with an idea and learns with it.
Do we really choose these objects?
Does the mind occupied the position of a servant or has it become our master?
Meditation is natural, but the meditation of the un-regulated mind is not so beneficial.
It does not transport us from restlessness to peacefulness, or from dissatisfaction to contentedness,
from disturbance to stillness from passion, to compassion, or from selfishness to selflessness
or from heaviness of the heart to the lightness in order to turn this situation around,
we take up formal meditation in which we train the mind with a chosen object.
The purpose is for it to become a useful instrument in our hands,
but now we find that meditation does not come as easily as before.
You have your chosen object of meditation.
But, meditation doesn't happen so naturally as when you were thinking of your beloved?
Neither.
Now, you are fighting with your mind, trying to make it concentrate on your chosen object.
Mind doesn't want to stay there.
It wants to go back to something else that it would prefer to be thinking
about, something else that it would prefer to be meditating upon.
Most meditators commonly you find this problem.
Guss of thoughts, rushing of thoughts, tornadoes, storms of thoughts going around in the mind during meditation.
Because of this, people often think that meditation is a form of concentration and it must happen.
I must run away from this thoughts.
The thing that meditation is to hold the mind on a particular object, this is far from
the case while it is true that with concentration, you can achieve single pointedness.
It is too artificial though.
You may hold your mind on one idea, but the moment you relax your efforts, the mind's activity springs back.
We have not transformed ourselves at all, but only applied a superficial fix.
If your mind is truly settled,
it should stay there when you relax your efforts.
Like a well-trained dog it should stay without you having to tie it up.
Concentration is like tying up a bog, so it doesn't run away.
But in meditation, it stays put, despite being given its freedom, like
a well-trained dog, mind remains focused on cherished object of meditation.
This happens in the most natural way when you meditate with
yogic transmission, our Pranahuti, as we call it in Sanskrit.
To go deeply into meditation, one must relax and abandon all efforts.
Can you fall asleep when you're trying so hard to sleep?
No.
Similarly, you cannot meditate when you're trying so hard to meditate.
You just slip into it at some moment.
Divide of any anxiety to meditate well or deeply, or to achieve anything
special or great is the ideal condition to arrive at a meditative state.
So even though it begin with the thought of divine light, that thought soon turns into a feeling.
That is why I often define meditation as moving from thinking to feeling
from intellect to intuition and from knowledge to actual experience.