Say goodbye to faith
in the beginning.
Though faith is equally required
later on, the basis of this
faith has to be built upon
your personal experience.
One question that I often get from
people is “How do you meditate”?
And people are very
confused these days.
There are so many different kinds
of meditations and some people
say meditation is just sitting
down, closing your eyes and just
clearing your mind of all thoughts.
Is that not meditation?
And now it has become so
complicated, you have apps for
meditation, you have mantras for
meditation, you have all sorts
of things for meditation, all
sorts of devices for meditation.
I know people who put things on
their head to calm them down.
They have meditative oils,
meditative creams, meditative
perfumes, there is a whole
industry of meditative
items to help you meditate.
So can you talk a little bit
about this phenomenon about the
confusion surrounding meditation
and how the Heartfulness way
kind of tries to simplify it and
also what you think about this
booming industry of meditation.
Of course, yoga is booming, we all
know that, but along with that the
new wave is now this meditation.
So I think the yoga boom
happened a little while ago and
now it is the meditation boom.
So your whole thoughts on the
business of meditation and
also how to just sort of get
rid of all the confusion that
we have around this idea of
what meditation actually means.
I will put it very simply,
a few questions that I
will be posing to you.
When you are disturbed, when you
are restless, can you be happy?
Ok.
So you have to be at peace
to enjoy whatever in life.
Now, how to arrive at peace?
How to maintain harmony within?
Is harmony possible without
a contemplative mind?
Is a contemplative mind possible
without focused thinking?
Is focused thinking possible
without a regulated mind?
Is a regulated mind
possible without meditation?
Is it?
I mean..
None of this,
None of this.
So what about a scientist?
So now when you join these dots,
we begin seeking happiness.
It is not possible in the
field when you are restless.
It has to be in the field where
you are happy and at peace.Peace is
arrived at in a state of harmony.
Harmony is possible when
you are contemplative.
Contemplation is possible when
you are having a focused mind.
Focused mind is possible when
you have a regulated mind.
And a regulated mind is possible
only when you have meditation.
So you can join the dots
and say meditation will take
me to joy and happiness.
So this is one simple thing.
Easy to understand.
Meditation is even easier
than this understanding.
Let us say, most people find
it difficult to meditate
because they do not know
first of all how to meditate.
Second thing, when they start
meditation, the thoughts that
arise in meditation, they keep them
off and they do not know how to
channelise their mind and arrive
at a focused level which becomes
contemplative, which becomes
harmonious, which becomes peaceful.
How to arrive at that?
The key is in this Pranahuti
(transmission).When we meditate
we meditate with transmission,
you can see the difference.
You see, I am a pharmacist and I
know how to differentiate between
a molecule which is going to
be effective for a particular
disease versus a placebo.
Right?
When a research is done, it
is compared against placebo.
If the effect is as good as
placebo, that drug is not good.
So this comparison of an active
medicinal molecule which is
useful for headache, perhaps
it is compared with another
headache curing medicine.
And if it is better than that, you
will forget the whole molecule,
and a new drug is in the market.
It is through comparison
that we arrive at and make
a scientific research.
Here, spirituality also
should be approached with
a scientific bent of mind.
That is why I say, say goodbye
to faith in the beginning, though
faith is equally required later on.
But the basis of this
faith has to be built upon
your personal experience.
This experience that you have had
because of transmission and how
this transmission can take you
deeper within your consciousness,
how it can make yourself lighter,
how it removes the burden of
misunderstanding and ignorance from
you, without even speaking a word.
That is a magical thing to see,
and this has to be experienced.
You have to try it out and see.
The most important thing is this,
that because of this transmission,
we are able to go deeper within
ourselves without which you cannot
move at all in your consciousness.