Lord Krishna
compares this sthitapragya state
with a lotus in a dirty pond,
it remains unaffected.
Our mind remains unaffected
despite all these actions and inactions
around us, consciously or unconsciously,
when we are in such a sthitapragya state,
in a meditative state.
People who meditate for example,
what happens to them at the end of meditation?
There is a lot of calmness, there is a state of absorbency,
there is clarity of mind, there is lightness.
A beautiful thing would be to hold on to these states -
this I would call as earning.
In business world, what do we earn?
At the end of it is the profit. What is the profit
of spirituality when I
practise meditation half hour or one hour in the morning?
What is the outcome? What is
it that I should hold on to and bank it in my heart?
Such spiritual states,
something that I have earned,
I practised for, I must be able to retain it.
I must not lose it at any cost.
So, my lifestyle changes.
It is so important that to retain certain
subtle spiritual states,
I must adjust my lifestyle
to support that spiritual experience.
Least of all, I must be able to retain it as much as possible.
In the beginning what happens, you may forget.
You know, you go to business and all of a sudden something
goes wrong and for a moment you are
away from that noble state of spiritual condition
that you had after meditation, you lose it temporarily.
But then if you recall it back with your will
and the problem is somehow tackled or addressed,
you can recall it back. Ideal thing would be not to
let that condition go away while you are tackling the problem.
I have always practised in such a way that my idea is not
to retain or maintain the morning state of mind
which was gifted to me after morning meditation.
I am not very happy if
at the end of the day it remains the same.
At the end of the year when your capital is the same
that means you have lost a lot.
When you compare other parameters then you have lost it.
If you give your son ten crore rupees and after ten years,
he has only ten crores
when you include what we call inflation etc.,
he has already lost it. “But papa, you gave me ten and
I am giving you ten back”, “no that is not good enough.”
You expect it to multiply.
When God gives us a gift, a spiritual gift when we meditate,
I have to multiply it during daytime.
The very effort that
I am indulging in multiplying this inner state,
that itself will give you so much satisfaction.
And when you remain meditative
for most part of the day,
the need to do the evening Cleaning will absolutely drop off.
Because with such a state of mind,
which is I would like to say sthitapragya,
you know sthitapragya state, what happens there?
Lord Krishna
compares this sthitapragya state
with a lotus in a dirty pond,
it remains unaffected.
Our mind remains unaffected
despite all these actions and inactions around us,
consciously or unconsciously,
when we are in such a sthitapragya state,
in a meditative state,
nothing will affect you means no samskara,
no karma
that can tie you.
So, simple efforts, simple desire that,
“yes, I like to maintain at least if not
I should be able to increase
this meditative state and the earnings of spiritual conditions
that I have been bestowed with”.
My practice is generally like this, that when I close my eyes,
meditate, okay fine, at the end of meditation
I would try to identify what is going on inside me.
What is the outcome of this meditation?
I hold on to that state as much as possible for at least
four - five minutes so that it becomes part of me
and absorb it, intensify it,
be united with it, it can never leave you then.