Acharya Shree, What is Meditation?
Meditation is an energy
Meditation is a prana
It is a force
Meditation wakes you up
First of all you have to understand, that meditation is not
a verb, verb means to do something
Meditation is not doing something
Meditation itself is a noun
If you know the Sanskrit word for Meditation is Dhyan
Dhyan is a noun, it is not a verb
It is not a Kriya. Meditation means
when you are fully
relaxed. When you are fully relaxed
Your body doesn't bother you.
Your thoughts don't bother you
Your mind doesn't bother you
It is balanced. Everything is balanced
Your body is fully relaxed
Your mind is fully relaxed
Your thoughts are not bothering you at all
That is one way to understand meditation
Sometimes your mind, your thoughts, your body cooperate with you.
I am saying "cooperate" with you
It means you are totally different. You are not the body
You are not the mind. You are not thoughts. When you understand this secret
That you are not body. You are not senses.
You are not mind. You are not thoughts.
Then you are something else. In meditation
you will achieve that balance. You will begin to
know who you really are. You will
begin to realize who you really are. Maybe you are the driver of this body
In meditation, you can find this
secret. Meditation is simple
Don't do it. If you try to do it, it will create tension in the body.
If you try to do something it will create
some kind of imbalance right away
In meditation you cannot have even a little
tiny weeny tensions. You cannot. No resistance.
You cannot. If there is a little resistance. Meditations will not
happen. Meditation can happen if
you know that this is the noun, not the verb.
The verb means doing something
It is a non doing state of conciousness
It is a mindlessness state of consciousness.
It is a bodiless state of consciousness. Meditation
is the highest state of consciousness if you can do it.
This is the seventh step of the Yogic System
So don't jump on the seventh. You have to do
little by little, step by step. You follow the first step of
Yogic System. Follow the second, follow the third, fourth, fifth, sixth of the Yogic System
Then you come to meditation. It helps you a lot
You can not be in the non doing state suddenly.
If you follow the whole system, then you
are able to be in that state of
consciousness where the thoughts disappear .
Where the toxins doesn't bother you.
Thoughts don't bother you. Mind doesn't bother you.
You will be very relaxed.
You will be in divine relaxation
Bodiless state. Mindlessness state.
Thoughtlessness state.
That is meditation. It is very simple. Let it happen. It will happen.
If you sit quietly silently.
Attentionless. This is the way
you can be in meditation.