MEDITATION
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| Swami Chidananda Maharaj |
The ingathering of the totality of your being
and the centralizing of this ingathered power in one specific self-chosen
direction is the object of meditation. When the ingathered and in-directed,
continued, unbroken movement succeeds, you are in a state of meditation. It is
the successful, continuous movement in a self-chosen direction of the totality
of your being. In the condition of perfect sense-control and self-restrain, and
conquest of desires and mastery of one’s passions – in that condition of
enlightenment, inner stability and equipoise, one begins to gather oneself and
move towards the Reality.
Meditation requires the person
to be firmly and perfectly grounded in virtue, Meditation is the upper point of
the pyramid, which is grounded in virtue, Meditation is an interior process.
The senses always keep your entire psyche in an exteriorized condition. Unless
you control your senses, the psyche can never be ingathered. Next comes the
calming of the mind – its desires, passions, ambitions, attachments and the
constant cravings that keep the mind always flux and ferment. This process of
attaining a certain amount of absolute quiescence of mind takes many years.
There should be unified aspirations for that ultimate Goal. There will be no
other ambitions, no other desires, no other attachment, no other passions and
cravings. The mind will be in a state of total ingatheredness and unity. This
mind which has now been rendered subtle by giving up gross sensual desires, and
by renunciation, attains a state of purity.
Mind is a very subtle matter.
When it is filled with earthly tendencies, passions and greed, it is full of
tamas and rajas, and it becomes more gross due to restlessness, selfish desires
and activities. When these have been transcended and mastered to a certain
extent then mind attains a state of purity and subtleness. In that state of
subtle purity, mind assumes an upward direction. Only such a mind, which is
rendered subtle by absolute purity and virtue, sense-control and elimination of
desires and passions, becomes the instrument of Atman, the Reality. Such total
transformation in your interior by bringing the mind into that state of
subtleness and purity is absolutely necessary to initiate the process of
meditation. A subtle pure mind, completely still and calm, and totally inward,
is the instrument for meditation. With that mind alone one can meditate.
God Bless You!
Swami Chidananda
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