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28/Meditation and Enlightenment: Chandr Prabh
Water is the symbol of and comparable to feet. The arrangement of mind is just the opposite of the Karmayoga of the feet. If the movement of mind is called the 'Karmayoga' then there is no greater 'Karmayoga' than mind in this world. Even the manager of all the projects of the world would appear dwarfish in front of the 'Karmayogita' (practising of Karmayoga) of the mind. Desirable in life is not 'mano-karma' (activity of mind), but 'manoyoga' (involvement of mind). 'Manoyoga' is the concentration of mind. The mind scattering like the waves of the sea is not 'Karmayoga' but 'Jeewan-rog' (malady of life). The pus of tension and frustration is discharged from the wound of the mind.
Therefore, the mind is a disease and cure of the disease is the indispensable condition of the health of life.
Mind is fond of conveniences/opportunities. He is against the competition of good thoughts and bad thoughts. Whatever would be find favourable to him, he would consider living with it as 'satsang' (company of virtuous people). Meditation implies silence of thoughts. Thoughts, good or bad, are at the root of tension. Where there are virtues, there are evils as well, where there are vices, there are vitues too. Meditation is just nature-free from good deposition and bad deposition.
The person, who is confined to the mind, is irreligious. Nonreligion is moving about in 'vibhav' (non-disposition); religion is in nature. Every setting foot as a consequence of mind is a challenge to one's nature. In presence of Karmayoga of the mind, the opportunism and hypocrisy of a person cannot become invirulent.
A man (non-mind) is the secret of preparing an evergreen garden. Happiness and misery are the two facets of the same coin, an interplay of sun and shade. In life is needed that joy, which has no tension since its preface to its epilogue. Life is for pleasure, joy, virtuous deeds, and not for tension or suffocation.
In the state of non-mind, mind does not die, but the mind attains assimilation on the level of the soul. The connection of the mind with the body, kissing the entire world by mind is the foundation-stone of construction of the world in life. If the
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