Meditation On Mind

SR No.: 269689
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu Gurudev
Publisher: Chitrabhanu Gurudev
Total Pages: 10
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 2 MB

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portunity to discover, realize, and express oneself. A newborn child does not feel it is a failure. It is happy. It has not tried to become anything. It is just living. But as we grow up, we make certain decisions and build images of what we want to be. We may want to be an actor or a dancer, a poet or a writer, a guru or a millionaire. But when we try to become something else, the "something" is not in our control. Someone else controls the result; the outcome depends on their favor, their opinion. This builds tension inside. us as we seek outside approval.
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he benefit of meditation. In meditation you learn to sit and relax. Then you learn to breathe calmly and pleasantly. You can feel your breathing anywhere-in the of fice, on the bus, on the street; but if you are not relaxed, you can sit on a mountain top and you will feel upheaval in your breath. Although the place plays a role, it is not everything. Inside you must be clear.
If you can reach that root from where the desire to become something sprouts, you will find the answer for your peace. People are always playing with the branches, enjoying the flowers and fruits. They do not go into the roots because they are deep underground, covered with mud and dirt. They are not as beautiful as the flowers, leaves, and fruits.
Meditation means to go deep. Have the courage to know, to discover that source; that knowing will free you someday.
Then the question will come, "If
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we do not want to become something, if we have no model or plan, how will we grow?" The answer is that you can never be satisfied being like someone else, following that image. You grow from what you are. When you come to yourself, you grow from that self, because self is greater than anything.
All results in life grow out of your intention. Now, through meditation, your intention is to be with yourself. When you sit for meditation, follow your mind. When it wanders somewhere, ask it, "Where are you going?" See its tendency to go toward someone else, and say, "Why do you want to go there? Come here and sit with me."
When there is harmony within, the seer sees the seen without being colored. When you see in that way, you are free. You go freely in the world. You see everything but your vision is not colored, so you are not bound. You are just window shopping. When your mind says, "Buy," you say, "No."
This is a deep experience which may not come immediately, but as you work it will come. Inner satisfaction does not come from either raga or dvesha, the pull or the push. It does not come from being "something." It comes from being being. If you live on adjectives, when the adjectives fall, you fall. But if you live with the inherent, you will never fall and there is no fear of failure.
Now just see each thing as it is. See your body, your frame, your mind, your breath. Just feel and see what you are.