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(mental suffering), vyadhi (physical suffering) and upadhi (suffering created by external forces) is called samadhi. At the time of death, one withdraws to the Self and remains absorbed in the Self, nirvikalp samadhi. My Mahatmas, endowed with the right belief, die a samadhi death. They leave their body with full awareness of the Pure Soul 'Shuddhatma'.
Questioner : What makes one's mental tendencies unsteady and wavering?
Dadashri : Are you able to sit still and steady? Then how can you expect your mental tendencies to remain steady? There are many spiritual practices or disciplines to steady the mind, but there are equal numbers of difficulties in life also. However, it is possible to remain in samadhi even in the midst of the three kinds of suffering of adhi, vyadhi and upadhi. Meditation: The Link Between Object And Subject
Questioner: I cannot meditate properly Dadashri. What should I do?
all partiality and prejudices. I am vitarag (the fully enlightened). I give to the one who is sincere and meets me.
When you meditate, what do you meditate on? What is the motive or the goal behind your meditation? Who is doing the meditation? Without a goal, without deciding what the goal is, what will you meditate on? Meditation is a mode and means to attain the goal. Meditation is fruitful only when the Self is the motive and the Self is the meditator. What benefit do you gain when you meditate as, Chandulal', (the relative self) and arrive at a goal and then meditate according to your own imagination to attain the Self? When I give you Gnan, I make You the Real meditator and establish You as the Self. Thus, the meditation, motive and the meditator become one. Only when the Self remains as the Self can liberation be experienced. But otherwise when people sit to do meditation, they wish they would not have thoughts about their income tax or sex while they are meditating, and the moment they start, they are immediately faced with thoughts they dislike. How can you call that meditation?
A wealthy businessman was sitting meditating when someone called on him at his home. The caller asked the man's wife where the businessman was and she replied, 'He has gone to the garbage-shed, where the filth and refuse of the town lies. The businessman upon hearing this bowed down to his wife in his heart. Truly he was absorbed in sensual thoughts while he was meditating.
If meditation is done correctly and in the proper manner, there is tremendous power in it. Be clear as to what the term meditation (dhyan) implies. Having decided on the motive (dhyeya, the object) there becomes a meditator (dhyata, subject). The link that joins the dhyata and dhyeya, the subject to the object, is dhyan, meditation. And dhyan is what unites the dhyeya
Dadashri : I can put you in meditation (dhyan) right now but what good is that meditation if you still have to scale thousands more steps ahead? Instead, I will place you directly in moksha (liberation), come see me about it. You should directly ask for the Real. Why ask for relative meditation (i.e. temporary and incomplete things)? Besides meditation is incomplete, it does not lead to liberation.
Questioner : But real meditation is very difficult, is it
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Dadashri : Where is the difficulty when I am here to grant it to you? When all the work can be achieved through the acquaintance and influence of a President, then what cannot be achieved through the acquaintance of a Gnani? I am free from
