Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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6/Meditation and Enlightenment: Chandr Prabh
person. Revolution should take place in life. Either on this side of the river or on the side across. Either become a complete thief, or a completely honest person. What is this middle path being followed ? Externally, a man is posing as an honest person, but closetting himself behind the doors, dishonesty is being practised. Man's life should be an open book. Clean and plain like a palm. Whatever he is, he is so with honesty. Life should proceed either to this side, or to that side. Don't put yourself on the middle course. A man gives up cigarettes. Just pay a little attention. A person smokes twenty cigarettes in a day. He says I have smoked five cigarettes less today. He has become an 'anu-vrati' (practiser of ‘anu-vrata"). I don't know what discipline of 'anu-vrata' he follows. You have lessened five cigarettes, but still smoking fifteen cigarettes. The desire to smoke and its hangover remains still. Either smoke twenty cigarettes, or give-up smoking completely. It is not giving-up if you give-up little by little. Don't try to apply the trader's trick of little by little.
If you think: well, the water-pot gets filled-up with droplets and drops, the whole life will be gone by the time the pot is filled up. And yet, it is not certain if the jar will be actually filled or not. Therefore, fill-up your jar in its entirety. If you have to give-up smoking, well, give it up altogether. A man fears and yet wants to smoke. Forget about smoking, plunge into meditation. Smoking will be automatically discarded. If the nectar of self gets awakened, the attachment to others would be automatically lessened.
People come to me and say, 'I lose my temper very much. What should I do to get rid of this?' I show them a way-I ask them to meditate with absolute concentration. They enquire, 'Well, sir! I ask you to tell me how to lessen anger, and you are telling me to meditate. Both these things appear incoherent to my mind'. I explain to him, leave worrying about anger aside; and if you do smoke, then shed-off even the memory thereof. Just forget that you are a smoker. Your only work is to meditate one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. The capsule of meditation which you will take in the morning will