Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Musk remains inside the navel/7
remain effective throughout the day, and its evening-dose would remain effective till the next morning. Just practise this for seven days and then tell me if your anger has been contained or not. I just strive for a person to concentrate his energy at one place. Energy has been divided into Cigarettes, you would divide it in money. The more energy is divided, the more desire is born, lust is created, and when lust is born, death comes nearer.
Man should strive to accumulate his internal energy. Only such a person is a committed one. A man can achieve something only with a commitment. Therefore, fight-with meditation, clashwith meditation. Forget smoking so that meditation, only meditation remains. If you have to fight, fight with meditation; fighting with smoking is not worthwhile.
Once upon a time a lion and a donkey met face to face in a jungle. Said the donkey, 'I shall fight with you'. The lion said'You cannot fight with me.' The donkey said, 'Don't brag too much. Just a kick of mine would fling you far away.' The lion, bore with listening to the donkey's nonsense for some time, and then went away from there. Now the donkey began to beat his own drum, 'I have made the lion flee.' The lion met a fox on the way. She asked-'O, the King of the jungle ! You could have shown the donkey stars in the day time if you so desired. But you retreated, Why? The lion said, 'What has happened to your wisdom these days, O fox? You could not understand even such a simple matter! Why should I fight with donkey which in no way is my equal? If even then I defeat the donkey in the fight, people would not give it any importance. In the fight between a lion and a donkey, the lion must have won. How could a donkey stand before a lion. Where has the lion's wisdom gone? He found only the donkey to fight against. Besides this, suppose by chance the donkey's kick gets me at some wrong place, and I am defeated, the people would say-being a lion he has been defeated by a donkey. Therefore, why to fight beings below my level, why to prove my valour against them ?"
This is the difference. If you have to fight after all, fight with anger, fight with meditation. The real lion in life is but