Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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12/ Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
to me. Plenty of wealth lies buried here. Just know your own self and you would find the extent of wealth lying scattered near you.
There is no other wealth of the world comparable to the selfwealth. Just think of the moment when your coffin would be lifted unceremoniously. The self-wealth will disappear, and the worldly wealth will remain behind you here. You are yourself made of earth, but have decorated your home with all the golden utensils. You are a tiny thing but your aspirations are limitless like the sky. One thing is, however, certain that on the day when earth will go inside the earth, neither gold, nor silver will come to your rescue. Even if the worldly wealth is lost, but self-wealth is safe, then take it to be a great fortune. If the original is in our hand, and its photocopy is lost, then does its originally get adversely affected ? To raise one's eyes towards one's own originality is 'sambodhi' (self-realisation).
Meditation is the return to the originality of the self. Meditation is the process of coming back in the self. One who returned to his own self, became wealthy with his own wealth. Meditation is just the other name of that wealthiness.
If meditation meaningfully succeeds in becoming completely engrossed in self, then it can serve as a knock at the door of ‘Kaivalya'. 'Kaivalya' means knowing one's own self. Meditation is the basis for entering in this entire environment. Entry into self is religion, and meditation is the key to religion. Meditation is the essence of religion. In fact, religion originates from meditation.
The first formula of meditation is inquiry about the self. The second formula is approval of the self. The third formula is to get immersed in the self.
These three formulae comprise the first chapter of all the traditions of meditation developed in the world, and are also the epilogue of the entire expanse of meditation.
Man's life is getting finished in meeting with the strangers and in reading a few books. Other's death is a challenge to you. Life: is seeping away drop by drop. Life should be made before it