Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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16/Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
be arranged. If the mind is lifeless, why should there be any hesitation in picking dry wood to cremate it? Whether it is to be maintained or buried, knowledge of its reality is awareness towards one's own self.
Creation of the mind is an extraordinary presentation of physiology. The skeleton of the body is formed with the co-operation and co-ordination of several atoms. The mind becomes verbose in it, just as intoxication takes place with the making of wine. The thinkers who have accepted as life-element or soul element, the element that is brought forth by the synthesis of earthwater, air-fire, is not exactly the life-element or the soul-element, but the mind element. Man has no original/verbal existence of its own. It is a meaningless element.
Man has kept tending many a crisis along with the mind. He can conceal any sin of his from the world, but it is beyond his power to conceal it from the world. He can somehow throw dust in others' or even in his own eyes, but the mind has a thousand eyes. Nothing can be concealed from it. A man can flee anywhere from the strife and strain of life, but there is no escape from the heart. In order to become free from the external suffocation efforts become possible easily, but he becomes unable to form any front to get rid of the internal suffocation.
The crowd of thoughts is more dangerous than the crowd of the people. The mind finds interest in the crowd of the thoughts, and it also feels suffocated therein. The worry, tension and suffocation a man feels due to crowd of thoughts, are not felt by him amidst the crowd of the people. Man can take shelter in a cave to save himself from the crowd of people, but there is neither any cave nor solitude anywhere in the world to be safe from the crowds of thoughts. There is no harm if there is a crowd of people around us, but the crowd of thoughts cause suffocation and suffocation. The suffocation of thoughts is the main artery of the mental tension.
To become healthy, it is necessary to keep the heart tensionfree. The perfection of health is connected with freedom from tension of the body as well as the mind. A tension-free man is