Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Let's go beyond the mind 17
the traveller of the path of the spirit. One who is enchained with mental worry, he may be healthy and disease-free bodily, but mentally he always feels perturbed and disgusted. He settles down as if in 'Padmasan' (a yogic posture) for the things of his interest, but generally he leads a monkey-brand life. How to steady his legs at some particular place, is not found by man in the book of his experiences.
The mind remains expressed and un-expressed too. 'Chitta' is but the unexpressed form of mind. The work of mind remains connected with external life and its systems and customs. The mind leaps and frisks only in the sky of future, whereas 'chitta' is the meeting of the present with the past. The seeds of past memories and past sacramentalities remain on the earth. The episodes of the former life are also understood only with the help of chitta'.
The deeper the concentration of meditation, the clearer will be all the sacramentalities of 'Chitta' like a movie, on the screen of the inner-consciousness. The viewing of the incidents of the former birth/life is nothing but the photography of the sacramentalities of 'chitta'. 'Jaati-smaran' (consciousness about caste) is the intensity of 'chittas' attachment with the past; but the viewing of future cannot take place through ‘chitta'. 'Chitta' makes the viewing of the future or the present link of the future. Future is the campus of mind. If the concentration of mind is accomplished, man can receive in advance some signals of his future.
Meditation is concerned more with mental activities than with 'Chitta'. As such purification of mind is indispensable for meditation. But perfection of meditation lies in making the 'Chitta' free from sacramentalities. The person without ‘mun' (mind) necessarily becomes a free man. The vacuum in the 'chitta' makes one feel about the liberation of ‘mun'. Therefore, the purity of ‘mun' and 'chitta' are both necessary for knocking at the door of trance and ‘Kaivalya' (the realisation that only God is the truth).
Man should neither feel worried, nor should he get disinterested due to the scattering of mind during the moments of meditation.