Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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pleasures, gets soaked and contained only in the formalities/ practicalities of the so-called discipline or limitations.
It is not that to renounce home and hearth is 'Sanyers' (monkhood); just leaving home, changing the attire or living in solitude do not constitute the complete definition of monkhood. 'Sanyasi' (monk) is he whose attachment to worldly objects has been tamed. The home too become a monastery and the Himalayas for a person in whose eyes the perceptions of meditation and trance have permeated; but if there is a hang-over of worldly enjoyments in the eyes of anybody, for him a monastery and the Himalayas too are home and market place. It is not that only the person who lives in a house is a house-holder. A house-holder is be in whose heart dwells the house, permeates the family and the storm of worldly affairs. A monk has to be "anagar' that is liberated of the house, there is no inkling at all of house and house-hold in his heart. The renouncing committed from the core of heart is the peerless path of life. 'Sadhana' (seeking) is but the other name of settling at one's own centre.
If the determinations for the attainment of the state of 'beyond attachment' be quite firm, then liberation of mind is certain. If powers are to be awakened in and invited to one's own self, concentration of mind is preliminary. If with concentration of mind that contact is made with the life-element of any power, if the mental-personality is brilliant and wide-spread, in one's living body also the entry of some other personality is possible.
Many a time when I am confronted with many oblique and confusing questions or have to go on discoursing for hours together ex-tempore, on topics unexpectedly wanted by the people, I feel like a flood of logics/thoughts entering inside me, as if the Ganga has descended down upon Shiva's head. I myself feel astonished at what I say. I cannot clearly say that some unknown spirit enters inside me, but one thing is certain that some extraordinary power certainly appears. I would rather call it the concentration of mental personality, rather than a miracle.