Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Surrender of Frustration/27
It is said that the Aryans are the innovators of a developed civilization. Today Aryanness is itself standing before an Aryan as a question mark. If even an Aryan, who is called a devotee of merit, descends down to dishonesty and rape, what then will be the definition of 'Anarya' (non-Aryan)? The Aryanness of the future Aryans will be so small at some time, was never thought of even by the ancestors of Anaryas. The Anaryas had adopted the Aryan culture to brush-up themselves. Circumstances change faces. The Anarya is proceeding towards the threshold of 'Aryata' (faculty of being an Arya), and the Arya is gazing towards the bottomless well of ‘Anaryata' (the state of being an Anarya) ‘Amrit' (the life-saving nectar) is required to be found out in the Ganga which has been hailed for ages as the carrier of Amrit. The Ganga, two handfuls of water whereof could sanctify the ponds, is getting soiled herself. The milky flow, descended from the Heaven, has become so much soiled, that a washing centre is being looked for to cleanse it. One thing is certain that however suffocated purities may become, the return of purity is easily possible if efforts are made with concentration of mind and total devotion.
My objection is not to the journey, but to wandering. A man's life is like a nomad moving about from place to place. It does not, however matter, if only the feet walk, but if even the mind is on the move then the concentrated integrity of life is bound to be crippled
'Yoga' (involvement) of the feet, and 'biyoga' (detachment) of the mind is monkhood. The devotion to meditation on the level of spiritualism comprises non-winking of the eye-lids of the mind. He is just a house-holder one of whose feet is tied to one house, one family, but the mind is moving about from house to house like a cow looking for a pasture. The name of this tendency of mind is the poverty of the internal world.
Of course, the feet should walk on. Walking feet are the characters of the story of 'Karmayoga'. Feet symbolise 'Karmayoga'. The curtain of the drama of 'Karmayoga' falls, the moment the feet stop. Haven't you heard since childhood-“Moving water is clean, it becomes dirty on stagnation."