Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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30/ Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
Gautama said, "I salute you son ! Your death is not that of a dacoit, but it is a gala superfestival of 'Arihanta' (the vanquisber of the enemy). You are attaining salvation, becoming a 'jin' (one who bas conquered desire)."
The person, who has been indulging in vices in a state sleep throughout his life, if on waking up performs even a small virtuous dead with his complete totality, then the prospect of salvation can not be ruled out. The opening-up of internal eyes in the awakened state is the prologue of meditation. Meditation is the Shiva's eye (the third eye). If that eye opens up, the personality becomes Soordasa (without eye-sight but capable of seeing more than those having eye-sight).
Life is made-up of suffocating struggle and meditation is the means of liberation from it. Man has woven a screen of good-bad thoughts. That very curtain is the cause of suffocation for him. The name of raising that curtain is meditation. Trance is the capacity to peep across the thoughts. Trance is peace; peace of the thoughts, sagacity of the mind. This reaction as well as the attainment of the state of liberation from struggle is that achievement of proper peace in life.
Meditation is the moment of 'Prasad' (divine gift) a sip of joy. It is such a joy as is felt by a child in his childhood. He is happy while sucking his thumb, building a small house of sand; or even in picking pebbles. In that situation, in his internal world remains neither any thought nor the turbulence of thoughts, remains only the divine gift/joy. Meditation decreases during moments of happiness. If meditation is accomplished, then the person would remain, the world too would remain. Only the screen of thought would be removed from between the union of the both.