Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Meditation Across Self
Meditation is the process of recognising one's own self. Meditation is related to the control of the functionings of the mind, the speech and the body. The soul never diminishes, nor does it ever develop. Shrinking or expanding lie in the shape and kind of the wall, in the distance and proximity of the extension of light, but not in light itself.
The soul is but the conscious light. The brilliance is lying covered under layers. The light of a lamp seem to be dwarfish in a small room, but the same appears pervasive is a palace. Does the sun differ in respect of the light ? But the screen of a small cloud conceals all the sun's brightness in its arm-pit. Meditation does not imply getting the light of the sun, but it means shedding of the coverings. The rocks need to be removed, to make the source of water appear. Therefore, meditation is the adventure of unmasking one's own self. Meditation aims at entering the superspace, casting off the peels.
A man has to live in his life like the petals of a lotus. Staying in the world is not an invitation to danger. There is, after all, no place which is separated aloof from the world.
Friends think that the cave-life is the real monkhood. A cave, of course, bas benefits, but the existence of the cave is not separate or cut off from the totality of the world.
It is rather impossible for a person to renounce his household and become a cave-dweller. That meditation is a hard nut to crack, to accomplish which a man has to live only inside a cave. Meditation is but the shadow of life. Where can a man flee to