Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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after deserting his shadow? How would he be able to cut his shadow down with a sword ? It is likely that in his desire to cut down his shadow, a man might injure his own legs.
Meditation implies making life unblemished like a lotus. The first step towards self-awakening in life is not allowing any of his petals to touch the mind. Many a people become co-passengers in the caravan of life, for many others the poems of separation get composed. Not to photograph on one's mind, the dispositions occurring between this passing and getting separated, is ‘sadhana'
Meditation is not only for those people the bullock of whose life has become old. For meditation is needed energy. Youth is the father of energy.
Meditation and Youth are intimately related. Before him, who made the hand of his Youth with the hand of Youth, all the tempests of life remain defeated.
The seeds of tension are sown in youth. Childhood is beyondthe-tension. Meditation does not imply making a person senile; meditation makes one return to the childhood. God is more near the child. He has unlimited love for the children. 'Sahaja Yoga' (easy yogic practice) is but the alias of making life always clean, honest and simple like a child. This is the 'Yoga' which has before it the pathways of all the Yogas of the world.
Man should free himself from the influences of others if he wishes to practise 'Sahaja Yoga'. I would influence others-it is this desire which re-inforces the foundation of worldliness.
Influence can be durable only when it giggle spontaneously. The influence which has been imposed externally is not the expression of the inner conscious but the outcome of status or money.
Influence is the desire of the mind and nature implies absence of desire. Meditation is the finest art of rising above mind. Selfawakening means rising above mind, rising above thoughts and rising above body. The consciousness-philosophy is across all mind, speech, body. It is not that the body is for the soul. The body is not due to presence of soul; on the other hand the presence