Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

Page 39

34/ Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
He hesitated. I said : firstly, despite meditating continuously for twenty years, meditation could not be attained. Doing is an exercise. Despite studying for twenty years, you remained a student, could not become a teacher. Secondly, meditation can not be limited by the boundaries of hours. Meditating for four to five hours is not done becoming the festivity of the internal, but burden the internal externally. Meditation should be round the clock. Wherever someone asks—“What are you doing?" Your reply should be, “I am in meditation." 'Padmasan' (being seated on a particular Yogic posture, breath-control, concentrating the mind on the light-centre, sitting motionless for two hours-all these are but the capsules of medicine. Taken in the morning and in the evening to feel its intoxication throughout the day/over night.
I have received brightnesses from meditation, but I remain immersed in the meditation which does not confuse me, but which makes me joyful. Meditation does not just makes the boy, sit stiff, nor just to have intense restraint on breath. Meditation is not separate from daily life. The lyrics of concentration are heard in every act--whether one works in the office, measures cloth in the shop or cooks in the kitchen. Meditation is the production of concentration. There is meditation where there is concentration, and there is the identity of life where there is meditation. He who misses meditation, misses life; and, he who gets associated with meditation, gets associated with life.
Meditation implies absolute concentration of life. Live; life is to be lived. Life is not just strolling between life and death; life is for joy, for festivity. Life is not just for movement, but for music too. Infuse music in life, make the internal strengths tension-free. Eat but meditatingly, drink but with meditation, rejoice but after having meditation assimilated in your soul. Embracing awareness and detachment in life, like shaping up a sentence with appropriate words is tantamount to creating one's 'Veda' (religious scripture) with one's own hands. Walking, sitting, sleeping, eating, speaking meditatingly lead one towards the destination of trance step by step.
Most of the seekers' problem is that despite their interest in meditation they can not renounce the society/the world. In my