Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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opinion, renouncing is not obligatory. There is no harm if these are renounced. There is no need to worry if these are not renounced. This worry is also a delicate kind of tension. Meditation is rather beyond every tension. To make one exceedingly free from tension is the responsibility of meditation. 'Tripti' (original name Tradil Auntie, ordained name Tripti, Berlin, West Germany) also got confused in this tension. After having studied Mahavira, she did get impressed by Mahavira. She thinks of following the meditational path of Mahavira, but not by keeping herself aloof from the society.
I would rather say that Tripti did not understand. Mahavira is not the harbinger of rebellion; he is the harbinger of the true knowledge. Mahavira did well; he lived in the jungles, and when 'sadhana' was attained he returned to the cities. It is good if you can become Mahavira, but every person cannot go to the jungles to live in. If every person marches towards the jungles, the jungles too would take the form of cities. Places would be changed, the realities would not be unveiled. By just changing places, cities would become jungles, and jungles would become cities.
A man does not change just due to changing of the places. Nature does not change if masks are changed. Violence does not die just if one gives-up eating meat. But if violence is banished from the hearth, meat-eating is bound to be given-up. Therefore, pass your proposal of confidence in the transformation of the internal. Haven't you heard : If the heart is pure, the sacred Ganga can be contained in a bowl. If the change fails to transform the internal, then the entire change is similar to the wolf camouflaging itself with the deer-skin. Any conduct, without un-poisoning one self in the inner-conscious, is similar to a scorpion talking logic.
Meditation enables one to see his own self; it is being seen by one's own self, inside one's own self. Hence, meditation is the art of viewing one's own self, lifting it up from each and every angle. When the end of the body, the speech and the mind is arrived at, therefrom begins the journey to eternity. Let us get immersed within ourselves so that the Beautiful One, that dwells inside us,