Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Knocking at the Door of the Vacuum/39
Consciousness of the self, and unconsciousness externally-this is the fundamental depth of indifference. Just looking haggard is not indifference, it is rather knocking at the door of vacuum.
If entry into indifference is the first step of 'sadhana' (seeking), attainment of indifference is its last stage. It is a fact that only that 'Sadhaka' (seeker) is able to rule over the seat who has adopted indifference to untruth. Seat means bed-stead, and indifference means such a bed-stead which should be above the world, stationary, lotus. Only he is going up the ladder of 'sadhana', whose seat is aloof from the world. Being indifferent means uplifting the seat. Being indifference implies rising above hope and wish. After all, indifference is but the campaign of attaining liberation from the web of illusion.
Adopting 'Sanyas' (monkhood) in life means freeing one's seat from the web of illusion, raising it above the jungle-like fire of the world. “Sanyas' means death of attachment. Mother, father, brother, wife, children--all these are the family-members of attachment. 'Sanyas' means distance from the family. Therefore, a person's 'Sanyas' implies cutting off with scissors the relationships tied up by silken thread with his family. He has to live at the summit, means he has to live above the world. And then, whether swords clash at Haldigbati or Chakravyuha (Strategic placing of army) is being formed at Kurukshetra, the 'Sadhaka' will be unaware of all these. He would remain unperturbed. There will be all the scenes, but he will not be the buyer of any scene. The viewer views, he does not act. To view the world like a movie as a mute viewer is the inception of the inner-awakening.
The mind also exhibits its fickleness, but if we achieve the viewer-sentiment then the mind will be our servant. Myriads of thoughts stroll in the mind. It is bound to hoof like a horse. If we follow the dictates of the mind, then it will be said that we have been led astray by someone else. We shall be prosecuted if we do according to the mind. If we differentiate between the viewer and the view, if we remain aloof from the mind, then there would be no apprehension of punishment. Following the mind is similar to stitching up patches in the sky. If there is indifference, then there