Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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42/Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
The sequence of scenes came to a close. These four scenes are the photography of four days' life-span. The 'sadhaka' seated under the tree saw all the scenes like a witness. Opened his eyes. Therein was a mild smile. The mysterious smile echoed
“Ye aish ke bande sote rahey,
phir jagey bhee to kya jaagey ? Sooraj ka ubharna yaad rahaa,
Aur din ka dbalna bhool gaye.” [These devotees of lust remained asleep. Later, if they woke-up, it was meaningless--for they remembered rising of the sun, but forgot fading out of the day.]
Man got entangled in wealth, land, beauty, enjoyment. The wallowing person remained constantly in a slumber. He never recognised his slumber, his sleep. He remembered driving the car, but forgot to apply the brakes. He kept the memory of the birth and the birthday alive but the worry about death and the death-day did not at all occur.
Only he can utilize the sun of life, who remembers both the states of its rising and setting.
Life goes on getting closer to death. Here the journey is death and the destination too is death. Death is surely death, but life too is for death. Man remembered birth and life but forgot death.]
If you have learnt anything from the world, then death is obligatory. Death is the perfection of meditation, and comm ment of trance. Death not of life, but of the dust of sacramentality gathering day by day on the mind is to be made to occur. Man should die every day, every next day is birth. If yesterday and the things of yesterday die, then the hold of mental and thought-related wrestling would go on loosening. Every next day you would be a new-born child. We are fortunate that we remember things of only this life. It is the kindness of God that we do not remember things of the previous life. The hold of the mind does not extend upto that, otherwise man would have been required to strive hard to discard the gone by past from the mind. Just think of the widespread and extensive campaign one would have been required to