Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Knocking at the Door of the Vacuum/43
undertake to cleanse the mind of the sacramentalities of many lives when one has to struggle so much to nullify the sacramentalities of merely a single life.
Witness towards the past, and awareness towards the present, make knocking at the door of future easy. I have given the improved advice to be seated under the tree in order to examine the present with the eyes. The tree is liveliness, greenery. There is song of life in every leaf. There are the beats of 'tabla' (a kind of Indian drum) waves of voice, and the dance too. Free is a meditator. He himself too is a meditator. He is the monk of the past and the spectator of the present. He has forgotten the past. He is suffering/enjoying as the seer of the present. There may be enjoyment, but if the seer-sense is awakened, then that enjoyment cannot be contradictory to "Yoga'.
A seer remains impartial amidst every activity. The tree is impartial. Impartiality is justice. A judge is synonymous to impartiality. He sees the truth. He remains impartial to both the parties. He listens to all, sees many things, but supports only the truth. Those who risk lives for truth, continue to fill the nectar of truth in the pot of life till their last breath.
Let everything happen, but in that happening if there is only the support of truth, then that really is the unfolding of the true meaning.
I would not ask any one to give up seeing, give up listening, give up sniffing. For, these actions continue even when trance becomes his maid servant. Therefore, I would say, “Stop holding." Even if you would close your eyes, plug your ears with cotton wool, the mind would see, hear, say. The mind has access to the closed eyes as also to the open eyes. We have just to ensure that seeing is confined only to 'seeing'. If what has been seen has been invited/etched in the mind, then that seeing would be the trespassing of the tendencies of our mind. Let the lotus live in the mud; it must live in the mud, but wisdom lies in keeping a round the clock vigil to ensure that the mud does not get on the lotus.