Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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44/ Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
Be free, be free from the mind. Be that sky in which everything remains beyond touch. If a storm blows or the clouds thunder, whether the day rises or night falls, the sky remains untouched by all these. If one remains untouched by everything, he is free from mind. 'Raasleelas' (pleasure-plays) may go on, but they should not be reflected on the mind of a person. Even the pleasure-play, being indulged in after one has remained in the state of a seer, would itself beckon indifference. It is in this manner that the journey from the vacuum to the summit takes place. Super-awakening is extremely helpful in the journey towards the summit.
We should understand our hang-over. Let us identify our slumber and wake-up. This is the secret of very big bells being sounded in the temples. Sounding the bells is common. Are you, by sounding the bells, informing God of your arrival or taking the initiative of waking-up God, thinking that He is asleep?
The bell is sounded in the temple not for God, but for our own-selves. It is sounded to awaken that mind which is immersed in the slumber of the whole world. In order to know what is in others' hearts, to reflect one's own sense-waves in others hearts, self-awakening is the topmost. Its excellence has no other alternative. The trance, while awake, is the gateway of meditational trance.
If the awakening is lively, every event of the world would take the self near the self. It would inspire to walk inside one's own self. 'Brahmacharya' (celibacy) implies walking of the self inside the self. If we place the lamp of awakening at the threshold of life, then both the outside as well as the inside would be lit-up. And then the world would be helpful to us in not getting in bondage, but in getting liberated. In the wordly sea full of waves of birth and death, the self awakened man would be a lamp, flame of a lamp, dynamism, infusing of life.
Let us learn to listen to non-word. Meditation is but living in the non-word. Taste the pleasure of being solitary in the crowded world. Let us make our eyes meaningful. There is an open invitation to friends and brothers to walk on the path of renouncement" and the supreme meditation.