Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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At the Roots of Existence/49
Dream is not existence, it is just the hope for the incompleteness being felt in life, an imagination, yawning of the mind. Dream is the television of the future in the present. But, does a dream ever come true ? Man sees things of several strange places in the dream. He also sees even a glarce of whom he has never seen.
A blind man was saying: “Today I have seen the Heaven." I said: "What a wonderful thing you have seen; You haven't seen your own self, while you claim to have seen the Heaven.” Even a blind man has started seeing such distant things. Those having eyes could not see, and the blind man has seen the Heaven.
He said, “That I had not seen in reality, but in the dream." I said, “Congratulations! For the first time I am listening that even a blind man sees, but you must remember this much that this is not seeing, but an illusion.
This is not vision, it is perversion which continues to take birth. If the mind is properly utilized, then that would become 'yoga' and meditation for a person.
Mind can invent slavery, and it can also be a source of independence. It becomes the entrance of the world, and its exit too. If it makes one see the dream of Heaven, the Hell is also due to it. He who becomes master of the mind, performs the last rites thereof. If a lion is bound in your shackles then he shudders on seeing you, it behaves sheepisbly. Where, then, is the existence of his lion-ness? This state shall be called the death of mind.
You are unhappy due to superiority of mind; you are tensionridden due to the mechanism of mind. You are unhappy; therefore, you see the dreams of heaven. Heaven is the hope of happiness, and hell is the fear of sorrow. Heaven and hell are both the sciences of the mind. Salvation is beyond heaven and hell in the form of truth, consciousness, joy. .
Heaven-hell are not the basis of life. Heaven-hell are the stages of the activities of the mind. The basis of life is the existence of the person itself. Accept whatever you do in whatever form it is.