Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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There is the Path of Purification/53
the mind's errands, and to get the body entangled only in playing with the body is the sign of a man's meanest intelligence. After all, the prospects of halting are present even beyond the body and the mind. To spread the arms of the mind for fair complexion and to ignore honesty for illicit money is the internal incivility and lewdness of life.
We have to make the internal world bloom and smell like flowers. Man's responsibility extends even to perfuming the lives of others, but if one's own feet have got stuck in the swamp, then the path of purification will be said to be invisible to eyes. Let us learn from flowers to smell and to make the garden smell.
It is necessary, in order to invite fragrance to the entrance of life, to have the mind and its tendencies washed and cleansed in some Ganga of holiness. Our existence becomes worthwhile only if every policy of our life becomes a realistic-ideal for others. Blemish comes to the mind through the back door of the weaknesses of determination. It is natural that dust would gather on utensils. If it is cleaned with a cheerful disposition then the purification would be pleasant too. With disdainful heart the mind can never be made to get the company of God. If God is the image, luxury is His lustre. Would anybody's mind be reflected in the mirror covered with ashes? For viewing the image, the brightness of the mirror's visibility is indispensable.
God is a festival and a festival should be celebrated with eagerGod is manifested in festivity, in nectar. Saturation with nectar is the foundation-stone of concentration.
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One thing is certain-the mind is not the doer; mind is a means. Mind has neither wrapped itself with the dirty blanket of impurity nor will it take the initiative of purification. After all, the person has himself dissolved poison in its pot, and he himself is responsible for de-poisoning it. The initiative of purification can be done only by him who has been instrumental in making it impure. The person will have to carefully ascend up those very ladders, from which he has slipped down.