Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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There is the Path of Purification/55
After accurate identification of mind, the inclination remains, but habit does not. Inclination/tendency is obligatory, habit is slipping off. Habit is the frisking of the mind. The tendency of a person unbound by mind, does never fetter a man inconveniently. Habit can become perverted. Meditation is the campaign for liberation from not only perversion but also from thoughts.
Perversion is the lust of mind. Lust is projection. The value of commodity lies in man's lust. A stone is not only glass, it is diamond too; how would diamond be glorified and glass be condemned if the fire of lust gets extinguished. It is but due to the dwelling of lust in thoughts that the man's life has become confined in the iron-safe rather than in some parrot. It is lust that has dampened the mind. Rinse the mind somewhat forcefully for its drying up.
In order to get entry into the house of eternity vacuum of mind is indispensable. I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim; I am a male, I am a female; I am happy, I am unhappy; I am a renouncer, I am an enjoyer of lust-all these are but the thought-lines of the internal. Every line is the beginning of a crack, and every crack is the sign of disturbance. Disturbance will have to retrace its steps if vacuum/mind purity of thought takes a seat within us.
Thoughts/sacramentalities emerge more prominently, when someone tries to sit down peacefully. Meditation is the first step to sitting with a peaceful mind. The thoughts that come during moments of meditation are not different from the dream-movies seen while one is asleep. It is necessary to go through the credentials of the mind in order to get freedom from mind. His habit of having dreams begin to get dismantled automatically, who tries to scrutinize mind. Wandering of mind comes to an end if the mind itself becomes mute.
Although dreams are the perfumed colourfulness of the rainbow seen after the whole day's miserable life, the stomach does not get filled-up with the cakes of the dreams. Dream is not the truth; it is just an image of the conflict of thoughts, that becomes visible in the waves of the sea. If the influence of meditation acquires