Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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a stronghold on the mind, then fickleness will be frozen, and stability will open its eyes.
Self-purification is the balanced step of the journey within. Self-purification is rather the purification of life. Purity of mind is the obligatory condition of purity of life. Those who are after achieving, renovation of body does not at all think about renovation of life. Purification of body, thought and mind is the preparatory stage of self-purification. If one's cup is cleansed, then only one can derive the pleasure of drinking the nectar of immortality. Symbols such as the mass-current, light of the lamp, rays of the sun, image of the supreme soul, power of words are selected for mental concentration. These supports are helpful in the whole world to do away with wandering. The prospect of the supreme peace/power of the supreme soul is within the person himself. No arrangement is needed to light up the lamp within. That is already alight. There are veils around the lamp. Unveil the lamp, the light will pierce across.
Meditation is but an attempt to unmask one's own self.
For attainment of meditation, cheerfulness of mind is indispensable. An unhappy-- pained person would write the preface of a tragic story even while in meditation. Knock at the door of meditation only when you feel cheerful. The moment of utmost happiness is the appropriate time of meditation-may that moment be connected with the night or the dawn. The real pleasure out of meditation is derived when it becomes our enlivening friend. Observing the breaths or viewing of thinking is not meditation. To eat, to sleep, to walk, to talk--meditatingly are all meditation. No act should be bereft of meditation. Mental concentration and power-density should be used while performing any act. Meditation is a part of our existence only when without it life becomes a poem of a woman away from her lover.
Mind is but the wheel of the internal. In order to attain internal concentration, the speedy dynamism of the mind has to be checked. Concentration means bridling the scattering habits and fickleness. The initiation of purification of mind is necessary to erase the cracks on concentration.