Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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There is the Path of Purification/57
Many caravans of the sacramentalities pass through the road of the mind. It is extremely necessary to be careful so that sacramentality cannot pollute memory. Promote love instead of enmity to make the mind neat and clean. Instead of making a transparent crown of tears that flow on remembering your defects, try heart and soul to infuse merits in yourself. Bitterness, lust, fear should be evicted out instead of suppressing them inside. In case you feel like speaking ill of anyone, utter 'Om' aloud. Instead of throwing stone on anybody, finger the beads of rosary. Also, stay away from those mediums which make the mind blemished/perturbed. Apply energy in the right direction. To engage mind in the right direction is the positive and creative utilization of life.
The supreme-power of the soul becomes evident only in the purified state of mind. What is need:d is to cleanse the mind cheerfully, to invite fraternity and courtesy in life. Form an equation of the consciousness that moves about outside. If we get soaked-up in meditation by all means, trance will lovingly embrace us. At first drops of trance would trickle, thereafter rain would come. And, a day will come when we shall be found submerged in the flood of trance.
But, in order to get the green shade of this tree of meditationaltrance, first of all we shall have to salvage mind from that swamp which is related to non-trance and vagrancy. Teaching the lessons of civilization and culture to the perversions of the internal world is the beginning of purifying mind. Let us teach mind to be cultured. Studying Sanskrit is a different thing, but to become cultured is a noble campaign for getting rid of perversions. An unblemished mind is the background of freeing humanity from the clutches of conflict.
Mind is like a mirror. The dust of impurities and thoughts gathers on it. To wipe off that dust is akin to the knocking at the door of cleanliness in life.
Man's first encounter with impurity of mind takes place when he tries to engulf external glamour within himself. Wherever man