Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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taken together. Self-purification is but the other name of immortalisation of life.
That person is miles and miles away from immortalisation of life, who was fickleness of mind as his quality of choice. To flow with mind is akin to death. Liveliness manifests not in flowing but in floating/swimming.
Man always followed the dictates of mind, that is why he has not found any destination even though ages have gone by. On the path of truth there are hundreds of destinations; but despite there being a destination at every step, not a single destination has been found. The wandering is but the play of mind in the name of wandering. Just understand the mutually opposite meanings of the mind.
"Yehi zindagi musibat, Yehi zindagi musarrat (anand), Yehi zindagi haqueeqat,
Yehi zindagi fasana." [This very life is a distress. This very life is a joy (pleasure). This very life is a reality. This very life is a fiction).
I have heard that someone asked another person, "Where are you going, brother ?" He said, “Wherever this donkey goes to.” The man was riding a donkey. The inquirer could not follow what the donkey-rider said. “I go where this donkey goes to." Should I then inquire of the donkey where is he going? “Will it give an answer ?”
He said, “O brother ! I could not understand what you said.” The donkey-rider replied. “The donkey is not under my control. I am under the donkey's control. When I want to make him move to the right, it moves to the left, and vice-versa. When I want to go home, it proceeds towards the market, and when I turn him towards the market, it proceeds towards home. I considered, the situation has become a disgrace. People must think that the donkey is not under my control. I am more worthless than even a donkey.