Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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I have therefore loosened the reins. Let it move about at its sweet will. At least I would not be disgraced. My prestige will not be auctioned."
Then the man asked, “Well, where after all has the donkey taken you to ?” The donkey rider said, “Since the morning I am proceeding towards the village from the town". "I have not reached anywhere, so far. I am standing near the bell of the town. I have reached upto the Akoodi (the garbage dumping ground).” The inquirer, while moving on said, “Brother, I am proceeding onwards, but you must find out this much : who among you two is the donkey ?"
Man is living just this kind of life. He fears disgrace. A person follows wherever the mind leads him to. Whither would a direction-less journey lead to ? At most from shop-to-house and from house-to-shop. From house to the 'gbaat (place beside a pond or river where clothes are collectively washed). Invaluable moments of life are wasted between these two.
Mind is inanimate. The person himself is animate but how strange that the driver does not drive the car, rather, the driver is being driven by the car because the brake has failed. In this situation is there the possibility of any destination ? Is there any terminus ?
"Taab manzil raastey mein, Manzilein thein saikadon, Har kadam par ek manzil thee,
Magar manzil na thee." [On the way to the destination there were hundreds of destinations. There was a destination at every step, but there was no destination].
Journey on the path of truth takes place when a person rises a little above mind, becomes non-mind, immovable.
But, yes, it is not that 'Yoga' would be attained just by becoming non-mind. Even being with-mind can become a knock at the door of consciousness.