Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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himself, 'Mar' of himself. If a person dares to blame the woman for concealing his own weakness, then in fact he is threatening to explode a bomb in the same aeroplane in which he is himself seated.
Many of the persons, who come to me to learn the art of meditation, and to fly in the sky of trance, tell me what has happened with them. You would feel like laughing if you listen to their autobiography. Only yesterday, a gentleman said that he had stopped visiting the temple. When I asked the reason thereof, he narrated the real reason. It is not that I don't like a lie. But a man would not indulge in self-deceit by telling a lie in front of me. Where would you describe the truth if you conceal the facts even before the teacher? There must be repentance for the deeds.. In my opinion confession has a great value.
Do you know what did the gentleman say? He said, "On going to the temple whenever I see any beautiful woman there, my eyes become impure. Concentration becomes hazy. I thought, my vision is unable to remain pure here, so stopped going to the temple".
I said "That is your insensibility. If you have to change at all, change your vision. Why do you stop visiting the temple ? Without recognising your habit and your weakness, you are putting the blame on some beautiful woman, on the temple of God. Neither the woman nor her beauty is guilty. You are yourself guilty. Your own weakness is the guilt. You are yourself a thief and you are imposing blame on others.
When you will sit down to meditate, then the fickleness of mind would be seen to be emerging. But in reality, that is not at all the fickleness of mind. Since you are seated in solitude, the mind would like to tell you something. It would tell you your own story. Have you read your autobiography? Those who read the autobiography of Gandhi or that of Tolstoy, should some time go to be seated in a solitary place, and go through their own autobiography. Remember in your mind the entire history of all