Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Stages of Trance : Solitude, Silence and Meditation/69
to come people would say that no 'Jin’, virtuous person is visible to us. Those who are visible are also not unanimous. Today you have met a sage of one view, hence improve your future. Attain trance during my life-time. When would you light a lamp, if you don't light in the presence of a lamp ?
I too would tell you but this that there is no certainty of life. It is getting spent up. Its passing away is a challenge to us. After living for even fifty years man thinks that life still remains. He does not think what the future has in store for him. Would my tomorrow become my today or my death? This thing is not certain.
Therefore, I would but say that 'drown life as much as you can. Drowning is emergence. Getting drowned upto the bottom is to know the mysteries of the deepest. Death is to be felled, before it comes to us. The existence has to be embalmed in myths of immortality in such a way that saffron remains. After the myrtle has been soaked in, neither the greenish colour will be seen nor the reddish colour. The only colour 'Saffron' will be in view there. Coat yourself with such a colour that it is myrtle while applying but ultimately a third colour would emerge.'
You would perform 'Sadhana' and meditation but the consequence will be 'Samadhi' (trance). Trance is the supreme thing. It is the supreme eternal heritage of life. The person who has attained trance and gets immersed, he has certainly achieved something in life. Every life is standing in the 'Q' of death. It is unknown whose turn comes in this 'Q'. Before our turn comes, we have to get away from the verge of death, and has to infuse immortality within, because trance is the path of paths, the solution. Nothing remains to be attained after trance. Supreme life, salvation and liberty of life are but other names of trance. Mahavira calls 'samadhi' (trance) in his language ‘moksha' (freedom from taking birth after birth), and Buddha calls it ‘nirvana' (salvation).
What is called trance/salvation, I call it supreme life. A life that would be life even before birth, life even after birth, and