Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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70/Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
would remain to be life even after death. That which was always there and would remain. The name of that very life is the supreme life. Trance is but the consequence, not the path. Supreme life is the consequence of those who wish to enter trance. When I deeply examined the path, I found some of its stages. I have felt that if any person wants to proceed on the path of trance, it has a few stages too. I have known the paths of trance in three stages. These very stages are the important formulae of attaining trance. Let these stages descend within yourself.
These three stages are : solitude, silence and meditation. These are the three stages. There is no other stage beyond/across these steps. All the paths converge on these three paths. Solitude is utilized to forget others, Silence is for snapping the relationship with speech, and meditation is useful for shedding off one's thoughts. Solitude is there where a person forgets others; silence is there where the relation with speech has been snapped, and meditation is attained there where thoughts have descended from within.
Solitude is useful to make you feel the existence of 'I am one'. Solitude does not just mean that a person is seated somewhere inside a room. Solitude occurs when a person feels that he is 'one' (alone). Crowd of people is dangerous. But there are numerous means to be safe from this crowd. There are jungles, halls and rooms, but there is no cave to be safe from this crowd. A man goes to be seated in a cave, but the crowd of thoughts does not leave him alone even there. There too the man is seated in a city.
Solitude is the only way to get rid of the crowd. 'I am one', all the companions and comrades are false. You say 'she is my wife', 'he is my husband', but do you claim to work according to the ‘husband' or the 'wife' for whom you sacrifice yourself? Or you would do according to what you say ?
A person feels his wife is pleased with him, or her husband is happy with her, but you can not say what situation is going to be created at the very next moment. Wife was happy when you had come home. After some time you go out but it cannot be said