Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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74/Meditation and Enlightenment: Chandr Prabh
Everything is to pass away.
in moments of agony. What exists today, would cease to be tomorrow, and what would be tomorrow, will not exist the day after."
Life and death-all are but passing away. Nothing is to remain. Nothing is permanent. The only permanent thing is what we may call the knowledge of existence. Knowledge of this that 'I' remains eternal even after life. Only this element can make a man experience trance.
This element would make a person feel, in the last moments of life the necessity of maintaining his balance, whatever be the circumstances. The stream of life is very thin. Even if unbalanced a little, you would instantly fall down. It is said that a sage's life is similar to walking on sword's edge. Keep trance on one side, and also walk on the sword's edge on the other side. Life is similar to walking on a sword's edge.
I would rather ask you to forget even the sword's edge. Just think that you have to dance. Life is a sword's edge and one has to dance on it, since life is only for dance, for joy, for pious deeds. You have ascended the rope. The rope is tied to bamboos. You have to take your life across by walking on the rope. Trance is but the name of this. Just a little unbalance would create non-trance. Others are to be forgotten to come into solitude, because the three lower cycles are to be got rid of. Only thereafter would you be able to enter the three upper cycles. The first cycle of a person is his body, lust. The second-cycle is that of 'Kashaya' machinery.
The characteristics of the third cycle are attachment and privilege. When a person enters the fourth cycle after having traversed all these three cycles, therefrom begins the reverse
journey.
In the fourth cycle, the lust of the first cycle that was attached in form of male or female; would give way. The cycle of mind and heart in the fourth one, gets attached to the soul, that would