Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Therefore, from curiosity to awareness, from awareness to belief and from belief to attainment—this order is the commencement of a new and rational park in life. Instead of having belief right away, opening up the path of inquisitiveness and perusal is tantamount to proceeding two correct steps towards truth. The first preface to every discovery has been curiosity only. Without curiosity a man will remain hollow and stupid from within.
I am in favour of curiosity. The belief born from inquisitiveness and awareness is homage. Belief is an intellectual thing, while homage is related to heart. Therefore, don't believe right away. Because, in only two ways belief makes its dwelling in the mind-either traditionally or by imposition. The thing that is received traditionally is not one's own production, and the imposed thing is the forcible imposition by somebody. The flower blooms spontaneously, naturally. If it is wrong to believe without ascertaining any fact, then it is also improper not to believe. It is generally a wise thing not to believe something that is not known, but to disbelieve without making inquiries about, is carelessness.
What, after all, can be the value of that belief, to maintain and upkeep which a man has to sacrifice his full/half life, but just a single jolt paralyses bis entire belief. Every man trusts many many persons in his life, but in the world treachery is mostly committed by those who are being trusted upon. Therefore, we should lay the foundation stone of life on that surface of earth, which we have examined and tested. Meditation is but the touchstone of that surface.
Meditation is not death, but it is entry into the totality of death. Meditation does not nullify energy, it rather enhances energy hundred-fold. Really, meditation is a curiosity towards truth, a preparation for its attainment, a pond to be drenched in its entirety. I admit that body is truth, thought is truth too, mind is also truth. We also bave the myriads of tip-to-toe experiences of these truths. But the burial-ground of this city puts a question mark against the truth of these truths. It awakens a new inquisitiveness, a new curiosity. It says, these truths are but