Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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88/Meditation and Enlightenment: Chandr Prabh
Meditation in fact is the high-way to recharge the battery of the power of the soul. Now, it depends upon us when to switch the battery on, when to use it, and utilize its powers. Today, not only the external dangers have increased, but internal dangers have immensely increased. The truth is that the internal dangers have increased much more than the external dangers. Therefore, today meditation is the unfailing panacea to solve the puzzles of problems. If we don't get much time, we should meditate daily for 24 minutes in the morning. Try to stop thinking about the enemy-side, and enjoy the things decorated in your house. No sooner the 'ras' (interest) to return home is born, then the concentration of mind will be attained.
Waking up of 'ras' is necessary 'raso wai sah'. 'Ras' (interest) is a form of God. One's own house would be likeable when interest towards it will be awakened. Total interest is the foundation of concentration. Let us go on drinking cup after cup of this nectar of interest, so that meditation may succeed, and through meditation we may get our home, our aim, our destination.
Trance is but a complete interest of self. Concentration is the synonym of nectar-fullness. Lack of nectar-fullness is the fickleness of mind. Just as grey hair is the tale of a long life, so also the maturity of nectar is the polished story of meditation.
Without meditation a person has no existence. Meditation may also be that of a debauch. He concentrates his mind upon lust and upon the points related to lust. But this meditation is vicious. Because, this meditation gives birth to excitement, agitation and anger. That is not the summit of the Himalaya, but the ox of the street.
That meditation is auspicious which makes you self-content and joyful in the eyes of your own self. It is not an escape from external struggle. Meditation gives strength and peace too. Strength is an encouragement to manliness, and peace is its destination. The meditation performed in the morning is a knock at the door of strength, and the meditation performed in the evening is a knock at the gate of peace. Morning is the waking up of the