Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Under the Shade of Trance/91
They do not actually perform meditation who say that their minds do not become steady at the time of meditation; they are just indulging in a formality in the name of meditation. Thoughts would go on becoming deeper with the deepending of meditation. Those would be the fully matured and ripe fruits. The thoughts occurring during the moments of trance are the vibrations of wisdow. The thoughts that emerge in the tranceful life are the godly expression of one's own self.
Trance is the centre of solutions. Solutions are but of thousand types, but trance is the solution of solutions. It is the answer of answers/non-answer. How can the brightness be in the planets and stars, what is in the sun. The cloud can not cover the sun's brightness. Therefore, trance is the perfection of the development of the inner-personality. Meditation is helpful to it. To offer relief to the inanimate mind is the joy of meditation. To make the mentality and joyousness germinate even in the tension-ful daily life is the original contribution of meditation.
Meditation and trance are no miracles. They symbolise friendship of concentration and reality with the mind. Miracle can also be an illusion, but trance cannot be magic and jugglery. Every person cannot perform a miracle but every person can perform trance. The moment the stupor is gone, one steps on the threshold of trance.
Somebody asked me why are the bells tolled in the temple ? Is it to awaken God ?
I said, no. Bell is tolled in the temple to wake-up one's own self, to salvage one's own self from stupor, so that he may concentrate his mind in the temple by checking the scattering and wandering of the whole world. Temple is the abode of our homage. That is a bright state of the sense of our mind.
That is a temple, where the mind embraces peace and trance. The tolling bell is the alarm time-piece for the inside. If you wake up on hearing it, then it can be said that God has been awakened. How can you awaken God, if you are not awake? He (God) is awake for the awake, and asleep/invisible for the sleeping one.