Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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92/Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
Meditation keeps us awake round the clock. The stupor of lust cannot shake-up the meditation-sentinel. Man is hackled in the clutches of lust. Lust is deep-rooted. The deeper the lust in mind, the stronger should be the desire for salvation. Only then the cycle of re-births can be uprooted. Lest the flower of life should wither while sleeping-- to remain vigilant in this regard is the duty of life. To forget the obtained chance in lethargy is to disregard the present. Only the viewer of the present is able to write the correct history of the future in the name of the past. Receding away from the present, moving life like a pendulum between the past and the future, is to remain hanging in the space.
The present is the originality of life. It is not the body, it is life. Seated cross-legged inside dark/fair body is a life-seeker. To recognise it is to enjoy the truths of life. There it rains without clouds, the lightening dazzles without collision. Language/speech is mute there. In the water of experience there is no sound, there is only the bath with the enlivening nectar. Trance is the meeting with that life-seeker. To attain this state we will have to cross the stages of trance. Trance is not the path, trance is the goal, the destination.
Trance has three stages-solitude, silence and meditation. Solitude is the distance from the world, silence is the freedom from expression, and meditation is the release from thoughts. All the members of the entire house have gone out to their respective work. We are all-alone in the house. This for us is an opportunity of solitude. For sometime even the house can provide the fun of a cave. If the expression is stopped, then the social relationships of friendship and enmity remain incomplete/balted. Do the mutes bave any society or relationship ? When one does not have to speak anything to anybody, why/how would the thoughts vibrate ? Thought-free meditation is the gate-way of trance.
A person does become the seeker of silence throughout the night, but while asleep. During day time there is no sleep, there is awakening, but the mind remains vociferous. Solitude is useful to enter the spirit and the silence is the art of remaining alone even in the crowd. By adopting silence in life, practical quarrels and miseries would also be lessened.