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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
119 The king became so deeply aware of his inner consciousness that he put an end to his former selfindulgent ways. The sunset so inspired him to see his own true quality, that he transformed his life. In this story the sunset was his guru.
Meditation is this: a complete transformation of consciousness, an uncovering of that universal indestructible energy which lies hidden in you. Otherwise you can sit and recite a mantram to get calm, but it will only be a temporary balm. You will return to the rat race unchanged.
Removing the tenacious, covering layers of the mind, you get in touch with the latent Sentient Energy which gives life to form. If it can give life, then it cannot be captured by form. If it could be captured by form, then it could not be formless. The formless remains above the forms. That is why it can give life to them.
There is a beautiful story in the Upanishads in which a son came home to his father after twelve years of study telling him, “O Father, I have studied all the scriptures and experimented in all ways, but still I did not find Soul.” His father then asked him to break open the fruit of the banyan tree and show him where the tree could be found in the thousands of seeds living inside the fruit.
The son answered: “O Father, that which gives birth to the tree cannot be seen."
“Yes," said his father, “And the power which gives life to you cannot be measured by any instrument. Atma, Soul is beyond. That which gives life to all the forms is intangible. Yet it gives force to the tangible world. It animates all the seen forms. That energy is you. That energy is me."
