Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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RANJIT SINGH KUMAT
omniscience or enlightenment of the highest order. It has been said that ‘Kaivalya Gnan is realized through meditation”. By concentrating the mind, one does realize the highest which is already present in the consciousness. It is the distracting elements which have to be eliminated and that helps in achieving the sharpness and concentration of mind. The distracting elements are given in a couplet as below:
Eating, drinking and sleeping, Meeting, and chatting, Reducing these five, enhances Concentration and enlightens the mind.
We are mostly engaged in the pleasures of eating, drinking and sleeping. More than that, we are in love of our own speech and get kick out of meeting people and socializing with them to earn name and fame, which is so dear to our heart. So long as we are engaged in the five distractions mentioned above, meditation is a far cry. As soon as we start enjoying our own company and journey to the inner self, we start developing taste for meditation and become adept in it. Meditation requires a lonely place with no interruption of movement or noise. Time for meditation should be such that there is no clatter or disturbance and the mind is free from engagements calling for urgent attention. In such a lonely and silent place one should sit with peaceful mind to devote attention to equanimity and try to become free from craving and aversion. By practicing thus, one gets the state of equanimity, which brings peace and delight of desirelessness. No sooner one becomes free from desires, an indescribable delight dawns in the heart. One feels as if one has become the Emperor of the World. There is another couplet in Hindi translated below:
Gone is the worry, if desire is gone And carefree becomes the Mind One who wants nothing, Is the Emperor of Emperors.
A person with no want or desire is above all kings and emperors and this thing has been brought out very lucidly by Shri Kumat in his article 'In Search of Happiness' wherein he gives the example of a sick King for whose treatment ‘shirt of a happy man’ was prescribed. All the King's men could not find a happy man in the entire kingdom. With great difficulty they found a