Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS-MODERN THINKERS VIS-A-VIS ANCIENT TEACHERS
ocean of bliss. Deep down there is utter fullness. Listen, remember, ponder, and visualize, experience. Also apply in your daily life. The way leads through you beyond yourself”29
"As a sane life is free of pain, so is a saintly life free from suffering. The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen. A saint does not want things to be different from what they are; he knows that, considering all factors, they are unavoidable. He is friendly with the inevitable and therefore, does not suffer. Pain he may know, but it does not shatter him. If he can, he does the needful to restore the lost balance-or he lets things take their course."
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"Meet your own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, and keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide. Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless".31
"THE POWER OF NOW"-ECKHART TOLLE
'The Power of Now"32 by Eckhart Tolle, was first published in Canada in 1997 and in India in 2001. By 2004 more than 20 million copies had been sold and became New York Times best seller. About the origin of the book, the author writes, "One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had woken up with such a feeling many times before, but this time it was more intense than it had ever been." A thought kept repeating itself in his mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer”. Then suddenly he became aware of a peculiar thought "Am I one or two? If there are two of me, 'I' and 'self' then only one of them is real.” A deep thought on this led to transformation and what was left then was "my true nature as the ever-present I am: consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form. Later I also learned to go into that inner timeless and deathless realm that I had originally perceived as a void and remain fully conscious"33 Eckhart then started guiding people in seminars and meditation classes and this book represents the essence of his work written in question answer style. People occasionally came and asked, "I want what you have. Can you give it to me, or show me how to get it?" And the author would say, "You have it already. You just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise."