MEDITATION

Nothing in human life is more valuable than inner peace, true love and peace. These states are nothing but the natural states of every single human being. The mind, however, is usually covered by a vast cloud of ignorance and these wonderful virtues of the mind have only been experienced by those minds who have gone after it to get rid of that cloud. Meditation removes the choking clouds.

Old Rishis and Maharishi, sages and seers practiced meditation thousands of years ago.

They eternalized their wisdom in the Rig Veda, the oldest spiritual text of Indian culture, in the Upanishads (Katha, Svetasvara, Mundaka, Brihadaranayaka, Chhangogya and Pingala Upanishad), in the Bhagavad Gita, in the Mahabrharata.

The biggest obstacles to calm the mind and harmonize the heart, in addition to current thoughts, ideas, beliefs and impressions from the past. The latter we call samskaras.

Samskaras are deeply rooted in our psyche and their persistent repetition, but with no major changes, they become our habits over time. All this is happening at the unconscious level of the mind.

These impressions live on in each of us. They’re here. And when the opportunity arises, they float to the surface thus determining our mood, behavior, fears, relationships with other people, our complexes, our way of expression, simply, they determine everything. This is how life works.

These patterns in our minds are very old. They date from the time of our spiritual birth. Then from the time we were in our mother’s womb. Then came the moment when we were physically born. Then comes a time of childhood and school when we couldn’t express ourselves or when the environment suppressed us in every field and every moment of our lives.

The only way to overcome these obstacles in the mind is to acknowledge, accept, confront and transform them. Only then will we be able to create new, positive samskaras. In Buddhism, this technique is called vipassana or insight meditation.

In order to overcome obstacles and old impressions in the mind it is necessary to have a strong willpower (ichchha shakti– power of will). This is a simple but great truth.

Because everything happens in one’s own mind, whose change requires nothing but the willpower, many people spend both their time and a huge sum of money visiting and paying so-called private yoga or life coachers. These private yoga or life coachings usually end in failure.

One should be careful what one buys. Dear people, you don’t need to buy every offer on the topic of “mindfulness”, “meditation” or other spiritual topics, even then when they are cheap. It is much wiser to strengthen yourself and your willpower, by your own will, because, it is said, “you are born alone”. But with strong willpower.

Both dhyana (in Sanskrit, the classical-yoga term for meditation) and bhavana (in Pali, the buddhistic term for meditation and the Sanskrit term in tantra) are based on the Yoga Sutra 3.2 and both lead to the same goal. And that is to recognize that little me-myself is actually pure, immortal, divine treasure with no devisions.

This is what meditation in its tradition is.

What is happening while meditation is that the consciousness is passing over different stages.