PRACTICE OF MEDITATION

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Practice of meditation is an activity of mind and body that was known to ancient people.

While in the practice of concentration (dharana), one’s sense of time and space is still present, in meditation one is fully merged with the inner world. The sense of time and space is a transcendent experience, where transcendent experience refers to an experience that is far from any experience of a material nature (thoughts are also matter).

 

In meditation, the thoughts of the self as well as the consciousness of the body are transcendent (videha). One becomes an observer. The mind (subject) is united with the object. In this melted state the mind discovers something that it did not know before.

Such a discovery will then be transmitted to daily life. In fact, meditation is not a state in itself but rather a person is absorbed in meditation.

Meditation is a very active absorption and complete inner clarity where consciousness flows spontaneously and freely. Creativity flows free from any judgment. In the state of meditation one receives the cosmic energy that flows through the energy or the etheric body.

The etheric body is, according to ancient Yoga science, pervaded with 72 thousand energy channels called nadis which are the link between the maha akasha (maha – big, akasha – space, cosmos) and the body. In complete silence, cosmic energy flows through the nadis purifying and removing the blockages in them.

Conscious yogic breathing at the beginning of practice works in the same way.

 

Both high-level pranayama and meditation are the most direct way of separating the finest part of the soul from the grossest limitations of mind and body. Other external means such as prayer are a more indirect way (though this state of consciousness, spirit, mind and body and their transformation, in rare cases can happen to a genuinely religious person who is able to distinguish begging from prayer).

With each devotional and correct meditation, man digs deep hidden pits in his body, spirit and intellect towards his true Self while approaching higher knowledge.

In order to bring meditation to these most exalted human cognition, it is always helpful to meditate in the same way and in the same direction.

 

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These stages are waking, dreaming and deep sleep.

During meditation, one attains (or rather, if meditation is felt and practiced in the right way, one can attain) the fourth state of turiya, the state of pure Self. In this state there is neither awareness of the internal or subjective world, nor of the external or objective. There is only pure, grounded, peaceful truth. One who has experienced this state of consciousness is a true connoisseur with complete insight.

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A true meditator or yogi is always balanced between his feelings, thoughts, speech and deeds.

His mind and speech are firm and without duplicity or attachment to any person or system. By perfecting detaching mind, a true yogi is not indifferent to love and the environment. On the contrary, he is fully aware where he is and is dedicatedly passionate about it.

The state of the meditator has the sattvi power of nature which is purity, harmony, light, lightness, firmness, selfless love. These forces live in the highest centers at the crown of the head (it is no coincidence why we humans come to the physical world with an “open temple” fontanel, or brahmarandra) who are, again, in contact with the supreme, higher consciousness.

 

This is a great experience of a true meditator. The starting point for this condition is certainly already a purified heart. Here I certainly do not mean the heart as a muscle that involuntarily performs its actions but a psychic or spiritual center, a higher level of spirit or a higher energy center in the body. I think of a space and place where we all voluntarily put our voluntary hand, whether left, right or both hands, when we want to thank the world.

We usually do this to express our passion, compassion, when we say I Am Sorry (how many of us are able to say this?) or when we cry or laugh through emotional joy or pain.

Both joy and sorrow are natural purifications.

 

But in order to purify and cultivate both the heart and the mind, one must first get to know both.

 

And as our own fears and sorrows do not come from the outside but live in our mind, the best path that leads back to the source, which is harmony and selfless love, is the path of analyzing our own thoughts, actions, dreams, visions. And above all freeing the mind from any manipulation of other people. Silence and nature are definitely the best company for these giant actions.

 

Stay away from the people who always talk about other people’s lives. They usually know nothing about their little self, let alone the Big Self.

Besides, who in the world can know your own soul better than you?

Adults are already adults who can take care of their personal lives.

That is why it is always much wiser to worry about personal realization than what others have done or are doing.

In any case, nothing that other people do should be taken personally.

Practice of meditation can help in taking a challenge of change and making a difference.

 

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Grace and our ego will determine it.