Meditation

Starting the process of life was not your conscious choice, it « happened » to you. When you were born, your body was so small and now, it has grown. So obviously, the body is something you gathered. It is an accumulation.

What you call as « my body » is just an accumulation of food. Similarly, what you call as « my mind » is just an accumulation of impressions. Whatever you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. The very fact that you accumulated it means you gathered it from somewhere else.

Today you could gather a 70kg body, but you can decide to make it a 60kg body. You don’t go looking for that 10kg because that was an accumulation. Once you drop it, it is gone. Similarly, your mind is an accumulation of impressions.

The moment you are identified in your experience, the moment you are identified with something that you are not, your perception gets distorted. The moment you start experiencing this body which you gathered from outside as « myself », the moment you start experiencing the impressions that you have in your mind as « myself », you cannot perceive life the way it is. You will only perceive life the way it is necessary for your survival and not the way it really is.

Once you have come as a human being, survival is very important, but it is not enough. If you had come here like any other creature on this planet, stomach full - life would be settled. But once you come here as a human being, life does not end with survival. Actually, for a human being, life begins after survival is fulfilled.

Meditation gives you an experience, an inner state where what is you and what is yours is separated. There is a little distance, a little space between what is you and what you have accumulated. For now, we can understand this as meditation.

Where is the need to meditate first of all ?

To see life the way it is, you need clarity of perception. Right now, your ability to go through this world is only to the extent that you clearly see it. If I have no clarity of vision but confidence, and I try to go through this world, I am going to be a bumbling idiot. Whenever there is no perception, people try to overcome that by building confidence in themselves. People are trying to make up for the lack of clarity with other kinds of substitutes. There is no substitute for clarity.

Once you understand this, you naturally become meditative. You want to clear up everything and look at life just the way it is because you want to walk through life with the least amount of frictions, without stumbling on this and that. If at all there is any struggle in your life, it is because you identify yourself with these limited aspects of yourself.

So, the essence of meditation is that it creates a space, a distance between you and you refer to as you « mind ». All the suffering you go through is manufactured in your mind. If you distance yourself from your mind, this is the end of suffering.

Now, while you’re meditating, there is a distance between you and your mind and you do feel peaceful. The problem is that, the moment you open your eyes, you are again stuck with your mind. If you meditate every day, a day will come when you and you can still experience that the mind is there and you are here, this is the end of suffering. When you are no longer identified with your body and your mind, you will be in touch with the source of creation within you. Once this happens, Grace happens. That means your past has been kept aside. It cannot have any influence over you. Once the past has any influence over you, life becomes a huge potential.

Every breath becomes such a tremendous possibility in your life because the past is not playing any role in your existence here now. If you sit here, you are absolute life. Life becomes effortless. This is the Power of Meditation.