Episode 368
Meditate
Now meditation is known throughout the world to have many benefits for our physical and mental health, for our concentration, reduced anxiety and clarity of thought.
Yet we stand to gain much more in terms of inner peace, easy acceptance of new situations, self-knowledge, and even deeper mystical experiences.
We fill our days with work, play and distraction, and often not feeling fulfilled by any of it. A habit of 30 or 60 minutes a day can give us rest from the world, and also show us the world anew – bright and glorious.
Hosts & Guests
Kurt Robinson
Transcript
Its important to meditate.
So many people know the benefits intellectually of mediation but so few people practice it.
I turn again to the pages of Play of Consciousness an autobiography of our teacher Baba Muktananda and he tells us on page 11:
It doesn’t matter which sect you belong to because none has forbidden meditation on this earth. Therefor meditate, all men and women no matter which caste you belong to meditate on the supreme inner shakti.
No matter which country you belong to meditate on the shakti. Oh simple hearted people no matter which political party you belong to the practice of meditation will not be an obstacle. Do not consider a sect, country, party, religion or creed a hinderance to inner meditation.
Do not consider the position of a leader, official, swami or head of a monastery. Meditate. Even if you are a head monk meditate. Don’t consider your position to be an impediment to mediation. If it is, what is the use of your petty position?
Whether you are a boy or a girl, man or woman, celibate or house holder. A recluse or a sannyasi that is the opposite, meditate. Seek your own self and you will find it. Meditate on your own self in your house, if you live in a house, in the forest if you live in the forest, in a city if you live in a city, in the village if you live in a village.
Or wherever you may live, meditate. Whether you are a patient or a doctor, whether defendant or a lawyer, a begger or merchant, whether you have good qualities or bad.
Whether you are virtuous or sinful, meditate. You will find the peace of your self, the culmination of your search for the objects with the five senses lies in meditating.
The culmination of your search for art, poetry, dance also lies in meditation.
In this chapter, Baba goes on and explains in some detail about how many people searching without in the world for happiness, pleasure and desires of their heart to be met.
He says all of these things can be found within when we meditate. All of these sensations or something beyond them, some sublimated form we can find within, through quiet contemplation. Of course so many people know the benefits like reduced risk of heart disease.
But these things pale in comparison to the true things that we gain through meditation. The wonders that we find when we patiently listen, patiently watch. Wait for the gap between thoughts, focus on the feat of our masters, of our saints. Imagine our own feet as the feet of saints, how stable and grounded those feet will be, how connected we might be.
Imagine the wonders that lie beyond this world in the real of siddhaloka, the land of the perfected beings.
Focusing on anything, any star, any object. An egg, pen, any mundane thing we might quickly reveal to ourselves the divine essence of that object, of our meditation. Meditate. Meditate.
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