Instead of going for meditation and
spoiling your mind, it is better you create the form you are interested in,
put that picture in front of you and observe carefully. While observing
deeply, close your eyes. Now, begin to paint the form that you have seen, in
your mind's eye. Then your mind would be totally enveloped in the form.
Gradually even when you open your eyes, you begin to see the form everywhere.
That is manifestation - Sakshatkara. This does not happen if you were to do
it once in a while. You should daily do this both morning, evening and at
all other times also. Then you begin to see the form spreading itself in all
limbs and all bodies.
Most importantly, youth's mind is most
wavering. During the day the youth must spend time reading class books and
assimilating them. The reason being that mind will not enter unnecessary
avenues when it has a lot of work to do. We must attach ourselves to work so
as to deprive mind from associating itself with outside world. Both morning
and evening let the mind be immersed in Dhyana/Meditation in the aforesaid
manner. Meditation is a path of obtaining sanctity. It is a process of
obtaining unity; a path of experiencing divinity. Your mind must merge in
the Lord just as a river merges into the ocean. Then mind as such does not
exist. Then you become beyond mind. The river has a form, name and taste
before merging into the ocean. After merging, it loses all such identities.
This has been conveyed by Ramadas in a song form:
"There is a fortress of seven
boundaries. In the fort there is a garden - one of worldly desires. If you
want to find the path through the garden, sing the name of the Lord Rama.
The whole Kingdom will be filled with light."
The boundaries referred to are the
seven nerve-centres/chakras. This song was heard by Lord Rama. He replied:
"The essence is like oil. The Truth is
like wick. When the light fades away, neither the oil nor the wick follow
it. They stay there itself."
Then Ramadas got a doubt "The support
is the tree and the grip is another branch of the tree. If the basis/support
is left in the hope of relying on the strength of the branch and the branch
also breaks then salvation is imminent."
Here, the basis is the worldly desires
and the branch which would break is the society in which you live. If you
leave the desires and if the world/society shuns you, you are bound to
attain salvation. You need the society as long as you have not understood
the true reality. Therefore, one needs firewood only as long as the cooking
is being done. One does not need firewood after the food has been cooked.
Veda, Shastra, Purana, Itihasa etc. are
essential only as long as one has not understood oneself. After one has
realised oneself, all these become unnecessary. Hence, it is not possible to
renounce/detach oneself from the society unless one has realised oneself.
You have to realise yourself by living in the world. Some creatures like
caterpillar, crawling from one leaf to another. In the process, it catches
the leaf it would like to go to and then release the leaf it has been on. It
does not leave the base before catching/obtaining the support. Similarly, we
should leave world after obtaining divinity and not before. Otherwise, we
would have lost both the worlds.
Do not be carried away by the term
Meditation. It is not something that one does by sitting for a couple
minutes or hours. It should be always at all places (the contemplation on
the Lord). It should not pertain only to Mandir/meditation room. Wherever
one goes, be it market or classes, one should be totally absorbed. We should
be totally sacred in our feelings. This is possible only through the path of
love. Speak lovingly to all people. Even such a speech should be in
moderation. This is because mind begins to change as words become many.
One sage came from the Himalayas and
declared that he had conquered anger. He met his friends and told them that
he was totally at peace and that he had no anger in him at all. One came and
asked him - "Sir! Have you conquered anger?" "Yes! I have controlled" came
the guarded reply. That person reiterated, "Sir! You of all the people! Have
you really conquered anger?" "Yes, it is true" came the gruff reply. "What
sir! It is really impossible to believe. How could you conquer anger?" Asked
the man for the third time. "Ai! Can't you understand when I have said so?"
Came the hot reply. "Sir! When this is the case, how could you have
conquered anger?", asked the man for the fourth time. "Are you out of your
senses? I told you that I have conquered". So, while saying that he had
conquered anger, due to repetition of words, he lost control over anger. If
words were not expressed, anger might cooled down. But as he expressed them,
anger grew. Due to lack of patience, anger emanates. There is no other
remedy for anger. Only cultivation of patience is the answer.
