Some questions were presented about meditation and these are the answers from the teachings of a great spiritual master from India. Why is it so important for me to meditate? I am a very hyper person and I don't have the patience to sit and meditate and besides, I do not have the time; I barely have enough time for my daily routine. What would I get out of it anyway?
The master says, "When you pull the ear, the head is pulled with it. Pull God into your life through meditation and then you will automatically pull in ever new blessings, wisdom and prosperity. That is the reason people should seek
God first and possessions second for he is most likely to lose God. Your mind is comparable to a piece of blotting paper; as it is saturated with grimy mundane desires it becomes fully drenched and is unable too grasp the uncorrupted Divine Essence.
As I mentioned before I have no extra time to meditate. There are some who are the so-called extremely busy who will not bring themselves to take even a few minutes out of the twenty-four day to meditate. God looks at those who lose sleep over Him as heroes. By being too busy even until death in a childish pursuit of perishable riches to satisfy unproductive cravings or desires, continually collecting stocks and bonds will not get you through the pearly gateways of the afterlife. Unfortunately there are very few people who will live a disciplined life and without interruption meditate and harvest the everlasting rewards of God-contact in the short season of life. Only by spiritual labor of scientific yoga meditation not by blind beliefs or proxy nor an undeserved heavenly visitation nor by hoping to be in His omnipresence by the merit of death can the Lord of the harvest be attained.
My question is, "why meditate when I pray every day to be forgiven for my sins and bad karma?" The selfish fear of consequences along with shallow prayer will not bring God randomly to counteract the just and truthful workings of the laws of cause and effect. Man would continue in error if permitted to do so without the consequences. God cannot be moved by bartered deals of good behavior for past misconducts or sporadic emotions of praise. Only by divine love and by devoted sincerity can any sin and its consequences be forgiven. What about people going to confession aren't they saved? From the results of their transgressions, some credulous offenders want to be free of their suffering and consider it sufficient to seek confession from an everyday priest and receive divine amnesty by confessing their sins from their evil deeds. There is mental consolation that confession confers on them, but the operation of the karmic laws are too subtle for them to be seen and they deem themselves to be forgiven. Only God and His highly advanced masters or saints can forgive others and free men from suffering the consequences of their wrongdoing. Those who learn the advanced meditation technique of Kriya Yoga can burn off their bad karma. One hour of Kriya Yoga is equivalent to twenty four hours of prayer.
Another question came up, "I meditate every morning and night but I see nothing, hear nothing and feel nothing; what should I do?" Desires constantly agitate the meditator and wisdom can only be perceived when one stops moving. If you lightly touch the spring of a good watch, it stops. And when the movement of the watch is shaken, it will start running again. Likewise, as the bodily functions are motionless by calming the restless movements of the mental processes, intuition comes the moment you are still to guide you. That is why some people quit meditating; they cannot go deep enough to gain any results therefore they lose interest. Each time we meditate the master says, when we see the light in meditation, beneficial changes are taking place in our brain cells. Even if we do not see that light when we meditate, eventually we will. During meditation you must break the connection between the body and the mind. As long as you are conscious of your body you cannot go deep into meditation. You have to have complete forgetfulness of your body and that means a "state of absolute immovability." As long as you move even once, like to scratch yourself, you have broken that magnetic field and you have to start over again at that point to gain depth in meditation.
Some have what is called the yo-yo syndrome. This alternating condition is when two tendencies over power each other then alternately like two lovers who sometimes become angry affect each other alternately with deep enthusiasm for meditation and then sudden dryness and indifference. Then in one moment they get very interested and drop everything else.
I just recently started meditating but it seems that whenever I meditate I am disturbed by someone or some thing. Is that normal? There are some devotees who find that when meditating for just a short time they are tempted by their bad habits of earthly pleasures or hounded by spiritual tests or poverty, diseases and afflictions of the body; they stop meditating for not forming deep rooted habits of meditation. Whenever there is unhappiness or misfortune, think of God as your highest resource, the same way the needle of a compass always points north, it does not matter which direction the compass is turned so must your thoughts be on God no matter what circumstances exist from minute to minute. Countless fools blindly go through the pathway of uninstructed impulses only to find themselves on the road of ignorant worldly actions. It is simple to perform worldly or evil actions as it takes no effort to roll down a hill. Every repeated evil or ignorant action guides one further down the pathway of evil or worldly ways.
Someone said, "if I could only witness a miracle, even a small one, I would definitely be motivated to be more spiritual. You should know that miracles are desired and held in esteem by earthly mundane mortals who have feelings of inadequacy and who try to challenge the Lord by proving Himself. But divine souls do not doubt him nor test His attention and love. If you want to know about miracles and motivate yourself read the chapter "The Law of Miracles" in the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda, a spiritual classic, which explains this in detail.
The question was asked. "I read spiritual books very often, what about that?" The answer is "If you don't meditate but read, you have a huge, interesting, marvelous and philosophical knowledge stuffed with high metaphysics. It just won't do you any good; it's like having a nice book about food and the best menu in the world and you starve to death."
How is it possible to get a real response from God? Infinite and formless, God is spirit and will not usually talk in words but manifests His awareness as divine perceptions through comprehensible vibratory sounds and comprehended only by devotees with heightened intuition in deep meditation.
One's most important engagement is with God in meditation for it is impossible to keep any other engagement in one's life without borrowing energy, muscular power and mental activity from God who is the giver of all these things. True meditation is absorption in God and it has absolutely nothing in common with the unscientific techniques of breathing taught by a host of ill-advised zealots. Once tasted the happiness of God-communion in meditation is more enticing than all mundane temptations.
Would someone eat rotten cheese? Would you prefer unhappiness to paradise? No. Because of delusion man yields to temptation thinking it will bring happiness. It is hard to differentiate counterfeit coins which have no value from the genuine article; it is the same way to seek pleasure from attractive but worthless vices. Real happiness takes discrimination to know the difference.
Some
questions were presented about meditation and these are the answers
from the teachings of a great spiritual master from India. Why is it so
important for me to meditate? I am a very hyper person and I don't have
the patience to sit and meditate and besides, I do not have the time; I
barely have enough time for my daily routine. What would I get out of it
anyway?
The master says, "When you pull the ear, the head is
pulled with it. Pull God into your life through meditation and then you
will automatically pull in ever new blessings, wisdom and prosperity.
That is the reason people should seek God first and possessions second
for he is most likely to lose God. Your mind is comparable to a piece of
blotting paper; as it is saturated with grimy mundane desires it
becomes fully drenched and is unable too grasp the uncorrupted Divine
Essence.
As I mentioned before I have no extra time to meditate.
There are some who are the so-called extremely busy who will not bring
themselves to take even a few minutes out of the twenty-four day to
meditate. God looks at those who lose sleep over Him as heroes. By being
too busy even until death in a childish pursuit of perishable riches to
satisfy unproductive cravings or desires, continually collecting
stocks and bonds will not get you through the pearly gateways of the
afterlife. Unfortunately there are very few people who will live a
disciplined life and without interruption meditate and harvest the
everlasting rewards of God-contact in the short season of life. Only by
spiritual labor of scientific yoga meditation not by blind beliefs or
proxy nor an undeserved heavenly visitation nor by hoping to be in His
omnipresence by the merit of death can the Lord of the harvest be
attained.
My question is, "why meditate when I pray every day to
be forgiven for my sins and bad karma?" The selfish fear of consequences
along with shallow prayer will not bring God randomly to counteract the
just and truthful workings of the laws of cause and effect. Man would
continue in error if permitted to do so without the consequences. God
cannot be moved by bartered deals of good behavior for past misconducts
or sporadic emotions of praise. Only by divine love and by devoted
sincerity can any sin and its consequences be forgiven. What about
people going to confession aren't they saved? From the results of their
transgressions, some credulous offenders want to be free of their
suffering and consider it sufficient to seek confession from an everyday
priest and receive divine amnesty by confessing their sins from their
evil deeds. There is mental consolation that confession confers on them,
but the operation of the karmic laws are too subtle for them to be seen
and they deem themselves to be forgiven. Only God and His highly
advanced masters or saints can forgive others and free men from
suffering the consequences of their wrongdoing. Those who learn the
advanced meditation technique of Kriya Yoga can burn off their bad
karma. One hour of Kriya Yoga is equivalent to twenty four hours of
prayer.
Another question came up, "I meditate every morning and
night but I see nothing, hear nothing and feel nothing; what should I
do?" Desires constantly agitate the meditator and wisdom can only be
perceived when one stops moving. If you lightly touch the spring of a
good watch, it stops. And when the movement of the watch is shaken, it
will start running again. Likewise, as the bodily functions are
motionless by calming the restless movements of the mental processes,
intuition comes the moment you are still to guide you. That is why some
people quit meditating; they cannot go deep enough to gain any results
therefore they lose interest. Each time we meditate the master says,
when we see the light in meditation, beneficial changes are taking place
in our brain cells. Even if we do not see that light when we meditate,
eventually we will. During meditation you must break the connection
between the body and the mind. As long as you are conscious of your body
you cannot go deep into meditation. You have to have complete
forgetfulness of your body and that means a "state of absolute
immovability." As long as you move even once, like to scratch yourself,
you have broken that magnetic field and you have to start over again at
that point to gain depth in meditation.
Some have what is called
the yo-yo syndrome. This alternating condition is when two tendencies
over power each other then alternately like two lovers who sometimes
become angry affect each other alternately with deep enthusiasm for
meditation and then sudden dryness and indifference. Then in one moment
they get very interested and drop everything else.
I just recently
started meditating but it seems that whenever I meditate I am disturbed
by someone or some thing. Is that normal? There are some devotees who
find that when meditating for just a short time they are tempted by
their bad habits of earthly pleasures or hounded by spiritual tests or
poverty, diseases and afflictions of the body; they stop meditating for
not forming deep rooted habits of meditation. Whenever there is
unhappiness or misfortune, think of God as your highest resource, the
same way the needle of a compass always points north, it does not matter
which direction the compass is turned so must your thoughts be on God
no matter what circumstances exist from minute to minute. Countless
fools blindly go through the pathway of uninstructed impulses only to
find themselves on the road of ignorant worldly actions. It is simple to
perform worldly or evil actions as it takes no effort to roll down a
hill. Every repeated evil or ignorant action guides one further down the
pathway of evil or worldly ways.
Someone said, "if I could only
witness a miracle, even a small one, I would definitely be motivated to
be more spiritual. You should know that miracles are desired and held in
esteem by earthly mundane mortals who have feelings of inadequacy and
who try to challenge the Lord by proving Himself. But divine souls do
not doubt him nor test His attention and love. If you want to know about
miracles and motivate yourself read the chapter "The Law of Miracles"
in the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda, a
spiritual classic, which explains this in detail.
The question was
asked. "I read spiritual books very often, what about that?" The answer
is "If you don't meditate but read, you have a huge, interesting,
marvelous and philosophical knowledge stuffed with high metaphysics. It
just won't do you any good; it's like having a nice book about food and
the best menu in the world and you starve to death."
How is it
possible to get a real response from God? Infinite and formless, God is
spirit and will not usually talk in words but manifests His awareness as
divine perceptions through comprehensible vibratory sounds and
comprehended only by devotees with heightened intuition in deep
meditation.
One's most important engagement is with God in
meditation for it is impossible to keep any other engagement in one's
life without borrowing energy, muscular power and mental activity from
God who is the giver of all these things. True meditation is absorption
in God and it has absolutely nothing in common with the unscientific
techniques of breathing taught by a host of ill-advised zealots. Once
tasted the happiness of God-communion in meditation is more enticing
than all mundane temptations.
Would someone eat rotten cheese?
Would you prefer unhappiness to paradise? No. Because of delusion man
yields to temptation thinking it will bring happiness. It is hard to
differentiate counterfeit coins which have no value from the genuine
article; it is the same way to seek pleasure from attractive but
worthless vices. Real happiness takes discrimination to know the
difference.
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