Meditation and Truth

If we can initiate nature’s own native state, and create our own quiet uneventful period, we can control our destiny and future. Instead of being like a leaf that is blown about, in a life subject totally to events and people around us.

Note that all people may not feel used or abused by life’s “evolutionary direction”. We are usually happy to procreate! Interestingly, a seeming inability to create a quiet space, can be taken as a positive in the world. We are seen as engaged, and therefore quite “sane’. Being engaged is often, however, taking what is actually forced upon us by circumstance. We may not admit this. Its just we don’t like to feel “powerless”, but wont acknowledge it.

Having free time is therefore not always an easily acceptable thing, despite what the self-help books say.

So, it may be very difficult to create a space in one’s busy world, where sitting down becomes a possibility. It can be seen as indulging in selfish introspection!

What a shock then, if you clear time and space, stop agitation, distraction, and wants, and you just feel bored or worse. All your cravings go ballistic even! So much for the newfound freedom!

Free time is a wonderful and necessary thing, but we also have to be able to deal with it, and, use it advantageously.

You probably have heard some eulogies being given to the scientific benefits of meditation, relaxation, or quiet prayer. However, just try sit down for 5-10 minutes in absolute stillness, with calm and reposed mind.

Can be like trying to tame a bucking bronco.

The mind is a wild animal. Or part of a relatively civilized mammal, called human.

To reach a state of perfect happiness peace or self-knowledge, may require more application then just sitting in meditation for half an hour, twice daily.

To get to a state of perfect yoga, one needs to be perfect Yogi.

This may be all right for one who can sit in a cave, for months at a time, living on a very sparse diet and not watching any TV.

Certainly not the Kardashian‘s or Coronation Street!

However it doesn’t really actually matter whether one is in New York, the Himalayas, or the outback

The setting is not too important, although there are optimum environments, diets and guided practices.

One should have access to useful materials.

This can vary with one’s needs as one progresses. Do you need religion? Medication? (Probably both!)

Potentially even a noisy place is then alright, if meditation needs to take place. Yes suitable food and water, medicinal herbs, good company, and a bit of finance, always play a part regarding your search and endeavors on the spiritual path.

More importantly, to become the controller in terms of spiritual awareness, one needs the ability to sit on a rather different plane completely.

The philosophy of Gyana or Knowledge Yoga, espouses the view that we are already Divine. (As per Vedanta philosophy). We already have Divine experiences every single moment, and every single moment has a Divine purpose.

In contrast the path of Bhakti, Devotional Yoga, proposes that we can’t just be living in this “delusion” of “holiness”. (That is -saying I am already Enlightened!). We need the Grace of an external God, a Higher Power, a Person we surrender to, who then sorts everything out!

The path of Karma or Action Yoga, tells us that we need to serve others, including our God or Guru, or church, or some good cause, to attain a higher state.

Raja Yoga, (Kingly Yoga), is about the need to control the senses, and management of all aspects of our daily routine. Its about being able to sit in yoga posture, and control the mind. Then food and drink is also vital, because such intake forms not only the body, but also the mind. Also what you get rid is very important.

Enemas are the “go to”!

The Truth will always be self-illuminated, regardless of what humans want to make it. You can make it a product of your religion, but, it Shines in its own Awareness, regardless of any religion, spiritual path, culture, or circumstance. You will then need nothing in life if you get this understanding!

Because you already have everything.

Who AM I? What AM I?

Ask those questions, and then you will start also to ask more questions.

What is my purpose and function really all about?

Then, what do I do now?

To be continued.