WHAT IS
MEDITATION ?
Question : I have been
attending your Lecture-programmes for sometime. Would you teach or prescribe
some easy form of Meditation to junior aspirants like me?
Sage TGN :
What passes for
Meditation in most of the yoga-centres is only Concentration (Dharana) where you are enjoined on to watch your own
breathing (inhalation and exhalation) or apply your mind on the point between
the eye-brows (Ajna-chakram) or the crown of
your head. This you are to do for 15 minutes or so during which time you also
surreptitiously watch the clock! I personally know that in one such session the
conductor of the Meditation actually slipped into slumber and had to be shaken
awake by an assistant from the Office of the Organisation as it was time for
the next programme.
What
is the difference between such ritual Meditation and non-Meditation? Let me
explain: If you are engaged in Meditation in your house you do not bestir yourself
to respond to the door-bell or telephone-bell even when you hear the ring. That
is, you have purposefully withdrawn your mind from and coerced it not to react
to outside-events. Under such circumstances the mind does come nearer to the
Alpha-level from the Beta; but if after Meditation, you still have an
irresistible urge to watch serial drama on TV, does it not mean that what
spiritual gain was there, has been dissipated?
In
our methodology, we are presenting Practical Philosophy in scientific terms to
enable you to intellectually grasp, in the first instance, that it is possible
to overcome Worry and pre-empt Anger. Thereafter you cogitate and introspect
and come to appropriate conclusion on your own and then proceed to try it out
in your day-to-day activities. In this way the Alpha-level is experienced to be
natural by your Mind. Whatever gain you register is consolidated from stage to
stage. In course of practice you become your own trainer.
In
the fifties there was
a particular brand of washing soap which became very popular in
the
When
simple is beautiful, as also effective, why adventitious
frills to Philosophy?
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