Meditation helps us to turn inward and experience the self directly which reside inside us
There are various tools and techniques that are supposed to lead us to the god, but thru all the times, sages and saints meditate to reach the Supreme. Meditation is the most direct way to reach the goal. However, we used to find it outside in the temple, churches, mosque or in the books but all can give you address where the god resides but you have to travel the path inside you thru meditation to reach the god.
Meditate on your inner self leads you to God.
The great
saints and siddha beings always suggest meditating over books and visits of
temple. Their belief was that your body is your temple and your inner self is the
god, you have to turn inward and see thru the eyes of the soul to experience
that god. Saints believe that brain can make books and but books cannot make
brain, so develop yourself with your inner power. The outside world cannot give
us peace and happiness till the time we are not happy and calm from inside, so
it is very important to visit inside first.
Meditation on outward things provide you skills
The
Upanishad says that everything in the universe is in meditation. Meditation is
universal and for all. Meditation is nothing but the perfect power of
concentration. The concentration towards outward helps us to do our outer
work; we read with concentration and got skilled in that field. But when we
turn our focus inward and give our attention to the inner self, just as we
focus on external objects, we meditate on the self. Meditation on the self
gives us the knowledge of the ultimate truth.
Meditation liberates
Meditation
is a purifier that washes away all the sins of countless lifetimes and removes
all the negativity and stress that stuck in the mind. Meditation heals us of
disease and makes us more skilled at everything we do. Thru meditation, our
awareness expands and our understanding of inner and outer world grows and
become deeper. We travel thru many inner journeys via meditation and have many
significant experiences. Meditation balances the mind, which constantly wanders
and become the cause of sufferings. It establishes us in the state of supreme
self, a state of equipoise, which is independent of the outer world.
Meditation tells the difference between the inner and outer world.
It is
important to distinguish between the body and the self, when we are able to understand
that body does not limit us, that the pain and pleasure of the body do not
affect us; at that time we are able to recognize the self.
According
to the Vedanta, pain and pleasure only affect the person who does not know the
inner self. Even in our daily routine, we feel pain when we got hurt for
certain time, for certain consciousness, we do not feel it all the time or when
we divert our mind, we tends to forget pain. And during the sleep, all pain,
all miseries of the body and mind vanishes ad you fall asleep in the peace.
In dream, we visualize something which is also not real. In meditation, we can witness all the states and this state is the state of God, is the state of Inner self.
When we
pass from dream to waking state, our understanding changes, similarly when we
realize our real self, we see ourselves differently; we understand that we are
divine. We are divine, because we can achieve the state of divine thru
meditation, divinity lies inside us, inside all of us.
There was
a great being name Hazrat Bayazid Bistami. He was a sufi and used to meditate
regularly. As his meditation became deeper, he reached a state in which he
began to proclaim, “I am God”. One who has not experienced it finds it hard to
believe.
Understanding
it in a simpler way, with experiences, your understanding for yourself changes,
when are studying, you call yourself a student, when you start working, you
call yourself a working man, your experiences grow and so as your
understanding. When you identify your body, you call yourself as student or
working men, but when your “I’ vanishes in the supreme light, you become one
with the highest, subtlest level of consciousness, which attains the awareness:
“I am God”. That understanding emanates from the deepest place inside us which
can be visited with the help of meditation.
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