Meditation is a state of whole being, whole life, neither exclusively of mind and its movements, nor brain and its cerebral activities nor the body and its activities. It is not contemplation, reflection, concentration, sensual, non-sensual, occult or transcendental. It is not the result of some mental activity. It can not be brought about by any intellectual gymnastics, emotional stimulations, drugs or any chemical tricks. It is not the result of psycho-physical activity.
One can contemplate or concentrate about certain things. One can collect information, select or reject some and arrive at certain conclusions. One can deduce many theories, express thoughts. It sharpens the brain but all these are not meditation.
When all mental activities fade away, when there is no desire to force the mind, to suppress or repress it or even to drug it, but then meditation pervades - the vast field of consciousness - where it is related to every movement in personal and collective life.
Meditation is related to the way one gets, move, walk, talk, read, study, eat, drink, put on or put off clothes or shoes, the way one gesticulate or articulate throughout the day. So it is related to the total life.
Meditation or DHYAN is a state of being on which there is effortless and choice less awareness of what life is within and around. There is no mental activity as such but a state of being. It is a way of living in dynamic attention, in dynamic awareness of what life is. It is inhibited, unconditional movement of individual consciousness in harmony with the universal life. It is a non-cerebral movement, a movement of that part of brain which inhibited by conditioning through education, culture, civilization and socio-economic contents of life. It cannot be a means to an end.
Meditation is the transcendence of the conditioned brain where I-Consciousness, e.g., the experiencer and experiences comes to an end; where the boundaries of time & space; in which the I-Consciousness moves from moment to moment; fade away into nothingness, where duality comes to an end; the fragmentary subject-object relationship with life subsides completely.
Every word is associated with emotions, sentiments, philosophy etc. Now the 'meditation' is also associated with many things. Meditation means "to meditate about", "to meditate upon". So it implies a mental or cerebral activity in which there is a relationship of subject and object. I read a philosophy, find out variety of objects and meditate upon that. In that sense meditation means to focus one's attention exclusively on a pre-determined point for a given time and it would involve conscious effort to sustain attention, to focus attention on that point. Such a mental activity is called concentration and not meditation. What DHARNA implies is same as that of concentration.
Concentration can relax the nerves, soothe the troubled psyche, create a chemical balance in the body and stimulate the latent powers of mind and non-sensual experiences. Such a development does not lead to the radical transformation of the duality of life.
Concentration may stimulate powers, experiences; make a person powerful and those who are troubled, those who are fired of sensual pleasures, those who live in economic & political security, to obtain non-sensual pleasures, to acquire transcendental powers and so on. It is a game in the psychic world, and the spirit of adventure creates an inner compulsion to seek these experiences. There is nothing wrong about it provided one is clear about the purpose. Concentration has nothing to do with religion, spirituality, the discovery of truth, meditation, liberation and nirvana. It is absolutely in the opposite direction strengthening the I-Consciousness, heightening the I-Consciousness, widening the sphere of cerebral penetration.
There should be a flame of enquiry to learn, to see, to find out the inhibitions of motives, intentions and ambitions wither away. There must be a motiveless state in the beginning of discovery. The genuine enquiry eliminates all inhibitions, emotions and conditioning and creates pliability of humility & tenderness. Fearlessness results out of this. This tenderness releases latent energies - muscular, nervous, glandular, cerebral and non-cerebral - which were blocked up due to the rigidity of I-Consciousness. To be in a state of enquiry is to be in the state of bliss because the enquiry is going to explode into realization. There should not be emotional, intellectual attraction to this enquiry, no fascination or excitement.
Unless one has an urge to find out what is beyond time & space, what is beyond mind, what is beyond conditioned brain, what is beyond experiencer and act of experiencing, what is beyond act of observation and observer, the thought and thing, what is beyond symbols, what is beyond cerebral ways of behavior, unless there is innate passion to find out to discover for oneself, one will not be equipped to live the meditative way. It is therefore absolutely necessary to have the pure, smokeless flame of enquiry, which is the urge to find out, to discover, to learn for self and not for any extraneous purpose, but as a fulfillment in it self, to find out what the meaning of life is, for the fun of it, for the joy of it.
So this state of genuine enquiry is the state of chemical poise and nervous relaxation from one's physical and biological mechanism. Meditation requires that a person is healthy and sound in body & mind. For that various aspects of Hath Yoga are useful.
The second step is the acquaintance of the movement of the mind. Physical movement is not a problem but a cerebral movement can be an obstacle. So one has to understand what the mind is, anatomy of mind, how a thought moves, how reflexes comes. How they control one's perceptions, how they govern one's relationships with other.
And for all that one has to learn what observation is? No interpretation, no analysis, no comparison, no judgment, but to have the awareness of the movement of mind. There is no resistance. It breeds friction that results in reaction, e.g., annoyance, irritation, and the state of observation is lost. These resistances become experiences and experience acts as a defense mechanism as memory. Thus the brain is conditioned and the state of virgin observation is lost.
One has to learn to observe the thoughts as they come. One should sit everyday for sometime keeping the spine and neck erect and observe the movement of thoughts. Day by day one has to re-educate oneself as how to observe. There are times when experiencer steps in and the state of observation is lost.
When sitting and observing, neither accurately nor inaccurately, dual mental activity is held in abeyance, neither the doer nor the experiencer. Then this state begins to permeate the working hours and hectic physical activity, sleep and dreams. We are not aware in a manner but we are attentive to our motives, experiences.
Awareness and attention comes. We are constantly aware, constantly attentive. If this is not so then we are not observing. Time comes when we are aware throughout day and night. All the experiences and knowledge of total humanity is contained in the individual consciousness. When this awareness is maintained, those experiences, knowledge, past impressions comes on the surface, hidden powers of psyche begin to manifest, e.g., clairvoyance etc. Then all these start diminishing gradually and one enter into silence where there is no I-Consciousness.
Modern science had discovered the outer space for truth but always limits it to relative truth of life and living inspite of its understanding of planets beyond earth, its knowledge of human frame and remarkable achievements in telecommunication, transportation and computer. Now there is need to shift discovery to inner space that is potentially infinite and eternal that made all science possible in present age for infinite success and prosperity, health, harmony and happiness.
SHREYAS programs aim at this inner SELF DISCOVERY. All success, achievements, accomlishments, prosperity, peace, love, wisdom, skills, knowledge, spiritual consciousness, excellence etc. lies potential within every man in the world.
SHREYAS is dedicated for human conscious evolution to make human being more and more evolved with modern scientific knowledge, esoteric concepts of yoga and spirituality and applied philosophy of ancient eternal wisdom so that man can experiment, realize, live, move and act in LEAP (Love, Energy, Awareness & Peace), Delight, Freedom, Creativity, Holistic Health for PPS-Peace, Prosperity and Success; PPSS-Personal, Professional, Social and Spiritual Excellence and MSR-Material and Spiritual Riches. The person starts following NPL-New Paradigm of Living, enters into JOCL-Joy of conscious living and Life becomes a celebration at every moment known as UTSAV.
Self Discovery begins by discovering within Peace Consciousness. This peace further deepens and manifests in human life as LEAP (Love, Energy, Awareness and Peace) together. This is the beginning of Self Discovery. That starts bringing changes in attitude, behavior, enhancing skills, attitude, and knowledge and transforming negativity, problems and sufferings etc. SHREYAS programs and practices designed scientifically by integrating ancient wisdom from almost all traditions viz. yoga, spirituality, mysticism, meditation etc. and modern science, aim at Self Discovery.
Life takes a fresh turn, body is ready with upsurge of energy and mind directed inward and moving in peace is the way human being experience, which UTSAV calls JOCL (Joy of Conscious Living). The process and method by which this beginning of JOCL, NPL (New Paradigm of Living) are made and progressive realization that takes place by the transformation and conscious evolution is known as CET (Conscious Evolution and Transformation).
The CET is a unique way to move entire life progressively towards PPSS (Personal, Professional, Social and Spiritual) Excellence. Every step to excellence brings PPS (Peace, prosperity and Success) and MSR (Material and Spiritual Riches).
SHREYAS programs for Self Discovery help you in:
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• PPS-Peace, Prosperity and Success/MSR-Material and Spiritual Riches
• PPSS-Personal, professional, Social and Spiritual Excellence
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• Raising the level of self awareness from current level to redefine Aspirations in life for inner as well as outer prosperity. Raising constantly the quality of life and living.
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Optimum level of physical, emotional & mental well being.
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Effective management of stress & stress induced disorders.
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Enhanced awareness and attention, concentration and memory and retention, awakening to ....intuitive, imaginative and illuminative facilities of mind for effective management of day to ....day affairs of life.
• Awakening within or Spiritual consciousness and bringing it down for transformation of life for infinite success, prosperity, performance, productivity, progress and perfection - a material and spiritual integration. Spiritual awakening is deeply linked to Human Evolution consciously, performance at professional, social levels, higher achievements and raising skills, knowledge at personal levels.
