Who
is God?
If I say God is everywhere, God is Lord
Ram, God is mighty Allah, God is love,
God is compassion. All these answers you must have heard
before. You read about them in holy scriptures.
Some of you believe in them and others don’t.
But remember God is not a belief. The above quotes are
dead to you since they can not be counted under your
experience. They must have been true to those people
who experienced it.
God is the experience of truth, the truth that remains
unchanged through the journey of time. Thus this truth
has to be known, to be experienced not subjected to
mere beliefs. God is not a reference quoted from various
texts, but is the ultimate reality.
Thy is not known through beliefs or pre collected knowledge
but is known in spite of knowledge. The pure existence
simply exists. The one who is beyond the catch of words,
the one who is beyond the analysis of mind, the one
who is devoid of all forms and the one who simply exists.
This
universal force, whom we call God, is neither
an evolved form of any masculine or feminine energy
nor an individual residing at any particular place
far
from us. God is pure existential energy, a constant
through all beginnings and endings.
What is meditation?
Meditation is a way to understand the root cause of any
problem, it is a way to solve one of the biggest mysteries
of life and that is your very own mind. Meditation is
a certain quality of watchfulness. It is an elevation.
Only when you are elevated you can watch over a thing.
It is about going beyond the territory of mind. For the
first time one experiences silence of mind. This silence
settles you and adds a beauty to your life. You learn
to celebrate life. Grace and ease becomes your first nature.
Habbits give a way to spontaneity. Meditation is starting
afresh to live and love life.
How is meditation different
from concentration?
Concentration is not meditation; concentration
is an attempt of mind to bring it to a single point,
to focus itself. When we say concentrate then a question
comes ‘on what’. Whereas in meditation
there is no object. Meditation is not a mind exercise,
it is a climate in which absolute expression of life
happens, it is an effortlessness where one experience
exploding peace and serenity.
Why should we meditate?
We should meditate to live life more beautifully.
Meditation is cessation of all mental toxins. We should
meditate to steer clear our self from exhaustion of
mind. This helps us to perform our daily jobs in more
fulfilled manner. Life becomes more and more creative
and artistic, work becomes colorful and we are in tune
with environment. Moments of dullness and boredom gives
way to state of blissfulness. This blissfulness is not
an attempted blissfulness but something which is spontaneous.
There is no complaint, no desire, no fuss for things
to be other than they are.
Why do we have
so many meditation techniques?
Every human mind is a very complex structure and unique
in nature. We have different medicines for different
diseases similarly every mind has its own set of complications
which require a different approach to deal with. These
meditation techniques are various approaches to reach
an individual to help him come out of these conflicts.
They are different treatments given to different people.
Unlike treatments they are not just the part of one’s
life. These techniques get infused in your very breathing,
through which an individual learns to exhale all the
negativities of mind and inhale pure bliss.
What is misery and why there
is so much of misery?
Misery and happiness are two poles and life flows
between them. Sometimes the proximity of life is towards
misery and sometimes towards happiness. Just as there
is darkness there is light, just as there is failure
there is success. If any of these things would become
constant in our life, let’s say if we were exposed
forever to sunlight we can never enjoy the beauty of
sunlight. To enjoy sunrise there has to be sunset. To
know light one must know darkness. To add a certain
flavour to happiness, to make us understand the value
of happiness misery has to play its role. The mind of
man is based on comparions. He can only understand and
value a thing when something opposite of it is created.
How can I increase my efficiency?
In order to increase one’s efficiency it is important
to understand the mind first. A human mind is adequate
to complete a given task to the perfection but where it
lacks is a point to understand. Our mind has a tendency
to spill. It scatters itself or divides into many channels
just as a river divides itself into many tributaries.
Just as division decreases the flow of river, division
of mind decreases its efficiency. To bring together the
energies of mind which are draining in different directions,
the most important thing to do is to empty your mind of
all unwanted thoughts. This can happen by following a
meditation technique. Through meditation very soothing
waves are generated which gives relaxation to mind. It
helps in integrating the mind thus one can experience
high efficiency level.
What is sadness?
Sadness is an outburst of mind when it is not able
to reach its goal. Goals exist in future and future is
our creation, our imagination. If we look clearly at our
mind it is just a collection of our past memories and
future aspirations. Either this sadness stems out of something
done in the past or something which we expected to happen
in future but did not happen. Our whole sadness exists
in past and future. Past is dead and future just imagination.
So what is sadness? Sadness is remembrance of something
of the past or it is a future expectancy. If you are utterly
now, utterly here, then there is no question of sadness.
You cannot be sad because sadness needs space and there
is no space in the present. If you want to live in sadness
then you have to live in past and future, these are the
only two ways. If you choose to live without sadness,
embrace the present moment. This present moment if lived
aware fully, will leave no room for sadness.
What is happiness?
Happiness is causelessness. Sadness may have causes but
bliss has no cause. And if your happiness has a cause
then it is nothing but sadness masked as happiness. It
is beyond the circle of cause and effect. It is beyond
Why. Jesus was asked so many times why are you
so blissful in spite of all world turned against you.
His only answer was it is my very nature. Just as sky
is there, roses are there my happiness is there. There
are no reasons attached to it. Anything which is reason
free is happiness. This reason free ness comes from meditation
or Dhyana.
Why do we have so many Gods?
We have so many Gods because there are so many
minds. Each mind perceives God in a different way for
this reason divinity opened up itself through so many
channels. An individual, who was born with his enlightenment
intact, was named as avatar. An enlightened mystic
whom we call avatar is distinctively different
from other enlightened master. He has a unique personality
and mind. He used his own terminology to explain divine.
Once this mystic passes away, so called priests, politicians
and poets gather around and create different folklores
on the name of mystic; they attach various miracles and
make his life virtually very extraordinary and magical.
They all together carve a God out of this mystic. According
to an enlightened mystic God is a pure existence, for
him this very creation is personification of God. To the
mystic every individual is God. He perceives every one
both living and non living as incarnation of divinity.
So you are also a God for a mystic. No doubt there are
so many Gods! Who the Master
is?
Master is like a catalyst, who promotes the
relationship between you and divine. Master never holds
the disciple to himself, rather help disciple develop
his own wings to fly in the sky of truth. The one who
is pregnant with divine and is ready to give birth to
the truth. The one who dedicated its entire life in
the exploration of the truth, in the process faced all
the hurdles, experienced life in all its highs and lows.
Finally when truth reveales itself to that person, that
mystic did not keep it only to himself, but once again
set out for a long journey to spread the message of
truth around. There is no goal involved but an unadulterated
love to see more and more blissful faces around.
Why do we need a master to know
the divine?
The question is as simple as why do we need a scuba diver
expert to teach us scuba diving, why do we need an expert
to teach us free falling, why do we need to learn architecture
from proper institute, we can put together a building
just like that. A teacher is needed who can guide us through
our training, who can answer our queries. The master is
the one who has known the path of inner journey. The one
who has reached the ultimate destination of truth and
out of compassion has returned to spread the wisdom. A
master never asks for anything in return from a disciple
all he asks for is the disciple’s ego self.
A master is needed to guide us through the journey from
self to selflessness. What
is spirituality?
Spirituality is soul of every religion. The things,
which we do from head, are the rites and rituals and
the things, which are felt from heart is spirituality.
Just as fragrance is in the rose but is unseen of, similarly
spirituality is the fragrance of every religion hidden
in it. It is divinity revisited in ordinary life.
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