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Why Do We Meditate on the Heart?
- It is the seat of Divinity. So when you want to approach
Divinity through your system, you approach Him by His
presence in your heart. The Lord says in the Gita: "I
am in the heart of every created being.
- It is that by which the human life, the human character
is defined.
- It is that which governs life, in that if it is there,
we exist, if it stops we cease to exist.
- It is the point from which the blood circulation starts
and stops. You know blood is a very vital constituent
of the human system because it is that which carries nourishment
to every part of the body, brings back the waste products
of existence, circulates it through the lungs, purifies
and then re-circulates it all over again through the system.
So the heart and blood form a very vital part or component
of our existence and if the purification is carried out
here, it is pervading throughout the system. And therefore
we purify the heart, put love into the heart, which is what
we try to do in Sahaj
Marg . It is, in a sense, trying to make pervasive the
application of a unique force, the power of love, the power
of the Master's spiritual attainment into the heart, from
where it spreads through the whole system.
The Master puts himself, his seed, into the heart and therefore
if we receive that seed in the way we should receive it,
the miracle happens that each one of us becomes a child
of the Master in every sense of the word.
We have to unsolidify our heart, make that rock become
fluid again, soft. What is the first sign of this softness
coming into you? It is tears! These people meditate, and
they start weeping without knowing why tears come into the
eyes! It is the first sign that the heart is beginning to
melt. Once this rocklike hardness of the heart is gone and
it has become soft and pliable, the Master moulds it into
what He wishes.
Sahaj Marg deals with the heart,
Sahaj Marg works on the heart,
Sahaj Marg works by the heart.
We transmit from the heart to the heart. It is heart that we transform.
What is the human being but the heart? That is how a human being is
described - kindhearted, goodhearted, evil-hearted, cruel-hearted, cold-hearted
etc. This is how we describe human beings.
Today, we do not understand ourselves, how can you understand anybody
else? He who understands himself, understands everybody. One who has
not understood himself or herself, can understand nothing. How to get
this understanding? Sit and meditate. Focus your attention on the heart,
and then see for yourself the enormously beautiful, wonderful mysteries
that are there.
MIND TRANSFORMED AS HEART: By meditation I clear this instrument
of my perception, the mind. "The ultimate instrument,"
as Babuji said, "for your destruction and for your
elevation." Nothing can destroy you so totally as your
mind if it goes wrong, nothing can serve to raise you to
Divinity as your mind can. Therefore, in the raja
yoga technique, it is the mind that we use, it is the
mind that we master, it is the mind that we apply. But having
done that, the entire thing is transferred to the heart.
As we say in yogic psychological terminology: the heart
now becomes the mind. We think with the heart, we see with
the heart, we hear with the heart, we speak with the heart,
the heart becomes me.
That is the miracle of spirituality you see, that we make the entire
existence by regulating the mind, by gaining the absolute control or
regulation of the mind. We are now able to recognize the wisdom of having
to transfer the entire cognitive, perceptive apparatus into the heart.
Then begins true spirituality.
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