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What do we do when we Meditate?
MEDITATION IS WAITING.
Empty your mind. Clean it of all
its contents - good, bad, desirable, undesirable - everything.
Open the door. Be patient. Wait. The samskaras are very
much within you. Don't worry about them. You stop creating
them. I will remove what is inside you, and make you fit
as vehicle for that which is to be put into you, to emerge
and occupy its rightful position - your heart.
Clean your heart, purify it, have everything ready and wait for the
appearance of the Master. Waiting really means allowing a process
to complete itself. You initiate a process, and then wait. Like
you sow a seed, and then you wait. You water the plant, and you wait.
You put the potatoes in the cooker, put it on the fire, and then wait.
Waiting reveals an understanding of many things. A man who can wait
is the man who has faith, and therefore has the patience to wait. He
has faith because he knows that what has been begun must end. It cannot
stop. Therefore the faith element comes in. Faith is what is behind
the ability to wait. Faith is that which moves mountains. When I have
faith in Him, His power has to flow. It is as if there is vacuum, and
His power is pulled towards me.
Waiting has no limit. Therefore waiting takes on, or partakes
of, the character of infinity. Whereas doing consumes moments
of time in small bits, discrete bits, which we call seconds,
minutes, hours. So one who waits is able to be in infinity
to that extent. Therefore the Master is one who can eternally
wait.
So the ability to wait shows patience and faith. Ability
to wait for long periods shows greater and greater faith.
Ability to wait infinitely shows infinite faith. So this
is the capacity we must develop. Please understand that
life is waiting. If we mistake the activity to be life,
we are more stupid than the animals. Waiting is the law.
Achieving is not yours. When we wait - He gives.
We are really making things happen without doing anything. I don't
call God into myself. He is already there. I don't even have to clean
myself. The preceptors and the Master will do it. Only I have to submit.
I have to be patient. I have to be receptive. The only way of making
things happen without doing anything, is by meditation.
THE OBJECT AND METHOD OF MEDITATION. In our system the
abhyasi is advised
to meditate on the heart thinking of the divine light there.
But he is directed not to view light in any form or shape
like that of an electric bulb or a candle, etc. In that
case the light appearing therein will not be real, but one
projected by his own creative speculation. An abhyasi
is advised to proceed with a mere supposition of light with
the thought of Divinity at the bottom. What happens then
is that we meditate upon the subtlest which is to be attained.
The method of meditation on the heart is to think of Godly
light within it. When you begin meditating in this way please
think only that Godly light within is attracting you. Do
not mind if extraneous ideas haunt you during meditation.
Let them come but go on with your own work. Treat your thoughts
and ideas as uninvited guests. If even then they trouble
you think they are Master's, not yours. This process of
meditation is very effective, and can never fail in bringing
about the desired result.
You should only meditate. You should not struggle with
your ideas which generally come during meditation. Concentration
is the automatic and natural result of meditation. Those
who insist on concentration in place of meditation, and
force their mind to it, generally meet with failure.
Meditate upon the light in the heart, as the light of the
God Himself, who is present in the heart. Think of Him more
and more. Think of Him until you can think of Him continuously,
because as you think so you become. In this system, meditation
is on the abstract ultimate alone, because meditation on
lesser objects can only lead to lesser achievements or accomplishments,
falling short of the established goal.
My Master recognises that the abstract Ultimate as an object
of meditation is a very difficult one for beginners. He,
therefore, specifies light as initial object, the method
being to imagine that the heart is illuminated from inside
by the presence of the divine who resides therein. I must
stress that this is only the beginning, and in fact we are
advised not to meditate on light as a source of light, which
would lead to wrong results. It is like the diving board
in swimming pool where the board enables the diver to get
sufficient momentum to take off, and after the diver has
taken off, the board has no further use for him.
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