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What Do You Experience in Meditation?
Meditation can be defined as an activity, which is to effect some sort
of communion with the Almighty. We meditate on the abstract, the formless,
the nameless, because the Ultimate has no form and no name; nor has
it any qualities or attributes. Therefore, one of the important teachings
of my Master is that God can only be experienced by His presence. And
His presence is what we try to experience during our meditation. And,
it is said that, as we meditate with our eyes closed, we are able to
imbibe more and more of the essence of that Divinity for which we are
aspiring, and elevate ourselves progressively, until a day comes, by
His Grace, by His blessings, we are almost like Him.
Light in the heart is the most abstract concept that you can have. It
has no form, it has no substance, it has no weight. So from that as
the starting point, as our meditation goes deeper and deeper, it reveals
to us from within ourselves - by the Grace of the Almighty and by our
efforts, it is a conglomerate of two things - who God is or what true
Divinity means. And, there must be a time, when one day we can say,
"I have an inkling of what it is, not because I have seen it, or
touched it but because I have felt it."
This is the most transcendental experience of all, that I feel Divine,
because I am Divine. So Divinity - God - cannot be the object of knowledge,
cannot be the object of perception, cannot be revealed by perception.
But as my Master said, when we meditate, and the meditation is right
and successful as it must be, we progressively draw whatever we can
from the Divine Source, by progressively divinising ourselves; yet at
no stage can that person say, "I am God". You may be like
God in every way, in every quality, in everything that you can imagine;
yet God is God and you continue to be the humble devotee - no doubt
divinised to the highest possible extent - nevertheless, "He is
what He is, I am what I am!"
Always try to be alert to what is happening, and sensitivity will develop.
Many people meditate. But I am sorry to say many of them don't know
what is going on in the system during meditation. Because they do not
watch for what is going on. One has to be alert to the transmission
and its action on the system. Then the real joy of meditation begins.
Whether a person has experience or not, the transmission will work and
complete the job. But the real happiness comes when we know what we
have got.
IS IT COMMON TO GET HEADACHE, ANGER, INTENSE SLEEPINESS IMMEDIATELY
AFTER MEDITATION?It is not common, but it can happen sometimes.
There can be sleepiness if you go very deep into meditation. When we
go deep into meditation, the life of the soul takes over. And so we
want to be inactive, and therefore, we like to lie down and sleep, and
things like that.
I also have had for many years severe headache after meditation. The
deeper the meditation, the stronger the headache. If headache comes,
we put up with it.
Anger also comes sometimes because of the same reason as the sleepiness,
or lethargy. Because following on a good meditation, we wish to relax
and be quiet, and when our friends, relations they come and disturb
us, we get annoyed. They are all in a sense related to the same cause.
But we should not be bothered by them.
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