Meditation Perspective Of A Practitioner

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An English word Meditation has many meanings Today I sharing my perceptive on a Samskrut word Dhyanam, which is an integral part of Indian yogic traditions.

Meditation is a process. We know any process has input, activities, and output.

The duration of this process can be as short a 12 seconds. With this duration, we call it Dharana or concentration. The duration of Medication can be as large as life itself.

The larger is the duration more is awareness. When the duration is large, the final output doesn’t matter. Because every moment you pass in that state a transformation is happening in you. This is the state of oneness.

The degree of oneness depends upon the intensity of your meditation, your nature, and the framework being used. In that state, breaking the meditation and coming out to receive the benefits is not wise.

Is output wonderful? The answer for that is you need to jump in the water to know the joy of swimming. Don’t ask it others.

This is a process of awareness This is a process of dissolving your physical identity. This is a process of identifying yourself as nonphysical. This is a process of identifying yourself with the creator.

This is a process of disassociation yourself from the entities and events around. This is a process of dissolving all named relationships. This is a process of owning only one relationship with the world around. The relation of a mother. Knowing that I am conceiver and deliverer of the phenomenon world around.

Now, let’s see the inputs of this process To enter into a meditative state, when this process effortlessly happens in you you need some preparation. This preparation prepares quality input for the process.

Thus input should be clean, pure, and pious What does it mean? This means the body and the mind with which you want to perform this process Should be stable, healthy, and clean.

Any pain in the body, and desire of good or bad in the mind, any emotional and sensational disturbance in mind will toxify the input.

Garbage in garbage out is the principle of process engineering.

Like a copper pot, the more you clean more it shines, An extremely dirty pot if you clean for two minutes it will be clean.

But it will not be as clean as it becomes after your rub it for ten minutes. If you use lemon or tamarind it will be cleaner. This way more time you spend to clean, and the higher quality material you use to clean more cleaner will be the copper pot.

More cleaner the pot For more duration, you can use it for your rituals without cleaning again.

A healthy mind and body is like that We know it will never be the perfect But our efforts to keep the input clean and healthy will impact the process and its outcome.

After input, let us now see activities. Activities depend upon a method or a framework or a system or traditions you choose. You can customize these methods based on your need and nature But the overall architecture of one system remains the same.

Vipassana, Shambhavi, Shoonya, Kundalini, Zen, Transcendental, etc are a few examples of the frameworks. A framework may emphasize more on breathing Or sensation or imagination or sound or taste or smell or Akasa or an object or combination of these.

Some framework gives importance to the place, environment, body motions, and movements of eyes. But all emphasize on the presence of mind in present and awareness.

Because of other life priorities, if you have to exit the process and move into either daily mundane activities or challenging activities the impact of a few minutes of intense meditation remains with you a whole day.

How long it will remain it depends upon how intense was your meditation, what kind of activities you do a whole day, what environment you live in. what are your food and drink habits?

If you avoid doing this process to gain some power, which can be used for your physical enjoyment then it will give you better results.

If you do this process to learn how to be a witness of all the phenomenon world around be it creation or destruction, be it birth or death, be it make or break, be it loss or profit, be it coming and going then more you will be blessed by this process.

Don’t do this process with any expectation (productivity, peace of mind, good relationship etc) Don’t do this process for any gain of future Don’t do this process for pleasing or showing others Even if you are doing it before your Deity, don’t do it for the Deity. Don’t do this process for acquiring occult powers.

Do this process, out of love and respect As this is the best biggest things which our ancestors could give to us Do this process to live in the present for a few moments of the day.

Results need not be seen and praised by others The result need not be explained to others But results will transform the way you see Life around, relationship, work, gain-loss, pain-pleasure around.

O Pratibimba, could I inspire you for experiencing this wonderful gift which is available only for humans?

Hari Om Tat Sat Yours Truly Hari