Understand something about Meditation ……..

Understand something about Meditation ……..

       Dhyan   is a Sanskrit   word. There is no appropriate word in English.

Meditation is the most accepted word for Dhyan.  Word meditation   denote, connote that you meditate upon something. It indicates that you are concentrating on some thought or some object.That’s why meditation is  understood as concentration. Meditation is actually opposite of concentration.

         Here I am using word Meditation alone in dialogue with you

I ask you a simple question ‘Do you practice Meditation?’ I know for sure that each  one will say different.

Someone will prefer to say, I do not have time, I am too busy’.

Someone will say ‘  I am not too old to do meditation, after VRS.. I may think ’.

 Very few will say, ‘ Yes,   we do meditate ‘.

If I ask for those who Meditate,‘ What you do in meditation ? ’

 Answers will be ‘ I Chant a Mantra’  ‘I Offer  Prayer’ ‘ I Concentrate On something’

Let me, explain to you first   what not Meditation is.

Concentration on   jyoti   lamp is   a trataka & not Meditation.

Concentrating on any thought or an idea is contemplation & not Meditation.

Chanting a Mantra, a japa , helps you to concentrate but it is not Meditation.

 Controlling & manipulating breath is modified versions of Pranayam.

Twisting, turning, folding body in different angle is varied forms of Asana.

Listening to Melodious music helps you to relax and calm but is not Meditation.

Offering prayers of different forms may bring peace to you but is

not meditation.

Contemplation means directed thinking, Concentration means mind is focus on particular object or thing, meditation means no mind stage, mind does not exist, and mind is utterly empty.

People ask which meditation should they follow whether Vipashana  or Yoganidra or Shavasan? Whether Transcendental Meditation or  Zen meditation or Dynamic mediation or Chakra meditation.

 My dear friends, these are all different meditational practices. Steady posture,  early morning, fresh mind, pleasant atmosphere all produce conducive effect in Meditation .

Remember, you are not doing anything; nor desiring anything, neither aspiring anything nor it is about wanting anything. Not desiring anything is also a desire.

Just be there, be empty, and drop the contents of your mind. Go beyond

Mind, be with self. If you remain in the process of meditation alone and

Do not go beyond mind then as Saga Ashtavakra   says Meditation   would be Bondage.

By Ajeet Bhide