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Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)

 

Meditation makes one mentally strong

 

CHENNAI, DEC 8. Just as a tiny seed has the potential to grow

into huge tree, every human being has the capacity to become

divine, numerous spiritual masters say while giving inspiration

to men and women who come to them. Each one has the energy

within, which when tapped and properly used or cultivated as done

in the case of a seed to make it become a tree, he will become

supreme. For this, meditation represents the cultivation of that

energy in us.

 

There is nothing in this material world which will satisfy men's

hunger or thirst forever. He has to eat again and again. That is

the reason all of us have to drink spiritual nectar. We crave for

spiritual satisfaction which cannot be easily obtained, but it is

within us. Hence saints have led devotees on the path of

meditation. In order to develop spiritually, it is necessary to

take to this process. For this an object has to be kept or

visualised before us. If the meditator's mind vacillates, his

experience of God will not be clear. Every man can be free to be

divine or a satan, can become an angel or a devil, attain heaven

or hell, or can pluck a rose or its thorn. It is up to the

individual to enjoy peace or to feel himself miserable. The

spiritual man knows that the world is a vehicle for him and that

when he reaches the destination he has to get down. In the same

way, a person needs a body (which is a vehicle) and to get the

maximum benefit out of it, he should resort to spiritual

exercises, and take to meditation. The divine guides speak of

this procedure to those who approach them. The more we take to

meditation, the stronger we will become mentally. The Kingdom of

God is within us and scriptures advise us ``Seek and you shall

find and knock, the door will be opened.''

 

Tulsidas says ``Disgrace to a person who does not enshrine God

within and see Him within.'' One can read holy books and sit in

worship, still the mind will resist the attempts to concentrate.

The mind runs after vanishing objects but the Lord makes His

moves and enlivens a human being by pulling the strings (of

breath) from behind, said Sri Musafir Anand in a lecture, quoting

Tulsidas. Even men with wicked propensities can be reformed by

making them seek the company of saintly men as a rusted metal can

be polished with a superior type of stone. When the mind of a

restless man is constantly disturbed, he should go to a spiritual

guide, pouring out his heart to him, requesting him to teach how

to meditate. Arjuna was in the same situation and did not want to

fight with the Kauravas and even preferred to beg than wage the

war. Then Krishna gave him true knowledge changing his whole

life. God Himself advised Arjuna to meet a realised soul and ask

him to reveal the value of true-knowledge.

 

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