Meditation is only nessessary or possible........

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a snip from No Mind I Am The Self...David Godman

 

Many people thought that Swamy was doing intensive meditation of tapas during

this period but these ideas sprang from a misunderstanding of the state that he

was in. Even since his realization he had known by direct experience that he was

the Self. This Self-awareness remained unaffected by the transient states of

waking, dreaming and sleeping. While these three states continued to come and go

he never identified with them; instead he was continuously aware of himself as

the Self. This awareness was the same whether he was dreaming, sleeping. in

samadhi or functioning normally in the world. No effort of meditation was needed

to sustain this awareness; it was automatic and continuous because it was the

direct and unimpeded experience of his real nature. Meditation is only necessary

of possible for those people who are not in this state. Swamy makes this clear

in the next quotation:

 

There is a man in this state called Balayogi.* He has been sitting continuously

in some kind of trance-like state, twenty four hours a day, for nearly 40 years.

He says that he is meditating. He may be experiencing some kind of blissful

state, but if he is still meditating then he has not realized the Self. the

jnani does not meditate because there is no individual self in him who can

meditate, and nothing apart from him to meditate on. The jnani just remains as

he is, the Self.

 

* The words were spoken in 1982. Balayogi died in 1985