What is Meditation (5)

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Your Real Self <br>Meditation is nothing but a

device to make you aware of your real self - which is

not created by you, which need not be created by you,

which you already are. You are born with it. You are

it! It needs to be discovered. If this is not

possible, or if the society does not allow it to happen -

and no society allows it to happen, because the real

self is dangerous: dangerous for the established

church, dangerous for the state, dangerous for the crowd,

dangerous for the tradition, because once a man knows his

real self, he becomes an individual. He belongs no

more to the mob psychology; he will not be

superstitious, and he cannot be exploited. and he cannot be led

like cattle, he cannot be ordered and commanded. He

will live according to his light; he will live from

his own inwardness. His life will have tremendous

beauty, integrity. But that is the fear of the society.

Integrated persons become individuals, and the society wants

you to be non-individuals. Instead of individuality,

the society teaches you to be a personality. The word

'personality' has to be understood. It comes from the root,

persona - persona means a mask. The society gives you a

false idea of who you are: it gives you just a toy, and

you go on clinging to the toy your whole life. <br>As

I see it, almost everybody is in the wrong place.

The person who would have been a tremendously happy

doctor is a painter and the person who would have been a

tremendously happy painter is a doctor. Nobody seems to be in

his right place; that's why this whole society is in

such a mess. The person is directed by others: he is

not directed by his own intuition. <br>Meditation

helps you to grow your own intuitive faculty. It

becomes very clear what is going to fulfil you, what is

going to help you flower. And whatsoever it is, it is

going to be different for each individual - that is the

meaning of the word 'individual': everybody is unique.

And to seek and search for your uniqueness is a great

thrill, a great adventure. <br><br>The Psychology of the

Esoteric, Ch. 2, 4 February 1971, also in: Meditation - The

First and Last Freedom.