Sai message for the day

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Are you pleased with our dhyana, meditation?

 

Do you call what you do every day meditation? No, you are not doing

it properly. It may be anything but certainly not meditation. It is

all right that you sit down to meditate. But your mind is in the

market, you will be thinking of what you are going to eat for lunch.

Or you will be thinking of your dhobi, when he would bring your

ironed clothes. Is that meditation? Certainly not.

 

A small example. You are seated here waiting eagerly and anxiously

for the arrival of Swami. Any sound of a door or a car will draw your

attention as Swami might come any time. Your mind is fully

concentrated on Swami and you begin to view everything in terms of

Swami's arrival. Do you not? On the other hand, if you are mentally

engaged otherwise and not alert, even if Swami comes and stands in

front of you, you will not notice him.

 

So, in meditation the most important thing is to have a full cent

percent concentration on God. You should be fully alert, without any

diversion of attention. So, an unwavering steadiness of mind. I

emphasise for meditation - calincani manasu bhramincani drsti

(Telugu).