Meditation - Search for the Divinity Within - How Can We Recognise Progress? Part 03

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Meditation - Search for the Divinity Within - How Can

We Recognize Progress? Part 03

 

A miner knows success when he strikes gold. A racer knows

success when he crosses the finish line. A meditator knows

success when he transforms his character. Meditation must

enable us to practice truthfulness, love, inner peace, and

care for all beings. If meditation cannot change our lives,

it is a hollow practice. If we do not have the conviction to

act on our inner directions, we waste our time in listening

for the voice. If we do not practice our duty, we are only

putting on a show for ourselves or others. What is the use

of sitting in meditation if no result is achieved?

 

" Do you love more, do you talk less, do you serve others more

earnestly? These are the signs of success in dhyana. Your progress

must be authenticated by your character and behaviour " Baba

 

True meditation helps us to discover our inner identity. It enables

us to hear the divine voice in our heart, which illumines the path

ahead. It allows us to perceive and develop divine qualities

 

" Man is divine. He can purify himself into perfect divinity by the

process of dhyana, taken up with eagerness and followed with faith by

virtuous individuals " Baba

 

Progress in meditation results in the elimination of desire. Desire

gives us no peace; instead, it hides the divine light in our hearts.

When the mind is controlled and examined, it is seen to have no form

of its own. Like a shining mirror, it only assumes the image of that

which is reflected in it. Our object must be to see directly the

light of atma, the inner divinity, without the aid of this mirror. To

do this, we must remove desire.

 

" The mind has no independent identity of its own; it is a

conglomeration of the desires that sprout from the impulses. A cloth

is essentially a bundle of threads. Threads, in their truth, are

basically cotton. Similarly, desires arise from basic impulses, and

the mind is constituted of these desires. Just as a piece of cloth

disintegrates if threads in it are pulled apart, the mind too can be

destroyed by the eradication of desires " Baba

 

Continued... Meditation - Search for the Divinity Within - Make Joy

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