What is meditation?

In everyday life, people want to break their routines or want something to make their mind relax. They want a peace. Which finally drags them to meditation. Then, Is a meditation way out?, .Is mediation a medicine for overwhelming thoughts? Becomes a big question while one tries to pacify the mind.

At first, what is meditation?

• Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.[Wikipedia]

• to engage in mental exercise (such as concentration on one's breathing or repetition of a mantra) for the purpose of reaching a heightened level of spiritual awareness (Merriam-webster)

Generally, this is how we understand the word mediation, isn't it?. Some kinda technique or exercise for the purpose of this and that. More clearly, do in this manner and see this happens.

Once I tried to do mediation. Brought some book of it, prepared routine and started to do mediation. Within a several days, to my surprise everything was as it was mentioned on a book. I could feel the changes within me.

During the time, I was left to think by another incident which happened as, there were some aunties talking about way of seeing God by focusing with eye close. They were explaining about the method. I stood there listening them . With my curiosity I asked, "Does it work?". One of them answered " yeah, after 10-12 days you will be able to see image of God when you close your eyes and focused.

From that day, I became to ponder about, " what the hell is meditation?". Because, it was leading us to illusion. How can one see god just by focusing?.

As, I was continuing doing meditation on my routine, I noticed that, changes which was happening within me was actually not in correct order. Because I could pacify my mind easily but with that I could also be annoyed with no time. Then, I realized that I made myself to remain in the extremist point of emotions with meditation. Either remain relaxed or be sophisticated. I shifted my balance to the extremist point and also made my mind to believe that when I am comfortable then that is a balance point. There I was trapped into illusion.

Two illusions, one reached by aunties and another experienced by myself gave a jolt to ask myself, " what is missing with the meditation?".

In the definition of mediation there are two parts.

1) Action

2) purpose

These, two when mix up then it forms a illusion.

Action, purpose and illusion

The word meditate is derived from Latin word, meditari which means ponder. Of course one can't remain without performing a action. Meditation is no doubt is a action orientated. We need to do something.

Also behind every action there is purpose. Without a purpose no one here is ready to put effort in actions.

There is one Nature's law which says that ,"THE WORLD IN FRONT OF US AND WITHIN US HAPPENS TO BE PROJECTION OF OUR OWN MIND". Furthermore, it supports the fact that, how everything happens depends upon your positions of mind.

Now, see, action and purpose are guided by this law. And we can clearly conclude that, whatever happens i.e. outcomes of meditation is actually forced by our mind or is will of our mind to happen in that way.

Closing eyes and seeing God is a part of minds play and also the feeling that we feel after meditation too is the cleverness of mind. Our mind is so clever that it creates reality within illusion. So, we feel everything is happening.

From the begining, the flaw that is missing with meditation is the role of mind. So, there are three elements of meditation they are :

1) action

2) purpose

3) mind

Illusion and reality

Many meditators fails to separate illusion from reality, so they live in illusionary world. This fact is supported strongly by the question that," many people are meditating more than the times of Buddha's but why no one is blessed with enlightenment ?". Answer is simple, the mediation we know will lead to illusion and makes us to believe that is the reality.

Meditation makes to settle our thoughts that's the joke. Don't believe in it. When your mind knows what is next, it makes your mind to flow in that direction that is the reason why one gets in the trap of mind.

Way out of meditation?

One need to break the chain that binds reality with illusion. Is it possible?. Yeah it is possible, but this time we drop down some elements of meditation. Let's us cut down the purpose and role of mind from the definition of meditation. Now, there only remains, action.

From today onwards, we gonna define as "mediation is action". We won't attach any purpose. More clearly, meditation is totality. If you are sitting just sit never bother about what's the next. This is the true meaning of meditation.

Once, Jesus will be delivering speech , in the middle one voice from crowd ask, " YOU ALWAYS MENTION YOUR FATHERS KINGDOM, TELL US WHO WILL GO THERE?", to this question he answers ," the person who is child in nature".

How are child? They are the example of totality. Then don't wonder about results they remain with the moment. They are always in present.

In the end of day, we found out that meditation is totality i.e. being in the present. In a simple words, meditation is the living in a moment. If your actions are driven by past and future then it becomes result oriented. Once results comes in middle then mind comes to play it's role. Be aware about it........

This is only my view. Many differ with yours

Thank you.......

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