Connect to Center

Monday, 23 July 2018

Connect to your centre

The Speaking Tree | Spirituality | ET

By Mata Amritanandamayi

I am often asked, what is your religion? My religion is nothing but love. You should inquire into your true nature and believe in yourself. Regular meditation can help us practise universal love. Restless and dissatisfied people miss the gift of life. So much energy is wasted that we could otherwise have used to enhance ourselves, our families, jobs and society.

What we search for is actually present in the now. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Selfrealisation is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfilment of spiritual practice.

Meditation helps conserve energy and puts us in touch with our center, calms our restless minds, sharpens our intellects, makes us more aware of what is going on around us. It opens our hearts to the beauty and bliss of each moment, to the interconnectedness and unity inherent in all beings. The silence we experience in the depths of meditation carries over into the rest of our day, effecting calm. We become less irritable and less distracted. The energy normally wasted on unessential thoughts is now available for us to direct as we deem fit, allowing us to focus on the job at hand.

When we meditate, the whole environment is purified. So, even those around us are positively affected. We are not isolated, we are like links in a chain. The harmonising effect of an individual’s meditation can spread to the community, nation and the world.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

7. These three are more internal than those that precede.

Before these we had the Pratyahara, the Pranayama the Asana the Yama and Niyama, they are external parts of the three –Dharana, Dhayana and Samadhi . when a man has attined to them he may attain to omniscience and omnipotence, but that would not be salvation. These three would not make the mind Nirvikalpa, changeless, but would leave the seeds for getting bodies again. Only when the seeds are, as the Yogi says “fried’ do they lose the possibility of producing further plants . These powers cannot fry the seed.

But even they are external to the seed less (Samadhi) compare with that seedless Samadhi there fore even these are external. We have not yet reached the real Samadhi the highest but  a lower stage, in which this universe still exists as we see it, and in which are all these powers.

But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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