Meditation
Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realizes the Truth.
Through meditation the soul becomes fully aware of its evolution in
its eternal journey. Through meditation we see the form evolve into the
Formless, the finite into the Infinite; and we see the Formless evolve
into the form, the Infinite into the finite.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to
the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are
one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life
can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between
birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself. Our birth is a
significant incident in God's own existence. And so is our death. In
our birth, life lives in the body. In our death, life lives in the
spirit.
If we feel that we are satisfied with what we have and what we are,
then there is no need for us to enter the field of meditation. The
reason we enter into meditation is because we have an inner hunger. We
feel that within us there is something luminous, something vast,
something divine. We feel that we need this thing very badly; only
right now we do not have access to it. So our hunger comes from our
spiritual need.
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten
minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and
quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any
distracting thoughts or desires to enter. When we can make the mind
calm and quiet, we will feel that a new creation is dawning inside us.
When the mind is vacant and tranquil and our whole existence becomes an
empty vessel, our inner being can invoke infinite Peace, Light and
Bliss to enter into the vessel and fill it. This is meditation.
When we think that it is we who are trying to meditate, then meditation seems complicated. But real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness. We start with our own personal effort, but once we go deep within, we see that it is not our effort that is allowing us to enter into meditation. It is the Supreme who is meditating in and through us with our conscious awareness and consent. ~Sri Chinmoy