Vedanta, Hinduism & Indian Philosophy

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Friday, February 18, 2005

Meditation Decoded

Mind is the cause of freedom and bondage of human. Human is not an idol of blood, bones and flesh. It has the mind too, and mind is made up of many positive and negative thoughts. From very childhood, whatever impacted the mind is somewhere in any corner of it. These subtle thoughts have their effect on the body through mind. Every thought generates very strong effect on body e.g. when someone is scared, his body starts trembling and turns pale.

What is the nature of mind? It does not like to focus on one subject. When it is tried to be concentrated on one point, it begins to run and tends to go on different subjects. The mind sticks in useless thoughts. It doesn't want to live in the present. The mind like to live either in future or in past. Though the velocity of the light can be measured, but it's impossible to measure the speed of the mind. It is because mind runs with infinite speed. Mind always wants to be in motion. There are newer and newer desires in the mind every second. The fulfillment of one desire gives rise to thousand new desires.

There are a lot of methods to control the mind e.g. prayer, worship, devotion and knowledge etc. But out of all these, meditation is the best. It is very difficult to control the mind and it's nearly impossible to control it at once. This task needs patience and persistence. Easily it can be controlled with practice, renunciation and determination. Meditation is the key of the mind. It purifies the mind and destroys the thought-waves. Meditation is the process of transformation of the conscious and subconscious mind into super-conscious mind. It stops the wastage of mental powers and makes the stressed mind calm. Meditation gives the rest to the mind and generates tremendous amount of energy within body and mind.

1 Comments:

  • At November 06, 2005 9:32 AM, Ojovathi said…

    How to know whether we are in a meditating phase or not? Sometimes I am able to visualize god/godesses pictures and sometimes nothing. Only rarely I could not hear outside noices during meditation. How to practice deep subtle meditation?

     

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