GENESIS OF MEDITATION
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“From the time immemorial human beings were doing research in the inner world and the outer world. Research and development in the outer world is outer science, continuously they are expanding their boundaries acquiring more and more comforts and developing lifestyle.
Same way a group of inner world scientists (enlightened beings) started doing research in the inner world developing meditation techniques, methods and sutras (formulae) to achieve the eternal bliss, Nithyananda (Nithya – eternal , bliss – ananda)”
FIGURE 1: PRIMORDIAL MODE OF DISSEMINATION OF WISDOM OF LIGHT
The picture is a depiction of
the primordial mode of
dissemination of wisdom of
Light which happened in Vedic
Bharat, the Land which is the
beacon of spiritual light in the
world, through the Guru-
shishya parampara, or Guru-
disciple tradition.
The initial revelation of pure
knowledge happened in the
consciousness of Rishis, the
scientists and knowers of inner
consciousness, through a
means called Shruti, or the
spontaneous expression of language and divine formulae and techniques for the transmission of them in the minds of those sages. These spontaneous expressions of language and divine formulae and techniques which can transform the mind-body-being of any sincere seeker are called meditation; this is the genesis of meditation
More recently, in this present Yuga, there has gradually been a descent of powerful energies on the planet which have appeared as a pure result of cosmic law becoming manifest as a force of change. Like the manifestation of Avatars. An Avatar is a phenomenon which happens as a result of cosmic impulse to restore pure memory and experience of divinity, a phenomenon which spreads like a fragrance that wafts across the air and awakens those in its path to a glimpse of reality.
Presently there are such Avatars who walk amongst us on the planet, like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharishi and Paramahamsa Nithyananda and many more hidden from our sights, like Mahavatar Babaji.
With Avatars, and especially with the so-called Poorna Avatars, who descend into human consciousness out of pure compassion for humanity, there arises the ability to produce at will, through pure intent and superconscious transfer of energy, the same experience of truth and bliss in those who are receptive and ready to be transformed.
"Scientist creates formula to reproduce the understanding and truths of outer world, Paramahamsa creates meditation techniques to reproduce the same understanding, same experience, same enlightenment, same bliss which happened in them"
Learning and intelligence
A Master is one who talks out of his experience of the ultimate truth. He talks with the ultimate authority because he has had the ultimate
experience. We are all generally under the impression that only with age and experience, maturity happens and one can flower.
Masters are living examples to show that you don't need time to mature and flower. Let me explain this further to you:
When you were a child, you were very much attached to your toys, were you not? If someone took a toy away from you, how would you have reacted? You would have screamed and cried as if your whole life depended upon it, right?
But now that you have grown up, if someone takes a toy away, does it matter to you? Will you feel upset? No! You are no longer attached to the toy. When knowledge descends on you, maturity happens naturally.
This kind of knowledge and maturity, although we feel that they come with age, actually has nothing to do with physical age; it is to do with a man's mental age. Research has found ways of detecting a man's mental age. They have found that the average man's mental age is not more than 14!
With a man's physical age, he needs to go through all possible experiences, make all possible mistakes, and become experienced and mature.
It is something like this: When we touch the flame of a candle, we get burnt and learn that the candle flame burns. Next we touch the fire on the stove and learn that the stove fire also burns. Next we touch the cigarette butt and learn that that also burns. Then we touch burning coal and learn that it too burns.
In this way, by touching various forms of fire, we learn that all forms of fire burn. By the time we learn this, it becomes time for us to go to the burning ghat ourselves! This is what we call experience in life. This is what we call learning by experience; acquiring knowledge with physical age. It takes you a lifetime to learn your lessons. With progressing age, you learn – at your own sweet pace.
On the other hand, just by touching the first fire, if you understand that all forms of fire burn, you are intelligent. This does not require age to learn. It requires only intelligence. This signifies your mental age. That is why we say that wisdom has nothing to do with physical age. It is a question of how intelligent you are, how much you have nurtured your inner intelligence to understand things.
Assignment 2
Self work out
Find your mental age Knowledge and maturity, although we feel that they come with age, actually has nothing to do with physical age; it is to do with a man's mental age. Research has found ways of detecting a man's mental age. They have found that the average man's mental age is not more than 14!
Close your eyes now.See inside and pen down really what you feel about you.Go back to your inner feeling about you what had about you at age of 14 or before.Compare the you then and now.Pen down honestly! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- If you have pendown differences check how many of those differences are not mental just they are physical or social.Delete all which are not mental,you will have no points left.If you still have points left two possibilities can be there,one you are enlightened already! or you have to re-do the homework honestly.
Conclusion
Wisdom has nothing to do with physical age. It is a question of how intelligent you are, how much you have nurtured your inner intelligence to understand things. When knowledge descends on you, maturity happens naturally.
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