THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF MEDITATION🔗

The first is bringing the truth or awareness into your life. This mediation is supposed to be done all twenty-four hours a day. Breath-related techniques like vipassana⁵ or techniques where you bring your awareness to the present moment all the time belong to this category of meditation. It is not a part of your routine. It should become the very quality of your routine. You may be doing anything like writing, reading, cooking, discussing, but this thread of meditation should be happening simultaneously, like an undercurrent.

With the second kind of meditation techniques, you need to spend a particular time, like one hour in the morning or one hour in the evening, or any other convenient time. The Mahamantra⁶ meditation technique, where you hum for a few minutes and then remain a witness for a few minutes, can be given as an example for this category of meditation. Nithya Dhyaan (explained in the last unit 'Nithya Dhyaan - Life Bliss Meditation') is another example of this type of meditation, since it is practiced for a specified time each day.

Then there is the third kind of meditation techniques, where just the very remembrance of the technique is enough. Examples of this are the statements of the great timeless truths. When you are in a highly mature state, you don't need any separate technique. You don't need

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to practice the whole day or at any particular time. Just the very remembrance of these truths will put you in the elevated state.

This is the third type of meditation. Examples of this are the beautiful Zen koans⁷. They are profound truths written in a concise way. Just the very remembrance of them will transport you to the zone of Truth! There is a very beautiful story in the Upanishad where a disciple comes to the master and asks for a technique or a method for enlightenment. The master just says, ‘Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi’ - ‘Thou art that, Thou art that, Thou art that’, ‘You are the Truth,’ and the story says, the disciple became enlightened! It seems like a very strange story.

The master just repeats a few words and the disciple is suddenly enlightened. How is it possible? It seems unbelievable! Actually it is not so. If we have done the first two types of techniques, the technique that needs to be done the whole day and the technique that needs to be done at a particular time, then the very maturity that happens out of that practice will cause you to experience the Truth the moment you hear it from the master!

‘The very maturity that happens out of the practice will cause you to experience the Truth the moment you hear it from the master!’

Self work out

There is a very beautiful story in the Upanishad where a disciple comes to the master and asks for a technique or a method for enlightenment. The master just says, ‘Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi, Tat tvam asi’ - ‘Thou art that, Thou art that, Thou art that’, ‘You are the Truth,’ and the story says, the disciple became enlightened! It seems like a very strange story. Just meditate on this very story. Repeat this meditation two three times. Pen dowen your experiences. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------

The first is bringing the truth or awareness into your life. This mediation is supposed to be done all twenty-four hours a day.

It is not a part of your routine

It should become the very quality of your routine. You may be doing anything like writing, reading, cooking, discussing, but this thread of meditation should be happening simultaneously, like an undercurrent.

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