WHEN TO DO MEDITATION?🔗

When to do meditation? This is always a controversial question! All the youngsters think, ‘I can do this in my old age after I have lived my life fully and I don’t have anything else to do.’ All the elderly people think, ‘I should have done this in my young age when I was fresh and energetic.’ So the question is not just how long to meditate everyday, but also when to make the decision to include a meditation practice in your routine.

Meditation is just like reading an owner’s manual before you start driving the car. The person who does not read the owner’s manual before driving the car will naturally meet with accidents. In the same way, meditation is like the owner’s manual for your body and for your life. The person who has not started meditation before entering into life will end up with suffering and depression at one point or the other. Please understand, meditation is the basic need for every life. It is not an option. It is a very basic need.

After the age of seven, you need meditation, because until then, as a child you are by nature in a meditative state. It is only after seven that you start getting conditioned by society and drop out of your true nature. To really understand and enter into meditation, one important thing needs to happen in you - psychological revolution.

What do I mean by psychological revolution? It means a clear understanding about the self, world and god. As of now, the understanding that you are carrying about life is not complete. That is why you are not able to experience a peaceful, relaxed feeling in your system. When I say the words ‘psychological revolution’, I mean having a clear understanding about the self, world and

god. It is having a clear understanding about the source of the self, the source of the world and the source of god.

The understanding that is able to give you a completely restful feeling, through which you are able to solve all your problems, through which you are able to find your own life solutions, is called psychological revolution.

Only a person who has gone through this psychological revolution can meditate. Until then, any technique that you try will seem to fail at some point in time. People come and tell me, ‘The moment I close my eyes, I get more thoughts than when I did not meditate. If I am in action, doing something, I have fewer thoughts. The moment I close my eyes and try to meditate, I have more thoughts.’ This means that the psychological revolution has not happened.

The dream state constantly penetrating the waking state and deep sleep state is what leads to more and more misunderstanding, more and more dullness, more and more lethargy.

This is what we call traveling towards suffering. It is the vicious cycle of lack of clarity leading to lack of meditation and vice versa. If the turiya or blissful state penetrates the waking and deep sleep states, then we are moving towards fulfillment. This is the virtuous circle where clarity leads to meditation and meditation leads to clarity. If you straightaway close your eyes and start meditating, you may have an increased number of thoughts.

So in the initial level, I always give a technique which is not directly a meditation, but is more a contemplation. When you work with this technique, it won’t lead you directly to a thoughtless state. It will lead you towards more and more clarity. It will lead to the psychological revolution.

The psychological revolution will develop an intense inner space where you can analyze your understanding, consider your decisions and rethink again and again your desires, fears, worries and all that you consider as the basis of your life. Actually, many times we do not even know what our desires are.

‘With psychological revolution, even ritual becomes meditation. Without psychological revolution, even meditation will become a ritual’

‘The psychological revolution will develop an intense inner space’

A small story: Three old ladies were sitting and bragging about their sons. One of them was saying, ‘You don’t now about my son. He loves me so much, he personally took me to a travel agent and made the best possible arrangements for a twenty-day vacation for me.’ The second lady said, ‘You don’t know what my son did. He not only took me to the travel agent but also arranged for a private light. He arranged everything for a month-long vacation for me!’ The third lady said, ‘This is absolutely nothing compared to what my son does for me. He goes to the costliest psychiatrist and all he talks about is me!’

Many times, what you think is life or what you brag about as a great life, may not be adding to your life in any way. So in the initial level, taking up a technique that can awaken you, that can help the psychological revolution in you, is the best way to start.

Start meditating here and now. Neither age nor time can be the reason to postpone meditation. The next question people ask is whether they should meditate in the morning or in the evening. My answer is that the goal is not to make meditation a quantity of life, but rather a quality of life.

Self work out

Only a person who has gone through this psychological revolution can meditate. Until then, any technique that you try will seem to fail at some point in time. People come and tell me, ‘The moment I close my eyes, I get more thoughts than when I did not meditate. If I am in action, doing something, I have fewer thoughts. The moment I close my eyes and try to meditate, I have more thoughts.’ This means that the psychological revolution has not happened.

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After the age of seven, you need meditation, because until then, as a child you are by nature in a meditative state. It is only after seven that you start getting conditioned by society and drop out of your true nature. To really understand and enter into meditation, one important thing needs to happen in you - psychological revolution.

The understanding that is able to give you a completely restful feeling, through which you are able to solve all your problems, through which you are able to find your own life solutions, is called psychological revolution.

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