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MEDITATION

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The definition

We have so many fantasies about the future and the past. Suddenly we wake up and find there is nothing. When we try to attain fulfillment like this, it will never happen. It is like trying to do housekeeping in your dreams! You buy a big house in your dreams, try to keep it clean and neat and suddenly wake up and find that everything is lost! On planet Earth, whenever you hang behind the past and the future, you are wasting the present moment, the precious present moment in which you can live, which you can just enjoy, where you can just feel Existence. Whenever we are drowned in the past or in the future, we again and again miss the present - the life, the Life Force. If you bring yourself to the present, even your inhaling and exhaling quality will be different. The moment the Energy shift happens in your Being, that energy shift is what I call meditation. Meditation is not sitting in a corner, alone, in a cross-legged position, with back pain, knee pain, neck pain, and saying, ‘I am not able to control my mind.’ Meditation is all about making a shift in your Consciousness. The moment you bring yourself to the present, you feel enthusiastic, alive, joyful and blissful. So the cognitive shift, or shift in your Energy is what I call meditation.

Paramahamsa
Conscious Talk - Radio interview
29 Mar 2005, Seattle, USA

Paramahamsa seated and smiling

Unless meditation becomes natural every moment of your life, you cannot say you are spiritual. It is only part time spirituality...DOING...

Paramahamsa

Sri Dakshinamurti

Sri Dakshinamurti -
primordial Guru and form
of Shiva. He is the first ever
enlightened Master who
happened on planet Earth.
He stands under the sacred
banyan tree in the
Bangalore ashram, drawing
millions of seekers from all
over the world.

THE ATTITUDE

Before you start

When you come here for meditation, I don't demand faith. I don't ask you to believe in me. I don't ask faith as a pre-requisite. Just one thing: have simple; curiosity to try - like a scientist. The real spirit of science is trying to analyze, trying to work, trying to explore. If any hypothesis is proposed, they will try to explore it. The curiosity or the capacity or the energy to explore is what I need when you work with these techniques.

Spirituality also needs the same spirit. A real scientist will always be curious, enthusiastic to explore. Please have that much of energy for these techniques too. Have the courage to explore. Then you will see that miracles happen in your life. You will simply transform. When you listen to the techniques, they appear so simple. You may tend to think, 'No! This is too simple to work! All this will not work on me.' Or, if you feel it is too complicated, you will think, 'Oh! It is too complicated. It will not work!" In both instances, you arrive at a conclusion before you practice even once. Please don't do this. Just allow it to happen, you never know…

Browsing the current issue of the ashram's Tamil magazine - Nithyanandam, Bangalore ashram, India

Paramahamsa
From Subconsciousness to
Superconsciousness
15 Mar 2005, San Gabriel, USA

Browsing the current issue of
the ashram's Tamil magazine -
Nithyanandam,
Bangalore ashram, India

A young girl speaking into a microphone sitting among other children and adults