January 24, 2014

Your Love - Only a Desire, not True Love

You love a shirt, or pen or car for its beauty and impressiveness.  Do you really love it?   Always? No.  You want to replace it after some years.  You love a person because he or she has good qualities, good personalities, intelligence, etc.  When they are lost, will you love the same person? You love a person because he helped you on all needs.  Will you love him if he turns into a selfish fellow and denies help for you? Some people say "I loved him very much and did much for him but he cheated me."  Expectations of some returns is business, not love.  Another misconception of love is that true love means love towards only one person faithfully.  If it is true, what about Mother Terasa who loved the entire humanity.  Thus desire, possessiveness, sexual attractions and loyalty are all misunderstood as love.
What is true love?
A love without any desire to get anything in return, without any attempt to possess or control or change the other person, without any reason is true love.  Desire is born of head but love is born of heart.  Desire has a reason, a target but not love.  If you love a girl and want to possess her, you make her a slave, her very freedom is lost.  Marriage legally commits that crime.  True love always guarantees the freedom of the loved, never imposes any conditions on the loved, and is always ready to give itself totally.  Love towards all in existence without any difference, whether the small grass or big star, blood relations or strangers, the beautiful or the ugly, the rich or the poor, people of your religion or the other is the true love that always arises from the Enlightened one.  Meditation leads to Great Silence which becomes Source of your true love.

Sensitivity - Your Spiritual Excellence

Take a tree.  The leaf, root, bud, flower, fruit and all are parts of the tree.  The whole tree is within a small seed, simply existing with all potentials. If we look at the small seed, it may look ordinary and of not much importance because we could not see any leaf or flower or fruits within it.  Existence is like that, being formless, not visible to any eyes or scientific instrument, looking almost nothing.  But within which everything exists, from which everything emerges, which is in everything.  The whole universe has emerged from it and being operated by it.
Any two things in existence is neither superior nor inferior to each other. They are not equal to each other but unique in their own way.  Leaf is no way superior or inferior to the root but both are unique in their own nature, potentials, function, etc.  Simply they are part of trees.  Small ant and biggest elephant, small stone and the biggest star and all such two things are neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal but unique in themselves.
You too are on the same line.  You are part of existence and you have emerged from existence and you are the existence itself.  No man is an island. You are connected with all in existence and therefore you can communicate with all in existence in past, present and future.
You are existence.  What you see around you are all simply you but in different forms and different names.  The dress you wear, the watch you use, the pen you have, the girl, sun, mountain, and whatever you see are simply you only.  The object, the watcher and the consciousness that is watching are all you only.  You belong to everything and everything belongs to you.  You are in everything and everything is in you.  How can you get or lose anything from outside when you are Everything.  You have nothing to achieve.  You have no destination to reach because you are everywhere.  This Great Sensitivity, this Great Sense of Belonging is Your Spiritual Excellence.

January 23, 2014

Silence - not Peace but the Less Known You

Peace, not silence, is the absence of noise, enmity and war outside.  Silence is the absence of your mind which is always chattering within you.  Silence is not attained when you take efforts and do something for it.  You find it when you you don't take any efforts but in just being relaxed, in your non-doing.  You cannot get it because you are Silence.
It is the very centre of your being - the centre of a great cyclone.  It is where your head stops functioning and your heart starts functioning.  Your consciousness is alive where your mind dies. 
Pleasure is physical and sensual from objects and persons through senses; happiness is mental and you get it when you get promotion or relief from mental worries and so on; delight is hearty arising from your love  for nature and innocent children and so on.
Eternal joys and bliss are spiritual arising from your own eternal silence when you find yourself with all beings, with the existence.  You are blissful for no reason, getting the source from nowhere but from yourself.  It is divine, pure, eternal, spontaneous, overwhelming - the Great Liberation.

January 21, 2014

Heart - Better than Head

Your speech, writing, vision, listening, and your creativity such as poetry, music, dance and paintings can come out of you in two ways - either from head or from heart.  Almost ninety-nine percent of the people use only their head to express themselves.  Only the few meditative share their joys arising from heart, from profound peace, from the very centre of their being.
Whatever comes from head, that is unreal, unnatural, ugly, egoistic, aggressive, tainted with desires, your longings, anguish for appreciation and reward.
Whatever emerges from heart is sharing of inner harmony, inner joys, revelation of the existence itself and so it is so beautiful, natural, spontaneous, inexhaustible, melodious, blissful and the purest of all without any ambitions and ego.
The west is an example for the production from head whereas the east, from heart.  Meditation gradually makes one move from head to heart and at last everything from heart only- there you are the enlightened one, you are yourself.

January 20, 2014

What is Meditation? [ First Stage]

Meditation means doing nothing - the body without movements and the mind without thoughts.  when you start meditation, body can be made silent easily by simply sitting in a calm place but not the mind which goes on chattering. 
First stage :  Sit in a calm place in a relaxed way by dropping down all your past memories, future expectations, desires, commitments and responsibilities. Close your eyes.  Come out of your body and watch your own body from top to bottom, inch by inch as if you are watching somebody else's body.  Now you are subject and the body is object.  The object is a visible solid one but the subject which is watching is consciousness, an invisible one that is you.  Now watch both the object and the subject.  All your chattering will stop here and you move towards great silence. Then you can watch a tree, bird, the moon, book, and any solid objects and you are the subject, invisible consciousness.  You watch then both the subject and object.  Thus it is easy to start your meditation by watching your body and all other objects.
Watch simply without any thoughts, comments or ideas. If any realisation truth about body or revelation arises, allow it - that is the wisdom arising out of your own peace.  But don't expect or desire for it.  Meditation is flowering of yourself - not something of planning and building with great ideas.