Saturday 25 January 2014

The Practice Of Meditation

Photo: आत्मोन्नतिमें सहायक बातें -७- बहुत-से भाई अपने को भक्त मानते है, लेकिन जब तक भगवान् की मुहर (छाप) नहीं लग जाती, तब तक कोई भी भक्त नहीं हो सकता । भगवान् की मुहर क्या है ? भगवान् ने गीता के बारहवे अध्याय के १३वे श्लोक से १९वे तक जो भक्तों के लक्षण बतलाये है, वहीं भगवान् की मुहर है । जैसे हरे रंग का चश्मा चढ़ा लेने से सारा संसार हरे रंग का दीखने लग जाता है, वैसे ही बुद्धि पर श्रीहरी का चश्मा चढ़ा लेना चाहिये । बुद्धि के ऊपर श्रीहरी का चश्मा चढ़ा लेने पर सारा संसार श्रीहरी के रूप में ही दीखाई देने लगता है । जहाँ हमारा मन जाय, जहाँ हमारी दृष्टि जाय, वहाँ भगवान् के स्वरुप का भाव करना चाहिये । यह समझना चाहिये की संसार में जो कुछ वस्तुमात्र है, वह भगवान् का रूप है और जो कुछ चेष्टामात्र (हलचल) है, वह भगवान् की लीला है अर्थात भगवान् ही अनेक रूप धारण करके भांति-भांति की लीला कर रहे है । ऐसा समझ कर हर समय भगवान् की लीला में मस्त रहे । एक बात बड़े महत्व की है । संसार का व्यर्थ चिन्तन सर्वथा हटा देना चाहिये । जहाँ-जहाँ मन जाय, वहाँ-वहाँ से हटा कर उसे भगवान् में मन लगाना चाहिये । एक भगवान् के सिवाय किसीका भी चिन्तन नही करना चाहिये । एक भगवान्-ही-भगवान् है-ऐसी वृत्ति बनानी चाहिये । आप एकान्त मैं बैठ कर जप-ध्यान करते है-उसमे आपका मन नहीं लगता, इसका कारण है-आप की बुरी आदत । आपको चाहिये की जहाँ मन जाय, वहाँ से जबरन उसे हटाकर परमात्मा में लगावे । इसी प्रकार की साधारण चाल से जो सैकड़ों वर्षों में लाभ होता है, वह उक्त प्रकार के जी-तोड़ परिश्रम करने पर बहुत ही थोड़े समय में ही हो सकता है ।. Om Namah Shivay ***Write " Om Namah Shivay " if you ask for God's blessing on your life today. Please Like, Tag and Share to bless others! http://www.vedic-astrology.co.in

The Practice Of Meditation

As with anything else, the more we practice meditation, the more we feel the benefit of what we are doing. We do need to practice meditation regularly because the habits of:

i. identifying with our physical form,

ii. succumbing to mental and emotional negativity (in the form of waste and negative thoughts) along with negativity in words and actions,

iii. becoming attached to the physical as well as the non-physical, and

iv. being dependent upon the experience of physical stimulation of any sort (from e.g. food, movies, people, sports etc.) for happiness are extremely deep.

These habits have deepened over a period of time, because of repeating them regularly, due to a lack of spiritual awareness. As a result, in the present moment also we regularly and quite easily slip into these four habits.

We regularly and quite easily slip into four main negative habits. So meditation is not only sitting in a quiet corner, and connecting with the self and the Supreme, at a couple of fixed times during the day, but it is also the way to gently remember and remind ourselves, many times in a day, that we as well as others, are souls or spiritual beings not physical beings, by detaching ourselves from actions and also while being involved in actions. These reminders given to the self over a period of time become natural and prevent us from succumbing to these four habits. Given below is a basic meditation, which you could use to remind yourself regularly during the day:

I have a body but this body is not me...
I have thoughts but these thoughts are not me ...
I have feelings but these feelings are not me ...
I have attitudes but these attitudes are not me ...
I have emotions but these emotions are not me ...
I have beliefs but these beliefs are not me ...
I perform many actions through my sense organs, but these sense organs are not me...
I play many roles but I am not my roles...
I experience joy or sorrow through my sense organs, but these experiences are not me ...
I am a soul - a being of energy, which is neither created nor can be destroyed, and my original and true nature is one of peace, love, joy and power...

Om Namah Shivay
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