MEDITATION -- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

In my post about TEA -- I had mentioned how Bodhi Dharma cut off both his eye lids after 9 years of meditation -- in a fit of self inflictment.

To understand why he may have done this  -- you need to understand the process of GENUINE meditation.

The ancient Vedic  Indian psychology has a  fourfold scale, which represents the degrees of the ladder of being by which man climbs back to the source, the absolute divine. 

The change, from “here” to “there,”  is not an uneventful process at all. 

There come dry periods, deviations, violent alterations, and temptations. If there are raptures and azure heavens, there are anaconda agonies and absolute abandonments, howling hot deserts and “dark cold nights of the soul” to go through. 

Streaming tears of joy, horripilation (bristling of the hair), stigmata (bodily marks or pains), and parapsychological phenomena have been known to develop.

The first stage of meditation  achieves detachment from sensual desires and impure states of mind through analysis and reflection and thereby attains an emotional state of satisfaction and joy. 

In the second stage, intellectual activities are abated to a complete inner serenity; the mind is in a state of “one-pointedness” or concentration, joy, and pleasantness. 

In the third stage, every emotion, including joy, has disappeared, leaving the meditator indifferent to everything while remaining completely conscious. 

The fourth stage is the abandoning of any sense of satisfaction, pain, or serenity because any inclination to a good or bad state of mind has disappeared. The meditator thus enters a state of supreme purity, indifference to everything, and pure consciousness.


THE ANCIENT VEDIC RISHI IS THE GUY WHO CAN ENTER THE 4TH STATE AT HIS OWN SWEET WILL BY TOUCHING TWO FINGERS ( MUDRA )--THE STATE OF SUPREME INNER SILENCE,  VAST EXPANSION , NIL EMOTIONS AND PROFOUND KNOWINGNESS-- AWAY FROM MAYA . He offered certain molecules to his brain receptor sites--  more satisfying than LSD or Soma. His DNA remembers all the things that has ever happened to human beings.


Maya is the illusion of boundaries--the creation of a mind that has lost its cosmic perspective. People caught in the web Maya have lot of knowledge but little wisdom. They can see everything, but will miss the most important .

There were no bounds to the magical powers that can be attained by great Hindu ascetics and yogis  teaching the suppression of all activity of mind, body, and will in order that the self may realize its distinction from them and attain liberation.  

Prayer is NOT meditation. The former is a petition to  God, and the other is a detached observation of one's own mind, and its processes.

In the modern world, meditation is used as a non-religious technique for relaxation and stress reduction for long-term psychological improvements. Meditation is done to purify the mind and gain insight.  It abstracts the self from conscious thought, and frees the mind from feelings that cause stress and suffering.   It fosters creative intelligence, raise consciousness, and enables fuller use to be made of mental potential.

The spiritual aims are peace of mind, wisdom, and, ultimately, a state of enlightenment or self-realization.  It is a  form of natural healing, and helps people cope with  anxiety, depression, and drug dependence.

The attention is focused on monitoring the breath, and noting thoughts crossing the mind, without any judgement or attempt at control, but as a silent and detached witness.  If the mind throws up distractions, the meditator returns to simply observing the breath each time the distraction happens.  A relaxed and unhurried attitude is important, since slowing down and observing the mind to see how it works is central to the philosophy behind meditation.

Using the mantra technique, the meditator concentrates on a mantra  to banish intrusive thoughts and thus achieve progressively quieter levels of thinking until thought itself is transcended. The subtle vitalizing frequencies of mantras activate psychic energies and awaken our intuitive faculties. 


Sonic frequencies interact with our cellular vibration levels and assist in maintaining a healthy resonant frequency in our bodies. Mantras still the activity of thought and helps you find a deeper level of consciousness. You will believe in Mantras only if you see a video of the mind boggling perfect geometric patterns,  sand will form on a tonoscope ( cymatics ) 

Meditation brings peace and allows us to raise our vibrational level.  Digestion grounds us. Hence eat only after  the meditation session.  Eating engages the body’s digestive system , thus returning the body’s vibrational level back to normal.

 

During meditation thinking is separated from perceiving, so that the individual can stand apart from the emotional self.  The reason why people remain mired in negativity is because of the beliefs they have inherited over time. Beliefs are subconscious. 


We act in the way we do because we are not aware of our beliefs and the feelings that these beliefs generate. That is why it is important to obeserve yourself and look within. We can do it. That is why we are different from animals.

We can use our  conscious mind to observe ,to introspect and dip into the  subconscious where our beliefs are embedded , in order to eliminate it.  You can meditate to rewrite these negative programmes  that cause you misery.

To be a mystic or a seer is not the same thing as being a spectator on the fence.  Mysticism provides an escape from a life of uninspired existence. It magnifies man and gives him a hope and destiny to fulfill.

In the modern era the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. 


A Mystic who is not of supreme service to the Society -- AINT NO MYSTIC AT ALL.  

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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