Pujya Sri Ramchandraji's Disciple Founder of  "Institute of Sri RamChandra Consciousness" 

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MEDITATION

The method essentially consists of the practice of meditation. Meditation has got many meanings. It can mean contemplation of a particular subject. It can mean concentration also, in some places, in some systems. It can be contemplation on just what you see in Nature. It can be contemplation on what the great men have said, by fixing up your thought on that. This is generally known as manana by us and we don't include it as dhyana. It is one of the essential ingredients of any serious practice and dhyana also is there. We talk about dhyana only.

There are two things - you have to meditate and you also have the assistance from the Guru through Pranahuti. These are the two aspects of our system. The reason why another person should be interested in you, is mainly because his desire to share, his desire to serve. So long as it is not motivated by any selfish consideration of the person we should have no objection to receive it. We do not like to be exploited; naturally you also would not like to be exploited. We would like to learn. So the whole process is, you do your sadhana and you will be assisted in your sadhana. There are certain meditational practices we advise.

1. One is the early morning meditation.

2. We have got another process, in the evening you clean yourself or purify yourself.

3. You offer prayer for the well being of others universally to all people at a particular time i.e at 9'O P.M.

4. Before you go to bed, you offer your prayer in a particular way, the method of praying itself will be told.

5. We also ask you to participate in satsang, once you join us, which is had on Sundays and in some places and in some cities on Wednesdays evenings also. The reason for asking people to attend satsang is, in a collective group meditation, you feel greater force of the Divinity entering into all of us. It is a matter of experience, you can feel for yourself.

6. We also advise you that once you get introduced, to take individually sittings from a qualified trainer, with whom you can discuss -

a) What are your difficulties in sadhana?

b) How you are able to progress? and

c) How you are not able to progress.

d) What are the circumstances which enable you to progress further and seek ratification of that process

e) What are the difficulties that you encounter, and how best you can get rid of them

So these are all the methods of meditation that we suggest.

The purpose of meditation, some say they have got some problems and some say that they want concentration and some say that they want some satisfaction of desires, etc., but basic purpose of meditation is to know more about ourselves. We seem to be knowing everything in this world except ourselves. Even the name that we have got is what somebody has given us. We were not born with the name. Of course the form, we are born with it and that seems to be changing enormously. From childhood it has been changing and it continues to change. Our attitudes, our opinions, our desires were also getting transformed. Then who are we? How do we know what we are? What exactly are we? This question appears to be philosophical, something with which no ordinary man need bother about because after all 'we are living sir, we are happy, what is the need for knowing all these things?' It boils down to that. But when you know that internal happiness is not coming from the external circumstances, when you know that you seem to be swayed away by certain feelings, certain emotions, either for the good or the bad, then you would like to know, what exactly you are, how you react. Why is it that you react in a particular way?

All our consciousness has been outward directed till now. We have been responding to external stimuli and internal one is restricted to our hunger or our urges. We do not seem to be aware of many other things that are there inside. We have framed our ideas, our attitudes, our aspirations, everything is inside. We do not seem to know what exactly they are, we don't have crystallized opinions. If we want to know, we have got to go inward. Inward consciousness is what we have got to develop, our consciousness now is outward. I talk to you by seeing you, my speech is what you are hearing, these are all outward things. When you close your eyes, when you don't allow any other senses to work except your mind, then you face yourself. Facing yourself is a tough task. The first thing that you would like to do is to get away from that place because it seems to be so bizarre. You really don't know what you are trying to do. The internal consciousness is an extraordinary mix of several attitudes, several wishes, several desires, several aspirations, several emotions. We don't seem to be saying 'yes this is what I am'. If you want to picturise yourself, if you want to put up a picture of yourself, you find it very difficult. To give a portrait of yourself is easy, your internal portrait is something that is very difficult to give. First of all you want to know that self, what exactly am I?

We seem to be having then, two different planes, one - which has got enormously selfish, self centered, desires, wishes etc, we seem to be also having certain other centered activities, wishing good for others, being kind to others. So there are two aspects of us which we would like to know. Then, it dawns upon us that it does not make much sense to bother so much about our lower level, it makes sense to bother about the higher level. Only those who are capable of feeling this would be ideally fit for meditation in the path.

Otherwise if it is restricted to meditation means, I try to get some energy so that I can concentrate well. That type of meditation is entirely different. If you want to take a test just now, you can close your eyes, count down from 25 to 0. Close your eyes, start counting down from 25 to zero. Close your eyes, kindly do it from 25 to 0. Do not have any other idea except counting down. Count the numbers please from 25 to 0. You would have seen that your mental tendencies which were going out were getting restricted to those numbers. A simple act of counting down is capable of bringing you into a state of calmness. You don't have to do much of exercise, this is enough exercise. If you are satisfied with just getting calmness, this meditation is good enough meditation to do but that meditation can be helpful only in solving your problems, perhaps. Somebody comes to your shop, disturbs you, you do this, you are back at work, no difficulty, you have forgotten that fellow. Similarly when somebody distracts you in your studies, if you do this you are back in your studies. This is a very very simple meditation. All that you have got to do is to count down. No mantra is required, no tantra is required because this mind is capable of doing that itself. This is at the level of the dharana, we are able to maintain a thought on dharana level. This has not moved to the dhyana level. Please understand the difference.

When we go to the dhyana level, we are trying to know what we don't know. We start with a surmise, we don't know what we are. I don't have to count numbers, I don't have any japa to say, any mantra to say. All that I know is, I just don't know myself. If you feel that helpless situation you are fit for a mature meditation. If you feel competent, please note that you will not be in a position to move on to the finer aspects of meditation. Meditation demands that you do nothing and just nothing. If you do something, you are in the field of dharana i.e concentration. So this system that we are talking about with no strings attached is something connected with meditation per se. We are talking only about meditation, allow your thoughts to go wherever they want. Don't bother about them, don't give even an attention to it as some systems ask you to give attention but if they leave an impression, at the end of the meditation please do record it. Don't try to make a note of what you are going through in your meditation but at the end of the meditation please note what the remaining thoughts are and what you feel about it. That is only for the purpose of diary writing

So the meditation proper is not to meditate on any object. So what is the thought that we can give you for that? You require something to work on. So we suggest that you meditate on the divine light in the heart. Divine Light is a meaningless word for us because we have not seen such light. We know only solar light, we know this fluorescent light. What is that divine light? We really don't know,