How to meditate?

Q) How to meditate?

Ans.) Meditation is not a technique where one can learn. It is not something which can be done, performed, or manipulated to get something.

If we have to grow a plant, we don't grow it just like that. We till the soil, prepare it properly, sow the respective seed and provide appropriate nourishment and wait patiently for the seed to sprout and grow into a plant. The growth of the plant happens all by itself. We only prepare the appropriate environment for it to grow.

Another example is: if we have to go to any particular place by train we will not manufacture the train, we make ourselves available on the right platform where that train arrives. Our availability at the right time and appropriate place is the required criteria.

Similarly for meditation to happen, what we need to do is to take some time out from our busy schedule, we should stop making noise and sit in silence. When one sits in silence and all the thoughts are subsided or when there is no attachment towards the thoughts then meditation happens and that is what is true meditation is. Hence, meditation is not a technique, it is not something which can be made to happen. It is not something that can be created or manipulated. It reveals itself when we let go our self and sit in silence and wait patiently for it to happen all by itself. It is our attachment to our self and our attachment towards our thoughts that prevents meditation from happening. The moment we realize this aspect, then one can meditate wherever and whenever.

I think, therefore, I am!

I think,

therefore,

I am.

I exist only when I think. When I am not thinking, where do I exist? This is a kind of self-enquiry each and every one of us have to carry out at one stage or the other.

Modification and manifestation

All manifestation and modifications happen because of the attachment towards the thought. A simple question and answer on this aspect.

Q) What is the  cause for  modification?

A) Attachment towards the thought 

Q) What gets  modified? 

A) The attachment towards the thought gets modified and in turn that thought gets strengthened and materializes into some object (manifested cosmos) with the help of panchabhutas.

Q) By whom? 

A) By that individual who is attached to the thought and subsequently who or whatever is in the vicinity of that.

Q) Why does it happen? 

A) Because of delusory thought that the manifested cosmos is real and the attachment towards the thought that something has to be manifested or materialized.

Q) What is the method of protection against  modification?

A) Very simple. Detachment towards thought.

I AM THE SILENT WITNESS

I AM THAT SILENT WITNESS

I am that Eternal Silent Screen Witnessing everything.

Whatever may be the emotions,
Whatever may be the perceptions,
Whatever  may be the feelings of the images that are being casted upon,
I am untouched by them,
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Who I am and What I am?
It just doesn't matter
Whether I am living in a body or not living in a body
It just doesn't matter
Whether I am angry or
Whether I am peaceful
It just doesn't matter
Whether I am happy or
Whether I am in deep sorrow
It just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Whatever may be the emotion;
Whether it is anger, happiness, sadness, sorrow or joy
It doesn't matter
Whether there is love or hatred
It doesn't matter
Whether I am excited or in deep melancholy
It just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Whether I have to play a role of a father or a mother
A sister or brother, a grand child or grand parent
It just doesn't matter
Whether I have to play a role of boss or a subordinate
Whether I have to play a role of master or a servant
It just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Earthquakes may come, tsunami's may come
Trees are born and trees may die
Planets may evolve, stars may be born
So many stellar bodies may evolve and die
But still, it just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

An insect is eaten by a bird
That bird is eaten by a bigger bird
A smaller animal is eaten by a bigger animal
A weaker animal is eaten by a stronger animal
In this relativistic world every animal is trying to survive
But still, it just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Water gets evaporated and forms into clouds;
Clouds condense and turn into rain;
Rain gets collected and forms rivers;
Rivers flow and nourish the land;
Trees are grown and eventually they die also.
Rivers flow and flow till they merge into the ocean and lose their identity.
Whether an identity is born or it is lost;
It just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Whether a thought may come or a thought may go,
Whether a thought may transform into another thought or,
A thought may materialize into something;
It just doesn't matter
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing everything as a cosmic motion picture.

Time moves on from seconds to minutes,
minutes to hours, hours to days,
days to months, months to years,
years to decades, decades to centuries.
Millions of years just disappear.
Time itself is only a relativistic phenomenon,
that is happening in this vast cosmos.
So many things will just transform from one form to another,
in that time period,
which is the biggest illusion that is occurring
and is being casted as an image on that empty screen
I am not entangled or attached to the image
that is being casted and is transformed in that illusory time
Because I am that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing the time itself as a part of the cosmic motion picture.

Let us be aware of that Eternal Presence of that Silent Empty Screen.
Come what may. Whatever happens, it will happen only in the relativistic world.
Let us not bound  let us not get entangled with anything.
Because we all are that Eternal Empty Screen which is silently witnessing the time itself as a part of the cosmic motion picture.

Difference between Truth and fact

Q) What is the difference between Truth and fact?

A) Truth is ever existing. It will not undergo any change. Whereas fact will undergo frequent change. The fact that is present in this moment will undergo a change in the next moment. The time changes in constant motion with the fact also.

Facts are all those happenings in this relativistic world. All that we see or hear or perceive through our senses in the relativistic time are all facts. All facts have life for that moment only. The water that flows in a river for that moment only. The same water that flowed in a particular moment of time does not flow in the next moment. The human body that exists in a particular moment does not exist in the same way the next moment, it will undergo many changes when we look at it microscopically.

All facts happen in the relativistic time and there is no denial of them, because they have happened and there is a witness for all those happenings, and each fact happened at a definite time for a definite period of time however minute that time may be. The facts will tell us that a particular happening has happened. Apart from that they will not tell us anything. When we look at a fact after its happening and ask ourselves, why this fact/incident has happened, we will not have an answer. But only when we look at it metaphysically then we understand that there should be a cause in the past for every effect which is the fact that is happening in the present. Hence, every fact that is happening in the now has a cause from its past.

It is a fact that we have a human body. But, for obtaining this human body what was the cause? When we question in this manner, then we can get into the root cause, and a deeper and perfect root cause analysis by self-inquiry will reveal that it is our thought process and our attachment towards our thoughts in the past has created and made us to obtain this present body.

Since the present body is already an effect of the cause of past thought patterns or conditional thinking, we cannot change it much. We have to bear more or less with it. However, how this present body has to be in future (with the existing body) and further more into future (after leaving the present body) is where we have a choice, and that is where we have to make at least a better choice. We need to choose whether we further need to have attachment towards our thought processes or not. If we have attachment towards our thought process, then we will create another situation or another fact that will eventually happen in the relativistic time. If we do not get attached to any of our thought processes, then nothing will eventually happen in the relativistic time. So, it is like a picture being projected on a screen continuously. Show after show is being projected on the Screen in relation to our attachment towards our thought processes or conditional thinking.

Now let us pause here for a moment and observe carefully.

Where is this picture being projected on? Where is this show happening?

The show is happening in the relativistic time and all the happenings of the show, we are calling them as facts. The projection of the show is being projected on a Screen which is never changing. So, the Screen that is not undergoing any change is the Truth. As picture cannot be seen without the screen, so this cosmic motion picture cannot be seen without the help of Truth. All this cosmic motion picture is happening on the Truth as substratum. Instead of focusing on the cosmic motion picture, if we de-focus ourselves from this and focus on the Screen that is the Truth, then Truth will automatically reveal itself.

At the beginning and end of every show we all see the screen. But as long as the movie is being projected on the screen, we forget the screen. Similarly before or at the beginning and end of every life we live with the Truth and know the Truth. Only when we get entangled with the so called life that is this motion picture played by this body, we forget the Truth.

To understand the Truth and realize it, we need to take out some time and de-focus from the so called facts and focus on the Screen or Truth. The moment we do it we would be getting away from the conditional thinking. And the more and more we focus on the unchanging, ever existing Truth, more and more we can get away from our conditional thinking. The more and more we get away from our conditional thinking, the less and less our attachment will be towards our thought processes. In this manner somewhere we will get bored of the shows that are being projected and instead of getting involved in show after show (life after life) we can get rid of our attachment towards our thought processes completely and get away from the series of shows that are being projected and anchor ourselves in the Truth.

Facts happen because of our attachment towards the thoughts on the substratum of Truth similar to that of the picture being projected on the screen. The Screen is the Truth which is ever existing and does not undergo any change. The picture is the fact that undergoes various changes. We have to chose whether we want to live with the Screen/Truth or we want to live with the motion picture that is being projected on the Screen. The motion picture cannot exist without the screen, similarly the fact cannot exist without the Truth. Screen can exist without the picture, in the same way Truth will exist without the facts. As screen is the substratum for every picture, similarly Truth is the substratum for every manifestation.

To know the Truth we simply have to de-focus from the picture and witness the Screen. Remember the Screen/Truth is unchanging and ever existing.

What is Meditation?

Q) What is Meditation?

A) The one that happens when everything is "let go" by sitting in silence is meditation. "Let go" means, letting go the thoughts (attachment towards the thoughts), aspirations, perceptions, feelings, emotions, control, etc. Letting go everything including the "I."

Stop

Stop Seeking till you find It.