Why Meditate?

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Harsha Vardhan (Founder Director & Trainer)

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In this fast age people’s incentive to meditate has to be of some practical use. My experience from close quarters has been that most people who come to a formal meditative path, are there for the benefits God can give them rather than God himself. Nevertheless it is a good beginning and some day God will qualify on their agendas on His own merits.

All our senses are designed to look outwards. For example you can hear the world outside and you cannot hear your own blood gushing through your veins. God hides behind our senses, within the pauses between our breaths. Let us discuss those outcomes which will be a sure short by-product of a sincere effort to go within:

There is a deep reservoir of unhindered peace awaiting to be accessed through the instrument of breath. There is a technique to do it. Learn it.
Meditation is an art of listening to God whereas prayer is talking to God (Mostly a wish list though). When you are able to master your concentration, you develop intuition, you are able to perceive cosmic guidance, become better at judgement, retain and process information quicker and in advanced stage one is able to hear the sound of OM in meditation.
Experienced meditators always respond from a calm centre rather than a knee-jerk reaction to every stimulus. The calmness soon transforms into confidence, understanding, tolerance and kindness.
God meets a deep meditator’s consciousness in eight forms of Love, Power, Peace, Calmness, Joy, Wisdom, Light and Sound. His presence is very tangible and long lasting even after the meditation is over.
Stress reduction, increased focus, peaceful persona, emotional balance, calm attitude, developing insight, relaxed mind, mental strength, fearlessness, enhanced creativity are some of the benefits accrued by a regular meditator.
In deep meditation we become aware of who we actually are. The Smriti of the soul comes alive, we know that we are not just a body with spirit but we are a spirit travelling in the body whose essential nature is made in the image of God. Those who follow the Yamas and Niyamas well, God bestows on them the Siddhis although that should not be a prime goal of a meditator.
Meditators age slowly. Not only do they tend to breathe slower but also learn how to tame their senses. They do not waste away their precious energy into sense gratifications and thereby conserve the Prana for useful purposes. All those looking for a high in life must try the most powerful high of breathlessness in meditation.
Our senses run in all directions and you cannot control each and every aspect of your nature. Interestingly, worldly desires emanate out of lower two chakras (the Mooladhar and the Swadhisthan). The process of meditation pulls up the energy from lower chakras towards the point between the eye brows (the Aagya chakra). The energy available in the lower chakras gets depleted and the worldly desires are weakened or shed completely by the process of meditation. You will not realise when you got rid of bad habits.
Meditation is highly scientific. It is tangible, provable and offers long lasting solutions. The difference between science and spirituality is that Science first conducts an experiment, gets a result and on analysis forms a belief.
Whereas spirituality first has a belief, then experiments with the techniques and gets a result thereby firming the belief.
The process of meditation is best documented by Patanjali Rishi who has given mankind the 8 fold path called Ashtang Yog. I am not getting into those details now, as it will be covered in another blog but largely, meditation has three stages:
1. Relaxation (of body and mind),
2. Interiorization (the techniques involved),
3. Expansion (awareness and introspection).

Never before we had so much time available to us. By the time the virus will depart it would have taught us valuable lessons. This blog is to encourage people to try their hand at regular meditation. All you need is a quiet corner in the house just twice a day. To know how to reach the inner labyrinth of your consciousness, SOUL is always eager to help.

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