 106. Meditation |
The soul is the knower of all things. There is a divine light within you. The soul is not a thing to be strived after. It is ever present in us all, but not visible to the common or distracted person. God is the one, though he may have many names. He belongs to Hindus, Mohammedans, Christians, Taoists, Parsis, Buddhists, etc. He is in all scriptures but beyond scripture, he is all knowledge and wisdom. He is in all creeds, faiths, religions and sciences of the world and at the same time prior to them all. He is the true inner being of all people, our very essence and pure consciousness, the heart consciousness of all beings, regardless of race, material wealth, cast, color, male or female, etc.
-Swami Muktananda
Meditation-Cultivation
That every kind of seeking, including every method designed to liberate, purify, develop a perfect life, was based on the separate existence of the ego or other personality. Traditional yoga and every remedial path and strategy is based on a single anxious (fearful) effort to experience freedom, bliss. Because the fundamental viewpoint is founded in separateness, i.e., the longing for God, for experience, liberation, salvation. Real or true existence is a matter of "prior understanding," a condition of no dilemma, no separation, no need to accomplish any goal or state. The seeking of visions, lights and other experience may happen in meditation but they are not the goal or purpose. They must be transcended (as a form of subtle temptation) until self achievement, self realization, nirvana, the kingdom, satori is re-established as ones true and original condition.
-Franklin Jones
Spiritual self realization is not dependent on the body-brain or thoughts. It is dependent on consciousness or spirit PRIOR to the body-brain function, the body and spiritual centers are used as initial REFERENCE POINTS until they are transcended and no longer needed. Meditation brings insight, wisdom, spiritual knowledge and spirit understanding. Where do you think wise men (and women) come from? How do you think they became wise? All people are special and chosen by God to express his divine will, i.e., to manifest into his/its own creation through the human race and experience and to know him/its self.
The one (the ego) who SEARCHES for the truth loses it. The one (ego) who wishes to HOLD the truth causes it to slip away. Because he/she DEPARTS from his/her OWN TRUE NATURE to search for something outside of ones self. One then overlooks the truth of his/her OWN BEING; to BE is to be TRUE.
-Lao Tzu, The Hua Hu Ching
This above all: To thine own SELF be TRUE, and it must follow, as the night day, thou canst not then be FALSE/to any man.
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The aforesaid is not a statement to be selfish or greedy or to place one's self ABOVE others. It is the spiritual understanding of remaining in one's true and natural inner state as spirit while PASSING THROUGH the material realm. "ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE WHERE WE BELIEVE THE SCENES TO BE REAL, AND WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON, AND OUR LITTLE LIFE" (when being identified with the psychological person-ality) "IS ROUNDED WITH SLEEP".
-William Shakespeare
As the true self starts to increase, and the false self starts to decrease, one may find one's self at a "spiritual crossroad." An individual may not know which self is the true self. The true self has been identified with the body-self for so long that it (the body-self) has become a "bad habit." One may wonder whether "to be or not to be." The correct choice is to be the god-realized-self. After the individual becomes stable in their born "again state" one will not do "wrong" knowingly as Socrates states, i.e., one does not relinquish the superior self and return to the inferior self (the "WRONG" state) knowingly.
