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| Evolution of Love Part 2 |
| We all meditate, many of us do, very often we can sit but we cannot meditate because our mind moves here and there, up and down most of the time. So is there a way to meditate? When one meditates, does one have to strive hard to meditate or does meditation come naturally without any striving? To illustrate this point, there is this beautiful story of a discussion that the Buddha had with his favourite disciple, Ananda. One day Ananda was trying to meditate and in his mind there was a question which was almost insurmountable and in his effort to find a solution, an answer to this question, Ananda was walking up and down, up and down until his feet started to bleed. He could not compose himself to sit down and meditate unless he had found a theoretical answer, a solution to this particular problem that plagued him that day. The Buddha, it is said, who was watching this whole scene quietly, called him over and said, "Ananda, aren't you a great musician? Haven't you played the veena for me many times?" "Yes," said Ananda, "My lord." "I have at your request, played the veena to you many times." "I liked the music, the veena as you play it," said the Buddha. "Can you bring your veena once more and play it for me?" "Sure" said Ananda "whatever you wish, that I fulfil." Off he went and came back with his veena. "Just a minute Ananda," said Buddha, "can you hand over the veena to me? I would like to tune it for you." "Surely," said Ananda and handed-over the veena to the Buddha. The Buddha took the veena into his hands and started tightening the strings. He tightened and He tightened and He tightened and He tightened and then when the strings had become so taught that they were in danger of breaking, snapping, Ananda cried out, "stop, stop." "O great one, now you will break the strings because you have tightened them too much." "Ah," said Buddha, "I am sorry" and then he loosened the strings until they became so loose and slack that Ananda said, "O enlightened one, the strings now are so slack that no music will come out of it. One cannot play on this. They have to be tightened up to a certain level and not more and not less for music to come." So the Buddda smiled and said, "So Ananda, so also is the mind. To go into deep meditation, to listen to the music of the spheres, one has to keep the mind alert and stable and poised, not slack and lazy; at the same time not so stressed and tight as you seem to be keeping your mind." "For no music shall come, for the mind shall break and if the mind breaks, no instrument have you other than it to find the truth. Therefore, follow the middle path, neither too much nor too little; neither this extreme nor that." "And if you keep to this golden principle of the middle path, you surely shall attain the capacity to reach Nirvana." When sitting down to meditate many find it difficult to sit still and to concentrate, when the mind starts to wonder. Kriya Yoga Master, Yogivah Giri gave this very practical advice to overcome restlessness: “Relax by clearing the body and the conscious mind of dynamic prana. To overcome restlessness, visualize breathing through the spiritual eye. Practice hong-sau while you visualize breathing through the spiritual eye for some time, to enhance Prana flow into the higher physic centers of the brain. Now practice 14 Kriya Pranayamas and relax into the super-conscious tranquility aftereffects with your awareness at the spiritual eye and upper brain. This very effectively calms restless Prana, which is the cause of restlessness. Have compassion for those in misery, for those whose Prana is dynamic. When Prana is static the kinetic mind's stillness is attained, and the radiant Soul-Moon appears whose radiance is equivalent to the light of millions of suns............” |
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