Question: The instance of Raavana doing meditation and tapas, seems to indicate that one need not be pure in order to be successful in this. But Poojya Swamiji insists on purity and sublimity. Apparently, we have not grasped the significance fully. Please clarify this incongruity.
Swamiji: Meditation is a disciplined, exclusive, austere exercise or pursuit. Like any other activity, this can also be done by anyone. Since all activities follow the mind and its needs, meditational activity can also be sought to intensify and strengthen the mind and its needs, no matter what attitude and aim are associated with it.
That is how we find, in our mythology, many instances of vicious persons undertaking intense penance to empower themselves with blessings from Shiva, Brahma etc.
In spiritual meditation, however, the purpose and goal are unmistakably good, noble and benevolent. It is to gain peace and ultimately to realize God and Self, which calls for purity of mind and heart.
Thus, true spiritual meditation is aimed at purifying and sublimating the mind, and sharpening and refining the intelligence, so that the spiritual presence inside the body can be perceived with clarity and confidence. Spiritual meditation truly aims at unfolding one's inner personality. By this, the seeker comes to know the inner Subject horizon with its magnitude, which far exceeds the outer visible object horizon. `Inner' does not mean that it is imperceptible, unrealizable or non-experiential. In fact, the invisible within is the source and sustenance of the visible outer.
When the baser emotions give place to loftier ones, when constrictions fall, and expansion dawns, when in place of the world coming first, God becomes predominant in your thoughts and attitude, it marks the beginning of realization. You will find that instead of the body, the Self strikes as the first and last entity or presence. Then the whole world appears as an extension of the Self, with inside giving birth to the outside.
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru.
Swamiji: Meditation is a disciplined, exclusive, austere exercise or pursuit. Like any other activity, this can also be done by anyone. Since all activities follow the mind and its needs, meditational activity can also be sought to intensify and strengthen the mind and its needs, no matter what attitude and aim are associated with it.
That is how we find, in our mythology, many instances of vicious persons undertaking intense penance to empower themselves with blessings from Shiva, Brahma etc.
In spiritual meditation, however, the purpose and goal are unmistakably good, noble and benevolent. It is to gain peace and ultimately to realize God and Self, which calls for purity of mind and heart.
Thus, true spiritual meditation is aimed at purifying and sublimating the mind, and sharpening and refining the intelligence, so that the spiritual presence inside the body can be perceived with clarity and confidence. Spiritual meditation truly aims at unfolding one's inner personality. By this, the seeker comes to know the inner Subject horizon with its magnitude, which far exceeds the outer visible object horizon. `Inner' does not mean that it is imperceptible, unrealizable or non-experiential. In fact, the invisible within is the source and sustenance of the visible outer.
When the baser emotions give place to loftier ones, when constrictions fall, and expansion dawns, when in place of the world coming first, God becomes predominant in your thoughts and attitude, it marks the beginning of realization. You will find that instead of the body, the Self strikes as the first and last entity or presence. Then the whole world appears as an extension of the Self, with inside giving birth to the outside.
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru.
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