 106. Meditation |
There is no reaching the SELF. If the SELF were to be reached, it would mean that the self is not here and now but is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the self is not reached. You are the self, you are already that! The fact is, you are ignorant of your blissful state. Ignorance supervenes and draws a Vail over the pure self, which is bliss. Attempts are directed only to remove this Vail of ignorance, which is merely wrong knowledge. The wrong knowledge is the false identification of the self with the body, mind, etc. This false identification must go, and then SELF realization along remains. Therefore, realization is for everyone: realization makes no difference between aspirants. This very doubt, whether you can realize and the notion, "I have not realized," are themselves the obstacles. Be free these obstacles, also.
-Ramana Maharshi
For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lamp stand, the table and the show bread, which is called the sanctuary; and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all, which had a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that budded and the tablets of the covenant.
-St. Paul, Hebrews 9:1-5
The ark of the covenant is a metaphor for the vessel of the brain which carries the "law" of God, the "manna" is the energy or bread of life which sustains the human body, when a person is in the correct relationship with God either in meditation or the state of permanent God-self-realization.
The description of the ark of the covenant being made of acacia wood and measuring two and one half cubits, may in fact be the description of a portable shrine which many wandering tribes used. The true spiritual ark is in the brain center.
The practice of meditation is not the practice of trying to FIND God, it is the practice of not being something other than God. You don't BECOME good. You just STOP being bad.
-kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Meditation is not striving and does not achieve anything, meditation is the letting go of everything until there is nothing left, no motive, no fear, no attachment, nothing to see or learn, and the only thing left is the pure SELF (you) as eternal never ending SELF-awareness.
Meditation is the RESTING INSIDE the body in the ETERNAL HERE AND NOW of the INSIDE world.
Meditation is the practice of BEING PERFECT until you, BECOME PERFECTION (perfect spirit, NOT a perfect physical body).
Nor will they say see here! Or see there! For indeed the kingdom of God is within you.
-Jesus, Luke 17:21
If anyone desires to come after me, (to return to that which I have returned to) let him deny himself, (give up the false egoic reference condition) and take up his cross Dailey, (meditate and crucify, dissolve, the ego) and follow me.
-Jesus, Luke 9:23
Meditation proves to ones self that the inner world spirit is the real world.
