Give Priority To Your Meditation (from a Satsang Discourse of Baba Ram Singh Ji)

 THE PATH OF SANT MAT is the path of love and affection. Mahatmas have been explaining that the soul is a form of love and the Master is also a form of love. God Almighty Himself is a form of love. And the Path of going back to God Almighty is also a form of love. But ever since the soul has separated from God Almighty and has got engulfed in the net of Kal and Maya, it has separated from God Almighty and has manifested itself in the form of Kal and Maya here.

So, that same love, which has manifested in the outward pursuits of Kal and Maya here, if we are able to inwardly direct that same love and affection, then we can move within at great speed and velocity.

Therefore, our love and affection have to be prioritized. And, oftentimes, we prioritize all of the other things, all of our mundane activities, and other things. And because we have a love and affection for those things, we prioritize those and we say, “Okay, after we have finished all of those activities, we will sit for meditation.” And then, sometimes we sit for meditation; sometimes we do not sit for meditation. And that’s how our meditation gets affected.

The Gayatri Mantra

 

Meister Eckhart

 “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

ROBERT E. WILKINSON

“To realize Self is to realize the eternal freedom of the spirit. The first realization of the Self as something intensely silent and purely static is not the whole truth of it. There can also be a realization of the Self in its power. Establishing the mind in the Self means the conviction that the self alone is all, and that there is nothing other than it. As ones process deepens, the pervasive sense of coolness and calmness shows that the consciousness is reorienting itself at a deeper level of the being. Joy and happiness not dependent upon outward things begins to manifest. One becomes aware that he is acted through and totally dependent upon the Divine. This realization and accompanying release into peace and happiness is spoken of as liberation and carries with it the value of being released from jail. One begins to feel that the ordinary consciousness is something quite external and on the surface. It does not seem to be ones real self."

THE BUDDHA TAUGHT US THAT DESIRE IS THE CAUSE OF OUR SUFFERING

Our minds are full of desires which cause us to experience a lot of suffering. But most of these desires are unnecessary, meaning that we are also suffering unnecessarily too.

The nature of the Self is Satcitanand - being, awareness and bliss. The Self does not require anything outside of itself for happiness or bliss.

Our desires for external material objects is actually causing us to suffer, and drawing us away from experiencing the inherent Bliss we have within our nature.

Learn to be content and ignore the endless desires arising in the mind. Practice meditation and yoga, sitting quietly abiding in the Self and the inner presence of God.

TILOPA

The darkness of a thousand aeons is powerless to dim the crystal clarity of the sun's heart; and likewise, aeons of samsara have no power to veil the clear light of the mind's essence.

SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI - SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION, CH. I, § 12

The individual being which identifies its existence with that of the life in the physical body as ‘I’ is called the ego. The Self, which is pure Consciousness, has no ego-sense about it. Neither can the physical body, which is inert in itself, have this ego-sense. Between the two – that is, between the Self or pure Consciousness and the inert physical body – there arises mysteriously the ego-sense or ‘I’ notion, the hybrid which is neither of them, and this flourishes as an individual being. This ego or individual being is at the root of all that is futile and undesirable in life. Therefore it is to be destroyed by any possible means; then That which ever IS alone remains resplendent. This is Liberation or Enlightenment or Self-Realisation

Maligret Phiri

Hinduism is predicated on the idea that the eternal wisdom of the ages and of divinity cannot be confined to a single sacred book. While others might look to the heavens to find God, the Hindu looks within himself. There is no Hindu pope, no Hindu Vatican, no Hindu catechism, not even a Hindu Sunday. Hinduism does not oblige the adherent to demonstrate his faith by any visible sign. Instead Hinduism offers a smorgasbord of options to the worshiper: of divinities to adore and to pray to, of rituals to observe, of customs and practices to honor, of fasts to keep. Hinduism allows believers to stretch their imaginations to personal notions of the creative Godhead.

BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD

 

"All the joys of the entire cosmos put together would be only a small drop of the bliss of the Supreme Being. Whatever little satisfaction we have, whatever pleasures we have, whatever joys we are experiencing, whatever be the happiness of life - all this is but a reflection, a fractional distorted form, a drop, as it were, from this ocean of the Absolute."

TENZIN PALMO

It’s like a dance. And we have to give each being space to dance their dance. Everything is dancing; even the molecules inside the cells are dancing. But we make our lives so heavy. We have these incredibly heavy burdens we carry with us like rocks in a big rucksack. We think that carrying this big heavy rucksack is our security; we think it grounds us. We don’t realize the freedom, the lightness of just dropping it off, letting it go. That doesn’t mean giving up relationships; it doesn’t mean giving up one’s profession, or one’s family,or one’s home. It has nothing to do with that; it’s not an external change. It’s an internal change. It’s a change from holding on tightly to holding very lightly.