| The Purpose of Life :
Ignorance of the true nature of our mind is the root cause of all the torments of Samsara. Mind's habitual tendency when it is under the control of the senses is to distract from its original state of openness and potential to achieve bliss and enlightenment. The remedy is to bring mind home, to its true nature through the practice of meditation.
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature.
If you cannot make yourself happy, how you expect you can make others happy? The person does not know how to handle his physical body; he does not know how to deal with his mind and emotions. Still he wants to control and handle the affairs of the world. Most of us think that we are all general managers of the world!
We have and still are developing too many techniques to torture ourselves. Man is his biggest torturer and he would blame everyone and everything around him including God for his state of being miserable.
One of my friends whilst discussing about meditation said that meditation is something imposed on the natural mind. I tried to explain that in every interaction one has with the outer world through his senses, his mind puts on different attitudes and attires. When he sees his old teacher, he become polite or appears to be polite at least, on seeing a person with whom he maintains a mental block his mind and body become agitated; when he meets his love he becomes possessive and abundant in affection- so many roles it plays. But in meditation our interaction is only with our inner personality and beyond that our Soul Divine so in that stage our mind becomes natural and open without any bondage. It is a dialogue in silence with our own self and it become a monologue as it goes deeper and ultimately to a realm devoid of language, imagination and any dualities. That is the Samadhi State, sama means equal adi means origin which means equal to the origin.
Your body is not yours. Your infant body was the contribution of your parents. This big body came from the things that you consumed. And you have to leave this body behind. So it is not yours. It is like a rented hotel room. Your mind is also not yours. It is a dustbin. All the passers by has thrown some waste into this dustbin. Society Dustbin.
Just for sleeping, eating and procreation and death you don't need this body. Worms are doing it. They are better eaters. White ants for e.g. Most of the other creatures are far better than you in these four things. There are creatures that can sleep continuously for 3 months and 6 months. There are fishes who procreate hundred of fishes from one fish. To be precise, simply to eat, sleep, procreate and die you don't need this body. There is some other greater purpose.
Meditation is bringing mind back home; the scattered mind back home.Meditation defuses our negativity, aggression and turbulent emotions. Mind is like a candle flame. Unstable flickering, constantly changing and fanned by the violent wind of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will burn only steadily when we can claim the air around us.
The primary purpose of our life is to have a life charged with a noble purpose. Self-realization is the true purpose of human life. To return to the Origin. After dispelling all Karmas, we should go back to the infinity forever not to reawaken to suffer and be miserable in the temporary existence of life. Charaivethi…Charaivethi……
Simplified Kundalini Yoga Meditation, especially the Thuryatheetha Dyanam takes your mind back to its naturalness and passageway to enlightenment. It is like a holy dip in the cosmic consciousness wherein you merge your individual consciousness into cosmic consciousness and get purified of your negative imprints inherited and acquired.
Courtesy : Ass.Prof. Sasi Roopan
Courtesy : Maharishi Vethathiri's Philosophy |
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