Friend: What did you do in the weekend?
A: I did meditation during the weekend.
Friend: Are you insane? Do you want to leave family and go? Do you want to become sanyasi?
A: Why? Meditation is the way to lead life. Ancient indians used to do pooja, japa, meditation every day and yet continue working.
Friend: But meditation is not for our age. We can do after retirement.
A: If that is the case, why are we spending 30k-50k for personality development courses? If someone spend 1lac for personality development course, leadership skills.. he is doing great job. Kudos to English people who ruined the culture of india. Now meditation is alien for indians. We spend thousands or lacs to improve personality. Now it may take several centuries to get back to the good olden days. Spending should yield something in return. If someone say spend without thinking of return, he is insane. If someone tell do what your mind says, he is well wisher. but if someone tell don't do what your mind says, do what your heart says, he is insane.
Our life is all mixed with investment and return policy. We are just doing business with the lives. That is why if someone is crying on the street, we think several times to give 10 rupees. But we spend 1000rs in pizza corner just to please the toungue. Money, Money, Money.. this is what the modern indian is craving for. What do you get? Just more money. For what? to please senses and mind. Thats all.
What personality development courses or leadership courses are teaching?
They just tell how to showcase good side of you and pretend good person in the crowd. But his inner dimension is still with full of poison. What is the benefit from such a leader to the society or company? He just spoils many by misusing the position or power given to him. Is this what we want?
But our ancient Indians derived a formula how to transform a bad person to good. All the methods are just for transformation for inner self so that he is not harmful to any.
Meditation helps stopping the non-sense of mind activity so that one can see the actual picture of life. It helps every individual to be strong irrespective of situations, it helps every individual to be good inside and outside. It helps every individual to work without expecting anything in return.
Friend: What exactly is meditation?
A: Our ancient indian sages did a lot of research on how this mind is functioning. What are the characteristics of human being? why one person who is so good become bad one day? What is the real problem?
Then they found real reason is every individual is ignorant about the inner self and became slave to the mind. So mind is playing them, when mind say do good, they are good but when mind say it is fine to harm him for my pleasure, his bad side appears.
So stop this non-sense, our sages said if we find a way to replace the external affairs with internal affairs, then there is a possibility of transforming him.
If one can stop mind's pull for 12 seconds (without any thought), that is dharana, if he can do for 12*12 , 2.5 mins then it is called dhyana (meditation).
So just stopping the thoughts for 2.5 is nothing but meditation. But it is so difficult as we are so entangled with external stuff that stopping for 12secs is tedious task.
Which is why so many different methods developed for making this happen. One is yoga, changing the body posture with breathe awareness. Karma yoga, involving totally in work so that we do not think about result. Bhakthi yoga, chanting or praying god (any form) intensely so that the mind chatter stops. Jnana yoga, stopping the mind intelligently by seeing every thought is useless.
There was so much research happened in this area by our ancient indian sages. Everything has a reason. Meditation is not just about breathe control, it is about making one self to be not affected by external circumstances. Everyone born with good quality, but by external stimulation they become bad. Meditation helps stopping that. If everyone on this planet start doing meditation or be in that state, succeed in stopping mind chatter for 144 secs, entire planet will change for better. Such is the power given by ancient indian wisdom.
But the problem is, we just say that it is only for sanyasis or who do not have any work to do. We do not know the struggle of our sages who put tremendous effort in discovering. If you really question, they said they accept the question but you should devote time to understand what they say. We do not have time to devote.
In fact every research is compiled by one great indian swami vivekananda by answering all questions asked by modern people. How many have time to read such long conversations? No one. Yet we start asking why indians have many gods, many cultures etc.
A: I did meditation during the weekend.
Friend: Are you insane? Do you want to leave family and go? Do you want to become sanyasi?
A: Why? Meditation is the way to lead life. Ancient indians used to do pooja, japa, meditation every day and yet continue working.
Friend: But meditation is not for our age. We can do after retirement.
A: If that is the case, why are we spending 30k-50k for personality development courses? If someone spend 1lac for personality development course, leadership skills.. he is doing great job. Kudos to English people who ruined the culture of india. Now meditation is alien for indians. We spend thousands or lacs to improve personality. Now it may take several centuries to get back to the good olden days. Spending should yield something in return. If someone say spend without thinking of return, he is insane. If someone tell do what your mind says, he is well wisher. but if someone tell don't do what your mind says, do what your heart says, he is insane.
Our life is all mixed with investment and return policy. We are just doing business with the lives. That is why if someone is crying on the street, we think several times to give 10 rupees. But we spend 1000rs in pizza corner just to please the toungue. Money, Money, Money.. this is what the modern indian is craving for. What do you get? Just more money. For what? to please senses and mind. Thats all.
What personality development courses or leadership courses are teaching?
They just tell how to showcase good side of you and pretend good person in the crowd. But his inner dimension is still with full of poison. What is the benefit from such a leader to the society or company? He just spoils many by misusing the position or power given to him. Is this what we want?
But our ancient Indians derived a formula how to transform a bad person to good. All the methods are just for transformation for inner self so that he is not harmful to any.
Meditation helps stopping the non-sense of mind activity so that one can see the actual picture of life. It helps every individual to be strong irrespective of situations, it helps every individual to be good inside and outside. It helps every individual to work without expecting anything in return.
Friend: What exactly is meditation?
A: Our ancient indian sages did a lot of research on how this mind is functioning. What are the characteristics of human being? why one person who is so good become bad one day? What is the real problem?
Then they found real reason is every individual is ignorant about the inner self and became slave to the mind. So mind is playing them, when mind say do good, they are good but when mind say it is fine to harm him for my pleasure, his bad side appears.
So stop this non-sense, our sages said if we find a way to replace the external affairs with internal affairs, then there is a possibility of transforming him.
If one can stop mind's pull for 12 seconds (without any thought), that is dharana, if he can do for 12*12 , 2.5 mins then it is called dhyana (meditation).
So just stopping the thoughts for 2.5 is nothing but meditation. But it is so difficult as we are so entangled with external stuff that stopping for 12secs is tedious task.
Which is why so many different methods developed for making this happen. One is yoga, changing the body posture with breathe awareness. Karma yoga, involving totally in work so that we do not think about result. Bhakthi yoga, chanting or praying god (any form) intensely so that the mind chatter stops. Jnana yoga, stopping the mind intelligently by seeing every thought is useless.
There was so much research happened in this area by our ancient indian sages. Everything has a reason. Meditation is not just about breathe control, it is about making one self to be not affected by external circumstances. Everyone born with good quality, but by external stimulation they become bad. Meditation helps stopping that. If everyone on this planet start doing meditation or be in that state, succeed in stopping mind chatter for 144 secs, entire planet will change for better. Such is the power given by ancient indian wisdom.
But the problem is, we just say that it is only for sanyasis or who do not have any work to do. We do not know the struggle of our sages who put tremendous effort in discovering. If you really question, they said they accept the question but you should devote time to understand what they say. We do not have time to devote.
In fact every research is compiled by one great indian swami vivekananda by answering all questions asked by modern people. How many have time to read such long conversations? No one. Yet we start asking why indians have many gods, many cultures etc.
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