MEDITATION IS LIKE CORRECTING A WRONG HABIT
Meditation is not external to you. Meditation is not something which you need to acquire from outside. Not at all. Your inner nature or your subjectivity is meditation. Meditation is your original nature. Meditation is your reality. Meditation is your true identity. The consciousness or energy of this existence is what we know as meditation. Because you have forgotten your original nature; because you have covered yourself with something artificial and imaginary; because you have worn something from outside which is not your truth, not your reality, you now need to practice meditation. You practice meditation in order to regain your original nature; to remember your true nature; to reclaim that which you lost sight of.
It’s like a wrong habit. First, you pick up that habit and then you make efforts to drop that habit. Unknowingly, you repeated that habit for too long and in that repetition, you became a habit itself. A time came when your habit started ruling you from within. Though you are the master but now that habit became your master and you the servant. You forgot your true identity that you are the master. Since, you now suffer at the hands of your habit and hence you now make efforts or take corrective steps to get rid of that habit. You want to become what you already and always are. You want to become the master again; you want to regain your true identity. Because being a master is freedom and being a servant is bondage.
Living as a physical body is a wrong habit which we picked up from outside. In this life too, we live and behave as if this body is the reality because we have repeated this habit for lives. This is the wrong identity we have imagined or assumed. The only thing you need to do is to drop this wrong identity and you will be face-to-face with your original identity. The wrong identity has covered it as the clouds cover the sun. The sun has not gone anywhere. You do not have to bring the sun from anywhere. Only the clouds have to disperse and you will see the sun is already there. Because sun is the reality, not the clouds. Clouds come and go. This body is not our reality. Body comes and goes. Nonphysical or energy is our reality.
Thus efforts are needed to drop the wrong identity. You do not have to search for or do anything to acquire your true nature. As you drop your habit you become the master again, similarly as you drop your wrong identity you will realize that you were in meditation because meditation is your original nature.
That’s how the meditation is. Meditation is beginning and end is Samadhi. Samadhi means you regained your original nature. You no longer need to practice meditation because you now have become meditation itself. Meditation has become your quality. You are now in meditation 24/7.
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