MEDITATION IS LIKE GHARVAPASI OR HOMECOMING

Meditation is not something which you need to bring in from outside. Not at all. Because meditation is integral to you. Meditation is your interiority. Meditation is your nature; your svabhava. In fact, you are meditation itself. So the question arises, that, if meditation is my original nature then why this practice of meditation? Why, one should practice that which, anyway, is his inner nature? The answer lies in the fact that since you have forgotten your original nature and have, instead, learnt to living in vibhava or acquired nature and hence the need. We practice meditation in order to reclaim our original nature - Dhayn se dhayn ko sadhane ki yatra hai meditation.  

Meditation, consciousness or awareness which, in the Hindi language, we know as hosh; sajagata; jagrukata; bodh; chetana etc. These words are being used interchangeably in both the languages. Awareness or bodh is our nature. Let us understand as how awareness is our nature and how we have deviated from our nature and have been habituated to living in vibhava. Imagine for a moment that you heard crying of a child. The moment you heard this crying, the awareness too has happened with that. The witnessing too has happened with that. Now, your going beyond and making reaction n saying, for example; Oh, a child is crying; why he is crying; is he in pain etc are yours; your doing; of your memory or mind. Your reaction has nothing to do with the reality. Your reaction is just a projection of your mind or of your past memory. This is what living in vibhava is which is to live in mind or in memory. 

Truth is just awareness or bodh of what happened. Awareness is to absorb all that which arise on the screen of consciousness without any reaction. Awareness is like a mirror; pure reflection or pure seeing which is our original nature. Mind is becoming a projector which is to add something from our side which has no connection with the reality. Awareness; meditation; consciousness; witnessing etc is not our doing. Awareness is existential which is a doing of the existence and happens on its own accord. You just need to keep your consciousness free. When you are relaxed within; when you are alert within; when you are still within, the awareness happens on its own accord. Unwanted movement in our body and mind (thought) is a disruption or obstruction to this natural process of awareness. This movement does not let the awareness happen on its own accord. 

If we learn to remain sajag or alert in every moment then we live spirituality; we live in our nature. Living in the original light of our consciousness or awareness is what living in our svabhava is. Living in the reflected light of mind is living in vibhava. Living in svabhava or awareness is freedom and living in vibhava (par ka chintan) or mind is bondage. A self-realized person always lives in his svabhava because he is awake (sajag) all the time. Even in his sleep, he is awake. He has, thus, become pure awareness or sajagata only, which is our reality.    

Meditation is a practice to learn to live in one’s nature or svabhava. Hence, while practicing meditation what you need to do is to stay alert and relaxed within and become aware of all that which arise on the screen of consciousness without any reaction from your side. Thus, practicing meditation is like gharvapasi or homecoming i.e. learning to return to one’s own abode or to one’s own nature. Not by getting lost in the physical movement which we see around us but only by becoming aware (sajag) of that which is happening (jo ho raha hai), one can go beyond this and that’s what mukti or liberation is. Jagana hi janana hai aur janana his uske par jana hai 

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