MEDITATION MEANS GOING BACK TO THE SOURCE, WHERE YOU CAME FROM

The Source is nothingness, which, traditionally, is known as shoonya. Nothingness is the source of all, in this existence. All what you see and know as physical, comes out of nothingness, survives and thrives in the nothingness and finally sinks back, into the same nothingness only. Do you know that, everyday, you make a short trip to this nothingness, I mean, to your Source? In your deep sleep, you exist in total nothingness only, because in sleep, nothing else exists, in your experience except the nothingness, the emptiness, the presence or the shoonya only.   

Nothingness is your existence, your Source. That’s why, when you come back, from your sleep, you feel well rested and fresh. Now, this feeling of freshness or having rested well, is not a result of our sleep, as is usually assumed and understood, by us. Not at all. This feeling of freshness is because, you were home, because you stayed with your Source, you were one with the existence. That is the reason, that in your deep sleep, you exist in total peace, without any disturbance. Disturbance is of your thoughts, of your individuality or of your mind and because mind dissolves temporarily and disappears into unconsciousness and hence no disturbance, in sleep. Sleep is nothing but unconsciousness only. 

But, as you wake up, the mind comes back, which, for the time being, had stopped and merged into the sleep. With your mind becoming active, in your waking, you become disturbed, because your individuality i.e. your thoughts begin to happen, simultaneously, with your waking up, which continue happening nonstop, until you go to sleep again. Thoughts are a disturbance to your peace. In sleep, thoughts, I mean, your mind was not and hence, you existed in absolute peace, you existed in your Source, in nothingness, in the emptiness. 

However, because sleep is unconsciousness and hence, you can’t experience your natural state. In sleep, awareness is not there and you, thus, are unable to experience your oneness with the Source or the state of existing in the nothingness. Now, in one way, your deep sleep is a kind of meditation only, because in your sleep, you exist in your natural state, you exist in total peace or you exist in your Source or nothingness only and to exist in one’s natural state, is to exist in meditation. Since, the awareness is key to meditation and because in deep sleep, though you exist in total peace or in your natural state but still sleep can’t be considered a meditative state because, sleep is total unawareness. 

That’s why and that’s how, the closed eye practices, which we know, as meditation began and began in the waking, when you are a bit aware. In waking, some amount of awareness is there and hence, the practice has to begin in your waking. So, the closed eye practice, which we know, as meditation, is nothing but to experience the same natural state, in your waking i.e. in full awareness. 

So, what the meditation practice really aims at, is to consciously dissolve your mind, your thoughts or your individuality, in your waking i.e. in your awareness or consciousness and thus experience your natural state. Because once, you consciously still your mind, what really remans behind is total awareness, total peace, total silence because there is no more, disturbance of your thoughts. Thoughts are a disturbance to your peace. Thus, conscious dissolution of your mind, in your waking, is what meditation is. A state of total awareness, is a state of your existing in your Source. 

Meditation, thus, is nothing but going back to the Source, which you came from, meaning, you continue staying home, you continue existing in the same state, as you existed in your sleep. However, this is with one big difference of quality and that qualitative difference is of awareness. Meditation, thus, is our original nature, but since we have forgotten our original nature and used to living in the mind i.e. moving out, all the time, in our waking and hence, the need for practice. So, practicing meditation is nothing but retracing our steps, back to the Source, to our original nature.