Ask The Master: 26 Jan 2008

Why meditation?

The right question to start with!

Why meditation?

Is there really a need for meditation in our lives?

Let me ask, Why are you reading this book?

Of all the books you could be reading at this moment, you have chosen to read this book.

Your action itself shows that there is a deep-seated need for meditation inside you -- and inside everyone of us.

What is your ultimate aim in life?
To earn more? To stay forever young, healthy, beautiful? To have better, longer-lasting relationships? To improve your personality?

The list is endless -- for each individual, there will be a specific goal. But every single goal -- without exception, every single goal -- points to the same thing: a yearning for the state of Ananda or Bliss.

Can anyone disagree with that? Can anyone say, I am not interested in Ananda? I don't care about being happy, being blissful?

Each of us is searching for nothing but Ananda. However intellectual, however sophisticated may be the terms in which we express it, we are all seeking Ananda. Only the ways in which we are searching is different. Through money, through power, through relationships -- through all the comic and tragic dramas of our daily lives, we are searching for Ananda. It is single motivating force of our lives.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: "Meditation is for You" -- an introduction to the science and art of meditation