Words From The Master: 28 Feb 2008

Towards Meditative Living

Transformations you will see

(continuation from earlier post)

Joy unlimited

With meditation, life becomes a joy that you cannot find a reason for.

When joy happens for a reason, it is sure to bring pain sooner or later.

If you are happy because you have just had a good meal, you are going to become miserable when you get hungry again – that’s all! If you are happy because you have fallen in love, you are going to be sad when the first fight happens. And don’t think it won’t happen to you! It happens to everybody. This is the rule of life.

All happiness leads to pain when it ceases. That is why, in ancient India, they had only one word to denote both happiness and pain: the word Pain!

But the joy you experience with meditation is undisturbed, undisturbable. You may be healthy, you may be ill – the joy will remain the same. It may be cold, warm, raining, snowing – the joy remains. Neither your own condition nor external circumstances can make a difference. When you experience lasting joy that no external circumstance can alter, it means that you are moving deeply inwards.

(to be continued.)
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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