Words from the Master

Swamiji, how does meditation help in feeling contented?

You see, when you continuously meditate, you will become soft and vulnerable. You will become porous, sensitive and aware. You will find that your Consciousness is expanding every moment. Your Consciousness determines your feelings and actions. That is why again and again, I ask you to meditate. It will purify your Consciousness. Things will become clearer to you.

You will be able to feel your center shifting from your mind to your heart. When the distance between your mind and you increases, your whole Being will start vibrating with a different feeling and this feeling is what is contentment, a deep fulfillment, a deep love without a reason - towards the Whole, a continued sense of joy and bliss.

As long as you operate from your mind, you will only ask for more; you will analyze, divide and conclude with dissatisfaction, more than anything else. When you operate from your heart, all your analysis will stop and you will neither dissect the past nor worry about the future. You will be just in the present, without any judgmental feeling, and in this state, you feel only contentment and gratitude. A new space has opened up in you.

When you have found this space, all the energy that you earlier spent on negative thinking and dissatisfaction is released, and you feel blissful and integrated and filled with energy. Gratitude then becomes your prayer and Thank You becomes your mantra!

The gush of Energy that you feel when you are in a state of gratitude towards Existence cannot be explained in words. It has to be experientially understood. Every single thing that comes your way will give so much contentment and it will attract more and more from Existence and you will find yourself being showered by Existence.

Suddenly, the whole thing will take on a new dimension where more and more bliss can be felt. You will be overwhelmed by every passing moment. Just existing will seem so overwhelming. You will feel like a blessing to yourself and to the whole world.

When you ask, you are clearly missing. When you are grateful, you are showered. Just be thankful all the time. That is the master key to the whole thing. Of course, you need to feel grateful from your Being, not from the periphery. Only if you feel grateful from the Being, things will start happening.

When you go to sleep, go to sleep with a feeling of gratitude for having spent one more day with Existence. When you wake up, wake up with the feeling of gratitude for having one more day with Existence! This is the simplest and most effective meditation you can do to make gratitude your very Being.

I tell you, just by feeling and radiating gratitude from your Being, you can change the face of planet Earth. All terrorism, wars, religious fanaticism, ill health, poverty etc. can be eradicated by just spreading awareness about the gratitude that needs to be brought out from each person.

When each one feels and radiates gratitude, there can be no love, no hate, no jealousy. All the possible roots for global negativity can be destroyed with just this one feeling, because the reasons for all negativity will simply dissolve with it. That is the beauty of gratitude!

Alright, now let us spend some time doing a beautiful meditation technique called the Sahasrara Dhyana* – a meditation of gratitude.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.

* To learn and experience Sahasrara Dhyana under a qualified instructor, kindly enroll for Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) at a center close to you.