Inner Silence & Meditation
The silence one observes in meditation is the bridging state between
Pure Awareness and pure consciousness. Meditation leads to the pure
awareness state and we have discussed that awareness is the source of
healing. This is why meditation is very important both in
healing and spiritual and helps in day to day mundane activities.
The state of pure awareness only leads us to real Self - Pure
Consciousness, which is otherwise called as Atman, Brahman or Soul.
Meditation helps the individual to transcend to the state of pure
awareness, which is close to the state of pure Consciousness. This is
Self realization, the goal of a spiritual seeker.
Why does not one observe the silence always.
It is again because of the mind. In a movie theater the film that is
projected is a continuous exposure of frames of the film. When one
frame is projected, the eye captures the frame and after a pause the
next frame is projected. However the mind does not perceive the pause
because the mind retains the image of the first frame even after the
frame vanishes and by that time the next frame is projected and the
mind captures that frame. Therefore the mind ceases to observe the
thoughts. Similarly each thought that arises in the mind is like distinct
frame, and the pause or the silence between two successive thoughts
is never experienced. The silence between the thoughts is peace. In
meditation thus one observes the inner silence , the source of all
thoughts.
Life is just watching a movie- being a witness.
In a movie theatre the we see the images projected on
a movie screen. Have you ever thought the force that project the images on
the screen?. That is the LIGHT. Light is that illuminates the film and is
projected on a white screen. Without the light the film cannot be
projected. Similarly it is the consciousness that illuminates all the
objects in the world. The body is like the screen on which all the images
are projected by the source of the light. Like the whole activity of a
theater is based on the light source. The same is the case with the world,
where the whole world is based on the consciousness. This supreme
consciousness is acknowledged as supreme power or GOD.
The ultimate
purpose of LIFE is to use our body, mind, intellect to
realize, that our true Self is the Consciousness, the light projecting
this whole universe .
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