Identify the bigger goal of life with meditation

It’s not much actually when you see the lifespan of a person. The layer that they call the myelin sheath is thicker. There are trillions of synapses and billions of neurons; even if it grows by one-millimetre thickness, it will still have billions of extra synapses. 

Also, the frontal lobes are very well developed in people who are meditating regularly; not just regularly but for five minutes every day. Longer periods with frequent meditations also have a different sort of effect. 

So, meditation itself has a definite effect on our physiological system. If not spiritually, at least emotionally and physically we will be better. But that is not the goal of Sahaj Marg. Despite all these goodies – where children are born who are healthy, a right approach to life, a right understanding of life that’s part of the goal perhaps – the bigger goal is something else.

After all, what is meditation? It is all about thinking. We have this permanent inner climate of a meditative state. I may go to my business, I may go to work, I may go to college or school to study, or I may go for a honeymoon. Yet, all through, Sahaj Marg teaches us to have one permanent inner climate – one of being permanently connected with the master or divinity or your higher self or the best condition that you cherish in your life.

Begin there! And that is why he says meditation creates such a condition in us. We must be able to cherish it. Without this appreciation of the gift given to us during meditation, we cannot remain in osmosis with that inner condition. 

And when we are not in osmosis with that inner condition, we cannot appreciate what has been given. And when you don’t appreciate what has been given, you cannot appreciate the giver. And how are you ever going to remember the giver when you don’t appreciate him?

So, constant remembrance fails when meditation is not done. Even if it is done, you must be able to appreciate the condition. Appreciation is the first step. Recognition of that condition is the first step. Without that, everything, as they say, is baloney.

The art of living is to live the way we are without demanding anything, being grateful to the Almighty. This itself is a big step in evolution; accepting what I am, what others are, and moving on. I cannot change the world. I have enough difficulty changing myself, why am I changing the world? Even God couldn’t change the world. It is his creation. It is his responsibility. Why am I breaking my head changing my wife, cursing her all the time, or cursing my husband? No, it’s useless. Accept and move on.

Ordeals in life are not going to go away, and when they are given there is a purpose. If you don’t accept these ordeals and fight back, you suffer not only because ordeals are meant to make you suffer, whether you accept it or not. But when you accept it, something good emerges out of it. So, acceptance of these ordeals is the next step. And Master says that cheerful acceptance is a quantum leap in life itself.