Meditation, the route to everlasting self-transformation

Meditation today has become an oversold or a misguiding word in spirituality. Actually, there is no right word to replace the exact significance of the word ‘Dhyana’ in English. But still for practical purposes, we are using the word ‘meditation’. In the present world, there are various types of meditation available. Any practice done with the eyes closed is almost considered as meditation. But many fail to understand that meditation is not just closing your external eyes but opening your inner eye.

Let us get to the subject directly - Why should you practise meditation? How will meditation help you? Anything or everything that you learn is not going to help you in the practical life on a day-to-day basis. In other words, what you learn is actually not the real learning. The learning which cannot be put to practice in life can never bring you the change you want in life. The meditation I refer to here is ‘Atma-dhyana’ which is the most powerful inner-transformation technique.

Let’s consider the below two aspects to understand the significance of meditation. These are the things that you will receive by practising this powerful meditation, ‘Atma-dhyana’.

Consider two situations: one of travelling from home to your office during the morning peak hours, and during the midnight. Even though the distance remains the same during both the times, the duration differs.

In spite of having the most powerful and expensive car, you are unable to travel as you want when you are stuck in traffic. On the contrary, in the midnight you are able to reach your destination faster because there are no obstacles in your path. The same thing happens in your life too.

You are not able to achieve the success that you want, not because you don’t have the source or power but because there are a lot of obstacles in your path. It can be a negative energy within you or an unwanted energy induced by other people. This is known as vibration traffic.

Meditation helps you to clear this kind of negative traffic and protect you from bad or negative vibration. You will then have the power to achieve success faster because this time your mind is free of traffic.

That is the power of meditation. This practice alone can help you remove the unwanted traffic in your mind and free you from all negative thoughts and depression.

Another simple example is of a doormat which is going to accumulate dust naturally. When you dust it every day, it will not give you any allergy. But when you dust it once in ten days, obviously it’s going to cause dust allergy. It’s the same with your mind. When you associate with various people, you can’t escape from unwanted conversation or negative talks.  But when you make it a point to clean your mind regularly, it’s like dusting it every day to avoid unwanted thoughts.

Always remember that as a human being you have all the power to create what you want in life. But you can never create anything with skill alone. It’s not education, but the vision that is more important to create a life you want to live.

With the right vision and meditation, nobody can stop the transformation that you go through in your life. Without understanding this, any amount of education or expertise in any field is of no use because the fact remains that in spite of the best knowledge that you possess, without the right vision, all your experience and education has got no direction. So, to achieve unstoppable success in life, one needs to have a clear vision and should practise meditation to remove obstacles in their mind.

Ultimately let’s realise that meditation is the process of using human power to receive the divine power to achieve your vision faster and easier than ever before. With this combination, the entire universe has to make way for you and nothing can block you from achieving what you want.

Wishing you a Life full of Peace, Success and Happiness! 

Aham Brahmasmi !