April 24, 2024
Meditation cannot enter into me, I must enter into meditation. The whole of my mind, the whole of myself, everything, must enter into meditation, as if ‘I’ does not exist. That is when ‘samadhi' happens. Samadhi is real meditation; or you can say that all the three — concentration, meditation and samadhi — combined is meditation. One cannot really say when concentration ends in meditation begins or when meditation ends and samadhi begins. It is very much like morning and evening — you cannot say exactly at this point daytime ended and night-time started. One flows into the other, and therefore the three are regarded as one unit.
When you are in deep meditation, you are touching the infinite. Meditation will certainly happen if the ground is ready and the distractions do not arise. That is, in the initial stages we are battling with these distractions all the time. At one point we realize that the battle itself keeps the distractions going. Then we abandon our attention to these distractions and focus all their attention upon the mantra or the object of meditation. That's all we can do. The rest of it has to happen by God’s grace.
Once this is happened, it is possible that the spirit of meditation continues throughout the day. Whilst you were sitting and practicing this as an exercise, the mantra or the form of God was the object of meditation. As you come out of your meditation room, whatever you do at the moment becomes the object of your meditation.
So meditation is not to be confined to a certain part of the day nor to a certain part of the house. That is where I can learn the simple art — how to live totally. And that spirit continues throughout the day. The attention may shift from one object to another, but every time there is total attention to that single thing. The whole being is harmonized and focused upon that one subject. Then one leads a divine life.
The hand that feeds the heart is full of love, and if food is served with love to you, then God, who is immanent surrounds you with His presence.