In this speech, SadGurudev explained the correct meaning of the life, what is the essence of meditation in life, why it is important and what all can be achieved in life through meditation. This speech tells us how we can live the life to the fullest and how our life can be made meaningful in true sense.
The meaning of life is to do all that is not possible and to achieve all that, is capable of providing unending joy in life. I have used the word unending eternal joy here. Unending joy means which can’t end in between. We may be happy right now, but tomorrow might not be the same. The body is healthy today, tomorrow it might get affected by any disease. We may have money today but tomorrow we might be left pennyless. This procedure of living life in small fragments is not an example of unending joy. An unending life can only be achieved by means of eternal joy….and eternal joy means where there exists no disease, no shrewdness, no cunningness, nothing false, no tension and no problem.
It is really a great achievement if you have attained such a level because human life today have become very complex and hard that a person has to face problems on each and every step in his life. Still what all he achieves after going through all these pains is nothing to boast of. Some pieces of silver, wife, son, relatives, house, fame and glory are all destroyable because they exists only till the time the person is alive. If person doesn’t exist, they don’t hold any significance.
The day you will complete your life’s journey, you will not be left with anything more than a fistful of ashes generated by burning your body. You will give nothing to your ancestors and nothing more than a fistful of ashes for your coming generations. You will be left with nothing because what all you have accumulated in life is destroyable. This is because all of them are meaningful only till the time you exist in this form. This is not the essence of your life, this is not a part of your life and because its not a part of your life, thus it can’t be treated as eternal joy and I have used the term unending eternal joy.
Eternal joy means a joy which is equally beneficial for each and every person in this world. Happiness holds different meaning for different people. Some people feel happy by accumulating wealth, some people feel happy by making themselves strong or healthy, some people feel happy in enjoying worldly pleasures whereas some people feel happy by beating, cheating or quarreling with others.
Definition of happiness is different for every individual whereas eternal joy holds a single meaning for each and everyone in this world. Everyone wishes to attain that eternal joy in life where there is no tension, where there is no problem in life.
And happiness is defined in the shastras as wherever there is happiness, sadness is ought to come. Bhartuhari has mentioned that
Bhoge Rogabhayam, Kule Vyutibhayam,
Vitte Nripaalaad Bhayam, Maune Dainya
Bhayam, Bale Ripu Bhayam, Roope Jaraayaah
Bhayam | Shaastre VaadBhayam, Gune Khala
Bhayam, Kaaye Kritaantaad Bhayam, Sarvam
Vastu Bhayanvitam Bhuvi Nrnaam
Vairaagyamevaa Bhayam ||
If there are worldly pleasures in life, then a person remains afraid of diseases because where there are worldly pleasures, diseases are unavoidable. Where there is society, a person remains afraid of getting defamed. A man can’t roam freely in that society because he always remains afraid of what if my this task doesn’t get complete properly and thus it becomes a reason of concern for him. If we remain quiet, then people assume that we are foolish and possess no knowledge. A person has to take care of this thing also because if we remain silent, people start thinking us as idiot and it becomes a problematic situation for us…..if a person possess immense power, then he always remains afraid that what if someone more powerful come and beat him, this would bring bad name to him.
In a way, every type of happiness is complemented with a sadness too. And where there is sadness, there is tension, there are problems, there are doubts and thus happiness should never be an important part of our life. There are three reasons why happiness is not an important part of our life : happiness is just an illusion, what all we possess today will not be with us tomorrow. Happiness stays for few moments only….and the thing that used to provide us happiness, becomes a reason of our sorrow. A person marries thinking that his wife will be the source of happiness in life, however if she doesn’t look after that person, behaves harshly then the same wife becomes a source of sadness in life.
We remain tensed that what if all the property that we have accumulated in life gets stolen or snatched from us. Thus happiness is not a worthy thing in life. However witnessing unending eternal joy is definitely incredible in life. It is something which everyone wishes to achieve in life.
He wishes that there should be no tensions in his life, he wishes that there should be no problems in his life, he wishes that there should be no diseases, no sources of threat or quarrel exist in his life. Eternal joy can’t be obtained by any materialistic means. You can’t attain eternal joy by means of money, you can’t attain eternal joy by means of a beautiful body, you can’t attain eternal joy by means of power or fame.
Eternal joy is something which can’t be obtained from any worldly thing, it is an energy which is generated from the heart. A nectar is secreted from the heart in which the person immerses himself, he forgets the entire world, he starts talking to himself and attains what all is worthy in life. A person’s aim is to attain wealth, name, fame, healthy body, value in society but along with these things he desires to have no tensions in his life, he wishes to have no problems in his life, he wishes to have no sort of threats in his life.
When the soul becomes happy, eternal joy starts from that point, when soul becomes happy we start to feel the eternal joy. Now the question that arises here is that if eternal joy is such an important part of our life, then what are the means by which we can attain eternal joy in life? As I have mentioned earlier that eternal joy can’t be bought by money, it can’t be won by means of power. One has to grind his heart for this and when the nectar of eternal joy will flow out, then we will feel that there are no problems in our life, there are no tensions, no threats, no diseases exist then. And this process is called as meditation and due to this reason, meditation has been mentioned as an eternal part of our life.
This human life is divided into two parts : one is the external world and other is the internal world that lies within himself. A person is more familiar with his external world, he is well acquainted with his wife, children, relatives, neighbors, wealth, important aspects of business, however he is completely unaware of his internal life. It is because he never tried to gain any knowledge about the internal world.
Knowing this internal world is as important as knowing the external world. A person is unaware of this world because he never got any information or knowledge about this internal world. Schools and colleges never impart any knowledge on this subject. Teachers can’t give knowledge on this topic and neither do parents. None of the relatives, acquaintances, friends, neighbors can impart knowledge because they are themselves unaware of this knowledge. And if they can’t give any knowledge then that means that even though they might have lived their worldly life to the fullest, yet their life is not complete. This is because they haven’t lived their eternal life completely.
And if the internal life can’t be lived to the fullest, then life can’t remain untroubled, eternal joy can’t flow in such a life, a person can’t remain free of tensions, diseases and fear. As it is important to obtain success in the materialistic world to live a complete life in terms of the society, it is equally important to get deep within ourselves and understand our internal life to gain success in this internal world and to live a complete life in all senses.
We are as unaware and weak about the internal life as we were at the time of our birth. The reason behind is that we didn’t get a GURU in our life, no one held our hand, no one guided us while traveling on the path of materialism, no one kept his hand on our shoulder, no one kept his blessed hand on our head and no one explained that the eternal world or eternal life holds more significance in this human life. And because no one guided us, we kept on running behind all the illusions in life which ends at that very moment when we die.
What’s the use of living such a life? What’s the meaning and significance of such a life? What will we achieve by living such a life? This life will hold no significance the moment we will die. Due to this reason only, it is a duty to enter within our eternal world, it is the essence of life, it is the basic philosophy of life. Due to this reason it is necessary to stop at this point and think for a moment whether we are living a complete life or just a part of our life. It is immaterial whether you are 20 years old or 50 years old, it is immaterial whether you are male or female, what is more important is to stop and think for a moment about ourselves and our life. Are we really living a life which is worthy enough or are we just wasting our life?
You will die after leaving some money for your sons, what will you achieve if you die with a healthy body, what will be your achievement even if you construct 4-6 houses and then die? This is just one part of the life. You might feel delighted that you have wealth in life, you might feel satisfied that you have fame in life, you might feel happy that you have all the worldly pleasures, but that’s not everything in life. Attaining eternal bliss, obtaining eternal joy is considered as obtaining everything in life.
As we keep in touch with our relatives, our friends, our family members, similarly we need to be in touch with our internal world too. We should try to look within ourselves and the deeper we will dive within, the more completeness we will obtain in our life. Only a SADGURU can teach you how to dive deep within yourself. Only a SadGuru can teach that it is important to meditate in life. Meditation means to sit at a place without any movement. It can be done during sunrise or during sunset or any other time. One should prefer a place which is not noisy. The best time for meditation is at sunrise as the environment is less noisy at that time.
One should sit in calm posture and avoid any movement and slowly close our eyes trying to get detached from the external world. One should try to control any thought arising within the mind and try to slowly get within oneself and should thing that I am diving deeper within the body. You might feel that nothing is happening during initial days, however a lot would be happening at that time, its just that you are unable to feel it. Your goal, your aim should be just to sit in a calm posture without any movement. You have to sit there with no thoughts, no doubts, no agony or no questions in your mind. You even don’t have to bring this thing in your mind that you are meditating. All that’s required is that you need to cut-off from the external world and sit calmly at that place for two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty five minutes, forty minutes. The more calmly you will sit with your eyes closed, the more deeper you will be able to dive within yourself, the more control you will be able to obtain over your thoughts. You will be able to feel that you are getting success in meditation. Slowly and steadily, by continuous efforts, you will start observing great things in your life. It might take 1 day or 2 day or 4 days or 10 days or 15 days or one full month but if you will put your sincere efforts, you will definitely succeed in this field.
You will find that you no more hear the normal sounds that used to disturb you during your initial phase of meditation. You will not hear any sort of noise, you will not be disturbed by the voice of your wife, your son or anyone’s laughter. It might be possible that you may hear then for first 15-20 days but by 30th day, you will find that you are no longer distracted by these things. All you need to do is to practice meditation for 15 minutes daily at the dawn.
This means that you have been able to detach yourself from this external world, this means that you have been able to reach within your soul and once a person reaches within his soul, then the external factors don’t bother such a person. This means that within 30 days you have successfully reached within your soul and this is an important stage of meditation.
If you continue to practice religiously, then you will be able to dive thousands of miles within yourself. Going into such depths is a great achievement in life. Your body is not just four or five or six feet tall. It is unending and the deeper you dive within yourself, the more eternal joy you will feel in your life, the more blessed you will feel in your life. There is a whole Universe of mystery ready to unfold within Thus you need to put special efforts to obtain such a level in life, all you need is to sit quietly and calmly at a place and meditate. You need no extra means or things to attain such level in life. Then you will be able to move further deeper within yourself and will reach to the level of the smaller body which is even smaller than your soul. When you reach to this level, it means that you have been successfully able to contact the entire universe.
This process of meditation detaches you from the external world and attaches you to the entire universe which lies within the body. You will be able to see your relatives, your family members there, you will be able to see what all is happening in this world and thousands of views will start appearing before you. In a way you become a witness of this entire nature and all this is possible only by means of the smaller body that lies within this human body. Then you don’t belong to one place, then you are not confined within a small village, the whole state, the whole country, this whole world will be like an open book before you.
You will able to witness each and everything in this world just like you can see all the contents of the page of an opened book before yourself. This is the second stage of minute body meditation. The next stage of meditation is brahma body. It means we ourselves become Brahma, we could be able to create a direct link with the Brahma where the Brahma is a synonym of this entire universe. Not just this world, there are millions of such world in this universe. Reaching to this level is possible only if we travel the path through meditation to reach the level of Brahma body. Its not just a single body that you possess, there is second, third and fourth body also present within your body.
One you reach to that body, you can witness whatever is happening in this entire universe. You can also reach to that place and see what all is happening around there by means of your Brahma body. You will be filled with strange experiences once you are able to reach such a stage in life. You will then be able to appreciate that you are not a normal human being, you will be able to appreciate that literally this Brahma body is a huge ocean of eternal joy, there is nothing worth achieving as compared to that joy, where nothing but joy exists, no pains, no sorrows, no tensions exist after reaching to this point in life.
Your face will be full of a captivating aura, people looking at you will certainly get attracted towards you, they will consider you as something, they will not be able to neglect you. You will yourself feel that you are not the same personality which you were previously and it is because now you know the way to witness this entire universe. You will be able to see this entire universe, you will be able to interfere in what all is happening in this universe, you will be able to control what all is going to happen in this universe, you can reach to any place within this entire universe by means of your minute body and come back at your place and reconvert your minute body into your present form.
This is a very important event that can occur in your life. Traveling on this path, the person reaches that stage which is called as the stage of becoming a complete man.
“Aham Brahmaasmi Dwiteeye Naasti”
This whole universe exist within me and thus nothing different exists in this outer universe. I am a form of Brahma only. Where there is Brahma, there is this (Brahmaand) universe.
Every moment of the life is there, and not only of this life, every movement of this entire universe, this solar system, stars, Indra Lok and what all exist are under my observation. They all exist within me. I can see all of them, I can reach to any of these locations, I can also come back from there. One who travels on the path of meditation, can attain this stage in life. And when a person attains this level, then he is blessed with eternal joy in life.
The next stage after this meditation yoga is Dhaarna yoga. Dhaarna means – what all we achieved should remain permanently there. Just as I told you that happiness doesn’t exist forever, it comes to us and soon leaves us. If money or wealth gives happiness to you, then you can remain happy only till the point you possess that wealth. The moment that wealth departs from you, you will start feeling sad in life. In a similar way, even joy is not permanent if you don’t have the dharna power. Due to this reason only, our sages, Shastras, Purans, Vedas, Upanishads have explicitly mentioned that the next stage of meditation is to properly channelize the dhaarna power because with the means of dhaarna power we can always remain in contact with this universe and can attain an age of millions of years.
If our ancestors were able to live for thousands of years, if they possessed the power to live till the time they wished to, so can we live to the time we wish to. Death can come to us only if we wish, else death can’t harm us, it can’t come close to us, it can’t attack us. This stage can be attained if we can obtain dhaarna power in life. To achieve dhaarna power in life, it is necessary to travel on the path of meditation in life. Due to this reason, the Upanishads have mentioned that Dhaarna Iti Guruh i.e. Guru is called a dhaarna power because only Guru can increase your dhaarna power by means of all the special powers that he possess. Guru is utmost important to maintain that Brahma body within yourself.
Guru can grant you that mantra, that power, that knowledge by using which you can maintain that Brahma body as it is and can return back to your original form, can carry on your worldly tasks and can then go back to that Brahma body.
Due to this reason only it is utmost important that one must continuously meditate at the form of Guru, he must serve Him and remain continuously in touch with Him. I just mentioned that Dhaarna Iti Guru, i.e. Guru must be assimilated in life and then only Dhaarna power can get energized completely in life. It is necessary to join the two taps, one which is huge and enormous and the other one which is small one. There will be a tremendous flow of knowledge once this huge tap gets connected with your small tap A lamp may be lit by the sun’s ray, a fragrance can come from the Spring season, and this Spring, this Sun is no one other than a Guru. He is an unending source of knowledge, He has attained completeness in the field of sadhanas, He has attained completeness in each and every aspect of life.
Thus it is necessary that when you attain that level in meditation, then a Guru must be there to guide you. That Guru must be Himself completely aware of this process, His Kundalini power must already be active, who is Himself complete, who is perfect in Kriya Yoga, who has attained Siddhashram in life, who can give you power, who can hold your fingers and guide you on the path of energizing dhaarna power. Only such a Guru can help you to energize your dhaarna power in life so that what all you attained, what you achieved remains just like that and doesn’t get destroy over the period of time. This energy remains intact till the time you continue to practice this. However if you leave this practice in between, there will be a downfall in your energy so it is utmost important to work on this aspect on a regular basis. If you energize your Dhaarna power, then there will be no downfall, what all you have attained will remain as it is. You will continue to travel in the forward direction only then. I wish may all of you be able to witness the true form of Guru and energize your Dhaarna power in life.
– SadGurudev Shri Kailash Shrimali Ji
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