Why Meditate? :-2.

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Part-2.


The problem is that our minds are in a terrible state of disorder, our attention is not steady at all.

Physically we are tense, mentally we are distracted.

We go to a teacher and he says—"Sit down and repeat a mantra."

While you pay attention to the mantra, which is totally unrelated and unconnected with the problem you are really trying to solve, the problem gets dissolved.

You don’t have to solve the problem, the problem can be dissolved.

That is much simpler, otherwise when you have a problem and someone tells you to solve it, the solution becomes another problem!

The confused brain creating another solution, is in worse confusion.

The mind, after all, is one thing, not a supermarket.

You are happy sometimes and you are unhappy sometimes.

When you are unhappy, what happens to that happy person?

And when you are happy, what happens to the unhappy person?

Are you one or two? It is not difficult for you to see that you are one thing.


The mind is one substance which seems to assume several successively different disguises.

It is not possible for the mind to be in two moods at the same time, and even when one is able to juggle the moods quickly, it only means that the mind is able to change very fast.


There is no more mystification about meditation than this.

The master, by suggesting that you sit down and go on repeating a mantra, has made you temporarily forget your problem.

A problem that is forgotten does not exist, unhappiness that is forgotten is happiness.

It can come back again, but never mind.

If you have been unhappy for 6 or 7 hours at a stretch, you have at least had 20 minutes of happiness.

That is marvelous; the unhappiness was a mental state, nothing more than a mood.

Sri Swami Venkatesananda
To be continued  .....




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