All about Meditation...

Why Meditation:

People now-a-days always think twice before they start doing something. This is necessarily true with meditation as well. So why do we need to do meditation? Is it absolutely essential to do this? And why do we close our eyes when doing meditation? Lets look at each of these questions.

The essential purpose as to why meditation is - People get busy with what it is they do in life that they sometimes become materialistic or forget the basic purpose of life. Mediation will help you in getting back to this basic or primitive state. What is the primitive state? One should not be too much materialistic, should be forgiving, patient, loving and caring for others. How will meditation help one in getting to this state? Well its not that when one does this, will automatically attain this state, one ought to work towards attaining the primitive state by incorporating in every part of life. That's when true sense of peace can be attained. Here this does not mean that one should stop working, pack bags and go to Himalayas!! Just remember at the End of the day that life is much more than all this you are seeing daily...

And do we need to close eyes when we do meditation? The reason why it is better to close your eyes and be in darkness is, every one is living in a materialistic world and when you keep looking at materials, you tend to get involved into it. Darkness is humble and its beautiful in its own ways. Its unknown and tells you the fact that ultimately all the materials will dissolve into darkness and only thing that's destined to be there, is dark. But is it compulsory to close your eyes? Not necessarily, one can very well concentrate to attain the primitive state with out closing.

Various forms of Meditation:

There are various forms of meditation like sahajayoga, transcendental meditation etc. The steps which will be followed might vary with different form. But all the forms essentially help in the same idea.

Its not about forms but about peace:

People do meditation in all kinds of forms, But is the form so much important? No, I think the form is similar to what religion is in life. They give you a path to follow to attain what is peace in life. This path is not the only path in life. This is not written to disrespect any form as such, but main point is not to be getting dragged into a nasty duel as to which form is better and all. All of them are paths and none of them is shorter with respect to others. The whole idea of meditation is to have peace in life :)

Metaphor from Religion:

This is what is happening in recent times. People get so fanatic about a specific religion and they forget the main purpose of why do we follow religion. Religion is a path to talk or reach the God who can be Allah or Jesus or Vishnu. In the case of an atheist, its unknown or Darkness. It does not matter who we believe in or follow, what matters is the positive energy which is created within, when one follows. So follow beliefs but remember the ideals of those beliefs as well ;)

So Happy Meditating :)

Special Acknowledgments to Jayashree and Tamal for their valuable inputs about meditation.