The purpose of meditation
Question: How do you know when you must stop meditating?
Guru: Stop meditating? Naturally, you will stop. I’ll tell you why. Mr body is going to complain after a little time and send messages to the brain saying, “Hey, what are you doing with your body? It is aching. I can’t sit like that anymore!” You will be frozen stiff.
Devotee: But what about the stories of people who meditate for many hours and many years.
Guru: I’ll give you a good reply. Those people who say they meditate for many hours and many years – just try to have a glimpse of their life and you will find out the truth about that meditation. If a person has meditated for years and years he will be in control of his ship. He will be calm, collected, less neurotic, self-controlled, and very, very much projecting love.
Meditation leads to self-mastery
If I were you I would say something very naughty to see whether the person is going to get angry. If the person gets angry you can say, “Go back to your meditation. And double the hours!”
To meditate is to take control of yourself. Meditation masters your lower nature. Meditation reduces your aggression.
Devotee: There might be people who put on a good face but inside they are reacting.
Guru: You’ll soon find out. You don’t have to do much. Just sit back and watch people!
People who are meditating are very quiet and composed. They are able to do things in a very orderly fashion.
You get very good results. Please believe me. That is the proof. The proof of the pudding is in the eating!
The sage and the bee – a story about meditation
There was a very great sage and this great sage went to God one day and said, “My Lord, I have controlled my whole self and now I am ready to be liberated. Please come.” The Lord said, “Really?” The sage went again and again and again to the Lord and said that he had perfected his meditation and his spiritual sadhana and he was now one with the Lord.
This time he went to the Lord and said, “Why don’t you come to see me? I am there in deep meditation, one with you.” He literally twisted the arm of the Lord to come. So the Lord said, “This time I promise you I will come to see you.”
Now this man who said he was perfect in his meditation was expecting God to be like himself. He arranged himself very comfortably, sat in a perfect pose in meditation, and waited for God to come.
Instead, a bee came to him. The bee was going “Bzzzzzzzz!” around the ears of the sage and going all over the place. With every minute that the bee buzzed around, the sage was getting angrier and angrier and angrier. Just as he was about to take his hand and knock the bee out the Lord appeared before him and said, “I thought you had control of yourself?”
Listen & subscribe to this podcast on Spotify | Google Podcasts | Apple Podcasts
Download complete seminar
This post is also available in: Deutsch
Related teachings
From Guru Sri Subramanium
Discover your Divinity – (Bern, February 1991)
You will never be satisfied until you have discovered your Divinity. You will always say to yourself, ”Yes, I have all things that I want. I have a good job and a very kind wife who makes good food for me. Yet there is something inside me…
0 Comments7 Minutes
Joyfulness on the spiritual path – (Bern, February 1991)
Joy! That is the vibration of God. Miserableness is not a passage to God – joy is. The Lord has created us to realise the Divinity within us. Being miserable you will never realise God. Start the day with love; fill the day with love; end…
0 Comments8 Minutes
The sadhanas of japa mantra, meditation & pranayama – (Bern, February 1991)
God is Love. Love is God. You will transform all your [lower] natures until you know love. Love is what you must aim to reach out to get, for it is compassion. It is understanding. It is forgiveness. It changes your whole nature to become…
0 Comments9 Minutes
How to approach meditation – (Bern, February 1991)
Don’t go into competition with anybody because that won’t do you any good at all. You’ll be frustrated. What that person experiences is for him and not for you. You will have your own experience and you hold on to it, that’s yours. Be…
0 Comments8 Minutes
What is an aura and what creates it? – (Bern, February 1991)
Where you have power, where you have discipline, your aura becomes golden. The opportunity for a person to advance spiritually is there when you have disciplined yourself and your aura is golden.
0 Comments10 Minutes
How to pray – (Bern, February 1991)
Prayer must come from your heart, not from your lips. From all that format of formality, we have to change it to the feeling of the rapport of love.
0 Comments5 Minutes
Learn more
Go deeper into Guru's teachings