By Rajendra Sharma
By being clear about confusion, you become clear of confusion. You cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you should know yourself. To know yourself, means you come to know all that you are not.
By knowing what you are not, you are free of it. You remain in your natural state. It happens spontaneously and Effortlessly.
You discover that there is nothing to discover. You are what you are and that is all.
Liberation is of the self from the self – from its self-imposed false ideas.
The Self sustains itself in thinking that it is the doer and the experiencer. Drop the Illusion.
Even Witnessing is not your real nature – because there must be something or nothing to witness for the meditator. The duality still exists.
The Concept of Fullness and Emptiness are just Concepts. Every definition is a concept. One must be careful before starting a journey to attain bliss
Or any other definitions. All definitions are limited.
The False self is still false whether it is Full or Empty or in expansion or contraction mode.
The falsity of taking a journey has to be seen. Journey involves desire, a goal. It needs time. It needs a discipline to reach a goal. There is a hidden belief that after the journey one will be improved, more perfect. The seekers attention is on the goal, not on himself, without knowing himself.
Before we understand Meditation – let us see what it is not.
It is not a self-centered activity, one does to find peace, relax his tensions, try to improve oneself, seek a profound experience, want powers, search a way to end his turmoil.
Various methods to quit the cycle of birth and death, seek to become immortal, blissful, secured, liberated and much more is not meditation.
Any more definitions a person can find about meditation – it is not that.
Whatever we know about meditation – it is not.
No journey is possible – No activity of the mind is possible.
All activity in the name of Meditation is a self-centered activity. It strengthens the False Self. Drop it.
Silence which has not been invited, induced, sought after. It has come about naturally by understanding what one is not. In this there is no motive which has brought Silence. If there is any shadow or suspicion of motive then that silence is directed and deliberate, so it is no silence at all. It is Innocent, not put together by effort.
Silence has been usually understood as absence of Sound, actually it is the absence of the false self.
In this state there is a possibility that ones true self reveals itself. It is this truth that liberates, not our effort to be free.