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March 2018

Meditation: A panacea to many ills. But how to meditate?

By Pramod Jain, Chartered Accountant
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Fortunately, today everyone is aware of what Meditation is and what its benefits are.

And the benefits are so many and all of them are really so fantastic, that it is recommended that everyone on this earth should meditate every day for whatever time possible.

This, in my view, will definitely increase the global peace to a much higher level, automatically.

However, one question which most people ask is, (What to do? I try a lot to meditate but it does not happen. My mind keeps wandering here, there and everywhere)

Answer to this question is very simple and i.e. in Meditation you don’t do anything.

Paradoxically, in our life, we are so much used of constantly doing something or the other that the moment we sit for meditation, our mind very naturally starts wandering, here, there and everywhere. And that is how we feel that we are not able to do meditation.

Meditation, in fact, is non-doing, so that our mind which is constantly having a traffic of thoughts even while we are asleep, gets some rest which is so much essential for it, to pull itself, in a balanced state for the duration for which we live on this earth.

Actually, most health problems which people experience on this earth such as BP, Sugar, Arthritis, spondylitis, hypertension, depression are basically psychosomatic problems, that is,  all these are mind-related problems.

That means, all these health problems occur when the mind of the person concerned has been at discomfort for an unreasonably long time.

Really speaking, it’s not difficult to meditate. It only needs some practice with total awareness and consciousness. Therefore, for those of you, who may like to meditate and experience its benefits, I thought of writing this post and share the process for traveling the “journey from doing to non-doing” which goes like this.

Whenever you wish to meditate, sit comfortably, keeping your back straight and your eyes closed. Then, take few deep long breaths in and out, feeling that your body and mind are slowly getting relaxed.

Now just follow two steps one after the other for as much time as you feel like.

1. With your eyes closed, remember every person, one by one, who has helped you in one way or the other in your life right from your childhood days. And then keep on thanking them in your heart with great sense of deep gratitude. Keep on doing so, as long as you feel like.

2. Now switch to the 2nd step and that is, remember every person right from your childhood days who may have hurt you in some way or the other in your life. And just forgive them in your heart one by one, as most people make mistakes out of ignorance.

Likewise, it is also possible that you too may have hurt or harmed some people in your life knowingly or unknowingly. Seek forgiveness from them for your wrong deeds. It is possible that some of these people may not be around, it doesn’t really matter.

Just follow the above two steps for as long as you feel like. And when you feel complete, just thank the Almighty and wish well-being, peace, prosperity, bliss, happiness for everyone on this earth and move on.

I am sure, this will facilitate your progress on the path of meditation and you will start enjoying benefits of meditation, equanimity of mind being one of them.

Wishing you a life full of peace, prosperity, bliss and happiness. 

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