Why Should We Meditate

Why Should We Meditate
(Based on the teachings of Guruji Krishnananda)

A student on the Spiritual Path asked me, “Why should we meditate?”

People take up Meditations for different reasons to begin with. They take up Meditations usually to find solutions to their various problems—health issues, financial difficulties, problems with relationships, to overcome stress, to find peace and so on.

Meditation

After they spend some time meditating, they realise that there is a greater purpose in taking up Spiritual Practice. They become aware of higher Truths, higher realities, and their problems either get resolved or they begin to look less important or trivial.

As they spend more time in their Sadhana, their goal shifts from solving their problems to achieving higher Spiritual goals.
Their goal keeps expanding, and ultimately, they set their goal on attaining freedom—to free themselves from all bondages and to become Light, and go back to their Source.

Our Source is Light. Our Source is God. Our ultimate goal is to go back to Him and become Him.

Until we reach the highest goal, Meditations help us live this life sensibly, peacefully and fully.

Living this life in this moment properly is most important. If we live properly in the present, the future is taken care of automatically.

So, we take up Meditations for many reasons in the beginning, and ultimately, to become Light.

Ten days of prosperity

Ten days of prosperity
(Based on the teachings of Guruji Krishnananda)

Guruji Krishnananda

We are currently going through a period of ten days, during which the whole world receives very special energies from a Divine Source. The core or the personality that represents these energies is known as Mahalaxmi in Sanskrit.

Mahalaxmi is also known as the goddess of prosperity and abundance. And prosperity is usually understood as monetary wealth.

Prosperity is not just money and riches; it is also wisdom, health, happiness, peace and contentment. We know that one who is not rich can be happy, while an extremely rich person may be too busy to have even a moment of peace in a day.

Prosperity also means Spiritual abundance. Isn’t experiencing stillness in Meditation spiritual wealth? Goddess Mahalaxmi can give both—material and spiritual wealth. She is also the one who can grant true Vairagya (non-attachment).

In fact, when we pray to goddess Mahalaxmi, we should ask for both material and spiritual wealth in equal proportions; we should not ask for one without the other. This is because, in this plane, true spirituality is living a balanced life that has both the spiritual and the material, with all the material activity being carried out spiritually.

Living spiritually is not just Meditating or spending time in other spiritual practices. Doing all our work properly, fulfilling all our responsibilities, manifesting love, compassion and kindness in all our interactions with others, even driving carefully, with kindness to others on the road is being spiritual.

In these ten days, ending on 26th August 2013, we can consciously absorb more of the energies of goddess Mahalaxmi by meditating more or by channelling Light (www.lightchannels.com/channelling.html).

These energies help everyone in the world, whether they are aware of them or not, whether they believe in them or not. Such Divine energies are always meant for everyone.

May all this bring you true prosperity.