The beginning of
Meditation
In order to understand meditation properly and to
learn to meditate, it is important that we know how
meditation started . Let us acquaint ourselves with the concept behind the origin of meditation.
Ever since the advent of humanity on earth, there are some questions
that have kept bothering men of every time and era. Like who created the universe? How life came on earth ? What is the purpose of life? Why do we born and die? Is there any systematic plan behind all this or is
it happening on its own ? The question 'who made this universe' has always raised curiosity among men of all times.
If you don't now how to
find a solution, the next best thing is to try to understand the
problem from all angles. Often an honest effort to understand the
problem itself can facilitate its solution. Therefore, a search on
this line began in the world. To find the answer of the question 'who created this world?' people started finding some clues in the creation
itself.
In this endeavor of finding some clues about the mystery behind Universe, two approaches
were adopted. Firstly, there were groups of people who started looking for clues in
the outside world. They went on discovering laws of
nature, finding its various phenomena, inventing wonderful gazettes,
machinery and electronic devices etc. Their entire research
on the external world gave rise to science.
Their constant endeavor resulted in unfolding of mysteries behind
nature's physical and biological laws. The development in science and
technology around us that we see today is the result of the constant endeavor
of such people. This ongoing research to unleash the secrets of nature is still going
on.
But, apart from
these seekers who tried to find the truth in the external perceivable
world, there were another seekers who thought in a different
direction. These people were of the opinion that if some creator has created this world, then the same creator must have also created them. So,
in a way, they should also be a part of this creation. So instead of going deeper into the depth of
outside world why not go within themselves and look for some clues, some hints there ? So
they started experimenting on themselves and got involved in inventing various
methods for going within. This endeavor of going within gave rise to
meditation and later to religion. ( Now that's a different thing
that today religion has become more dominant and meditation - which
gave rise to all religion- has become a small part of it.)
In ancient times, people used
to believe that everything in this world was made up of five elements - earth, water, air, fire and space. Then scientific advancement
began and as more and more discoveries came into light, it was found that the whole universe
was made up of 108 elements. However, after going into the inner intricacies of these
108 elements, it was found that all elements were same and were made up of atoms. The difference
in elements is because of the arrangements of atom in them. On further
research, it was found that even atom was not the basic unit of
everything. It was rather electron which was the building block of everything.
However the discovery of electron gave rise to a difficulty.
Electron, though considered as the smallest unit of particle, does not fully exhibit the nature of a particle. It
is neither stable nor unstable. It is moving as well as not moving. Sometimes, it acts like a wave
and sometimes it behaves like a particle. It was very difficult for scientists to exactly
define the nature of the electron. Therefore, a new term was coined - "Quantum" -dual , the one having
properties of wave & particle simultaneously.
But as more and more researches on electron
are being done, it appears that
at a very subtle level, electron is nothing but an infinitesimal
energy particle. It is the energy which transforms itself into electron and subsequently into matter. The famous equation of
Albert Einstein, E = MC2 also reinforce the fact that all matter and
energy are interchangeable into one another.
Let me come again to those people who adopted
the second approach of going within, They started researching on their body. They moved their attention inwards and started developing techniques of penetrating deeper into their inner existential identity. These efforts gave rise to
meditation. All the meditation techniques and yogic exercise are result of this endeavor taken by millions of those avid curious people who dared to go within.
In their meditative state, these people realized
about this energy field of consciousness which pervades the whole
cosmos. In the deeper state of meditation one realized about the omnipresent element of
all- the self.
In
reality what is present everywhere is not energy but pure supreme consciousness which pervades the whole universe. Sooner or later science will also agree ( by going into the depths of energy)
that everything in this creation is nothing but pure consciousness. This pure and supreme consciousness is everywhere and when someone says that God is everywhere, inside you outside you, they are pointing towards the self. In the deeper state of meditations anybody can feel this supreme consciousness.
Now let us see whether you can meditate or not.
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