00:00meditation is a phenomenal empowerment
00:04you can do whatever is needed in the
00:07world whatever i mean that
00:09and still remain untouched
00:13the process of activities that we need
00:15to conduct in the world
00:26who you are is little away this is the
00:31and this is meditativeness
00:48is suddenly people who had never
00:50meditated in their lives
00:53never even considered that possibility
00:56are now suddenly talking about
00:59meditation the need to meditate
01:06let us uh examine this
01:13first of all what does the word
01:23doesn't really mean anything
01:27it doesn't say anything specific
01:35sits normally with their eyes closed
01:39it's assumed they must be meditating
01:44one can sit with their eyes closed
01:50you can do japa tapa dharana
01:57or you might have just mastered
01:59the art of sleeping in vertical postures
02:04so the word meditation in english
02:06language doesn't specify anything
02:13or generally people assume that
02:16meditation means dhyana
02:19in tamil nadu it's dhyanam if you go
02:21little north it's dhyana
02:23if you go really up north it's dyan
02:25if you go further up it becomes chan
02:28if you go little more east
02:37what is this dimension
02:40that we are trying to describe with this
02:46one fundamental thing that we need to
02:47understand is you cannot
02:54because meditation is a quality
02:58a quality is a consequence of a certain
03:03you can initiate a process
03:06you can conduct a process
03:09you cannot conduct a quality
03:12quality is just a consequence
03:21flowers in your garden
03:26you don't sit there and do flower
03:32you know what happened to the flower
03:38if you want flowers in your garden you
03:40don't have to think flowers
03:43you have to think soil manual
03:51if you conduct this process of these
03:54ingredients properly
03:57flour and fruit is a consequence
04:12because they're so goal-oriented
04:15they are not interested in the soil
04:19definitely not interested in the manure
04:22and all the other things
04:25but they want flowers and fruit
04:29if you want flowers without soil
04:32manure water and sunlight
04:35well you will have to settle
04:43plastic flowers are very wonderful
04:47those who think of utility
04:50it serves you in many different ways
04:53it comes with a five-year guarantee
04:57flowers are a nuisance
05:00if you keep flowers in your house
05:04you have to look at them at least five
05:07times in a day what's happening are they
05:09thriving well or not
05:12but if you keep plastic flowers in your
05:16five years guaranteed
05:23the dimension and the process that
05:24you're referring to as meditation
05:30is very life oriented
05:40you are material oriented
05:43or at the most mind oriented
05:46maybe emotion oriented
05:50physical body which is a material again
05:54largely life has become like this
05:57people's idea of life is
05:59if someone says my life
06:03you're supposed to understand they're
06:05talking about their job
06:08they're talking about the economic
06:09condition in the country or in the world
06:13maybe about their dog sometimes about
06:18wives it could be anything
06:23the only thing that's truly life
06:26is what is throbbing in this this is
06:30rester arrangements that we have made
06:35that these arrangements will allow us to
06:40whether it's education
06:45relationships marriage children
06:58that it will enhance our life
07:05instead of enhancing their life
07:07largely get entangled with these
07:14accessories have become larger than the
07:27the virus is bringing focus
07:33you suddenly understand
07:43your expensive car is as good as junk
07:47because you can't drive it
07:50at least for some time
07:52so now naturally a whole lot of people
07:55are asking all over the world
07:58how to meditate what should i do
08:04as i said you cannot meditate
08:06but you can become meditative
08:08because it's equality
08:17emotion and energies to a certain level
08:23you will be naturally meditative 24
08:29meditation is not an impairment
08:31that if you're meditative you have to
08:33close your eyes and be limited to one
08:38meditation is a phenomenal empowerment
08:42you can do whatever is needed in the
08:44world whatever i mean that
08:48whatever is needed in the given
08:52and still remain untouched
08:55the process of activities that we need
08:58to conduct in the world
09:04or without this empowerment
09:07fact a human being is crippled
09:12if what you have to think
09:14feel understand and act in the world
09:19is going to rub off on you in such a big
09:23naturally you will hesitate to do what
09:26naturally you will avoid
09:28doing things that need to be done
09:35the moment you are in a state
09:38your own activity and the activity of
09:41the world around you
09:42and the activity of your mind and your
09:46once they are impacting you every moment
09:52in some way you will yourself
09:55naturally you would want to keep the
09:58scale of your life very limited because
10:01activity thought emotion
10:04involvement with life can cause enormous
10:09once there is fear of suffering
10:12knowingly or unknowingly you will limit
10:15the scope and possibilities of your life
10:18meditation means just this in a very
10:20simple way if we have to put it if you
10:30who you are is little away from these
10:34dimensions of physical body and mental
10:40these two accumulations of body and mind
10:43if a little space arises between you and
10:45this this is the end of suffering
10:49and this is meditativeness
11:00is an extremely simple process
11:05these three ingredients your breath
11:09your thought and your awareness in the
11:11right combination if you use them
11:14your ability to use the mind and the
11:16body be so greatly enhanced that you
11:19almost look super human for somebody
11:23but i'm telling you this is human this
11:25is not about being superhuman
11:29this is about realizing being human is
