Meditation

Some time back , in of the forums on facebook the issue of stress came up. Since the forum was for Juvenile Diabetics , the topic was much appreciated as stress influences in experiencing higher blood sugar and blood pressure levels. 

Meditation is being recommended to diabetics to lower the risk of complications due to prolonged diabetes. See the link http://diabetes.webmd.com/diabetes-complications-10/slideshow-avoid-damage?ecd=wnl_dia_050112.

But in these times Meditation is rewarding and beneficial to everyone. We all feel the need to get in touch with the source of energy as we are prone to deficiency while fighting our daily battles. Since the attack is on our physical mental emotional and social health a lot of energy gets consummed in retaining optimum levels which can generate an advantageous position for us. 

A lot of us find it difficult to meditate since we are not used to sitting alone with our self and find difficulty in repose and inactivity. We continuosly need something that stimulates us and keeps us in an excited state. It could also be the fear of loosing time and touch with active bustle. 

But there is an easy way out. I will only be happy to share a simple path to meditation which can be  practised even while engrossed in activity.

I am happy to recieve an extraordinary response for my last post. A Girl has given a beautiful feedback on explaining that meditation can be succesfully accomplished by ordinary activity that we carry out everyday. Sister Nivedita described it precisely as " “If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.”  This is based on the vedantic concept that whatever is visible as many is actually coming from one source. 

I wish to offer a simpler way to meditate or connect to the source from where we derive a limitless supply of energy.

Why do we need this energy ? According to Swami Vivekanda weakness or the lack of strength or the lack of energy is the single cause of misery be it physical misery or mental misery. When the mind becomes weak millions of microbes of misery floating around us get the power to hold us to ransom just like all diseases strike when the power of immunity deteriorate.

There are many things that make us weak and similarly many of them which give us strength. By rejecting all those that make us weak and retaining all that give us strength we can plug  a major cavity through which our energies escape. There ia list of such things available and I plan to upload them soon. But lets get back to a major factor and cause for energy depletion. It is the  power of our thoughts. This whole universe is the manifestation of power in the form of energy and matter. The energy form of power is called a thought and the matter form of power is called the physical world. Behind the manifestationof the physical  is the power of thoughts. These thoughts flow through channel called our mind. 

Only one small excercise can not only bring the mind under control , create love in our hearts for everyone and bring us to the same state as meditation. A small change is required in our order.

Us.............God as a means to fulfill wants,  desires, enjoyment is what we actually follow instead 

Us.............Thank for everyday gifts including obstacles as a Way to show our love to God who now becomes our goal

The second method is not only ideal but has a shorter que. 

Donot worry if you are an athiest who does not believe in God. Just thank your own self for everything.

See the change in your energy levels. This method has no side effects which are harmful. 

Shielding oneself

 "He who is the Brahman of the Vedantins, Ishvara of the Naiyayikas, Purusha of the Sankhyas, cause  of the Mimamsakas, law  of the Buddhists, absolute zero  of the Atheists, and love infinite unto those that love, may [He] take us all under His merciful protection": Udayanacharya -- a great philosopher of the Nyaya or Dualistic school. And this is the Benediction pronounced at the very beginning of his wonderful book Kusumanjali  (A handful of flowers).

As a sapling tries to grow , a hedge is created around it so that it may be protected against animals. We are all saplings trying to grow unto God. For a warrior on the battlefield his uniform is also a shield. What is the shield that we have against the onslaught of crass comercialisation on one side and falling ethics on the other. In between these two enemies that halt spiritual development do we find wanting an armour. 

Since both the adversaries are fighting the battle within us how does one vanquish the enemy ?  Luckily we are all provided with a sword of wisdom which if used alongwith a kavach (protective covering ) of  yoga ( not to be confused with asanas) can counteract any attack. 

Spiritual energy cannot be obtained by talisman, amulets, charms, spells, rituals or any person. Spiritual energy comes from recognising that we are a spirit endowed with a body and our nature is spiritual not physical.

An after-thought.

Sensitive people should avoid large groups and gatherings. There is a theory which I subscribe to and that is the more the number of people gathered in a place the more likely their group consciouness acts in a wierd way. If you see the paranoia at rock concerts you will realise that all individuals involved are sane people but their collective gathering tends to bring out a delusional frenzy. Marriages, Birthday Parties, Dinners where a large number of people are present are potential places where our magnetic impulses tend to loose their properties and the aftermath is a feeling of fatigue and burnout. This is a very important method of shielding oneself.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE 5TH DIMENSION

The Case of the 5th Dimension 

Physicists speak of dark matter. 

There are basically 2 reasons which prompted the physicists to speak of  dark matter or anti-matter as it is also called.

Reason 1 

A noticeable difference arises when visible matter and estimated matter in the universe is mathematically calculated.

This discrepancy is about 10 times shorter than the estimated matter. Physicists therefore believe the universe contains embedded matter which has no visibility but exsists. This is dark matter.

Reason 2

There is however another reason for the exsistence of anti-matter.The universe acts like a cosmic superconductor not for electricity but for weak forces. Since there is nothing in the universe with such attributes, it is accepted that the universe is floating or surrounded by something unkown. This anti matter though without mass or visibility exerts force which cannot be quantified.

The Physicists have started believing that butter though not visible exsists in Milk.

It is only by churning the milk that  the butter is discovered.They have started the process of discovering anti-matter or  matter which has a very short life and is invisible  by building a machine that looks like a giant mixer but is actually a collidier which could be a inspiration from the hindu puranas that speak of a giant mountain used by the gods and demons to churn ( this collider is at cern) the ocean to search for a elixer of immortality . 

Instead of observing the outcome, this time science wants a glimpse of the phenomenon.

This churning wants only to get a glimpse in to the process used by the magician to create magic.

To understand such identities which are formless yet exsistent , we have to believe that certain objects are beyond the 5 senses that we are endowed with and the 4 dimensions that we are aware of.

Vedantist call it the bhavarupam yatkinchit or the not non existant positive something. The same defination applies to Maya or ignorance too. 

A dimension is described as the amount of space occupied by something.

we are coming across a dimension which is occupying space, but since it is beyond the 3 spatial and 4th dimension of time we shall number it  as the 5th Dimension.

There is a delibrate attempt by the Creator of this dimension to keep it beyond the reach of the senses. This resonating room has a definate purpose on hand . Mystics and Seers who could access this dimension have written that its  sole aim  is to hide the truth ( avarana ) and project the illusion (vikespa )

This subtle and intelligent dimension hides the future while projecting the present . Just as the shadow is a projection of 3 dimensional world onto a 2 dimensional plane , so could the world be a projection of the 5 dimensional reality on to a 4 dimensional space-time continium. Just as the shadow has no real lenght and it depends on time , could then it be that this projection has no real exsistence and its appraisal will depend on some factor outside of this reality.

This projecting light of intelligence ,say that vedantists is inexplicable , impossible to comprehend and disappers into something else the moment we wish to know it.  A classical case of unending mystery and a possible provisioning for more dimensions.

Since this could be the place in the universe fom where all elements are projected, it is this realm that mystics try to access to get answers to the happenings around them and within them. Physicists have assumed the role of the mystics in this age and are now on to the same path which was tread by the seers a long time ago.

An illusionists keeps certain props invisible to the audience, which help him conjure up a trick.

A seasoned magician not only hides the real intention deftly but also projects the untruth. Another word for the creator of our multi-sensory world could be the magician. As the pre requisite to knowing the truth about ourselves and our exsistence in vast space , vedanta tells us to discriminate the real from the unreal by knowing that in an illusion the magician is real but his magic is not.

Unlike the magicians act , the universe seems to move without any definate script and keeps making fun of any physical or natural law by avoiding all logical turns. This has now  been proved by particle physics experiments which confirm that there is no linear event in time and all occurences are tendencies or probabilities to exsist , events are randomly produced, and though our logic does not agree , God does play dice. 

Out of many undeveloped available options the dimension chooses one option to manifest.

The theory behind the selection is very difficult to understand as here cause is not valid as a reason. Our choices bring about consequences in the projected world is what we have been told , but  the incentive to make a particular choice is inspired from this dimension, after all this place is responsible for providing motive to the other 4 dimensions.

The ways of this world are unscrutable, so says the Vedantist and now the particle physicists.

The world we see around us is the consequence of this projection. An illusion created by a projector based in an unseen hidden place whose exsistence cannot be verified by our senses whose purpose cannot be clarified by the happennings , nor the working understood by our finite intellect. 

Another fallout of this imaginary reality is that we are able to change the multi-sensory photoplay as the patterns for energetic transformations in to matter ( e=mc2) in the 5th dimension are just tendencies to exsist and not the real or the definate events waiting to reveal in our ( 4 dimensional ) reality.

Anais Nin was right when she said that we do not see things as they are but we see them as we are.

The world around us therefore  is our own creation based on our past accumulated feelings notions and experiences.  

After all what we are seeing are projections, only here it becomes a phenomenon because the projected entity is watching another part of the same projection. A movie in which the character is watching the same movie in which he is a part of. weird. Not entirely impossible Vedanta says. 

The explanation that Vedanta gives for this weirdness is that we have a higher self and a lower self. The higher self watches over like an elder brother on the doings of the lower self that enjoys and takes this illusion to be true and develops it with his mind and justifies with his intellect.