| Despite all its popularity, today very few of us truly know what meditation
is. Some regard meditation is the mental concentration
on something, others consider that we meditate when
we imagine something that gives us peace or satisfaction.
All these methods are being with one goal to slow down
and, eventually, completely stop the incessant activity
of our minds.
These exercises are not really meditation
- they are substitutes for meditation because it is
normally very difficult to stop our minds all-together.
In reality, meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness.
It is not an act of doing - it is a state of awareness.
We either in this state or we are not, regardless of
what we are doing in life. Truly, a man can be in meditation
while doing his day's labors as another man can be very
far from meditation while sitting in a lotus posture
on the top of a mountain.
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Upon reading this, many of us would wonder how you
can live if you are not thinking because you are always
in meditation. The answer is that if you can stop your
thoughts, it is not difficult to start thinking again
when it is necessary. You become the master of yourself
- you think when it is necessary and you are thoughtless
when there is no need to think. Shri Mataji, the founder
of Sahaja Yoga, explains:
Let us think for a moment. And we can see that thought
is limited: How big is the Universe? Who has created
it? How small are atoms? And who has the answer? How
can we understand Him who is managing us all? Can a
drop understand the Ocean? Our consciousness is a bottomless
sea. When the thoughts cease is the beginning of the
answers. Our thoughts are like the wind which causes
ripples on the surface of the sea. Only when the thoughts
dry up can we, in Silence, recognize our own depth,
just as the sea exposes its real depth when the wind
subsides.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
 Meditation has been described by many saints, prophets
and enlightened souls. Their words could describe the
state but they could not describe the process by which
it was achieved. It was a mystery, the great unknown
and the secret to the happiness and peace in life. In
1970, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, opened a gate for all
of us to experience what meditation really is ourselves.
No longer do we need books describing what it is - anyone
can experience the state of meditation through simple
and natural techniques. It has now become easier to
evolve spiritually in a heart of a metropolis than in
the jungles of Himalayas.
Meditation can only be achieved through the process
known as "self-realization". Self-realization
is the awakening of our own pure energy that lies dormant
within us - unknown and unsuspected. So what is this
energy and how does it happen
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