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I had a friend to whom I was willing to give space and food. He just needs to meditate rest of his life. Actually he turned down the offer. I found many people aspire for life of meditation and penance. Once if they get it they will find it difficult to meditate. In many ashrams the basic 3 times pooja is done. otherwise it is just day to day living. What is the reason for the inability of the people to meditate for long hours? First of all it is habit. People do not have the habit of meditation. Just like many Indians who have the habit of reading books on philosophy or listening to discourse. But rarely can they meditate. Secondly people have spiritual pride. I know many upper caste people who feel very big when they chant sooktam or when they do pooja every day. It takes small minutes of practise. Many of the upper class people assume once they know a thing they can master it. Knowing is different from mastery. I know a healing system taught by a Filipino teacher where they assume that they are spiritual giants. It is difficult to communicate anything new to them. The people in this system of healing assume that they are all knowing. Just 7 times a week if circulation of breath is done then kundalini will awaken. Flying with master is different from doing sadhana on their own. What looks easy in the master’s presence will take years to make it a regular one in daily life. Spiritual pride, assumption and there are spiritual adepts that can screw up many people’s spiritual life. They squander away time and great opportunity just like that. thirdly one yogini told me “you have strong will. That is why you do not allow god’s grace to happen to you. Just surrender and healing will happen”. It just whacked hell out of me. This is an another dimension of spiritual pride. The same yogini was telling her son “remember if you do not have fear of education then you cannot perform well. The same way is the meditation. If you do have fear that you will not be able to complete the spiritual practice or be successful in spiritual practice then you will not practice intensely. Great cricketer or sports person have butter fly in their stomach before a great match. Fear is the great motivating factor. We will die. But before death happens one has to conquer this illusion. We can be strong in some area for example hata yoga or atleast pranyama. That does not mean we can master past lives regression or astral travel easily. Everything require hours of hard work. Family karma, lineage karma, place karma, guru karma will not allow success. One has clear the people’s projection every day and take refuge in god’s light to clear family karma, lineage karma and place karma. For example in our lineage people have not meditated. So it will be difficult to meditate easily. For example meditating in bus will be lot more difficult than in the serene place. Meditating in cities is lot more difficult. If guru has not reached the goal, then it will be lot more difficult for us to reach the goal. Many teachers of meditation assume they are very good meditators. Teaching is a profession. I always assume or seen people who taught management subject rarely start their own business. In the same way people who teach meditation are not normally good meditators. Just that they have gift of gab. I have seen some very good meditators having difficulty to communicate. Just because a person got married does not mean he can get their son or daughter married easily. In the same way we can teach meditation without mastering it. I always remember my cricket coach’s advice when he said “every match is new. You have to score runs”. In the same way every day is new. If one does not evolve or meditate one does not score runs that is all. Because one knows kundalini or chakras it does not mean we have mastered it. Secondly if we have information, that does not mean we have conquered that domain. Being true to one self in the material life is difficult. In the same way in spiritual life it is lot tougher. We do not have score sheets or parameters to judge the meditation. We are our judge. One needs to be careful and sensitive with regard to meditation. Our Customised Products
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