CHENNAI: There is no doubt that there are some people in the world who are spiritually inclined but they too have only a nodding acquaintance with the soul and with the Supreme. It is possible only through the practise of meditation which enables an aspirant to experience self realisation and a vivid and refreshing experience of the supreme almighty. Dedicating few minutes daily to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy.
Meditation enables a person to discover or re-discover the self and to have a channel for heart-to-heart communication with an Almighty. It enables a person to penetrate deeply and progressively into deeper levels of the mind and peep into the hidden world of reality. Thus, it is a technique of self-exploration, leading to the experience of greater awareness, reaching god and bringing oneself into the focus of the soul’s awareness.
In a word, the principal object of meditation is to bring the self in conscious touch with the Almighty, thus making it increasingly aware of its divine origin, destiny and peaceful real nature. This practice of awareness of the supreme opens greater orbits of being. One not only gets the first-hand vision and experience of the ultimate truth and the reality behind all realities but also feels that one is not merely the creature but also creator of one’s environment.
Previously, one was leading a life of worldly attachments, with mental gusts of pleasure or storms of pain and delusion and all that goes with it but now one feels the profound assurance that Almighty’s gracious hand is on one and under his umbrella of light and might, one is in a cool shade. So, it is one of the major objects of meditation to have him as one’s companion, guide and helpmate and if he is by our side and is our Guardian Angel, then what better do we want in this world?