Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

Would you please speak about the aura seen in meditation?

Each individual human being has an aura. You may see your aura during your meditation, but you may also see it during concentration or even during sleep. There is no direct connection between meditation and the aura except that while you are meditating you may enter into a more peaceful consciousness, where it becomes easier for you to see an aura.

Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

While meditating I sometimes feel that my body is moving rhythmically, but when I open my eyes I see that I am not moving at all.

The movement you feel is in the inner world, in your subtle body. That reality has not yet manifested itself in the physical, nor does it need to. If you feel that you are flying while you are meditating, you do not have to manifest this movement in the physical.

But if you feel abundant peace within you, then you should immediately try to manifest it in your eyes, in your physical consciousness. Here on earth very few people have peace. When you bring peace into the outer world and manifest it, you are solving the problems of the entire world. The world needs peace, the world needs love, the world needs all divine qualities. Your goal is to see and feel peace, light and bliss, and bring them to the fore in your outer life. By manifesting these divine qualities, you can serve mankind and fulfil God.

Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

When I meditate I often feel a split in my consciousness. Part of my consciousness is in a deep meditation while another part of my consciousness is observing and carrying on a running commentary on what is being experienced. What does that mean?

There should be no split in your consciousness. When you are properly meditating, your consciousness will become a single entity. If you feel that you are making a running commentary, then you have to know that either your mind or your vital or your physical is not totally one with your meditation. Your heart and soul are meditating most devotedly, but the mind may not be there. In our path we give more importance to the heart than to the mind. But that does not mean that we can neglect or ignore the mind. The mind has to become one with the heart so that the soul can carry both of them together. When you are meditating, sometimes your mind does not want to sit beside the heart or become one with it. That is why you are aware of this split in your consciousness. It comes from the mind. In your case very rarely does it come from the vital.

One of the Upanishads mentions that there are three kinds of meditation: gross meditation, subtle meditation and transcendental meditation. Your particular experience takes place in the first stage. In spite of having a very high meditation, you feel that your whole existence is not there. Although in your psychic consciousness you are having a very high meditation, it will not be totally fruitful, because all the members of your inner family are not participating.

In the second stage of meditation you will see that you have become totally aware of and unified in your consciousness. Now you are just using the term 'consciousness', but in that stage you will actually be able to sec and feel what consciousness is. At every moment you will be able to see the divine streak of light, the all-pervading light inside you which has united you with the Highest. In this stage of meditation you become the connecting link between earth and Heaven.

The third and highest stage of meditation is transcendental meditation. In this stage you will be able to feel or see yourself as both the meditator and the meditation itself. In this stage the seer and the seen come together. This happens only in the highest Transcendental Consciousness when you go beyond nature's dance, which means temptation, frustration, anxiety, fear, jealousy, failure and so forth. But all this does not mean that in gross meditation you cannot enter into your deepest meditation. You can. But only your heart and your soul will enjoy the deepest meditation; the physical, the vital and the mind will not be able to enjoy the deepest meditation at that time. That is why it is called gross.

Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

When I meditate, I see within and without that everything is alive and has millions of patterns. I see something like a living presence in everything. Could you comment on this?

Inside everything is God. And where God is present, life is bound to he present. Where there is life, there is God, and where there is God, there is life. Inside one thing you are seeing many varieties. The One is being expressed in many forms and many patterns. When you look at a lotus you see one flower, but it is expressed or manifested by many petals, and by leaves, the stem and other parts. In a lotus you see the manifestation of oneness through various forms. You touch one particular part of the lotus, the leaf, for example, and you say, "This is the lotus." Then you touch the stem, and again you say, "This is the lotus." God is there in all parts of the flower; that is why you feel that each part is the whole. God is present wherever life exists. God is endless in expression. He is endless in manifestation.

Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

When I meditate, I enter into the inner world and sometimes I see things which materialise in the outer world after a few months. Should I try to transcend this?

What you are doing is entering into the soul's world. You do not have to try to transcend this; there is no necessity. However, you should be aware of whether or not you are crying to know these things. If you are meditating with a view to finding out what is going to happen in the future, then you do have to transcend this. If you say during your meditation, "0 God, tell me what is going to happen to my husband or my son," it is a mistake. But if you are only trying to go deep within to have a profound meditation, then I can say that God wants to show you these things for a divine purpose. You should not try to transcend these experiences because, in that case, it is God's Will that you are fulfilling, and not your own desire.

Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

When I first started meditating, I had the feeling of purity and divinity flowing through each cell of my body. But now when I meditate I don't feel this, yet I think I have improved my meditation-capacity. Why is this?

When you start to run your fastest, at the beginning you have so much alertness. Then, after thirty metres, your limbs get increased coordination. You feel totally relaxed and you may not even feel that you are running. You are not putting out any extra effort, but your speed is not slowing down. In the beginning your mind has to convince your body to move. But once you have entered into your natural stride, your mind no longer has to convince your body to run fast. You can run your fastest automatically.

Q&A: Fruits on the path of meditation

When I am meditating well and I start to go deep within, after a few minutes I feel sleepy and my whole body goes almost numb.

You are having the experience of silence. During your meditation your mind has totally surrendered to your heart, and the heart and the mind have both surrendered to the soul. At that time you get a feeling of static silence. Mentally you feel that you are not in this world, and that you have to come back and be very dynamic. But no! At that time the soul is operating most powerfully, and you do not have to create any movement.

This world of silence is not like ordinary sleep, where one becomes totally unconscious. On the contrary, it is a very good state. In the silence itself there is spontaneous creativity, spontaneous movement and spontaneous life-the life of spiritual awakening and spiritual revelation. Try to remain there and grow into that state with utmost sincerity, humility and devotion. You can stay there for a few days or even a month without any fear. Then you will see that the static silence will grow into dynamic silence.

If you feel sleepy when you are merely preparing to meditate, it means that inertia and lethargy are present. But if this feeling comes during a good meditation, it is not sleep at all. You are entering into the world of silence and mistaking it for sleep.

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