Goodness of Pure Mediation:

Reading the scriptures or listening to religious discourses does not make us better people. For improving our personality, health and perspective and also in the process attain self-realization, we have to meditate. Meditation is purely a matter of experience. Reading about the method and procedure, meaning and scientific aspects and benefits of “Yoga and “Meditation” from various sources does not help in actual meditation. That is only information; not knowledge. The information culled will prove to be useless unless it is applied to the practice of meditation. So to be a meditator, one has to practice daily.

For the practice of yoga there is no need of giving up all worldly activity, family, friends, society, profession etc. All we have to do is to set apart some time every day as part of the daily routine. It is not correct to think that spirituality and activity are incompatible. The Bhagavad-Gita advises us to perform action from our transcendental consciousness. So meditation and action are not opposites; rather, they go hand to hand. In ancient times meditation was considered one of the essential components of life. People would practice meditation as a part of their daily routine. In today’s context meditation assumes even greater relevance. For lasting peace, order, happiness and harmony in life, meditation is the best tonic and medication of all evils.

We are the only life forms in the universe who violate natural laws with impurity. Nature does not know how to pardon a violator. As a consequence, punishment is inevitable. This could be in the form of sickness and suffering, tension, stress, conflict, crime, terrorism, drought, flood, fire etc. We also violate national and international laws.

Keep peace and live in accordance with the natural laws; we have to develop higher state of consciousness.

What is consciousness?
Consciousness is the essence of life. It is just like a sap for the tree. Every word that we speak and act that we perform is an impulse of consciousness. Since consciousness is the most basic element of every one’s life. Knowledge of consciousness is the basic necessity of every one to exist and enjoy to the full, life. Consciousness is within us. It is not outside of us. It is a permanent, un-manifested, un-bounded, infinite, self-referral state. It is the source and goal of all creation.
By. Sh. Madan Raheja