श्री गणेश मंदिर - शिक्षा वाणी
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Sunday Reflections
25th August 2019 :
MEDITATION
IN ACTION
KEYWORDS :: Karma Yoga,
Meditation, Samadhi, Action, Passion, Rashtra Dharma, Jnana, Bhakti
Last week we reflected on the
Importance of Karma, On the path of Karma, Karma Yoga with fully aware of the
chosen destination and path as prescribed by scripters, following Dharma
Sasthra through the Jnana-Marga in Devotion, Bhakti Marga; what we do is
Mediation in Action / Meditative Action or Dynamic Meditation.
Meditation is Samadhi
conceptually and practically it is Dharana as people practice Guided
meditation, that too for a specific interval of time in groups etc. When
Samadhi is the state in which you are not connected to this world and is within
you, how is this possible.
As per ashtanga yoga; yama
(non-violence, ethical restraints or abstentions), niyama (self-discipline, lifestyle
observances), asana (Physical yoga – body making flexible, postures), pranayama
(breath practice, breath control), prathyahara (withdrawal of the senses / sensory
perception), dharana (concentrating on one, focused), Dhyana (devotion /
meditation), samadhi (merge into self, absorption into the Divine) are the
progressive steps for meditation.
You must have seen when
one drives, his focus is in driving and when (s)he could do it so casually and
all the actions are perfect and quick response to situations without any brain
activity is what proves that (s)he is an expert driver. He is in fact in
Meditative action. And he is enjoying driving, the brain is not taxed, and long
drive is so casual. Ask him to be in a place closed eyes, it may be so
difficult for him and makes him upset as he thinks the time he was wasting and
is unproductive.
Same is the case with one
cleaning a place, setting-up the house, reading, music, cooking, walking,
lecturing, doing worship, bhajan etc. But each of us have to choose the modes
of work that makes us to find in the mind of no taxing, casual, and soothing to
make the life in bliss. Mostly this activity that gives us this state is that
which we call as hobby, or passion.
Not many are gifted with a
profession that could be a passion. But assume you are skillful and also
devoted fully in that, then the action is that you enjoy. That means if the
karma in which you have enough jnana and is submitted with full bhakti, that is
what is Meditation in Action. Thus Jnana-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga mixed in the
action that you are leading into Karma-Yoga then that is what is Meditation in
Action.
Question is will it be
possible to make many / most of the activities in life as meditative, then you
are in bliss. Else, for the time being when one is in that action, he is happy
and rest of the time again in agony. This shouldn’t happen, as work is not done
for the life; but life itself is work. Thinking that I am working to live is
waste as when we work, that time itself you are not living. As whole life we
are in action and the action itself is not to lead to what you think is the
target of life, it is the path that is the target in the life when we think of
each and every stage in relation to earlier and next stage in life.
Learning is to get a job
to earn. If learning is not meditative and you don’t enjoy, you will somehow
push the days and you are in a job. Your job is for getting a good wife and a
good status in life. The job in hand is just done as you are aiming for something
from it and it itself is not interesting. The wife and status are not your aim,
but it is that what you wanted to show others that you have and you are neither
enjoying all that is around in us. So whole life goes with all these troubles
of future and more of external satisfaction and nothing in as to self is seen
interesting and passionate. No happiness is seen and found in life, family,
society, etc.
Meditative action is not
just one action in meditation, all that we are into must be in sequence made
into meditative and enjoying experience to make life meaningful and meditative.
Any job when added to skill/knowledge and done in devotion with people around
us who can enjoy the benefit, that means your actions are for a public better
and social motive, you enjoy the fruit of it from the feelings of others, especially
to the benefit of the nation you are in (Rashtra Dharma).
This is the focus of Karma
Yoga in Bhagavad Gita, therefore we shall reflect on Bhagavad Gita in the
coming week.
----- Next Week 1st September 2019 – Bhagavad Gita ------
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