The Heartfulness Way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformation

by Kamlesh D. Patel

We need not make pilgrimages. We need not change our dress, our habits, or our names. We need not do anything except close our eyes and sit quietly in meditation. That is how we gain practical spiritual experience.

The heart only changes when it decides to change.

‘Therefore, rather than trying to transform others, let us devote ourselves to our own transformation. As for others, let us be non-demanding of them. Let us be content to love them as they are, to accept them as they are, and to be ever ready to serve them as we would the members of our own family. This is the humanity that the world sorely needs.

‘True focus is effortless,’ he replied. ‘It happens naturally. It is only when it doesn’t happen on its own that we have to make efforts. That is what concentration is—the attempt to focus.

Cause Meditation must be effortless

‘Accept them,’ he said. ‘Love them, even. Thoughts are not your enemies. If you fight with thoughts, you will surely lose!

After meditation is over, simply observe yourself. Observe yourself minutely.