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BELOVED MASTER, IF MEDITATION IS A 24-HOUR PROCESS, HOW CAN LIFE GO ON? IF I AM ALWAYS FOCUSED ON ‘JUST BEING’, HOW CAN I GET ANY WORK DONE?
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Meditation is not against action!
Once you learn the knack of remaining undisturbed in your being, you can perform any number of tasks while remaining in the same state. Whether you perform action or remain inactive is irrelevant.
This is a two-step process. First, you need to get in touch with your inner being. For that, you have to first realize that such a thing exists! Learn to enjoy the state of just being. Initially, you will do this only for half an hour or one hour everyday – when you sit down to meditate. Once this state happens in you comfortably, you will automatically extend it to periods outside of the formal meditation period.
You can start with small tasks like trying to remain centered, even as you are eating, walking, washing dishes etc. Once you do this, you can move to more complicated tasks.
Externally, your life goes on in a normal manner. In fact, you can carry your life in a much better way – because now you have greater clarity, greater intensity. You will be more aware, more creative.
Yet internally, you will experience a deep and undisturbed silence. Because you are no longer doing – you are watching.
This is the secret of meditation – to become the watcher, to become the witness of your own actions and emotions.
As you start witnessing your own actions, you will realize that there is someone inside you who does not change, who does not get angry or feel sad, who does not care about money or security or fame. That is the real you! The real you can never be touched. The rest is just a personality you have formed around yourself. Once you become aware that the real you is not the one who works, that the real you is not the one who feels angry or hurt or depressed – you experience a tremendous sense of freedom. This will happen through meditation.
Meditation offers you the ultimate freedom – freedom from yourself, freedom from the bounds of ‘personality’ that you have created for yourself.
Read More : Meditation is for You by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.