Meditation is not a mental repetition of a chant or thought or a mental worship of god or a state of concentration or thoughtlessness.

Meditation is remaining independent of everything as a result of unassailable thought, I am verifying the ‘truth’. Is well-known by the word Dhyana (meditation) and is the giver of the supreme bliss. Dhyana is generally understood as a state of full awareness. It forms an essential part of our life. We are told…’dhyan se chalana, dhyan se sunana,  etc. (Walk carefully, listen with full attention, be alert etc.) Without it our life becomes mechanical and incomplete. No success is possible without our full attention.  Gurudev Swami Chinmay Ananda describes a meditative mind is’ quiet, vigilant and alert’  Having fixed one’s mind in a particular chakra or place in the body, what is one to do? The mind is then directed to the eternal truth or self or God. With a continuous flow of thought towards the truth the mind attains a state of absorption. That is dhyana. Such a stream of thought may be directed towards the forms and qualities of God, we call it Saguna Dhyana or towards the formless Truth, it is Nirguna Dhyana.

Please enjoy a blissful day.

By Yogi Joby George