“Meditation & Its Benefits” is a blog that I am writing based on the learning from my Masters and my meditation experience of over 13 years.

In 2005, I was blessed to be accepted as a disciple by my Masters at OshoDhara.  OshoDhara is a live mystery school nurtured by a trinity of enlightened masters (Sadguru Trivir) following the teachings of OSHO.

OSHO has narrated a beautiful story. I would like to start with that.

Story of breaking the Coconut

The Question

Once upon a time, there was a person who met a Saint. The person asked the Saint, “How is it possible that Jesus was full of love even for those who were crucifying him. And not only Jesus, there have been many Saints, Gurus & Spiritual Masters in the past, who could not only forgive their enemies but also were full of love for them?”

Coconut Experiment by the Saint

Instead of replying to this question, the Saint gave that person a tender green coconut and asked him to break it. But there is a condition that only the outer green cover should break. The inside copra, the white eatable part of the coconut should not break at all.

The person said that it is not possible.

The Saint took the tender coconut and replaced it with the dry coconut. Then he asked the person to break it, but the condition remains the same.

The person said that it is very easy and he can break the coconut without damaging the internal copra.

The Saint took that coconut also and said that there is no need to break even this coconut.

He asked a question to that person. “Why is it that you feel you can break the dry coconut and not the tender one, without damaging the internal white copra?”

The person said that it is because the copra in the tender coconut is stuck to the walls of the outer covering whereas when the coconut becomes dry, the copra gets disconnected with the outer covering and there becomes a space between the two. When there is a space between the two, it is easy to break the outer covering without damaging the internal copra.

The Answer of the Saint

The Saint said that it is the answer to your question.

Those who could create a space between their internal soul and the external body, like the ripe coconut, remain unaffected even if something happens to their outer physical body.

MEDITATION IS A TECHNIQUE TO GET THIS REALIZATION IN LIFE.

All those saints who were full of love even for their enemies have actually attained that state through Meditation.

Realizations Through Meditation

If you do meditation regularly, you will have two important realizations:

1. As the real coconut is the copra inside and the outer body is its cover. Similarly, through Meditation, you get a realization that my real self is the soul, the spirit and my outer body is just like a cover, an external casing.
2. The physical body is moral and it has to finish one day or the other; whereas the soul is like an energy which is immortal & eternal.

With these two realizations, your approach towards life will change phenomenally.

Let us try to understand through an example

Scene 1

Suppose you are an employee and you work in an office or at some shop. You are working there for years together. You love your place, you keep it clean take care of it, manage it well.

Now imagine that one day that office or shop building catches a huge fire. What would you do & how would you feel?

You would first save yourself by running out of the building. Then obviously you will try to extinguish the fire, call for help, call the fire brigade & police to control and extinguish the fire. Precisely, you would do whatever best is possible to save the property or minimize the damage.

Scene 2

Imagine that instead of office or shop on fire, now your own purchased house is on fire.

You would exactly do the same as you did for your office or shop.

But will you have the same feelings?

Obviously many of us would not have the same feeling. This difference in feeling cannot be explained in words, but I am sure, you would have understood & realized it well.

The very thought that my purchased house is on fire will shake us to the roots, whereas we will be a little detached when there is a fire in the office or in shop.

Same Difference through Meditation

When you do meditation and get the realization that I am not the mortal body but the immortal soul. When you could feel the two as two different faculties and a gap, a space between the two, your approach to your life would change.

Then one day you can also attain the state where you will not only be full of love for your enemies but roar on the top of your voice, “O God! Forgive them as they do not know what they are doing”. They are trying to damage the mortal body thinking that they are doing harm to me. I am the immortal soul and no action from their side can damage or destroy me.

Benefits Of Meditation

Imagine that you have attained the state where you could feel that there is a space between your body & the soul and get identified with soul instead of body & mind. Now understanding the benefits of Meditation will be pretty easy:

1. You will never be in the grip of negative stress, anxiety or depression.

You know it very well that your mind & body are your external covering; but you are a soul. You will do the best for them but will not be much affected by the result.

2. You will be free from all type of fears.

All fears are the derivatives of the fear of death. Once you realize that you as a soul are immortal and the body is mortal and has to die one day, you will accept your death. Then the fear of death will go away. As a result all your fears will also go away.

3. Happiness, celebration & joy will become integral part of your life

Once you know that your existence is eternal, there shall be no misery in life. You will become happy irrespective of the circumstances in life.

4. Your health will improve

You might be surprised to know that 90% of the diseases are psychosomatic in nature. The root cause is in the mind in the form of negative emotions and the manifestation of the disease is on the body. Once you are free from negative stress, anxiety, depression, anger, fears and all other negative emotions, you will be free from 90% of the diseases.

5. Healing of your body will improve

Our body has beautiful auto healing mechanisms. When we do meditation, we get connected with the cosmic universal energy which heals our body.

6. You will become Successful in life

The life will become like a stage play for you. Your acceptance power of the result will increase. Your performance pressure & anxiety of the result will vanish.

Once you perform without the performance pressure and without the anxiety of the result, your quality of work & action will get improved substantially and the chances of becoming successful in your life increases manifold.

7. Your relationships will become cordial

Once you are happy, you spread happiness around you. A happy person neither gets hurt by others behavior nor tries to hurt others. Once you behave genuinely, loving, with care & affection, the same positivity will be reciprocated from other side.

Your expectations from the others will reduce and as a result your relations with family, friends & at workplace will improve.

8. Many other benefits

The list is long. I am sure, at this stage, it is easy for you to understand many other benefits of Meditation yourself.

A line of caution

We postpone the good things and immediately do the wrong things. We postpone love but not the anger. We postpone meditation for the old age, which is the biggest crime that a person can do with him.

Benefits of meditation can be achieved in life only by doing and not by knowing.

Don’t wait for tomorrow. TOMORROW NEVER COMES.

Get up and start it NOW ITSELF.

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With my experience of Spirituality, Psychology, Hypnotherapy & Counseling; I personally feel that Spiritual Counseling is a Step Ahead of Psychological Counseling. Spiritual Counseling is comparatively more effective and powerful, hence I thought of sharing my ideas with the intention that more and more people should become Successful, Healthy and Happy and have Cordial Relations in their life.

These are purely my views and have no intention to hurt anyone sentiments.

This blog covers the following three dimensions:

1. Why & when do we need counseling?
2. The Psychological Perspective.
3. Spiritual Perspective.

Why & When do we need Counseling?

As we enter into our youth, our basic requirement is to become Successful and all our energies are focused towards becoming successful. We have to become financially independent. As we climb on the ladder of experience, we should grow from having Financial Security to Financial Freedom to Financial Abundance in life.

Two Steps to Success

Success is not a milestone but a continuous journey on the right path. There are only two steps to Success:

1. Take the right decisions by making the right choices at the right time in life.
2. Implement decision to continue moving on the path of Success, in the right direction.

For moving continuously on the right path of Success, you need to be sufficiently motivated, happy and energized.

Bottlenecks in the path of Success

Anything that reduces your motivation, happiness or energy level is a bottleneck in the path of Success. Because, even after making the right choices, it will not let you move on the path of Success freely.

Bottlenecks could be your fears, depression, anxiety, lack of confidence, defensive behavior, traumatic experience in life, spoiled relations with family or friends or at workplace, physical illness and many more.

If you are facing any of these bottlenecks in life, it is the right time for you to go for Counseling.

The Psychological Perspective

Sigmund Freud had made a great contribution in the field of Psychology. He is the founder of Psychoanalysis, a Clinical Method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a Psychoanalyst.

Important Principal of Psychology

In Psychology, there is an important relationship between “Behavior”, “Personality” & “Environment”.

Our Behavior is dependent of our Personality & Environment.

“Environment” is external to us and is beyond our control.

“Theory of Personality” by Sigmund Freud

Freud gave the concept of Id, Ego & Superego.

In common language we can understand:

• Id as our basic Natural Instincts of seeking pleasure in life.
• Superego is our Morality or the moral values that we learn from our parents, elders, teachers and society so that we can adjust well with the society.
• Ego is the way to mediate or strike a balance between our Instincts/ pleasure seeking activities vis a vis the Moral Values we have learnt from the society.

Accordingly our Personality is developed.

Let us understand from an example:

Suppose you are a student and sitting with your friends in the college campus. You see your teacher rushing towards her class room, and while walking, she slips and falls down in front of you. What would you do?

• Natural Instinct might be to laugh.
• Moral Values will tell you that laughing is not good and will try to stop you from laughing.
• Ego will strike a balance between the two.

Some of you might burst into laughter while others might control the laughter & suppress their feelings.

Let us evaluate both the possibilities.

1. Those who laugh: They are giving more importance to their instincts as compared to their morality and hence they started laughing. They will not be considered as good students because their behavior is not normal or as per social norms. These students might enter into Guilt. Over a period of time, non acceptance by society together with the feeling of guilt will become the bottleneck in their path of Success.
2. Those who don’t laugh: They are giving more importance to Morality as compared to their natural instincts and therefore, are suppressing their feeling. Their behavior will be highly acceptable by the society and would be considered as good students.. However, this suppression of laughter coupled with other suppressed feelings over a period of time might result into unhappiness, lack of confidence that will act as bottleneck in their path of Success.

In either case, you are bound to be Unhappy and that unhappiness would become a bottleneck in the path of Success.

Conclusion of Psychological Perspective

The other is responsible for my behavior; for my unhappiness. That may be in the form of environment (which is not in my control) or through my personality which is a built by my elders during my nurture.

Till other will not change, I cannot change and hence I cannot be happy.

Spiritual Perspective

To understand the Spiritual Perspective, let us see the Four Noble Truths given by Gautam Buddha.

Four Noble Truths by Gautam Buddha

Gautam Buddha has given four Noble Truths. Noble truths means that they are eternal, universal for everyone without exception.

The four noble truths are as follows:

1.      The Truth of Suffering

Everyone’s life has sufferings. The reason of suffering may be different for different people. We have seen above, in Psychological Perspective as to how either of our behavior would lead to sufferings.

2.      The Truth of Cause of Suffering

Every suffering has a cause or a reason behind it. There is no suffering without a reason.

3.      The Truth of End of Suffering

The reason or cause of sufferings can be eliminated and the unconditional happiness can flow in life.

4.      The Truth of the path that leads to the end of Suffering

Gautam Buddha has given the Eight fold path that leads to end of suffering and brings happiness & enlightenment.

Conclusion of Spiritual Perspective

As per Spirituality, the others will not change. People, environment, circumstances etc. will always remain same; still we can become Happy here and now.

Why Spiritual Counseling is a step ahead of Psychological Counseling?

Since Psychology believes that other’s are responsible for my unhappiness and till others will not change, I cannot change therefore, through Psychological Counseling you can help you attain the state of normal happiness.

Some normal, acceptable level of unhappiness will always remain.

Where, Spirituality believes that other’s will not change and I can be happy here and now. Therefore, Spiritual counseling deals with the techniques as to how we can become happy irrespective of external factors.

An example to understand

We all are aware about Jesus who was full of blessings even for those who were crucifying him. He was saying, “O God! Please forgive them as they do not know what they are doing”.

In the spiritual history, he is not the only example. We can find many similar examples from Sufis, Gurus of  Sikh religion, Gautam Buddha and many others.

However, we have no example outside Spirituality, who was full of so much of unconditional happiness that he could even forgive his enemies.

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• Module 1: Understanding Success & Happiness and move in the right direction.
• Module 2: How to take important decisions & make choices that lead us to Success. If we are not able to take the decisions, we are likely to enter into anxiety.
• Module 3: How to implement the decision. Because, planning followed by implementation leads to Success, else Depression.
• Module 4: How to keep your self Healthy.
• Module 5: How to keep cordial relations with family, friends & at workplace.
• Module 6: How to be happy, joyful & celebration in life through meditation. How to get rid of the negative emotions.

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NOTE: MY EARLIER BLOGS ON SUCCESS & HAPPINESS 

1. Conquer The Success – For Success & Happiness
2. Meet Mr. Successful
3. Success & Happiness: Which is more important?
4. Blueprint of Success & Happiness
5. Why meditation is important for success & happiness
6. Taking The Right Decision
7. Add Wings to your Performance on Implementation of decisions.
8. Vicious Circle of Unhappiness
9. Happiness is the glue of Unity

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