Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati
Excerpt from: Yoga & Meditation for Self Healing
Pgs 32-33
“Behind the object, behind the friend whom we love there is the vibration of true inner life with which we are absolutely unfamiliar. In other words, we love the furniture and we neglect the owner. And that is the reason for restlessness, lawlessness, confusion, chaos and energy crisis.
Meditation is the process of going beyond the universe of objective phenomena. The moment we go beyond the object we also go beyond the subject, because they exist in togetherness. Subjectivity and objectivity are two poles of our thinking. Whenever there is an object around us we automatically become the subject in relation to that. But through meditation we are aware of consciousness alone, without any object. Then there is no subject in us. When the object is lost then the subject is also lost.
For example in deep sleep there is no objective universe. Therefore there is no subjective universe either. Meditation is very similar to deep, dreamless sleep. It is a subjectless, objectless universe. It is the universe of vibration of pure energy. When the mind returns from the meditative state, it has the power and capacity to understand the universe of relativity exactly as it is.”
Note: The above statement has a similar correlation to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra in Book 1, Sutra 48 -
Translation Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati
Rtam-Bharaa Tratra Prajnaa.
“In Nirvicaara Samaadhi, mental consciousness is filled with natural truth, intuitive knowledge, direct feeling and knowing, the spontaneous pulsation of light.”
Yoga & Meditation for Self Healing - Copyright Baba Bhagavandas Publication Trust – 2000
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Translation by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati - Copyright Baba Bhagavandas Publication Trust Jan 1987
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