Shhhhhhhhhhhh...someone's meditating..

Meditation.....its amazing just how sitting still quietly can calm all your thoughts down so easily & still when you open your eyes afterwards you are so full of dynamism, ready to take on the world head on. I remember the girl in the intital parts of a video made by the Art of Living organization in which people share their experiences of the YES+ course where she says that after doing the YES+ course she realised that something had solidified in her. I found that experience very interesting but I never felt like that after any of my first 3 AOL courses (although I felt many other great things). But after my Sahaj Samadhi course (special meditation course) in the Bangalore Ashram this June, I felt something which I couldn't make out anything of but then I remembered the video & out came the explanation that something has solidified in me. I can't explain that experience that I get everytime after meditation but it's something really beautiful & no person breathing on this planet can afford to miss.

My day feels incomplete without meditation. I just love to meditate after I come back from my work or after my play. It's not that I feel stressful & tired after my work because my work is really chilled out. But still after the physical exertions of the day, when I come back home & meditate I feel a totally new definition of bliss. Only after meditation I realized that you can't find bliss in any practices or in someone. You are bliss & you harness it through your practices..be it spiritual or anything else. For me when you do anything 100%, do it innocently & don't expect anything from the act, you become blissful because you stay within yourself & that's how you go deeper in meditation. That's why whenever you do any kind of service to others, you feel nice. Meditation just takes that experience to a different level & adds a new dimension of bliss & calmness to it.

I just can't understand why meditation wasn't taught to us in our schools because its such a powerful tool to rest our mind & body. And we Indians should take pride in the fact that such a thing is being practiced since time immemorial in our country. Instead we easternise such beauties & westernise our thought process. It's high time that we started respecting our culture (even I was a big-time non-respecter before) & implementing it in our daily life. In fact now I can understand that the Art of Living organization is not teaching us something new or different in our lives, rather it's aligning our lives to the way it should be lived. Art of Living is to Humanity as Ayurveda is to Medicine. A way, an art & not just a path.

P.S.: For those of you who are thinking that this blog is a marketing strategy for spreading awareness about the courses of Art of Living, you are welcome to think on those lines provided you call me up & register for the course because otherwise I never meant this to be a marketing strategy!