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Question (Q): What
does an aspirant find when he comes to a Master? What exactly is the
meditation?
Sant Thakar Singh (STS): Meditation is a very simple thing to
understand. That when we are attending any object concentrately,
single-minded attention, that becomes meditation. As I am meditating
upon you, you are meditating upon me and the effect is there that you
are entering into me, I am entering in you. This process starts at
once when we come in contact with anybody in attention. But if we go
on sitting side by side for whole the life and I do not attend to him
and he does not attend to me, there is nothing, no connection is
there. No give and take is there, no relation is there.
So relation
is there when we are connected at hearts. We feel each other, we
attend to each other, that becomes meditation. Otherwise it is not
attention and we may be together, but there is no meditation. As this
is the case with us, all the people of this world, that God is there
in us but we are attending to the other side and we have no connection
with God, we are not in meditation. The meditation is there, that we
attend to our Father, attend to our friend and we go into Him and He
comes into us and after some time we are one with Him. That we all in
all are in Him and He all in all is in us and "I and my Father
are one". His perfection is in us and our nothingness goes to
Him. In His perfection, He remains perfect and we are also made
perfect. There is no difference to Him, no difficulty to Him, but we
are filled, we are blessed and this process is completed with this
meditation, to attend.
And to whom
can we attend? To whom can we meditate? Whom we see in front or
perhaps it may be to whom we would have seen at some time. That is
also little possible, that some imagination may be there to some
person whom you have seen some days back, but that is not really
catching us. A person who is in front of us really attracts our
attention because it is existence and there is liking. Like begets
like and that we can attract each other. This becomes the meditation.
That when God is in front of us, we look at Him, then we can meditate.
You cannot just imagine God and that you can call meditation. It is
only imagination, only struggle. You are in darkness, you are
meditating the darkness. Then what is the use of meditating on the
darkness? That you will be filled more and more with darkness. Already
you are filled with darkness.
So that is
why Master has to supply God in the form of light and sound and other
blessings, good feelings, fragrance, etc. so that you are attending
the inner things of kingdom of God and God and there is then a
definite effect of it. A process starts. A great change which is to
occur in our life, future life, for eternity we will enjoy it, that is
started. So this is the great importance of meditation and what is
called meditation. That we had been meditating on this world and we
have become world and worldly. This is the effect of the meditation on
world. That we have totally forgotten God and kingdom of God. 100% we
have become world.
In the same
way, we are to withdraw from the world and to attend God so that we
are totally 100% taken away from the world and we are 100% connected
with God. This is the effect, this is the process of
the meditation.
(Sant Thakar Singh,
Talk in Kinderhook, June 29, 1994)
Q: People
are some way afraid of losing their personalities though. Does the
meditation totally take all sense of self?
STS: Your head will remain with you. You will not lose your
head. You see, you increase your personality. You do not decrease your
personality. If a poor person is accepted by a king, adopted by a
king, that person is finding higher personality. So this is told by
the Master that you belong to royal family, you belong to royal family
and why don't you go to the royal family and become royal? Because you
belong to God, you belong to kingdom of God, you are children of God.
Don't you belong to royal family? So your personality is increased, my
dear, you are not decreased.
(Sant Thakar Singh,
Talk in Kinderhook, June 29, 1994)
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