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you meditate more and more but in the initial stage itself you get to know that it is responding to you. It is enabling you to feel comfortable. Many systems find it difficult to say to their practicants to meditate for half an hour or one hour. We always say meditate for half an hour minimum and one hour in the morning and we don’t have many people who complain about it and few who complain have got physical problems. It is because that internal contact is established with the Divine, you are able to sit for meditation. I had an occasion to meet an elderly person who said when I asked him to participate in satsang and it was one hour. At the end of it he said, ‘Are you practicing Hatha yoga sir?’ I said ‘No, this is Raja yoga I am practicing’. Such long hours of practice are generally treated as part of Hatha Yoga. Majority of meditation sessions end within fifteen minutes to twenty minutes. We insist that you should meditate half an hour minimum, 1 hour in the morning.
Why do we meditate? What is it that you are going to achieve by knowing your inner self? You know that your inner self is not a segregated thing but it is one with all others. The traditional example is that of air. You have got a tumbler here you have got a bottle there. There is air inside and there is air outside but if you break the bottle, the inside air becomes one with the outside, though for all purposes they are contained inside. Similarly, the energy that is there in you, the Divinity that is there in you is the same Divinity that is there in me and everywhere else. You become aware of the fact that this body is only a place of activity and is not your true nature. It is your workshop; your body is your workshop. This is the place where we work, this is the only place where you can talk, this is the only place where you can see, and this is the only place where you can hear but that is not yourself. You are something more than that, something deeper in you and once you get to know about that internal self, you get to know that everybody else is yourself. There is no difference between you and other person and the much talked about fellowship, fraternity becomes a reality for us. It is no more a philosophy that is being thrust on us but is a reality that is experienced and therefore it becomes natural for us to feel for others, to live for others. Sacrifice itself is too strong a word once you come to that stage because it is no more a sacrifice, nobody sacrifices for himself. Sacrifice itself is at the lower level. Only an unevolved soul would think about the words sacrifice or service. Service becomes something which is of a lower order awareness. You don’t serve your hand by cleaning it, similarly when somebody

































































































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