Page 35 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

because of that particular energy which is there, and always bubbling. It never accepts defeat. It means to bring in a happiness that is our birth right. God wants us to be happy and we shall be happy come what way. We fight but in this process you know somebody else loves you. All these are the problems that you are going to have in your meditation.
You will find your instincts demanding attention, you will find all sorts of ideas coming to you, of kama, krodha, mada, matsarya, eershya, dwesha, everything will come to you. You have to face all of them squarely with the feeling that Divinity is with me and he knows what to do with it, brush them aside. If you yield to any one of them that means you have lost the game on that day. Next day you have got to gird up your loins again and start, never to leave it once and for all. Yesterday I was reading some mail where somebody said he was forced to get up from meditation because of several problems that he had and I felt sorry for him because it’s a vicarious problem. He was not in the scene, the problem is elsewhere, thousands of miles away, he was imagining a problem. So he was having a drama of the physical plane at the mental plane. Problem is elsewhere, in Kashmir let us say, and if we say that we are not able to meditate on the Divinity because of the problem that is there in Kashmir, it is living at the mental plane a physical plane problem, which is an impossibility, it is an illusion. You can never tackle a problem like that but the basic core of ours is capable of solving the problem because we go with happiness. Happiness knows no boundaries; it is not at the physical plane. Bliss has no boundaries, it has no physical plane. Peace has no boundaries, it has no physical plane. Pain is in the physical plane. Pleasure is in the physical plane and therefore gets particularized. Though it is incapable of coming to the mental plane we are capable of thinking so and that is what others have stated as illusion. Some systems of philosophy put it as an illusion because there is no pain or suffering or pleasure at the mental plane. It is all at the physical plane. How we react to it is all the problem. They said therefore don’t react to it that is a separate subject with which we are not concerned. In meditation we bother to try to keep our attention on divine light only, ignoring all other thoughts. These thoughts relate to these kosas and that is what I am trying to tell you. Don’t run away from that situation, face it - ignore it.
In meditation, to summarise I would say you have got to have a easy and natural posture to sit. Don’t change it too often because you want a steadiness of