Page 346 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

True awareness during meditation will reveal a sincere longing to be free of any and every pretence all together. One can come to understand that as long as one is creating illusion, one cannot avoid the suffering of the delusion and of the consequent disillusionment. No illusion can withstand the force of being. If you have suffered disillusionment, then be grateful. When one is disillusioned, one loses what is, by definition, unreal. In reality, one has not lost anything. This can inspire a person to give up this endless chasing of rainbows and become sincerely interested in freedom.
The very peace and joy of being that people truly want is in fact being overlooked in all this chasing of form and the myriad strategies during meditation. Peace and freedom is not found in thoughts or forms that come and go. Peace and freedom is ones own nature, it is what all form, and all perception of form arises from, the source. It is that we are faced with in Silence: it is for us to look and enjoy our freedom in such a state and even go beyond experience.
Only freedom can reveal freedom. A
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