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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
my friends and relatives even ask me as to why I meditate and even suggest that much time need not be wasted like that.
I used to think why should I meditate at all and waste my time on this rather amusing exercise for the sake of enlightenment or realisation of what I really do not know and while clarifying escape into the word ― Nothingness‖. I wonder what my motivation is. What am I looking for or even lacking, for that matter?
To think that our system is all about meditation is to misunderstand it. Many of us think even as our Western country brethren attracted to Eastern thought and practice often make the mistake of seeing meditation in the narrowest sense of going into a quiet room and closing our eyes. In fact, there‘s a lot more to these things, both externally, internally, and ultimately the process of spiritual development is an integral and holistic endeavour. The concept of constant remembrance in our system is more similar to the mindfulness of Buddhist thought rather than the concept of Bhajan
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