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it is running or not, or whether someone is talking, this type of attachment and the attitude we are not supposed to have.
We should have our own seat. Because our thought force is capable of influencing the environment; as all existence is consciousness in some form or the other-grosser or the finer. Even this carpet on which we are sitting is also consciousness, only in a gross form. Because we are meditating sitting on that for quite some time it is in tune with us. It enables us to be stable. If we go on changing the seat and then say, what is there we can sit anywhere we like; after all God is everywhere, what does it matter, then we cannot expect results. God is everywhere, everyone knows that. We are not discussing metaphysics; we are talking about 'yoga'. How best we can utilise the environment for our good is our concern. So, first we have noted the relevance about the time, and then we have dealt with the aspect of posture and then about the 'Seat'.
Master also talks about the place. Have a fixed place. Do not sit today in kitchen, tomorrow in bathroom, third day in bedroom. That's not what is desired. Ultimately, those of us who by the grace of the Master have moved on in our 'Yatra' more and more nearer to Him, know that we have been meditating and continue to meditate through the day. Wherever we are, whether it is in bathroom or in kitchen or in bedroom or in drawing room or in office we have been in meditative mood. Ultimately this is what actually happens. But still even for those people who feel His presence everywhere who remember Him everywhere, in spite of all these there is that uniqueness when we go and sit in the place where one is supposed to meditate every day. When we go to that place the whole frame of mind changes. The environment reverberates with that Divine Consciousness. If a great man has meditated in a particular place, Revered Babuji says, we should be in a position to feel Him also. That is how He has discovered or located the places where Lord Rama or Lord Krishna and others have lived and moved in their times. It is a fact of spiritual experience to note that the consciousness of Great personalities leave some sort of an effect on the place. Therefore if we have been meditating with the idea that Revered Babuji is helping us in our Sadhana in our meditation rooms over a period of time that particular place gets charged with what we call "Sri Ram Chandra's Consciousness" and that place is something where we find calm pervading always. What if we meditate in our chair, sitting in our drawing room is not the correct attitude. But these lapses are likely to happen. That is why He insisted, even when we feel we are advanced, to meditate in a particular place, He particularly practiced it. In Shahjahanpur, those of us who know Him know that