Page 172 - Three Truths - Trillion Doubts - Volume -II

depressed? It amounts to if I may say blasphemy.
More on Owning up of condition:
1. Kindly be oriented to the sitting and note the condition during and after meditation. That alone can help you to own up your condition.
Feeling the Presence of the Master
1. For some days felt yearning/restless and past few days feeling very light most of the day. Feeling simply happy and content to feel the presence of Rev. Master. I feel as if I do not have to search for the presence of Master in my heart. He is there all over. Felt real happiness lies in expressing Divinity and sharing this unique happiness around us.
Raja yoga is different from Vedanta. God is everywhere but to realise Him as such we have to dive deep into our heart and feel Him within. Do not change the methods of meditation and make conclusions which have been arrived at by elders of the tradition in a casual manner. Meditate as advised if you seek to know the reality of the matter in this path.
2. Sometimes I feel lightness during meditation. I am able to hold my thought on divine light some times and sometimes not. Quite few times I had the thought that there is a common binding in all the human beings I feel calm after meditation. Sometimes I feel the master's presence.
What you have written is good by itself and you should be grateful to Master that you feel his presence now and then. That is a remarkable progress in a mind that is tuned to worldly matters.
More on feeling the presence of the Master:
1. If the Lord is not sought in the heart I think any search externally will be of no avail. When we search for Him in the heart what does it matter that we do so in Church or Synagogue or Mosque or Temple or Ashram?
2. Regularity of practice achieves the desired results sooner. Try to be attentive