P Balan Master no more

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MEDITATION

The question is typical of the contemporary man reared in an age of unbridled science. The need for integrating various aspects of our personality is obvious in our case. The physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual personalities must all be blended into one harmonious whole. Meditation is the technique of achieving this harmony. It is the highest spiritual discipline. Be regular. Be sincere. Be pure. Meditation can never fail. Failures in meditation bring greater success in life. Sincerity and regularity are the secrets of success in mediation.
If you are ready for meditation, the best mantra to chant is no doubt the Gayatri Mantra
“ Om Bhur-Bhuva-Swah Om Tat-Savitar-Varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat”
This mantra never chanted for the purpose of material gains, physical or otherwise. Its very invocation concludes with an appeal to the pure consciousness to illumine more our heart-that is a prayer unto the self to unveil itself and come to manifest as pure wisdom in our life.
A meditator should live a strictly ethical and moral life. It is an unavoidable necessity. It is not a mere control of sex life. It is to be understood as a perfect and all-round self control; even to eat more, to talk loosely or to listen to scandals-in short any excessive indulgence, through any of the sense organs, would be the breaking of law.
You can now experience a godly peace and divine silence descending upon you wrapping your heart in folds of supreme joy. Remain in that position as long as you can. True meditation can bring out of any ordinary man, an incomparable genius. Therefore do meditate and grow. Suggestions for becoming a good meditator
Sleep only 6 hours a day
Get up at 4am
Increase the time of meditation slowly and steadily
Read books on lives of great masters
Chant Gayatri Mantra during meditation
Observe silence at least 2 hours(continuous) a day
Do undertake a day fast once in a month
Keep away the anger
Say no to evil habits

A man is alive only when he comes in contact with the things and beings in the world outside in their different set-ups called circumstances. Even if he were alone in a solitary island, to continue living, he must be able to face his lot efficiently and intelligently without giving himself to hasty panic and despair. Nobody in the world can even for a moment live without coming in contact with objects of his world outside or at least with his own thoughts and ideas within.
Thus, not by choice but by the compelling law of life, everyone must meet his world of happenings at every moment of his living. If there is efficiency in meeting one's own world-with ready dexterity, with quick decisions, firm well, balanced equanimity and right understanding-no situation in life can break a man and enslave him. But, unfortunately the individual succumbs to the ghastly look of the situations and thus surrenders himself to the bewitching threats of life. The fool who comes to be pelted with the insentient and inert problems of life becomes a shattered desperado stinking in his own utter failures in life.
This seems to be the tragedy of the world today. Young men, with their heads stuffed with facts and figures, go about in the world weighed down with their voiceless sorrows, dumb desperations and tearless sighs! They try to run away from this inner sense of dejection by loudly clamoring the glories of their age and the civilization of their times. The manly mouthed organs of propaganda noisily howl and hoot the glories of the machine-age, the efficiency of the money-trade, the joys in the higher standards of living, the nobility of modern governments and the very brutalities of war with which they uphold the blessings of peace!