Meditation Brings Proof of God’s Existence

[kashyap putra]

Is it really by doing meditation we can attain  the supreme thee if you want to know the answer then read the below article.
 
Today’s topic is meditation brings the proof of God’s existence. In the very beginning of the Autobiography of a Yogi, it is written (in the 1946 edition):
“Except ye see, signs and wonders, ye shall not believe.” – John 4:48
 
From Autobiography of a Yogi:
 
"It merely signifies that to the unenlightened man, dependent on his senses for all final judgments, proof of God must remain unknown and therefore non-existent. True Sankhya followers, with unshakable insight born of meditation, understand that the Lord is both existent and knowable."
 
God is unknowable solely for those who depend on their senses for their understanding. This should not surprise us. The ordinary man sees through his eyes, hears through his ears, feels through his senses and is guided by his feelings. If that is the realm of his perception then one may not perceive God, because it takes intuition to perceive God. If one experiences through intuition then God is both knowable and achievable. Essential proof of Self Realization, of God’s consciousness in you, that he is making his presence manifest in you is felt during the ever deepening joy felt in meditation.
 
Before going any further about God’s existence let me say that we have been hearing the word ‘God’ since childhood; the word is familiar, but we have not understood the meaning. All the definitions of God are right in their own right. But the definition of God closest to my heart is that ‘God is satchitananda.’ To someone else He could be different. We have been hearing that word ‘God’ since childhood, yet we don’t know what is God. If there is someone called God, then can that God be sad. Let me start from that point. So God must be someone full of ‘joy.’ And to say God is ‘joy’ is a gross understatement. ‘Joy’ is so vague. If I eat one mango it gives me joy, a second mango makes me feel a little more happy, I don’t want to eat a third mango, the fourth mango will not make me happy and I want to hit the person who is giving me a fifth mango.
 
This is as per the Theory of Marginal Utility and the Theory of Diminishing Returns. But there is one thing that gives me joy which can never become less. Saints down the ages keep meditating on God as He is ever new joy. God is ‘ever new joy.’ But if God is not aware of His joy what good it is? It is like a prince playing with slum dwellers but is aware that he is a prince. In the evening he will go back to his palace. But if he is not aware then he is as good as a slum dweller himself. So that brings us to the fact that God is ‘chitta’ – ever-conscious. He does not exist for some time, He is ever existing, ever conscious joy. But I don’t stop here. God is ‘satchitananda’ and He is ‘ahambrahmasmi.’ That means He is in me. The best way to contact God is through meditation – because I can experience that joy only in meditation. The joy of earthly life and the joy of God is something different. Earthly joy is physiological (you find something sweet, some taste buds get excited and I am happy) and psychological (I hear some good news and I feel happy and that changes my system.) Not that physically I took something. The spiritual shade of the joy is ‘When bliss consciousness comes over you.’ In the Autobiography it is mentioned:
 
“"I am sure you aren't expecting a venerable Personage, adorning a throne in some antiseptic corner of the cosmos! I see, however, that you are imagining that the possession of miraculous powers is knowledge of God. One might have the whole universe, and find the Lord elusive still! Spiritual advancement is not measured by one's outward powers, but only by the depth of his bliss in meditation.
"Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.
"How quickly we weary of earthly pleasures! Desire for material things is endless; man is never satisfied completely, and pursues one goal after another. The 'something else' he seeks is the Lord, who alone can grant lasting joy.
"Outward longings drive us from the Eden within; they offer false pleasures which only impersonate soul-happiness. The lost paradise is quickly regained through divine meditation. As God is unanticipatory Ever-Newness, we never tire of Him. Can we be surfeited with bliss, delightfully varied throughout eternity?"
"I understand now, sir, why saints call the Lord unfathomable. Even everlasting life could not suffice to appraise Him."
"That is true; but He is also near and dear. After the mind has been cleared by Kriya Yoga of sensory obstacles, meditation furnishes a twofold proof of God. Ever-new joy is evidence of His existence, convincing to our very atoms. Also, in meditation one finds His instant guidance, His adequate response to every difficulty."
So God is not someone with four hands and many heads. He is someone with whom you can make a connection. Now don’t you think that meditation brings proof of God’s existence. You felt not through your eyes and ears and senses but your whole being experiences the joy of meditation. There is a universal being to whom you can appeal. There is concrete proof that can otherwise never happen. There is a conviction of how you can get to know God.
 
A person went to a holy man and said, “O Holy Sir, I am very busy, I am very active in life, I don’t have much time, tell me in one word, what is God?”
The holy man answered, “Silence”.
“What is silence?” asked the person.
“Meditation” answered the holy man.
“How can I meditate?”
“In silence,” answered the holy man.
 
Silence is not mere silence of the vocal cords. Thoughts, emotions, principles of judgement, eyes, nose, skin, all the senses, mind and feeling have to be silenced. Better word is stillness. Emotions, thoughts, anxieties all are stilled in pratyahara.
We have to become antarmukhi. We have been hearing the term – ahambrahmasmi – meaning we are the expression of the same Divinity. If Divinity is in me, why can’t I see it? If you want to see the reflection of the moon in the lake it has to be stilled. I can’t perceive God as the lake of my consciousness is always ruffled. Even in sleep it is not still – I get dreams. If the consciousness is always ruffled how can you perceive God? It is not in doing but in being that we perceive God. It is not in action, but in awareness that we get God.
 
How do you get the awareness? By meditation. Meditation takes you where the thoughts are subdued. You don’t have to do anything further. In the Autobiography of a Yogi:
 
"How quickly we weary of earthly pleasures! Desire for material things is endless; man is never satisfied completely, and pursues one goal after another. The 'something else' he seeks is the Lord, who alone can grant lasting joy.
 
"Outward longings drive us from the Eden within; they offer false pleasures which only impersonate soul-happiness. The lost paradise is quickly regained through divine meditation. As God is unanticipatory Ever-Newness, we never tire of Him. Can we be surfeited with bliss, delightfully varied throughout eternity?"
 
"I understand now, sir, why saints call the Lord unfathomable. Even everlasting life could not suffice to appraise Him."
"That is true; but He is also near and dear. After the mind has been cleared by Kriya Yoga of sensory obstacles, meditation furnishes a twofold proof of God. Ever-new joy is evidence of His existence, convincing to our very atoms. Also, in meditation one finds His instant guidance, His adequate response to every difficulty."
 
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