Does meditation help in liberation? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Question: What role does the word ‘meditation’ has in us increasing our chances of Liberation?

Acharya Prashant Ji:

If ‘meditation’ is Freedom from bondage, if that’s what your meditation honestly is, then obviously meditation will help in Liberation. But if meditation is just another thing, then what does it have to do with Liberation?

We very well know that if we have to be liberated, then we have to honestly admit and challenge our bondages. So that is what you must ask yourself. “Is my meditation really challenging the real bondages of my life? Or is meditation just a small thing, in a small part of my life, very distant from, very removed from the part of my life where strong bondages actually exist?”

Mostly the kind of meditation that we practice is ornamental. It really does not address the core problem. It is like a tribute paid to Liberation – a ceremonial thing, not actual.

Man has a great capacity to co-opt even Freedom into his slavery.

A lot of times what we call as ‘spiritual practice’ exists just so that we don’t have to address the real problem. Addressing the real problem requires guts and Faith.