Meditativeness, not meditation || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Acharya Prashant

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Meditativeness, not meditation || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Questioner: Does meditation have something to do with attention?

Acharya Prashant: Meditation. What do you call as meditation? What do you mean by meditation?

Listener 1: Concentrating on something.

AP: So you mean some techniques that you may have read somewhere. They may be helpful but they are not the real things because all mediation and everything is stuff of your doing, it is coming from your mind. Mind wants to achieve something, so it starts doing something. But if that meditation can quieten your mind for a while then it’s worth it.

Then the question will be, ‘What do you want, the quietness for a while or the quietness of the entire day?’

Or do you want meditation to be something that is limited to 15 minutes a day and after that you are back to your old ways.

Meditation is not like exercising in a gym, that you go and exercise and you are done for the day.

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Manish

2y ago

This teaching is hard to get. I guess there was some more context in the shabd yog session. But anyways last paragraph may help unravel the meaning. It is joy. Nothing serious.

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