Holistic Meditation-Part II

While considering the relative merits of spiritual practices one has to remember as a constant undercurrent the inescapable act of life's transience. Does one know his date in karma's calendar? The quit notice on the exhaustion of this body's karma may come at any time. How much time do we really have? Even assuming that we are destined to life for the Vedic span of hundred years, is not much of it lost in a work-a-day schedules, ill health, old age, infirmities and so on? So one cannot afford to travel by indirect, long-winded routes, or lose ground due to detours and bylanes on the way.

This inescapable fact should provide the compelling motivation for ‘non-objective meditation' and give the energy and drive to pursue such a path with vigour and steadfastness. In such meditation from A to Z the attention is on the subject, on the meditator. It is the process of holding on to the thinker by questioning his identity and questioning for his source. By this search a mortal blow is dealt to the subtlety of the ego and the elusive ways of the mind. Because this enquiry goes to the very root of the ego's existence. (More)

Source: One India