Questioner: All teachers advise to meditate. What is the
purpose of meditation?
Maharaj: We know the outer world of sensations and actions,
but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The
primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our
inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and
consciousness. Incidentally practice of meditation affects deeply our
character. We are slaves to what we do not know; of what we know we are
masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its
causes and its workings, we overcome it by the very knowing; the unconscious
dissolves when brought into the conscious. The dissolution of the unconscious
releases energy; the mind feels adequate and becomes quiet.
Q: What is the use of a quiet mind?
M: When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the
pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand
apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality,
based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something: 'I am this,
I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its
identification with the witness snaps.
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