Sri Ganesh mandir - Serene Sunday Reflections
25th August
2019 : MEDITATION IN ACTION
KEYWORDS
:: Karma Yoga, Meditation, Samadhi, Action, Passion, Rashtra Dharma, Jnana,
Bhakti
Last week we reflected on the Importance of
Karma, On the path of Karma, Karma Yoga with fully aware of the chosen
destination and path as prescribed by scripters, following Dharma Sasthra
through the Jnana-Marga in Devotion, Bhakti Marga; what we do is Mediation in
Action / Meditative Action or Dynamic Meditation.
Meditation is Samadhi conceptually and
practically it is Dharana as people practice Guided meditation, that too for a
specific interval of time in groups etc. When Samadhi is the state in which you
are not connected to this world and is within you, how is this possible.
As per ashtanga yoga, yama (), niyama
(self-discipline), asana (Physical yoga – body making flexible), pranayama
(breath practice), prathyahara (withdrawing sensory perception), dharana
(concentrating on one, focused), Dhyana (devotional), samadhi (merge into self)
are the progressive steps for meditation.
You must have seen when one drives, his focus
is in driving and when (s)he could do it so casually and all the actions are
perfect and quick response to situations without any brain activity is what
proves that (s)he is an expert driver. He is in fact in Meditative action. And
he is enjoying driving, the brain is not taxed and long drive is so casual. Ask
him to be in a place closed eyes, it may be so difficult for him and makes him
upset as he thinks the time he was wasting and is unproductive.
Same is the case with one cleaning a place,
setting-up the house, reading, music, cooking, walking, lecturing, doing
worship, bhajan etc. But each of us have to choose the modes of work that makes
us to find in the mind of no taxing, casual, and soothing to make the life in
bliss. Mostly this activity that gives us this state is that which we call as
hobby, or passion.
Not many are gifted with a profession that
could be a passion. But assume you are skillful and also devoted fully in that,
then the action is that you enjoy. That means if the karma in which you have
enough jnana and is submitted with full bhakti, that is what is Meditation in
Action. Thus Jnana-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga mixed in the action that you are
leading into Karma-Yoga then that is
what is Meditation in Action.
Question is will it be possible to make many /
most of the activities in life as meditative, then you are in bliss. Else, for
the time being when one is in that action, he is happy and rest of the time
again in agony. This shouldn’t happen, as work is not done for the life; but
life itself is work. Thinking that I am working to live is waste as when we
work, that time itself you are not living. As whole life we are in action and
the action itself is not to lead to what you think is the target of life, it is
the path that is the target in the life when we think of each and every stage
in relation to earlier and next stage in life.
Learning is to get a job to earn. If learning is
not meditative and you don’t enjoy, you will somehow push the days and you are
in a job. Your job is for getting a good wife and a good status in life. The
job in hand is just done as you are aiming for something from it and it itself
is not interesting. The wife and status is not your aim, but it is that what
you wanted to show others that you have and you are neither enjoying all that
is around in us. So whole life goes with all these troubles of future and more
of external satisfaction and nothing in as to self is seen interesting and
passionate. No happiness is seen and found in life, family, society, etc.
Meditative action is not just one action in
meditation, all that we are into must be in sequence made into meditative and
enjoying experience to make life meaningful and meditative. Any job when added
to skill/knowledge and done in devotion with people around us who can enjoy the
benefit, that means your actions are for a public better and social motive, you
enjoy the fruit of it from the feelings of others, specialy to the benefit of
the nation you are in (Rashtra Dharma).
This is the focus of Karma Yoga in Bhagavad
Gita, therefore we shall reflect on Bhagavad Gita in the coming week.
----- Next Week 1st September 2019 – Bhagavad Gita ------
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