Meditation is not growth or a search to reach some heavenly state in the future as is often expressed by spiritual consumerism. Transformation happens when we are ready, with total acceptance, to see ourselves as we are, not as we want to be, and it opens the door to that sacredness, which is eternal – beyond time and space. There is no duality between us and reality – it is a division within us.
Becoming aware of the conditioned contents of oneself through self-inquiry allows us to be free from this duality. Most of the approaches are consciously and unconsciously responsible for creating judgement, fear and guilt in us which keeps us divided. How can a divided person understand the organic unity of life if the first step is not born out of freedom? Then how can freedom come at the last step? It is easy to agree and disagree, however, it is not a question of any agreement. It is accepting yourself beyond ideas of good and bad, happy or unhappy, holy and unholy, future and past. There is nobody here deciding what is wrong and right but our very own conditioned mind which lives in duality. Meditation methods are aid to self-inquiry because they help to relax body and mind – and a relaxed mind can inquire into oneself. Without self-inquiry meditation methods are escape from the reality into a self-hypnotized state where suffering has been silenced by force, but is still present and makes one’s mind dull and insensitive. Truth always remains unknown for the mind – the moment it becomes known, it also becomes part of the mind in the form of memory.
