13 march 2018 Times of India Editorial
The Kingdom is Within: Transcendental Meditation
What
is needed today is a means of harmonising the qualities of the head
with powers of the heart. There is an ever-increasing state of chaos
in the world; tension increases daily in the individual, in social
life, in national affairs, and international relations. The great and
urgent need is for something to re-establish harmony in the
individual human being and to give him peace; only from such an inner
peace can wisdom and happiness be born.
All
that we call wisdom today, all knowledge, the whole process of
endless fact-gathering must utterly fail to satisfy the real needs o
man; for these real needs are called happiness, understanding and
wisdom, and they are not vain and unworldly aspirations but man's
birthright.
I
came out of the Himalayas with a method designed to raise both head
and heart of man to the point where knowledge and appreciation of the
quality of his higher nature can be attained. I call my method
Transcendental Meditation, but it is, in fact, a technique of
Self-exploration; it enables a man to dive into the innermost reaches
of his being, in which dwells the essence of life and the source of
all wisdom, all creativity, all peace, and all happiness. It is that
place which has been called, in the Christian teaching, the 'Kingdom
of Heaven within'.
The
word 'meditation' is not new; nor are the benefits of meditation new.
It is the message of Buddha, Christ and Krishna. They said, only get
to the inner kingdom, to the heavenly heart, and you will earn for
yourself eternal freedom-not in the future, not after death, but now
and forever.
For
centuries the technique of meditation of this kind has been
forgotten. This is why suffering has become so universal, so much an
inescapable part of life, that those responsible for leading people
of the Kingdom of Heaven have come to preach the necessity for
suffering; suffering has become a virtuous act, and the man who
maintains that life is a bitter and sorrowful struggle is commended
for his level-headedness and good grasp of reality!
I
hold that life is bliss. In essence life is not a struggle. Man is
not born to suffer, but to feel joyful; he is born of bliss,
consciousness, wisdom and creativity. Once the flower of life has
bloomed in a man, then consciousness, wisdom and creativity are
ever-present in him. When the inner, spiritual and the outer,
material, glories of life are consciously brought into harmony, then
life is integrated and becomes truly worth living.
What
is meant by the statement that life is essentially joyful-that life
is bliss? The orange is sweet. This means the real substance of the
orange is sweet. The covering of the orange, on the other hand, is
bitter to the taste, But even though the skin is bitter, nevertheless
the orange is thought of as sweet because sweet is the juice within
it.
Like
the orange, life has two parts, or aspects-inner and outer. The outer
is the temporary, ever-changing aspect; the inner is the permanent,
never-changing aspect is blissful is a fact that can be experienced.
It is for this reason that I say that life is blissful, for it is the
sweet and blissful aspect that is the ultimate reality of existence
and not the bitter, ever-changing aspect.
Meaning-
Hormonise----Go together ( साथ जाना ,मेल खाना )
Chaos--- A state of extreme confusion and disorder ( अव्यवस्था ,अफरा तफरी )
Utterly ----------Completely (सम्पूर्ण रूप से )
Aspiration---- A will to succeed ( अभिलाषा / महत्वाकांक्षा )
Transcendental Meditation-------अतीन्द्रिय चिंतन )
Exploration---A careful systematic search ( खोज )
Dwell----- विराजना
Essence----- सार / अर्क /गुण
Eternal------- ( शाश्वत / निरंतर /नित्य )
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