Focus on the one
devoid of passion
Veetaraga Vishayam Va Chittam
Another method of bringing the mind to lovingly rest with consciousness is to set it upon a self-realised individual who has renounced all passions. What the mind sees, that it becomes. It can be the image of a deity or the form of the Guru or the Master. As the mind focusses on the form
in the picture or an idol in a temple or a living personality in front of him or her, reading about such a person, meditating upon him or her who is not swayed by passion - a Vairagi or desireless person, the mind also becomes so and rests quietly at the altar of consciousness instead of being swayed like the waves of an ocean caught up in a storm.
Swahilya Shambhavi (swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com) Fitness, Satori
4 comments:
Dear swahilya that sounds as if the meditating person could become the mirror of another person if he or she would let go of desire. Sounds reasonable to me...
very true! It immensely facilitates in removing the blocks from connectivity and thereby enabling natural communion.
An apt picture indeed to go with the wonderful wisdom!!
yes Ray, desirelessness both ways - the idol and the meditator. Then the whole universe becomes, nothing but a mirror of consciousness.
Yes Merging Point! In my own experience, whenever the mind is unable to accept happenings and situations, when it is under pressure, I resort to this practice of not just meditating upon an idol, but holding it in my hand and chanting mantras, and I have experienced an immediate shift in consciousness always!
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