These days, everyone is an expert on meditation. Everyone has views, thoughts and opinions. Everyone, it seems, has read books on meditation; attended lectures, seminars and retreats; listened to podcasts; watched YouTube videos; listened to meditation music playlists; talked with their friends and thought a lot about meditation.
But how many actually meditate? How many yearn with intense longing to utterly silence the mind? How many shed streaming inner tears to fly into the bliss-flooded sunlit vastness of the heart?
Meditation will absolutely answer all our life’s questions; unfailingly solve all our life’s problems; and reliably help us fulfil all our life’s dreams and highest goals… on one condition: that we do it, we actually practise meditation, regularly, sincerely, ardently and devotedly. If we want meditation to give us everything – to answer all our questions, solve our problems and fulfil our dreams, then we must in turn be prepared to give all our heart to our meditation. We must take it seriously and soulfully. We must love it and live it.
Meditation is self-discovery. Discovering yourself can never be theoretical. You are not a theory. You are real.
Someone else’s advice can inspire you or guide you – but only you can walk the path within, to your own heart and soul. Only you can live your inner life; only you can survey your own unique inner landscape; only you can breathe the exquisite fragrance of your own heart-garden; only you can unveil the brilliance and clarity of your own soul’s light; only you can fulfill your life’s destiny; only you can come face to face with God in the form God has adopted just for you.
Knowledge and theories are useless, without practise. Only practise yields experience; only experience yields realisation; and only realisation is real.