QnA with Gurudev- Why Meditation?
QUESTION: Swamiji, why is it important that we meditate?
GURUDEV: Man is mind- meditation works on the mind itself. Realisation is the long-term goal of meditation. You will wake up from the dream of the ego into the Infinite.
QUESTION: But my mind never seems to be quiet enough to meditate.
GURUDEV: Meditation is for making it quiet. When you meditate look at the depth of silence between your thoughts, just as if they were two waves of the ocean.
When you are repeating your Mantra, you are constantly looking to that silent depth between each repetition. Even in our daily life, we jump from one thought to another, never noticing the silence between the thoughts.
Use any two thoughts; the substratum of silence remain the same.