Break the Spell and Be Free
YOU HAVE PROJECTED ONTO YOURSELF a world of your own imagination, based on memories, desires and fears; and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.
Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.
In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of Yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond "I-am-so-and-so," beyond all ideas into the impersonally personal pure being. But you must be energetic when you take to meditation. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you. Believe me, you will not regret it.
The value of regular meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum of daily routine and reminds you that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Awareness is unattached and unshaken. It is lucid, silent, peaceful, alert and unafraid, without desire and fear. Meditate on it as your true being, and try to be it in your daily life, and you shall realize it in its fullness.
Whatever happens, happens to you, by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive. You are the maker of the world in which you live; you alone can change it, or unmake it. You are the infinite potentiality, the inexhaustible possibility. Because you are, all can be. The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.
Nisargadatta Maharaj - Nisarga Yoga
