Understanding Meditation’s Technique and Its Purpose

Agastya: How would you define right meditation or correct meditation?

Baba:

Understanding the technique, and the purpose. Technique and the purpose, both are equally important. So adopting such technique, then the purpose will be served. You can achieve the purpose. So you understand the purpose of the meditation is to silence your mind, first you have to achieve. Until the mind is silenced you are unable to become aware of your real Self or the mind, what its real formation is, what the Consciousness of Existence means, what Atman means. You cannot know because your mind is preoccupied with its own imaginations.

As long as it is imagining it cannot give any truth at all. It gives only what it imagines. So it is just like you end up measuring the space. Instead of measuring, you need to realize that you have to become space to measure the space. You have to become all pervaded just like the space. Only then you have caught hold of the space, not until then. Anything else cannot catch the space as it is. That’s how, ultimately, you cannot measure anything, this purpose needs to be understood.

For that purpose only, silencing the mind is important. For silencing the mind, understand the technique. This is the very rarest of rare, unique technique, perhaps practiced in very, very ancient times of the  Rig Vedic era. Those great sages like Vasistha, who achieved the Nirvikalpa Samadhi, they all practiced. That technique, you very rarely get to see in the present age. Just silently watch in between eyebrows. Then you have to understand the need to feel confident that you are doing the right thing. You just have to watch. When the command is given to just watch in between your eyebrows, means in your consciousness it must register, or strike, that your job is just to watch and not do anything else. When I watch this (Baba holds up his finger), it’s not my job to think, what is this? I just have to watch. I should not think whether this is my finger, or your finger, or whose finger. What is it, or what it is not, that is not the job. Watching means just watching. I am watching my finger, somebody comes, what are you doing? I am watching. What are you trying to achieve by just watching? I don’t know. My master asked me to watch. I am just watching. Perhaps I will know it after some time.

We did watch like that and then we came to know, Oh God, this is the idea of watching. The mind is trying to watch itself. You got it. So that’s the purpose and the technique, these two things. Once you understand, you will exclaim, Eureka,