Meditation will draw you emotionally closer to the Creator

A settled mind finds its own centre. So, meditation ultimately brings you to your centre and makes it palpable. You then have inner guidance all the time, and it speaks to you, especially about wrong things. About truth, it may not speak at all, because truth is its nature.

The very first step or attainment in spirituality is discernment or discrimination. Without the ability to discriminate between right and wrong, good and bad, honourable and disreputable, your inner radar is lost. When you have a pure heart, that inner radar is very powerful. With a pure heart, you can know so many things.

As the meditative state deepens into constant remembrance, the whole spectrum of consciousness remains in contact with your centre, as the substratum of your existence and over time, this underlying connection blossoms into love. Just as we always remember those we love, the reverse also holds true: The more we remember, the more love develops. 

If you have to define what heartfulness is all about, it is love. It is a love story between our ‘self’ and our Creator. In the beginning, we do not know what the Creator or God is, and it is difficult to fall in love with something we don’t know. So we start with our focus on our side of the relationship on ‘I’ -  looking inwards. Then the Guide comes to our aid. 

The Guide is experienced and comfortable in this realm of God, so he gently shifts our attention away from ‘I’ towards ‘we’. This ‘I’ and ‘we’ dynamic evolves and expands over time through many levels of consciousness. 

The more he helps us, through his transmission and his support, the more we appropriate his help and the more gratitude we feel towards him, as our attention moves from the gifts to the giver. This gratitude leads us to remember him more often, and after some time, love dawns. At some point, we feel so much love and we don’t know how it happened.

This all starts with the simple act of meditation. Meditation is the mother of constant remembrance. Without a mother there is no child; without mother-meditation, there is no constant remembrance. This ability to remain in the meditative state throughout the day while still doing other things, is another process that we all understand very well; it is not something difficult.