Learning to master the art of pedalling spiritual condition through meditation

When you first teach your child, you bring home a tricycle and help her by holding the cycle, while she learns to pedal it properly. From a tricycle, then you bring a two-wheeler bicycle with two trainer wheels at the back. After some practice, you remove the trainer wheels and she is on two wheels. Then what happens?

She goes to kindergarten or to school on a bigger bicycle. She rides with her friends, chatting away, singing and watching the traffic, remembering where she isgoing. She observes things while stillriding her bicycle. It is easy for a child and does not take long.

If a child can master the art of cycling while doing other things, we can also master the art of pedalling the spiritual condition. Of course, we will forget now and then, but if we are really interested then we will start pedalling each condition after meditation, and we will learn how to do other things while maintaining the meditative state. If we learn how to pedal our condition during the daytime, we can be doing so many things at the same time. That is constant remembrance – it is simple.

Being like a lotus: In certain environments it is more difficult to maintain that inner condition. For example, students complain about this in their college accommodation, but anything can be detrimental if you allow it to be. I also lived in a hostel from the ninth grade until I did my master’s degree, and I learnt that you can turn any adverse situation to your advantage.

If some of your friends make fun of you for meditating, challenge them by saying, “Look I assure you this will do a lot of good.” As your friends, “Do you want to change? This will help you to change.” When I was at college one of my friends couldn’t sleep, and when he did sleep it was at the wrong time. So we enticed him, “Come and meditate and your sleep pattern will improve.”

In the very first meditation session, his sleep pattern was normalised. Another fellow did not know how to study well. His focus was so poor that our professors said, “Go with Kamlesh. He will take you for meditation. It will improve.”

At one time, we had more than 25 students meditating, so a trainer would give us meditation sessions in our hostel. It really depends on what we make of any situation. Simplicity is not a weakness. Purity is not a weakness. They are mighty if we allow them to be. As we nurture the subtle conditions bestowed during meditation, over time, they create a beautiful environment. Imagine what sort of environment can be created at home when we meditate, our family members meditate, and our friends also come home and meditate. There will be so much lightness, peace and joy. Everyone will feel happy in that space.

An atmosphere that is created by our collective thoughts and feelings is called an egregore. When we all meditate together, we create a subtle field of loving unity. And when enough people meditate, a particular tipping point in the egregore will be reached. Then, the course of humanity will change.

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