Keeping the Balance

To continue to progress toward your aim of attaining constant peace of mind, the most important thing is balance. Problems can arise if you pay too much attention to sitting in meditation, being introverted, and not enough attention to relating peacefully to others. You may become withdrawn, living in your own inner world, instead of the 'real world' outside. You may find that relationships with others become difficult.

There are four aspects to bear to avoid such an imbalance. These four aspects are: knowing, being, becoming and giving.

Knowing refers to the understanding that you are a soul, your true nature is peaceful, you have a mind, intellect and sanskaras.

Meditation Practice

What is it that I now know?

The whole of this body is not me...it is my instrument or vehicle ...

But who am I, the one in charge of this instrument? I now understand how I, the point of light within, am the one who uses this instrument...

I, the soul, look out through these eyes ... I, the soul, receive the information coming in through these eyes ... I, the soul, decide to communicate, and so I use this mouth ...I am the one who decides what it is that I wish to communicate ...

I, the being of light, have the capacity what information I pick up through these ears...

I am the master of this physical instrument...I am in charge...

I know...who ...I am

Being refers to yoga, the experience of meditation

Meditation Practice

Stepping back...coming to the awareness of the being that I am... I explore my original state of being ...

Within my being, in my original state, there is cleanliness...purity...

I accumulated dust when I travelled, but when I began my journey, I was clean...pure...

As the dust is removed, and that pure, clean state shines through, I can feel peace....

Peace is my natural state of being...this is who I am...

In this state of purity...and peace...I rediscover the love that is within ... a love that is altruistic...love for myself ... love for each member of my human family... love for the Supreme...

Purity, peace, love and joy ... these are my natural qualities, my true state of being

Becoming refers to your actions

Meditation Practice

Let me take a journey back to my original state of being, in which I was pure, clean, without a blemish, without a stain...

In that state of cleanliness there was comfort...there was peace...

Through my journey, I accumulated a heap of rubbish...a huge amount of dust..

And now, I clean out that which doesn't belong to me...I become that which I was, that which I am, that which is my true nature...

I connect with my own original form...and I act in that consciousness...I become that, here and now...

Purity, peace and love are within me... I let these qualities emerge...

I become clear and clean again

Giving should be done without the desire for return or reward. It should be a natural process, simply motivated by the wish to share with others positive experiences which you have internalized. Feeling happy and content is the natural reward of your positive actions. Without desires and expectations, your giving becomes truly altruistic. When you have practiced meditation for some time, giving becomes something beyond words. The knowledge and meditation experiences will become so much a part of you that simply by being your true positive self, you will give the experience of peace and virtuousness to others.