Meditate under All Circumstances (June 14, 2024)

The Sunlit Path by The Mother - Book Study
Passage Name: Meditate under All Circumstances (Page 87)
Section: CONCENTRATION, MEDITATION, WORK
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Opening Audio: LOKAH SAMASTAHA SUKHINO BHAVANTU
From Mantras for Deep Inner Peace | 8 Powerful Mantras by: Meditative Mind
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Passage:
Meditate under All Circumstances
You may be engaged in the most active action, for example,
in playing basketball, which needs a great deal of movement,
and yet not lose the attitude of inner meditation and
concentration upon the Divine. And when you get that, you
will see that all you do changes its quality; not only will you
do it better, but you will do it with an altogether unexpected
strength, and at the same time keep your consciousness so
high and so pure that nothing will be able to touch you any
longer. And note that this can go so far that even if an accident
occurs, it will not hurt you. Naturally, this is a peak,
but it is a peak to which one can aspire.
Do not fall into the very common error of believing that
you must sit in an absolutely quiet comer where nobody passes
by, where you are in a classical position and altogether
immobile, in order to be able to meditate - it is not true.
What is needed is to succeed in meditating under all circumstances,
and I call "meditating" not emptying your head but
concentrating yourself in a contemplation of the Divine; and
if you keep this contemplation within you, all that you do
will change its quality - not its appearance, for apparently it
will be the same thing, but its quality. And lif e will change its
quality, and you, you will feel a little different from what you
were, with a peace, a certitude, an inner calm, an unchanging
force, something which never gives way.