Posted on 28.05.2023 07:40
He did not sleep the whole the night. The sun was about to rise. A passer by asked him, "Why are you sitting here with a stick?" He replied, "My wife is wayward. She comes home late in the night. I want to strike her on her head." The passer-by said: "But you are not yet married, from where did this wife come?" The man became overwhelmed by his emotions.It is not by facts, but only by sheer imagination that the man became completely stressed. When someone comes and says: "So-and-so is speaking such-and-such about you,” we don't know for a fact whether that person actually said anything. But we will be swayed by the emotions that result from such an exchange. If we analyse our lives deeply, we will come to know that many tensions, wrought situations, are created by sheer imagination and unreal doubts. This point needs deep thought. We can escape from tension through Right Perspective. A person with Right Perspective, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct does not experience tension. Until his last breath, Acharya Tulsi kept on saying, "I do not know what tension is." A man of 83 says he didn't have tension throughout his life! It means either he did not live his life, or perhaps there is some secret.
We need to discover that secret. Someone whose emotions are pacified does not fall into tension. A person gets tense only when he is buffeted by his emotions. Through the practice of Preksha Meditation we can practice the special technique of pacifying our emotions. We can see that they are not provoked. This, in itself, is adequate spiritual practice (sadhana).
If someone asks you for the essence of Preksha Meditation, your answer should be "subsiding of emotions." This is the core of Preksha Meditation, the formula for a stress free life.
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