What is Meditation?

Now my chatting mind does not take me as before. Rather, I thank it for providing me a valuable task – Tolerating myself.

When I was young, around 28, I had become an angry person. I blamed my family. My friends advised me to think positively. It always puzzled me! Why are they asking me to pretend? Because I didn’t feel the same way.

Still, I thought — everyone can’t be wrong. So, I tried hard to stay positive and distract my mind. It brought some relief, but only for a while. Inside, I was still struggling to remain calm and positive. The inner discomfort was difficult to carry, and it slowly made my condition worse. I began to feel that something was wrong with me.

In search of answers, I started reading practical psychology. But most of it focused on outward behavior — how to be open-minded, patient, calm, balanced, and so on. To me, it all felt theoretical. I thought these are all inner qualities, not a chocolate you give me, and I enjoy.

My real starting point was chanting a mantra. It was a meaningful experience — a kind of preparation that gently led me toward meditation.

I now believe thoughts aren’t enemies — they are necessary. They reveal something deeper within us. After all, how else can we truly come to know who we are?

Many years later, after trying out every other possibility, I happened to learn Kriya Yoga Meditation, which gradually transformed my inner condition.

Kriya Yoga provides a set of techniques that coordinate breath, chakras, and most importantly, “thoughts”. The techniques break the thought pattern in the most natural way. It is like a mother feeds a small baby with patience and love. The child runs here and there because it is not his nature to sit in one place. Every time she brings him back to the chair to feed him. Likewise, the kriya technique.

With sincere practice, inner transformation happens naturally. Qualities such as patience, tolerance, strength, forgiveness, positivity, etc. are the product of growing inner love.

The beauty of these techniques lies in its simplicity. A practitioner just has to sit in one place with closed eyes and follow the techniques in master audio – no difficult postures and no hard pranayama. Guided meditation by Kriya Yoga master Per.H.Wibe is provided. A step-by-step process – when to breathe consciously, when to relax, and where to take attention, plus master’s silence activates the techniques to a whole different level. All is done in such a simple way that 20 minutes are gone in no time.

Gradually, silence becomes part of our whole being. One feels silent all the time while talking and working. The bliss cannot be explained in words. With experience, the desire to meditate intensifies. The thoughts are no longer obstacles but vehicles that take the mind to no-duality.

In meditation, the knowledge is revealed – wisdom that one may never have heard or read elsewhere.