What is meditation?

Our desires and emotions – happiness, anger, sadness, greed, etc. all come to us as thoughts only. Life comes to us in the form of thoughts. 

As we need to shut down the computer system for a few minutes when it gets hung up, likewise the mind. You might say sleeping at night does that job. That is true, but the subconscious mind is always working. It is mostly our physical body that rests during sleep. The mind can only be peaceful by making a conscious effort.

When I was young, people used to advise me to think positively, to be a good listener. It always puzzled me! Are they asking me to pretend? Because I don’t feel the same way.

Yet, I thought everyone cannot be wrong, so I tried hard to be positive, hear others attentively and not to judge them but got a headache. I was fighting inside me to be calm or to think something else than what I felt. It did not change anything for long. I thought something is wrong with me. I started reading a lot of practical psychology. It mainly mentioned outer behavior, which seemed to be theoretical to me. Be open-minded, patient, calm, balanced, etc. I thought these all are inner qualities, not a chocolate, you give me, and I enjoy.

Many years later, after trying out every other possibility, I understood that only meditation practice can gradually change my inner condition of mind.

Mediation is much more than breathing techniques. Kriya Yoga meditation techniques provide a combination of breathing, awareness, mantras, energy centers (chakras). Gradually, it helps us to break thought patterns in a natural way. Thoughts became no longer a problem. Kriya yoga makes us fall in love with our breath. Gradually, one comes to a state  when one close the eyes, and feels the self only, nothing else around. One goes beyond time, sound, light and even breathe.

The taste of beyond brings the qualities of divine. The techniques make it all easy. The techniques are designed according to the nature of our complex minds. Techniques take care of all the elements in the simplest way. A practitioner just has to sit in one place with closed eyes and rest is done by the techniques. No difficult postures and no hard pranayama.

Guided meditation by Kriya Yoga master Per.H.Wibe is provided to initiated disciples. 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 within no time.

In mediation the knowledge is revealed, what one might not have heard or read else where. Patience, tolerance, strength, forgiveness, positivity, etc. are the product of growing inner love. When one experience all these, and the desire to meditate intensifies.

In the end, why talk about the taste of the sweet, better to eat and know it ourselves.