276 Aptavani-1
all partiality and prejudices. I am vitarag( the fully enlightened). I give to the one who is sincere and meets me.
When you meditate, what do you meditate on? What is the motive or the goal behind your meditation? Who is doing the meditation? Without a goal, without deciding what the goal is, what will you meditate on? Meditation is a mode and means to attain the goal. Meditation is fruitful only when the Self is the motive and the Self is the meditator. What benefit do you gain when you meditate as,‘ Chandulal’,( the relative self) and arrive at a goal and then meditate according to your own imagination to attain the Self? When I give you Gnan, I make You the Real meditator and establish You as the Self. Thus, the meditation, motive and the meditator become one. Only when the Self remains as the Self can liberation be experienced. But otherwise when people sit to do meditation, they wish they would not have thoughts about their income tax or sex while they are meditating, and the moment they start, they are immediately faced with thoughts they dislike. How can you call that meditation?
A wealthy businessman was sitting meditating when someone called on him at his home. The caller asked the man’ s wife where the businessman was and she replied,‘ He has gone to the garbage-shed, where the filth and refuse of the town lies.’ The businessman upon hearing this bowed down to his wife in his heart. Truly he was absorbed in sensual thoughts while he was meditating.
If meditation is done correctly and in the proper manner, there is tremendous power in it. Be clear as to what the term meditation( dhyan) implies. Having decided on the motive( dhyeya, the object) there becomes a meditator( dhyata, subject). The link that joins the dhyata and dhyeya, the subject to the object, is dhyan, meditation. And dhyan is what unites the dhyeya