True meditation, or cosmo-meditation, is indispensable for happiness
and plenitude of man.
Genuine happiness presupposes that man knows himself in his central reality
and lives according to this knowledge.
Self-knowledge and self-realization are two poles upon which man's life
revolves. "You shall know the Truth" - said Jesus - "and the Truth shall make
you free."
Self-knowledge, which is the basis of self-realization, is not possible
without a deep cosmo-meditation. Jesus, before beginning his public life, spent
40 days and 40 nights in cosmo-meditation in the wilderness, and during three
years of his public life he spent whole nights in solitude, in prayer to
God.
Man is not his body, his mind, nor his emotions, which are only his casing,
his peripheral ego. Man is his Spirit, his Soul, his central Self, and in order
to be sure of it, he must temporarily isolate himself from all his illusory
peripheries, to have direct and immediate awareness of his central reality, that
is to say, meditate, or cosmo-meditate. When man cosmo-meditates, he ceases to
be ego-thinking and becomes cosmo-thought. He ceases to be ego-agent and becomes
cosmo-acted. Ceases to be ego-living and becomes cosmo-lived, or in the language
of Jesus... "the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees
the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does
likewise." And Paul of Tarsus says ... "I die every day, and that
is why I live, but it is no longer I who live, it is the Christ who lives in
me." "If the grain of wheat does not die, it becomes barren, but if it dies then
it will bear much fruit." The ego is symbolized by a grain of wheat, and the
Self is the very vital essence that is in the seed. The vital essence of the
Self cannot sprout if the ego’s shell does not dissolve. Whoever does not have
the courage to die voluntarily, before being compulsorily killed, cannot live
gloriously in the present world.
It is necessary for man to die for his barren ego so that he may live for
his abundant Self.
Many want to know when and where one should cosmo-meditate:
"Pray always and never stop praying." Praying does not mean reciting
formulas. To pray as the word itself says, is to open to the Infinite, to
allowed oneself to be invaded by the Infinite, this is to pray, according to the
masters. This permanent meditation, this meditation-attitude, has to be preceded
by many meditations-act. Permanent meditation should begin with intermittent
meditations. The best time for meditation is always early morning, before
beginning any work. Those who cannot meditate early in the morning, meditate at
night, before going to sleep, but beware, when someone is very tired, after
daytime work, it is difficult to do true meditation because meditation is a very
serious work. Mental acrobatics or devotional nap is not meditation.
Each one should have a quiet place to meditate and always meditate at the
same time and place. A quiet enclosure gradually becomes a sanctuary that
facilitates meditation and mental concentration, because the auras and
vibrations of this place modify the environment itself favourably.
As for the body’s posture to favour concentration: who cannot sit in the
lotus posture, use a firm chair with straight back, placing hands close to the
body with eyes semi-closed without crossing the legs. A slightly bluish or
greenish light, or at least a penumbra, is very favourable for
concentration.
Before beginning meditation, breathe few times, deep and slow to harmonize
the emotional vibrations. During meditation breathe normally.
Any attention to body activity makes meditation difficult. One should relax
all its body tensions and completely forgetting the body presence.
Before meditating, one can become aware of words like these: "I and the
Father are one. The Father is in me and I'm in the Father", or, "I die every day
and that is why I live, but it is no longer I who live, it is the Christ who
lives in me."
After doing intermittent meditation in the form of daily acts, one will
find that meditation gradually becomes a permanent meditation without knowing
it, in a meditation-attitude, perfectly compatible with any external work and in
any environment.
This meditation-attitude, conscious or unconscious, does not prevent, but
even greatly favours external works, which are enlightened and haloed by
lightness, beauty and happiness. Then one can comprehend what Jesus meant by the
words: "Pray always and never stop praying", that is, to always be aware of
God’s presence, thinking of nothing; to think is no to be conscious,
consciousness is a state of the spiritual Self, and it is not a process of the
mental ego. When man is in true spiritual consciousness, he thinks nothing, he
is 100% spiritual consciousness and 0% mental thought, and then he enters into a
true state of meditation-attitude, which has to be preceded by many meditations
and in the practice of conscious and supra-conscious acts, where in the state of
super consciousness man reaches the highest state of consciousness.
It is convenient to precede cosmo-meditation with some music that helps
deep meditation.
Not all classical songs of the great masters help in this process; the
well-known Hymn to Brahma, Schubert's Ave Maria, the mystical song of
Ruth, "Wherever you go, I will go", and others with the same vibration that
calms, relaxes and helps meditation.
These songs and others can serve as an introduction to cosmo-meditation,
but not to accompany meditation. During cosmo-meditation there must be absolute
silence, which is the music of the Divinity, the music of the Infinite. This
silence should not only be physical, but it should also be mental and emotional.
Man should do nothing, should not think anything, should not want anything
during the cosmo-meditation, but simply be in the spiritual consciousness.
This man will be invaded by the soul of the Universe, and this Universe is
not external to him, this Universe for which he will be invaded, is in his own
centre, is his central consciousness, his Self, his soul, his spirit. His
peripheries will be invaded by his centre, because it is rule and cosmic law:
where there is an emptiness, a plenitude happens.
If man completely empties himself from all the contents of his human ego,
he will infallibly be invaded by the soul of the Universe, which is not external
to him but within himself. This invasion is automatic, but the emptying of our
ego is our personal task. And here lies the great difficulty. Our ego does not
want to be emptied of its activities, because it knows nothing beyond this. It
defends itself against this self-emptying. But in the subconscious, fall into
trance. If this happens, nothing relevant will be gained in meditation, because
in the subconscious we can not realize ourselves, we can only realize ourselves
in the supra-conscious. Therefore, when one ceases to think and to want
something - one should not fall into unconsciousness or subconsciousness,
because this solves nothing; has to rise to supra-consciousness, to the
cosmo-consciousness.
In order to reach the quieter regions of consciousness, we have to flee
from the noisy regions of our mind, in which we waste most of our time, and that
requires a control of our thoughts. Only then will we have the ability to reach
that quiet region which is the dwelling place of the Spirit, devoid of any
thoughts and words.
After one becomes accustomed to a deep, constant and true cosmo-meditation,
all the painful problems of life will be solved, thus allowing an experience of
peace, tranquillity and happiness.