Essence of meditation is to magnetize your mind power

Many people say, “We are busy in doing meditation.” It is a bit confusing terminology.  You can not do meditation; you have to associate mentally with it in a greater sense, if you really understand what really this art means?  It is not like other duties, which you can do at ease. You must focus, concentrate, control your mind, think for the precious life God has blessed you, remember Him and then sit in meditation to accrue its benefit. You have to feel its power. Initially, your concentration will be zero, from that point; you have to elevate to maximize the power of focus. If your body gives smell because of profusely sweating or the costly nice white shirt which you are wearing gets dusty, you can clean the same by using soap or cleaning detergents and you will be happy. But have you thought any time when your mind gets dirty, provoked, agitated or not calm, what you need to do to take a remedial action?  Rather than cloth or body, mind is more important and it needs cleaning regularly. In our daily chores and duties, we use slang languages, quarrel with others and even with our beloved, insult our colleagues, criticize our bosses, and argue with our parents and at times, shirking away from our important responsibilities by simply doing procrastination and all these activities evolve from the central force of mind power and so, it is essential to purify  mind regularly.

Mind is purified by meditation. You have to meditate relaxing your body, distracting from disturbances and sedate your mind and focus for the Almighty and his blessings on you. God is guiding you to perform all regular duties, be it social or professional.  One must remember that we are like His obedient shepherd, and are performing our duties as per His wishes. The more you develop this thought process, the more you will be bestowed upon with His blessings and your inclination to sit and zeal for meditation will be increased. To accrue the real benefit out of meditation, you have to put forward all your worries, tensions, pain, sufferings and hardship to Him; He won’t hesitate to take the burden of the same on behalf of you and show you the correct path. But you should not adapt the dilatory tactics. While sitting in meditation, if you focus all your attention to various worldly and mundane affairs, then you cannot obtain the power of meditation.  You can play with others, yourself, but not with God.  He is evaluating your activities round the clock.  So, it is essential to sit in meditation with a strong focus on God.  People who prefer this technique of meditation, mostly use the same as a path to get connected to the spiritual realm. You cannot expect the immediate result. It is not a magic. This benefit from meditation is a painstaking process, which starts from the purity of the mind, constructive thoughts, humility, politeness and respect for all people, whom you come in contact. When you will be able to increase these quantitative attributes, you will automatically find that you are concentrating more on meditation without much hindrance. Mind is a central piece of happiness.  Without mind’s help, even the loveable objects will look bitter to us; it won’t give any pleasure.  When we hunch to obtain an object of an external world, mind will be restless unless we receive the same.  When we take the possession of the same, our mind becomes quiet unless a new sense of desire evolves.  The religious findings state that the reason behind all our unhappiness is because of our greed and satiate the fundamental desires of our mind and body.  Our core strength depends on our self motivating and to control our desires.  But most of the time, we are not able to do so; otherwise, we would have been happy all the time. Our mind is not always pure; when psychologically, it is disturbed, you are physiologically not motivated to engage in constructive thinking. 

In this stage of mind, if you think to meditate, you cannot concentrate because you are not feeling peace. You are always at a loggerhead at least mentally.  Since our mind is always seeking something, judging others and criticizing others, we are not left with harmony and peace. We feel perfectly quiet when we sleep.  In sleep mode, we are more than blissful. The reason is, in sleep, we are not disturbed.  We don’t find any influence and there is no interference.  That is why; we get so much interested in sleep. However, we cannot cling to this sleep mode always because our sense of performing our duties will not allow to think in that way. We will be forced to wake up to our responsibilities to carry out work and discharge various duties. We will face turmoil in this type of situation, but meditation will help us to soothe our mind. You must sit in a quiet place to avoid any disturbance, then close your eyes and thinking of God and then you carry on with meditation.  The main purpose of meditation is to reduce the anxieties and stress to calm your mind.  When you first sit in meditation, you will be forced to think of your office work, your favorite sports, your beloved and many other distracting thoughts and the same will jeopardize your movement. You cannot avoid it. Let them come; you should not bother. After practicing meditation regularly, you will find all these thoughts disappeared and you will be able to focus very consciously only on one thought, which is related to the spiritual feeling. Then the quality of your meditation will also be improved.  The practice of asana and pranayama will help you in meditation.  Once your body gets relaxed by Yogasana and the flow of Prana is being transmitted to you through pranayama, you will feel at ease to sit in meditation and practice the same for a long time even for hours. 

The ultimate purpose of meditation is to know our inner self and get always blissful.  Once you are a veteran in the practice of meditation, your sedate and controlled mind will make you realize its magnetizing power for your connecting to the upper realm of life.