Englannin kielinen pitkä tarina TM-meditaation
eduista ja haitoista:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/j3xzd In a lecture in 1960, given at Shankaracharya Nagar,
Himalayas, he said:
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"There are many systems of what is called meditation that
attempt to refine the mind by controlling it in one way or
another. All such attempts are difficult and tedious, and, far
from achieving anything, tend to take away life. Because of the
difficulty and inefficiency of these methods of mind control,
the idea has become accepted that the path to pure consciousness
is difficult. This is a fallacy and stems from ignorance of the
nature of the mind. There is a great difference between
directing the mind in a particular direction through
concentration and directing it by permitting its natural
affinities to operate. We know that it is the natural tendency
of every mind to flow towards a field of greater happiness. By
turning the mind inwards we point the mind towards the field of
absolute bliss, creativity, and wisdom. It is upon this
principle that our system of meditation is based, and
consequently its practice is not difficult.
The whole process is one of direct experience; the journey
is a scientifically precise undertaking in which, at each step,
the validity of the process is put to the test of direct
experience. Meditation is an intellectually satisfying
exploration, in which the wisdom behind meditation is illumined
by the result at each succeeding level, including the ultimate
level of direct experience of the state of absolute Being. It
could be said, in fact, by analogy, that this is an exploration
of inner space where the real jewel of life is to be found, and
that its scientific value and promise far exceed that of the
exploration of outer space."
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