“When the heart and mind are soft, universal, then whatever comes is absorbed in it. Whatever we throw into a heap of ash, it just gets absorbed. Whatever we throw against the steel wall, it rebounds back strongly.
So the hearts, the hard, stony hearts and minds which are devoid of good qualities, devoid of compassion, kindness and virtue, are so hard. Anything that goes there, it reflects back, it rebounds back, it multiplies itself. And when those hard and stony minds and hearts are made soft, when the mind is made universal, it becomes soft as cotton, as a heap of cotton. Whatever we throw in the heap of cotton doesn’t rebound. It’s able to absorb it and put an end to it.
Transcendental Meditation is that process which cultures the mind in a natural way to that state where the effect of sin and effect of virtue, whatever the effect has been, it’s absorbed. And then thereby all the past is not able to influence the future. Past comes in the present and it gets put to an end. It’s just an end.
In the present also, whatever actions we make, there are no impressions because the platform is so soft. It’s just universal. There is no hardness in it and there is no chance of reaction. Whatever action is done, it’s done and then finished. The present actions thereby do not leave any chance of coming up in future. Therefore, the karma is not allowed to multiply itself. There’s no future karma. The present is done, is finished. The past came to be born, to be lived and that’s done. That’s why there’s no chance of bondage. This is what Transcendental Meditation does.
Now, Transcendental Meditation is a process. It is said in the Upanishads — the Upanishads are the books of greatest learning, of the wisdom of the Vedas, the highest wisdom of the Vedas which establishes Unity in the field of diversity — the Upanishads say that if there is a mountain of sins extending for miles together, it would be brought to ashes, it would be made nil by Transcendental Deep Meditation. This is from the Dhyanabindu Upanishad. Mountains of sins extending for miles will be brought down and could be demolished only through Transcendental Deep Meditation, which reveals the glory of the Divine directly.
Not any systems of meditation that you know of, that you may have been practicing before, but that meditation which brings the lower self directly in tune with this higher Self. That meditation is that great fire, that ready fire which burns away the mountains of sins. There is no higher virtue on earth than this Transcendental Meditation which reveals the Divine Self.”
Maharishi
~New York City, USA – October 13, 1959
Leave a Reply