The Importance of Surrender in MEDITATION

Now I understand why the Hindu masters sat in meditation for so long, unmoving...it's all about surrender. They would give up their earthly agendas to sit before the celestial masters, and like a well-trained dog who stays for as long as the master likes, the purpose of deep meditation is to learn obedience to, and devotion for your master. They also sat for hours to stay connected to the 3rd eye chakra, for this energy center located between the eyes is a lifeline to the mysteries. It opens and becomes the same "tunnel" to the Other Side that people who have near death experiences use to travel. The 3rd eye always leads to the same place-paradise. 


I remember being enthralled with the below picture of my guru's teacher, Haidahkan Babaji . I couldn't imagine keeping your eyes open while in meditation. I'm still working on it, but it's more natural now than it was. If I am absorbed in a deep state, I can go stretches without blinking until my eyes are burning when I will force myself to blink. 

Babaji in 1970 in India

Masters of meditation have developed powers of concentration that are nearly impossible to break. They can lapse into an unseen dimension with eyes open or closed. Ultimately, the goal is to stay connected at all times. Can you imagine walking through your turbulent day with a smile on your face, in utter bliss as the world around you spins? 

While in meditative trance one is keenly aware that the external world and the body you inhabit is an illusion-it is all "maya." The world seems strange and otherworldly, and the internal landscape of the expansive soul seems to be more real than reality. A certain disconnection from the exterior world is a sign of spiritual health. Buddha instructed us to be free from attachment, but renunciation of the world cannot occur unless you see that the world and its trappings are nothing more than a mirage which evaporates the minute one drops into a meditative state. Meditation prepares you for the moment of departure from the body. Perhaps more importantly, it prepares you to have mastery over negative emotions, especially fear, anger and sadness, for if the exterior world is an illusion, we can remind ourselves that suffering will pass. You don't have to be driven to anger, revenge or jealousy when you understand it's all a dream, and you are the dreamer.

We call the 5 senses "reality." But the 5-sensde reality we agree on is a projection of our Higher Self. If I am the originator, the projector of this reality, then it's not "happening to me," it is happening because of me. I am not a victim (even though it can certainly feel like I am); I am the one dreaming this dream, and death is awakening from the dream. But there is another way to wake up from the world of illusion while we are still in it, something like having a lucid dream. Through meditation you can wake up. Your true identity is not the character you are playing, such as: mother, father, partner, employee, etc. In reality, you are much bigger than the play, you are the playwright. But the stage scenes and characters are so clever that you have convinced yourself that it is not a dream. Meditation allows you to pull back from the elaborate set long enough to be reminded that "this too shall pass," and to glimpse your larger self, your Cosmic Consciousness, which is formless, timeless, and unfettered by a body. In meditation you see that your real self, the soul, is completely and magnificently surrendered. Meditation is an act of utter openness, which is what makes it so beautiful.

Surrender in meditation, Dorothy! Your most radiant self awaits.

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