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Drop Your Intentions
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Sri Sri: A strong
tendency to keep doing something, whether important or
unimportant, becomes an impediment to meditation. Doing starts first
with an intention and then translates into action. Though intention
springs from the Being, when it becomes doing
it doesn’t let you settle
down. All intentions, good or bad, trivial or important, need to be
dropped for meditation
to happen.
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Vijay: But isn’t dropping all intentions itself an intention?
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Sri Sri: Yes, but that intention
is the last and necessary intention.
Dropping the intentions is not an act – just the intention to drop the
intentions
itself serves the purpose. Dropping all intentions even for a
moment brings you in touch with your Self – that instant
meditation
happens.
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While you sit for meditation you have to let the world be the way it is.
The repetition
of meditation is to habituate our system to be able to
stop and start activity at will. The ability to do this consciously
is a
very precious skill.
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Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Overcoming Events
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All the problems
that you face in life are because you attach over importance to the events. The events grow bigger while you remain smaller.
Say, for example, you are riding a motorbike on a busy motor way and in front of you there is another vehicle emitting exhaust
fumes. You have three options.
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1. You can complain, somehow bear with it, and still follow the vehicle.
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2.
You can slow down or wait for some time to allow the vehicle to move far away from you.
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3. You can use your skill,
overtake the vehicle, and forget about it.
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As in the first case, most of you stick on the events and are miserable,
like inhaling fumes throughout your journey.
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In the second case, you don't get permanent relief, as another bigger
vehicle might come in front of you. Like that, running away from events is not the permanent solution.
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However, wise
people use their skill and grow over the events. If the vehicle is in perfect condition, the skill is effective. Conditioning
the vehicle is sadhana or practice. And skill is the grace of the Guru.
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The mistakes that you have made in the past
have made you humble; you need not make mistakes in the future to become humble.
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- Sri Sri
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