Meditation - A Spiritual Surgery:

Meditation & perception:

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Meditation a Spiritual Surgery.
We will learn how meditation is a spiritual surgery.
What is attention and perception?
We will know that in meditation the mind and chitta are made energetic.

Now we will discuss clearly in brief that meditation is a spiritual surgery........

Meditation - A Spiritual Surgery:

Meditation is the name of the calm state of the mind. When the mind becomes concentrated, stable and calm, then that state is called meditation. Meditation is one such method; in which the mind is concentrated, the mind is stable, and the mind is calm. This is possible only with meditation; because in normal condition the waves of the mind keep on rising and falling and due to these waves the mind remains unstable, fickle and restless.

Meditation is also a spiritual surgery Like a laser beam, the work of making the energy of the mind flow in one direction can be accomplished through meditation. Through this we create a kind of sharpness in mental energy and through those concentrated mental rays spiritual surgery is then done. Meditation has many benefits. Scientists have proved these benefits through their experiment-tests and research-research.

For meditation, there must be perception first. Maharishi Patanjali says- Dharana( perception) means one thought, one emotion started to become stable in the mind. Due to this, concentration and stability starts coming in the mind. Dharana is the settling of the mind in one place. When the mind starts to stay in one feeling, one thought, one word, one mantra, when it starts to become stable, then perception starts. Patanjali further says that when perception starts, meditation also starts, where the mind becomes stable, the continuous flow of mind on the same subject is meditation. If the mind keeps flowing in the same flow, if the perception becomes firm, then meditation starts. When the perception becomes firm and the flow of the mind keeps flowing in one direction, then the meditation becomes firm.

The tendencies of afflictions can be destroyed by meditation. Vrittis means the waves of the mind which are always undulating, never stable. To stabilize, concentrate and calm those waves is meditation. The mind is naturally fickle. This restlessness creates waves within him and this restlessness leads to continuous erosion of mental energy. When the erosion of this energy is stopped and after preserving it, it is projected in a single thought and feeling, then it is called meditation.

Meditation is called a spiritual surgery because because just as incision is made in normal surgery, in the same way through meditation also the defects of the mind are removed. Surgery is also done with laser rays. Here laser rays act as knives, razors and scissors. A machine produces laser rays. These rays have energy and reach wherever the operation is performed. In this way the operation is done without wound, without tearing. In meditation also the process of changing the mind is done without any physical injury.

Man's mind is fickle, scattered, unstable, so we are unable to use the energy of the mind. First of all the mind needs to be trained like laser rays. That edge and sharpness is created inside the rays of the mind, that energy and intensity is created in it that it becomes sharp like laser rays. Let's start this process with Dharana, that is, first fix the mind at one place, and then let it move slowly towards the desired goal. Here the steadiness of the mind is perception and its steady flow or progress towards a goal is meditation. When meditation becomes intense and only the goal is felt in meditation, then it is called Samadhi.

When the perception becomes intense, meditation takes place and in the intensity of meditation, samadhi is proved. All this becomes possible - by stopping the scattering of the mind's energy and by preserving it and flowing it in one direction. Stopping the energy of the mind from scattering and then collecting that energy and giving it a direction is the basic purpose of meditation. With the concentration of mental energy, it is possible to execute wonderful and surprising works.

The study of the effects of mental energy is called parapsychology. In this, the miracles occurring through the concentration of mental energy are studied. Behaviour, balance of mind and personality come in the field of general psychology. The relation of mental energies does not come in normal human behaviour. In this context, the famous psychologist Freud gave the concept of unconscious, which lies in the lower layers of our mind. It affects our behaviour. The unconscious influences our dreams as well. According to psychologists, whatever thought throughout the day comes in dreams at night, but behaviour is ahead of science and parapsychology - spiritual psychology. Meditation is the subject of spiritual psychology.

In meditation the mind is made energetic. According to Freud, everything that has been done in this life from childhood till now is stored in the mind. Maharishi Patanjali says that the matter is not limited to this. The impressions of all the previous births are stored in the mind. Freud's concept of the unconscious is confined to life from childhood to the present. More than this, the concept of mind given by Maharishi Patanjali, its scope includes all the previous births and all the future births from now on.

There is a stock of sanskars in this mind. These sanskars in are very strange and give some wonderful twist to our life, bring a twist. When auspicious rituals arise, then there are auspicious events, pleasant experiences in our life and if the rituals become inauspicious then inauspicious events, inauspicious situations, the darkness of inauspiciousness prevails. Meditation heals these rituals. Meditation is done to treat the impressions stored in the mind.

The study and research of meditation therapy is now being done in the western world as well. In 1970, when Dr. Richard Davidson, an American psychologist started research on the power of Indian yoga and meditation, he became an object of ridicule, but now it is recognized by the United Nations. Even many famous scientists are seen doing their research in this field. The conclusion of their research suggests that meditation has surprising benefits in incurable physical diseases, increases the strength of the mind, and even positive changes in the structure of the brain are possible.

Davidson studied meditation and its effects at the University of Wisconsin. Another study, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, found that meditation causes structural changes in the human brain. Researchers found that meditation for half an hour a day for eight weeks not only changed the structure of the memory part of the brain, but also led to major changes in the part of the feeling, empathizing part of the brain. The team that conducted this study was led by Dr. Brita Hojal. In another experiment, scientists from the University of Wisconsin in the US found that meditation creates feelings of empathy, kindness, love, peace and compassion in humans. They say that meditation reduces negative feelings and creates positive feelings.

Dr. Brita Hojal, who tested the effects of meditation, examined the brains of Buddhist monks whose daily practice included meditation. The hippocampus region of his brain was well developed. This part is related to memory and memory. The areas of the brain associated with anxiety, depression, and stress were shown to decrease with meditation. It is clear from this that meditation is a therapy, through which the impressions of the mind can be extinguished. Only by doing this, transformation is possible in life. Many benefits can be obtained in life by making the mind calm, stable and concentrated through meditation.