Action Meditation
How are we to keep the meditative state induced in stillness continuing throughout the daily activities which follow? As the Bhagavad Gita teaches, our whole day should be lived as a sacrifice to God, as a meditation in action. How are we to achieve this?
I believe that still meditation should be followed immediately by an obvious instance of Action Meditation, what Vivekananda, the great Hindu monk and philosopher, called Raja-Yoga. It could be painting or singing, or indeed any higher form of higher creativity, but offered as a sacrifice.
This can then set the stage for the ensuing, more apparently routine daily activities being also conducted in the meditative state. Hopefully, this state will then persist throughout the day, heightened by each successive sacrifice.
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Does the activity bring you closer to Realizing your Self?
That’s what I mean by Action Meditation.
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See Dr. Diamond talk about Action Meditation in this related video.
