MEDITATION
More Than Relaxation: A Path to the Divine
Explore meditation’s original purpose as a direct route to the Divinity within
Meditation was discovered and developed in the East to obtain the Ultimate Reality of union with the Godhead, not as a tool for relaxation or visualizing the reception of one’s egoic needs.
The idea of creating more illusionary self-fulfilling thoughts to fill one’s mind would turn Patanjali, the father of Yoga, in his grave!
In every culture where meditation appeared and was refined, it was for one purpose only—to bring the self to transparency and dissolve into the ultimate reality or Godhead.
Modifications of meditation in the West come from Westerners’ continued emphasis on intellectual development as the supreme apex of achievement; the accumulation of knowledge is more important than intuition, wisdom, or even intelligence. Going so far as to elevate the intellect as the do-all-be-all faculty that sets humans apart.
This has created an imbalance in the West, where intellect is prioritized over all other qualities and capabilities of self.
Our already overloaded minds are filled daily with even more emotionally charged information from our work, life situations, and…
