When we think of meditation, we think what is the best technique to do that. How should we sit ? Where should we concentrate ? How we should speak ? Should we speak or just keep quite and chant in mind or chant with breath ? What is the best place to meditate ? Should we close our ears so that we don’t listen the noise outside ?
What is the best technique ? Spirituality is not a technique or a mechanical process. When we remember our loved ones, we never look around for a definite time or place. Tell me one thing, when you remember your husband or wife, what you do ? Do you sit down in a particular pose and start remembering ? Your anwer is No. Because you love him or her and he or she is in your mind and you are constantly attached to him or her with your thoughts. The same is true with God as well. Worshipping God does not mean doing some fixed rituals in the morning or evening or on weekends only. Its a continuous process. You remember God when you are driving. You remember Him when you are alone. You remember Him when you wake up in the morning or go to bed at night. Whenever you have any problem, you first communicate with Him.
This is true that to do meditation you need a proper place and you have to sit in a comfortable position. But don’t think that you are going to do meditation or you are going to Chant the name. Sit down and feel that you are going to have a meeting with your God whom you love. When you say Waheguru, say with love, as if you are calling him, as if He is in the word “Waheguru”, as if you are listening to Him, as if He is touching your body and mind. Feel one with Him. Pray “O Lord, I cannot live apart from you, merge me within you. Remove the veil of darkness and appear before me. I am not worth anything without you. Ignore all my sins and misdeeds, forgive me and give me place in your lap”. Have this feeling of love within yourself while Chanting the Name.” When you Chant the Name with love, to your surprise, you will learn all the other techniques yourself. You will straighten your back, sit in upright position and you will concentrate on your forehead (third eye point). You will learn how to say Waheguru in different ways. The reason is now you are searching for your Love. You will start crying in love and your eyes will be full of tear. Please note that such tears of love are cold and will wash all you sins. Guru Nanak Says that my thirst for Chanting the Name has taken away all my pain. Feeling of love is so powerful and so quick in effect.
Some people say that we should not utter Name, just say it in mind, so that nobody comes to know what you are doing. Probably they think that if they speak it, other may think that they are egoistic and they show off that they are religious. Whatever the reason is but you should speak the Name with your tongue and listen to it with love. Our ears are source of input to our mind. Whatever we listen goes straight into our mind. We all know whatever we sing in the morning, we sing it all the day whatever it is and that too automatically. We are light of Waheguru and Waheguru is in the form of Word. When we continuously speak this word, it enters our mind and we realize that we are part of Waheguru. When we chant the Name in the morning with our tongue, then during the day, we automatically chant it in our mind and alongwith our breath. But this will not happen if we just chant it in our mind in the morning. We cannot achieve this stage without chanting with Tongue. Because without chanting with tongue, our ears cannot listen.
Another important point is where should we concentrate when we meditate or Chant the Name. The answer is nowhere. Nowhere ! What’s that !!! Rember one thing, you are light of God. There is only one God. When there is nobody else, then where should you concentrate. Everything is God and you are part of God. Waves in the ocean are part of the ocean. Drops of water is part of the ocean. Fish is in the ocean. Should the fish concentrate on ocean and imagine that it is in the ocean. What a foolish idea ! Whan it is in the ocean and part of it, then why should it concentrate on that. It just enjoys the water and lives as a part of it. You are light my friend. YOU ARE LIGHT. When you understand this idea, half of your tension to find out God will go away. And the remaining tension will go when after Chanting the Name, you will realize that light within you. Yes you can concentrate on one thing - Your own voice. That too, you don’t have to concentrate, just listen harmoniously and feel that you are this sound and you are not this body. You are having this body just as a shell and one day you will have to vacate this body and merge with the bigger light. What happens if you break a glass (full of water) in a water tank. Water is outside, water is inside the glass, water just gets mixed up with the water in the glass. The glass just breaks apart. Another example is baloon full of air. When we break the baloon, the air inside just gets mixed up with air outside. Exactly this is what happens with our body and soul. Our soul just merges with the bigger soul outside when we leave our body. We don’t go anywhere.
To summarize
- Chant the Name “Waheguru” with your tongue with love.
- When you chant it in mind, continue it. Try to coordinate it with your breath.
- Don’t try to concentrate anywhere in the body, just feel that you are the light of Waheguru and be one with It.
- All places are good for meditation, but its better if you can find a quiet place.
- Just listen to your own voice when you say “Waheguru”.
Good luck
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh…..Balbir Singh Khalsa