Did you want another one to start, just as this one was almost about to end? Did you notice yourself responding to a peer or friend saying, I can’t even remember it, need another one sooner than later?

Well, meditations are similar. Once you get entrenched into meditating, they will always seem a tad bit shorter than you wished. You will start wishing they never end. You will want another session to start just as this one is about to end. You will want another one sooner rather than later.

So, let’s ask ourselves some questions.

1. When do we usually want to go on a vacation?

• Always (duh!! ☺️ — my response); Yours —
• When you are tired and really want a break from EVERYTHING? or,
• You need a change from your usual pattern called ‘life’! It all works for you, but sometimes, it just becomes the same standard boring ritual.

2. How long do we want the vacation to last?

• Why should it even end? ( my response); Yours –
• Long enough but not too short as well.
• As frequent as possible, as long as each one helps one really chill out and enjoy the moment without thinking of the past or future.

Why am I talking of vacations here when really, I just want to talk about meditations?

Because Meditation allows you to be on permanent vacation. Vacation from the trials and tribulations of this so called ‘life’.

The life that is known to human experience, has become such a ‘gravity’! A gravity of worries that people can’t seem to escape. It seems like a grueling routine of never ending problems! And frankly, even though we don’t really need to even THINK about ‘life’ as a chore to be done everyday, mankind seems to have got stuck into it. Life is a beautiful adventure that allows you to experience the true ‘you’. But, it has become something else. A something else, you don’t need it to be!

And yes, I am saying, Meditation is the rocket ship, which can help you zoom away from the boring and arduous task of everyday monotony.

People tend to think, if they don’t ‘do’ what they are supposed to, it won’t happen. But that completely depends on your perception of ‘life’, your concept of ‘doership’ and ‘free will’, which then all start to govern how you tend to experience this ‘limited’ earthly journey of life.

I cannot recall the time when I had to ‘do’ something to make something happen. It ALL just happened on its own. Yes, it did! I have no need to claim or lie here. Its not going to give me a reward or followers. I am just telling you because YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS. EVERYTHING JUST happens on its own. Its all pre-programmed! Try as you will, things will go just the way they need to. You will get EVERYTHING you NEED, to GROW.

Just as short vacations don’t do it for most people, a one off meditation won’t do it for you. If you want to even have the possibility to try experience the real enjoyment of a permanent vacation, either you need to go away for a long one, or then you go on vacations as frequently as possible!

Now, while vacations can cost you a little or a lot, meditation doesn’t cost you at all. They can be done without as much as spending a cent on going anywhere. All you need to do, is to go within! Not even a millimeter of travel. Just simply, turn inwards, sit with yourself, as a distant oberver of everything that is seeming to go on around and within you. Just sit and observe. Do it often. Just don’t give up after a day or week. Please, just do it everyday!

Do it for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, do it for 45 minutes It is not THAT MUCH TIME, to simply sit with yourself in a 16 hour wakeful state to spare 45 minutes each day. Ok, if 45 minutes is too much to ask for, just do it for 20 minutes every day. YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE! PERIOD!

Give it 21 days. Your perception patterns will change. Your understanding of life will change. Your observation of how things AREN’T in your control will change. Heck, your mis-identification of your being this body and mind will change. Your WHOLE life perception will change! And, for the better!

Why am I advocating daily 20 minute meditations as a start. Because it will allow you to go away on a permanent vacation. No, it won’t screw your life over. It won’t stop you doing the things you do well. It won’t worsen anything. It will just allow you to start understanding your true nature, your higher SELF will reveal itself. And you will realise, you are NOT this limited MIND BODY complex! It will help you suddenly come into your own!

Revelations will start pouring in. You will start connecting with your spiritual guides and angels who will help you. You will realise you are much more than what you thought and that will help a lot of other people around you in addition to helping your own life evolve better. Even without doing anything, your SILENCE will do its work on its own.

It seems silly. Its NOT. I have practiced meditation for 33 years. EVERYTHING just happens on its own. Nothing is needed to be ‘done’ by you. You will start realising how powerful you are. Your practice of sitting with yourself, your practice of letting your thoughts and emotions flow without your reacting to each one of them, simply respecting them, will help you ascend into a silence you have never known.

You will realise you can claim this ‘calm’ personal space ANY TIME you wish. You will become the Master of peace and joy and you will be able to beckon this amazing quiet that heralds a beautiful space of inexplicable love without any effort.

Whether you are driving, or working, or amongst crowds, you will simply start experiencing a blissful presence of silence and deep love. You will start being in awe of the miracles that will transpire WITHOUT your doing much at all! You will simply become a witness of it all.

Try it! Its worth it! It will not let you down!

Change your life. Simply, go within.

In gratitude!

Gaurav