Just being totally involved in whatever we do is meditation.
The way in which we live automatically creates an effect, a transformation in others as well. We attract incidents that fall in tune with our desires and thoughts. When we are blissful inside, whatever happens outside will also be blissful. This is because what we see outside is just a projection of what is inside us. It has been scientifically proven that the results of experiments conducted by different researchers under identical conditions vary depending on the mood of the scientists. In one study of elementary particles such as quarks, scientists were amazed that the behavior of these particles varies with different observers. What we see is our reality. If we see without wishing to change anything, we are in completion with reality.
We are never totally involved in anything that we do. The person who is aware, who is complete, who is in the present, is completely involved every moment. He feels the hunger completely through every cell of the body when hunger happens. He lives the hunger totally. When the food is before him, he enjoys every morsel of the food completely. Just like having the sense of taste is very natural when we eat with awareness, so it is with all the senses.
Just being totally involved in whatever we do is meditation. Just living in the space of completion, enjoying the present moment is meditation. You must have experienced in your own life, when you are intensely involved in something, you forget yourself. It can be as sim¬ple as painting or reading or anything. When you go deep into it, you forget yourself.
When we go deeply into any emotion, only that emotion remains and we cease to exist. This is what we mean by ‘totality.’ This moment of ‘you’ disappearing, you may experience for just a few seconds in your current lifestyle. But if you work on being intense and total in everything, this experience of ‘you’ disappearing will happen more often to you and for longer periods. Soon, you master the art of doing work intensely, and just being absent. We become independent of the work that goes on outside.
Kṛṣṇa tells us that our job is only to do the work, not to be concerned about the results. He beautifully says, ‘brahmaṇy ādhāya karmāṇi (5.10) — do the work surrendering to the eternal consciousness.’ We need to keep doing things because we have so much loving energy inside us. We can just exude energy without any reason or any expectation. When we are like this, we are not bothered about the re¬sults. When I say we are not bothered about the results, I don’t mean that out of a frustrated or cynical conclusion. What I mean is that we don’t even know to expect results because we are continuously moving and expressing our blissful inner energy, that’s all.
We are just living in the space of completion and doing whatever that comes in our way to do. We are just flowing joyfully, that’s all. We flow with the Universal energy. This flowing energy is real love.
- Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam
