BECOMING TRULY MEDITATIVE
The Free Press Journal
|March 23, 2025
The whole purpose of yoga is to set up various dimensions in you which are not you.
What I mean by "not you" is: whatever you are identified with is what "you" are right now. But to set up a space within you beyond your limited identifications is yoga.
Initially, it starts as a tiny speck. If you start clearing space for it, if you unload your crap, this space starts expanding. A day comes when it occupies everything, and your crap just floats around. If you want, you can pluck and use it, otherwise you are untouched by it.
When you become like that, we say you have become truly meditative, you are in samadhi, an equanimous state where this or that doesn't touch you.
Without an armory of crap, you cannot live in the world. You won't know any game. You will become like an avadhuta. These days, everyone is taking on the name: "I am avadhuta; you are also avadhuta." That's not what I'm talking about. An avadhuta is someone who is in a certain state where they become like infants — they don't know anything. You
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