Meditation as Medication for the Soul
Today, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj spoke of how meditation can help us get closer to God. We all want our lives to be better than they are, and when we think of how we can improve our lives, we tend to focus on the financial, physical, mental, and emotional aspects of our being. We do this because we believe ourselves to be our body, mind, and emotions; we think that we can achieve all we need at the level of the physical world.
Saints tell us that our true nature is the soul. The body is a borrowed machine that the soul has rented for its limited time on earth. Our soul, being a part of God, is conscious and eternal. Nonetheless, we spend our life in the activities of the outer world, leaving our soul unnourished and buried under layers of mind, matter, and illusion.
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji said that when we are offered a remedy for an ailment, we only benefit from it when we put it to use. Similarly, on the spiritual path, the saints and spiritual Masters explain time and again how we need to lead our lives if we want to experience lasting peace and happiness. We need to use the faculties we have been given to know ourselves as soul and to know God.
When we focus within through the process of meditation, we connect with God’s love. As this connection happens, the soul is nourished and healed, and the layers of mind, matter, and illusion that shroud our soul peel away. With the higher angle of vision that we gain through meditation, we are able to face the difficulties of life in a calmer manner
