Rivers, ever yielding, find their way to the sea through all manner of obstacles. The steady streaming consciousness of mantra meditation similarly finds its way through the vast landscape of thoughts, emotions, memories and desires. This is accomplished not by pushing away or applying force but simply by focusing on the mantra and not on the rest of the mental activity.
Simple, yes, but certainly not easy. Achieving a single focus of the mind and reaching the goal of stillness requires the same steady persistence of the river. Like the river we are destined to reach the sea—the luminous ocean of blissful consciousness.
It is not a loss when the boundaries of our “little self” dissolve into oneness. It is the re-uniting of a part with the whole.
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