What Is Meditation?

What is meditation? People have pondered over it for centuries

Yet, some have already designed and marketed it in many different ways,

Because it is seen as a means of getting peace for the disturbed mind

It has become a buzz word both in the east and in the west and is making sound.

Have those who practiced many ways of meditation got the peace?

The successful Gurus have been claiming it in the affirmative,

Which is obvious since they have to market their products for success

And the pupils must agree since their problems have continued to be elusive.

People have become so much gullible, restless and result oriented

That they want an outsider to solve their problem, small or big or stupid,

Because, they want to escape from their state of gullibility immediately

And hence they have no other choice but to find a solution externally.

If the problem is for the body, one would consult a doctor or physician,

If the problem is related to the intellectual matter in any domain

Then one would be free to consult great intellectuals and domain experts,

But, for matters related to one’s mind are there fool proof remedies?

When one’s mind is agitating, being caught in the fears and longings

How can it think of controlling itself and hence bring back the lost peace?

This is where the mind plays a trick to separate itself from its ailments

So that it can then become free and act on them for its own solace.

The sense of separation, which is an illusion, has opened up a panorama

Of possibilities for the Gurus of meditation techniques and the gullible pupils

But the people have not been able to be free from the state of dilemma,

Which has necessitated everyone to understand what a true meditation is.

People set an expectation from meditation when they think of investing on it,

Which is why it has become a sensational and marketable commodity,

People want to stay and continue with their way of life, which is chaotic

And to succeed in that endeavor they look for meditation with much anxiety.

Meditation is the action of silence where we are free from all the thoughts

And hence there is neither the controller nor the controlled whatsoever,

There is energy gathered for all the senses to observe our own lives,

And bring choiceless awareness moment by moment without the observer.