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The advantages of the yoga of contemplation of dhyan are innumerable. One engaged in this form of yoga can be mere contemplation have all his desires fulfilled. “As you think, so you become,” is a well-know aphorism. By contemplation on the attributes of God one can develop these attributes within one’s own self and be a witness and a testifier to heavens light, while his senses acquire transcendental powers. The mind also tastes of the bliss of vigyan, when the chit vritis, or the mental modulation, are stilled. This yoga rids one of all sins, and one feels and inner bliss and halcyon calm. All kinds of mental maladies like fear, shame, vacillation and self-assertiveness, disappear gradually and give place to fearfulness, confidence, firmness and happiness, and one acquires and evenness of temper in all the varying conditions of life. He is not obsessed either by attachment or detachment, and like a lotus flower, floats above and over the slime of common existence. With the knowledge of the true values of life, he grows firm in his convictions and is no longer a prey to the groundless fears and chance winds that blow over him. He has no cause for praise or blame and as such, talks little and does much; all of his acts as motivated by kindliness and good will toward all. His words are honey-sweet and authoritative. He is not tormented by pride and prejudice, but leads a life of perfect moderation and justice. He conquers indolence and idleness; eats little and sleep little and there is hardly any difference in his state of wakefulness and slumber. He is ever the same throughout, with a radiant and a beaming face that bespeaks his inner glory. Kabir says: The world is but a fictious bondage,
and kabir centered in the Naam if forever free. |