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Meditation Brings Steadiness

Girish Borkar
2 min readAug 1, 2022

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Practicing yoga and meditation can bring the steadiness we desire in our life. With regular practice our entire approach to life changes first at a very subtle level and then with the passage of time, the results are visible to all people who are associated with us. Regular practice brings about a desire to keep on living life the way it was meant to be lived — in the present moment — regardless of what happens to us in life, we keep on pursuing our goals.

The Bhagavad Gita talks about this in terms of a spiritual quality called dhriti. As Paramahansa Yoganand said, “Patience or fortitude (dhriti) enables the devotee to bear the misfortunes and insults with equilibrium. Outward events cannot shake him, nor can occasional inner turmoil serve to deflect him from his chosen path or goal: Self-realisation.”

When we apply this practice of patience and fortitude to our spiritual practise of meditation and yoga, it produces a profound level of resilience which arises from the soul. With regular meditation — with complete Samarpan to the Master — we first learn to control the life force itself; our breathing slows down tremendously, and thereby slows down our thought process thus quieting the mind, thereby disconnecting our mind from our external environment.

With gradual disconnection of the mind from the external environment we are able to remain steadfastly focused on our true inner Self, the imperturbable, indomitable soul! A person who attains this state called sattvic-dhriti, this state of consciousness keeps his mind settled in the blessed perception of the Soul and the Supreme Being. In such a state one can live one’s material, worldly life engaging in one’s dutiful activities, observing both good and evil, without being in any way affected or getting entangled by them.

This is the very quality and essence of the resilience which we have been discussing and which we need to cultivate. Apart from observing our own selves and working on the little flaws that we see within us, we need to keep meditating regularly to reach that state of consciousness which enables us to develop divine fortitude and constancy and the ability to keep our balance, no matter what life throws at us.

When we are meditating, let us keep the love for the Supreme Being foremost in our heart, with that one begins to sense the presence of the divine spirit’s presence all the time, our joyful and blissful nature becomes obvious and our love for all beings becomes a part of our life — in fact we become ‘love’.

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Girish Borkar

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