Celebate Monk

Science For Transformation

The science for transformation of life is called meditation. Through analysis, physical science reaches the atom and atomic power, but meditation reaches the soul and soul power. Through the former, the mystery hidden in matter is discovered; through the latter, the universe hidden within the self is revealed. But the latter is more important than the former because there is nothing in existence more important than one’s own self.

Man has lost his balance because he knows a lot about matter but nothing about himself. He has learned how to dive into the unfathomable depths of the ocean and how to fly into the amazing heights of space but he has completely forgotten how to enter into his own self. This is a suicidal state. This is exactly our misery. Meditation can free you from this imbalance. It needs to be taught. Only through meditation can the birth of a new man in the true sense take place and can the foundations of a new humanity be laid.

Science has declared man’s conquest over matter; now man has to conquer himself as well. His conquest of matter has made it imperative that he now know himself and conquer himself. Otherwise, his conquest of the unlimited power of matter will become his own annihilation – because power in the hands of ignorance is always poisonous and suicidal. If science is in the hands of the ignorant, the combination is destructive. But if science is in the hands of the self-knowing, it will lead to the birth of an unprecedented creative energy that can transform this earth into a paradise.

That is why I say that the destiny and the future of man are now in the hands of meditation. Meditation is the science of the future because it is the science of man.

Fear of Transformation

Many people seem to be interested in meditation, but that interest cannot be very deep because so very few are transformed through it. If the interest is really deep, it becomes a fire by itself. It transforms you. Just through intense interest you start becoming different. A new center of being arises. So many people seem to be interested but nothing new arises in them, no new center is born, no new crystallization is achieved. They remain the same.

That means they are deceiving themselves. The deception is very subtle but it is bound to be there. If you go on taking medicine, having treatments, and the illness remains the same – rather on the contrary, it goes on increasing – then your medicine, your treatment, is bound to be false. Maybe deep down you don’t want to be transformed. That fear is very real – the fear of transformation. So on the surface you go on thinking that you are deeply interested, but deep down you go on deceiving.

The fear of transformation is just like the fear of death. It is a death, because the old will have to go and the new will come into being. You will be there no more, something totally unknown to you will be born out of you. Unless you are ready to die, your interest in meditation is false, because only those who are ready to die will be reborn. The new cannot become a continuity with the old. The old must be discontinued. The old must go. Only then can the new come into being. The new is not an outgrowth of the old, the new is not continuous with it – the new is totally new. And it comes only when the old dies. There is a gap between the old and the new – that gap gives you the fear. You are afraid. You want to be transformed but simultaneously you want to remain old. This is the deception. You want to grow, but you want to remain you. Then growth is impossible; then you can only deceive; then you can go on thinking and dreaming that something is happening, but nothing will happen because the basic point has been missed.