The Importance of Work-life Balance in Management

Science Of Union

The real core of all religion, of all yoga, of all methods of search, is meditation. One should put aside everything non-essential. You can use things as stepping stones, but not more than that – just like jumping boards. You need not bother too much about them. Your whole concern should be one-pointed; you should move like an arrow towards meditation. Only then in this small life, with so little time, power and energy available and with so many problems surrounding you, can you hope that the arrow will reach the target.

Krishna says that without getting entangled into, physiological and psychological part of yoga, move into meditation. Physiological and psychological part of yoga is preparation and stepping stone for meditation. The moment you know something of meditation – not about it, but the very taste of it – a great release comes. A great relief comes. Suddenly all tensions disappear: anxieties, anguishes, are found no more. Even if you want them just for a change, you cannot find them.

Once you have tasted meditation it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable, a natural showering, and it goes on showering like flowers showering from the sky.

Transcendentalist

A man who knows how to be alone knows how to be meditative. Aloneness means meditation – just relishing your own being, celebrating your own being – is Transcendentalist.

Transcendentalist says: I celebrate myself, I sing myself. That is – aloneness.

Look into your own life. All your guilt, anger, anxiety, are with respect to others. Do you recollect any moment when no one was with you and got angry? Forget about sin and virtues even the anger cannot touch when no one is with you.

The person who is a Transcendentalist can stay in the world with his aloneness. How can be he touched by any destruction or evil?

We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because we are not aware of it, we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at-easeness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness.

Loneliness is a misunderstood aloneness. Once you misunderstand your – aloneness, as loneliness, the whole context changes. Aloneness has a beauty and grandeur, a positivity; loneliness is poor, negative, dark, dismal.

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