Ready for Vairagya - 04.22.10

“Real meditation begins when one is sick of the doing. One is sick of one’s own ego. One is sick of one’s own mind. That’s when it starts,” elucidates Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “It’s only when you’re sick” of all the games you play with yourself, “and you realize that the world is a mirage, that you get serious about meditation. Until then you’re just dabbling at it, playing at it, and you won’t get very far with it because meditation is the most serious thing that one can do. And it means giving up one’s own sense of being a separate individual. . . . And so, the only way to reach that Ultimate State—which is what we are—is through letting go of all that we appear to be, of all that the mind projects, of language itself, of imagery—of everything that is an object in consciousness—until we reach a state of purity of awareness. And in that Presence—when the mind lets go of even believing that what it is present to is occurring in the brain or is occurring in any localized area, in any phenomenal world—one breaks through the final frame in which we have tried to put reality. And then we enter into the infinite.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 22, 2010.