Since our attachment in Shree Krishna (the Supreme Divine Personality) is currently weak, therefore when we try to meditate, instead of thinking of Him, our mind goes naturally to the world. The people of the world pop into our mind, the things of the world pop into our mind, our desires, our fears—all these things start rattling around inside our mind. It’s quite natural. Wherever we’re attached, that’s what the mind is going to naturally think about.
So in that case, meditation is going against the flow of the mind. When we try to stop the mind—“Let me think of nothing, let me just have a clear mind, a peaceful mind”—that’s against the flow of the mind, because the natural flow of the mind is, wherever we’re attached, the mind wants to keep thinking of those things. That’s one reason why meditation is so difficult.
But the meditation of the Gita (sacred scripture) is not to think of nothing, and the meditation taught by Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj is not to think of nothing, or to simply calm the mind, or to think of a light, or any number of things that have become popular nowadays.
No, the meditation of Gita is मय्यर्पितमनोबुद्धि mayy arpita-mano-buddhir (from Gita 8.7)—Shree Krishna says, “Arjun (the warrior disciple of Krishna), put your mind in Me”. Not just in any random thing you’re trying to meditate on. Meditate on Me.
So this is the first thing. This is the first deficiency in our meditation—is that we try to meditate on other things other than God.
Meditating on God is the easiest. Why? Because the mind wants happiness.
It’s our nature, it’s everybody’s nature, and it is in fact the reason we get attached to people and things of this world. We’re looking for happiness.
