Why Meditation?

Meditation helps one to shut down the movement of thoughts in mind. One can be absorbed within himself/herself with one focus thought or reaching to a stage of nothingness. Why it’s important?..

Mind is very swift – in a second, from `here’ it moves `there’. But mind can only think of past or present or future at one point of time. It can move very swiftly in fraction of seconds from past to future or present or vice versa but mind cannot think of past, present or future all together at one moment.

Therefore saints are talking about something (Supreme Being) which is always `here’, ‘there’, everywhere, at the same time. Therefore the mind cannot move to It(GOD)  fast enough because it is `there’ already! So before the mind thinks and wants to move and reach out, the Supreme Being already knows about it! That’s why mind cannot think faster than the Supreme Being. It also means that people who think that they can find the truth through intellectual acrobatics, cannot find It. Therefore, senses cannot reach GOD.

So, when the mind has completely stopped, when it has become absolutely still, without a single movement, then perhaps one begins to understand how Saint is trying to explain about GOD.