Finding Peace With Meditation

Desire for the Company of Spiritually Oriented People Comes Naturally Once We Take to Meditation.
 

- Eknath Easwaran

Right from the outset, it is important to do everything we can to make self-realisation our primary goal. The transformation of personality is so difficult that to accomplish it we cannot afford to dedicate ourselves to other objectives and try to practise sadhana on the side.

In the early days, however, this often means a change in some of our familiar activities. To rebuild our lives, we have to change our associations and our ways of living.

This is painful at first. When I took to meditation I made a number of far-reaching changes in my life, which naturally baffled a lot of my friends, who began to look askance at some of these changes. They were fond of me and thought perhaps I was losing my ambition and my drive. What I did was try not to be affected by this, not in any way to be apologetic or to impose my views on others. In a few years’ time they saw the changes I had been able to bring into my daily living and one by one they would seek my company, perhaps to ask my advice on daily problems.

For a while you’ve got to be prepared for questioning and sometimes even bewilderment from those who are near and dear to you. It calls, on the one hand, for a great deal of security within yourself and, on the other hand, for a great deal of discrimination.

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