How does meditation fit in with our religion?.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
“Sometimes when I try to meditate I experience a fear of ‘relinquishing’ my consciousness to a void (and that somehow my being will disintegrate), and I don’t know if this has something to do with growing up since childhood praying to a ‘personal’ God or Jesus.
In fact, I don’t know who or what it is that I pray to – maybe I think of it as the ‘source of my life’ – but somehow I keep wanting the comfort of ‘personalizing’ the object of my prayers.
Similarly, I feel a fear that if I die without having ‘Jesus’ as part of my life, that I will go into nothingness.
Could you tell me who or what ‘Jesus’ is in the context of a person’s life, and how I should approach the experience of meditation?”
Response:
I’m not sure this issue is connected to your habit of praying to personal God, because most people pray to something, and I haven’t seen this fear of the void in meditation associated with people who pray.
It often relates to some past idea that formlessness equates with extinction or annihilation.
You need a different context for understanding what is really going on in meditation.
You are not losing your consciousness to anything, you are in fact coming into your true nature.
So instead of framing your experience in terms of relinquishing your consciousness into a void, see it as a process of coming into your essence, your strength.
That way as your awareness becomes more refined you can feel reassured and secure in moving into something that is more real and lasting than your object referral life.
Love,
Deepak
