Meditation In Spiritual Orientation

MEDITATION – THE DOORWAY TO NIRVANA.

Mediation and its evolution

Meditation as of today comprises and manifests the very core of every effort, religion and faith. Meditation- a concept initiated and heralded by the eastern theological philosophy finds its roots in the Hindu sacred scriptures “Vedas” dating back to 1500 B.C. popularly termed as “Dhyana” in Hindu mythology; it has multiple connotations according to application in varied situations. It means, to pay attention, meditate, remember, recollect, etc. This concept was immediately embraced by the neighbors - Taoist China and Buddhist Tibet. It was thereafter that the other religions also learnt and adapted the concept sans their eastern trappings, per their theological compatibility.

Meditation with spiritual orientation is compartmentalized to a particular segment of society which pursues it for the intrinsic purpose of furthering their religious faiths and belief, whereas mediation for non religious purposes has acquired the status of the common man’s stress buster. Today its rampant peddling and commercialization has undergone such a high decibel sales pitch that the concentration of subject’s glory has paled to pittance.

Modern day materialism and high octane lifestyles have bereft human lives of ecstasy and exuberance thereby substituted it with trauma, stress, depression, disease and disorders. Social scientists and engineers along with religious sector preachers mooted the concept of deploying meditation engineering as a tool to nullify the impact inflicted on human lives by scorching pace of technology and development. Its mapping

Under the meditative philosophy the man was trained to control the mind instead of the mind which controls the man under normal conditions. With this clearly chalked out the social engineers devised a meditative strategy with a dual orientation.

1. Meditation for the control and resolution of anxiety.

2. Meditation for the control and resolution of pain.

With the initial and end fields defined it became much convenient to control the intermediate variables. Meditative techniques of the various religions were analyzed for ascertaining the therapeutic qualities they provided and adopted as inputs for the resolution of these mental ailments. In view of the above these were classified into

• Concentration Meditation – basically focusing to control the mind by eliminating the negative thoughts and concentrating on personal wellness. Techniques include i) Zen Meditation ii) Transcendental Meditation iii) Om Meditation iv) Shrine Meditation v) Chakra Meditation.

• Reflective Meditation – It is basically an introspective meditation which concentrates on the various aspects of oneself by initiating queries such as i) Who ii) What iii) How iv)