Z Meditator's Life
Having understood the reality and given up the illusions, one needs to practice regularly and sincerely. Otherwise there is the possibility of forgetting and going back to the previous habit patterns.
When you start living these concepts in your real life, how do you behave? How do you think and how do you eat? How do you sit and how do you walk? There are a few couplets of the Bhagwad Gita that are clear pointers about the way a sincere aspirant would live. For one who is established, this is a natural way of life and for one who is a seeker, these are the practices to be followed:
- Freedom from all dependence and desires.
- Peace more important than anything else.
- Equanimity in painful situations.
- Equanimity in pleasurable situations.
- Freedom from expectations.
- Freedom from the notion of possession.
- Freedom from fear and anger.
- Freedom from lust and attachment.
- Indifference to the worldly opinions.
- Sense organs totally indrawn.
- Freedom from status consciousness.
- Freedom from seeking company.
- Lack of aversion to worldly people.
- Lack of attraction for worldly people.
- Contentment from all possible causes of general restlessness.
- Loving one’s dharma and allowing people to follow their dharma.
- Understanding that people can be different and therefore giving them space for growing.
- Unconditioned kindness and understanding for one and all.
- Firmness of understanding and indifference to the general contrary opinions.
- Regular meditation.
- Shining awareness in all one’s undertakings.
- Cessation of desire to share the truth with people.
- Readiness to go out of the way to help the sincere aspirants.
- Non violence in thought, word and deed.
- Constant remembrance of the reality and living it in thought word and deed.
- Respect for all the paths and teachers.
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