Science Of Spirituality[SOS] And Sawan Kripal Ruhani Mission’s Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj said That Success is not a gift one is born with. Success lies in determination .So If we wish to attain our goal in the spiritual field, we must never give up. Maharaj Ji ,With Many Examples, Said”We look at successful people and marvel at their talents. We watch all-star basketballs players win championship titles and talk about how gifted they are. People see great golfers win one tournament after another and think they were born with a special gift. We notice how artists turn out one masterpiece after another and wish we were born with such luck. When billionaires top the “richest person in the world” list we wonder at their gift at business. Little do we realize that anyone who has attained anything in life has put in a tremendous amount of effort to get where he or she is. Success is not a gift one is born with. Success lies in determination.
Few people see that the basketball player who wins all the championships is practicing on the court many hours daily, day after day, while others have to be forced by the coach just to show up on time for practice. Few see how a championship golfer practices hitting thousands of balls and does tedious drills day after day, year after year, to get to where he or she is. Few see how many hours the artist puts in to perfect his or her art. Few see how many business losses and failed attempts to make money a billionaire may go through before he or she is successful. Anyone who has achieved anything in life has done so by being persistent and never giving up.
If we wish to attain our goal in the spiritual field, we must never give up. We have a long way to go from where we are now to attain divine knowledge. Although spiritual gifts are within us, closer to us than the veins in our body, we have to perfect the technique of finding them. Spiritual realization is so close yet so far due to our inability to still our mind, quiet our thoughts, and stay focused long enough to go within. We are hindered by millions of distractions that keep pulling our attention outside instead of letting us go within.
Meditation provides a way to perfect our ability to stay focused so we can find the inner treasures. Through meditation, we perfect our ability to increase our concentration. We learn patience and perseverance. These two qualities help us progress spiritually within and will also help us achieve success in the outer world. It takes practice. We will not achieve our goal if we give up. We must never give up.In Science of Spirituality, we practice shabd meditation, or meditation on the inner Light and Sound. We also teach an introductory technique called jyoti meditation. As you meditate, you can experience inner peace and bliss. As you do this, you will daily increase your ability to stay focused. By practicing this each day, you will find an increase in your patience and perseverance, which will become a habit even in your endeavors in the world. You will find greater ability to persevere in any worldly or spiritual goal you have until you succeed.
Each day, we can be one day closer to achieving our goal. We should not let any failure cause us to give up. If we do not succeed in meditation one day, we should not quit and stop meditating altogether. We should sit again the following time. If we do not succeed, we should sit again. Day by day, we will find that we will begin to improve, until finally we will achieve success.
In meditation, improvement is measured by the ability to keep our body and mind stilled and to keep our gaze focused in the field of darkness or light lying in front of us. We must continue to keep our attention focused without any distractions. Keep trying again and again. We should never give up. Then we will find that one day our goal will be achieved.