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Originally Posted by iamthat
Thanks to Miss Hepburn and the references to the "unstruck strings" of Kabir.
Guru Nanak also wrote on this, or the Name of God as Lumpino says:
“The Lord placed the soul in the body’s cave,
And the breath held the Music of Life.
He made each body with nine gates,
With the Tenth Gate remaining well hid.
And the Tenth Door was opened to him
Who truly loved the Guru’s wisdom.
And there lives the Lord in His myriad forms,
as well as the nine treasures of the Name.
His limit cannot be found.
“Says Nanak, the Lord placed the soul in the
body’s cave and the breath held the Music of Life.
“Listen to this Song of Bliss, you blessed ones,
And all your heart’s longings shall be fulfilled.
You will reach the Transcendent Lord, and
your sorrows will depart.
All afflictions and sorrows are destroyed
at the Sound of the True Word,
And my friends, the saints were in ecstasy when
the perfect Guru revealed it.
Those who speak and those who listen are pure,
And they see the All-pervading Lord everywhere.
Nanak prays: Attaching to the feet of the Guru,
The mind is filled with the divine Music of the Spheres.”
Peace
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That is so beautiful!
When one is meditating, they seek to transcend the mind and thoughts of the mundane through various methods just to 'stop thinking' as it were.
One way to 'stop thinking' is by
feeling or, as my guru once said; "to drop the mind into the heart".
This helps if you have strong feelings towards a Divine Being to begin with and so it becomes much easier.
As I was reading this thread, I had the feeling that my heart was being 'stabbed' and tears started welling up, but I had to put all that aside just to type this, so I didn't go into spontaneous meditation on the spot.
If one has that bhakti...those feelings of love, then indulging in these emotions cause them to intensify, which causes even further indulgence, which causes further intensification and on..and on this will go, until the heart and mind just explodes with bliss and one becomes lost...totally...lost. This is the aim and goal of meditation.