Ramakrishnananda - Raja Yoga Meditation by Prabhuji
What is Vishwa Dharma? Universal Dharma In the Bhagavad gita Lord Krishna says in the eighteen chapter Shloka sixty six sarva-dharm?n parityajya m?m eka? ?ara?a? vraja aha? tv?? sarva-p?pebhyo mok?ayi?y?mi m? ?uca? Krishna says Abandon all kind of different dharmas and surrender to Me means Abandon any dharma and stay with one dharma and that dharma is surrender and if we go to deep into it, you will realize that every yoga every spiritual way or religious way or religion the culmination of any spiritual way is surrender For example in bhakti you in bhakti is Ishwara Pranidhana a real surrender to the will of God you give up your will you give up your ego What is an ego? a will. your personal will separate from everything, everybody disconnect your own will you give up you surrender You give up to God that is the culmination of bhakti But not only that, even you know the culmination of the jnana is the surrender you give up what you think that you are in order to realize what you really are, your real nature Even in dhyan, raja yoga, when you medidate when you have expectations to fulfil some will some imagination your expectations about meditation Meditations happens only at the moment that you renounce to all your expectations about what should happen about what will happen only the moment that you surrender and you realize that whatever happens in meditation is the right thing the best thing that can happen, whatever happens is the best meditation For example, when your car is totally under your control is your car sometimes you travel at a very high speed and sometimes the car wait for you outside the door but for the car is perfectly okay because it serves you and if you decide to use it or not. that is not the point, in the same way when you meditate and if existence takes you to this incredible experiences of bliss or sometimes peace or sometimes there are other experiences, whatever happens is not the point no expectations only awareness, watchfulness nothing else so the surrender is the culmination of meditation too and we talk about difference these different approaches It is interesting to see that bhakti and jnana they meet in Krishna, they meet in the Divine, they meet in the Self. Meditation, bhakti, jnana at the end, every spiritual way searches for or is directed to your real nature what we really are, the Self God, Brahman. And what we really are is consciousness or Sat Chid Ananda. existence, wisdom and absolute bliss, infinite, eternal, absolute, the only differences is that bhakti approaches the Absolute through the door of Ananda or bliss and jnana approaches thought the floor of existence in order to be the Self, but at the moment that you become near to the Absolute no matter which door you utilize at the end the Absolute is one is the one, is Brahman. so, all the ways meet in the pick of the mountain