Meditation is the technique we use to keep the focus

*Chapter 1 - Intense Love*

Waves of emotion by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

Our consciousness expands when it is happy or in love. When we feel unhappy or sad, the consciousness contracts. 

Shrinking of the mind is unhappiness. Expansion of the mind is happiness. When the mind expands we often lose awareness. 

This is because we have only known expansion of the mind in sleep and in sleep the mind is expanded and relaxed. 

When we are happy, we are all over the place, not focused and not centred. We lose the quality of awareness, right? 

When we are unhappy we are very focused and keen, but we are shrunk. Meditation is the technique we use to keep the focus.

It is the fourth state of consciousness, the turya or Shiva. As we practice more and more, we start imbibing that consciousness into our nervous system. 

Different molecules in the brain are functioning all the time. There are zillions of molecules and only a few function at a time. 

Others take over when these few stop. This cycle goes on, so we meditate everyday, because we want all our neurons and cells to be educated and trained - to live in that awareness. 

We call a city totally literate when each and every person in the city knows to read and write. Just like that, in the city of your body.

Some people get to learn today, some people get to learn tomorrow and others the next day. 

So, everyday there are different people or different molecules going up front. And every time you meditate, you culture them. 

It takes some time to culture all the neurons in the brain. Once they are cultured, you live in bliss.