Radhanath Swami – Why meditation can change the world

Meditation can give us better sleep, reduce our stress, make us more peaceful, help us to deal with the conflicts of the life with a more focused mind. But that’s not the true gift of meditation. Meditation is meant to awaken the true potential within all of us. To understand who we are, what is my relationship with all living beings and what is my relationship with nature. The mind is compared to a mirror. When you look in a mirror, you expect to see yourself. But when that mirror is covered with years and years of dust, pollution, you don’t see yourself. All you see is all that pollution, all that dust and you think that’s me. Meditation is meant to clean the mirror of the mind so that you can actually see yourself as you are, and to the degree you see yourself as who you are, you could see the whole world for what it is. And you could see all living things for who they truly are. When we clean our hearts from the dust of arrogance and greed and selfish passions and envy and illusions, then the soul shines into our mind and through us into the world. If you have a million dollars, it solves all the $1, $2, $5, $10, $100 problems; they are all included. A meditation can give us better sleep reduce our stress make us more peaceful help us to deal with the conflicts of life with the more focused mind but that’s not the true gift of meditation. Meditation is meant to awaken the true potential within all of us to understand who we are what is my relationship with all living things and what is my relationship with nature the mind is compared to a mirror when you look in a mirror you expect to see yourself but when that mirror is covered with years and years of dust pollution you don’t see yourself all you see is all that pollution all that dust and you think that’s me meditation is meant to clean the mirror of the mind so that you can actually see yourself as you are and asked to the degree you see yourself as who you are you could see the whole and you could see all living things for who they truly are when we clean our hearts from the dust of arrogance and greed and selfish bastards envy and illusions the salt shines into our mind and threw us into the world if you have a million dollars it solves all the $1 $2 $5 $10 hundred-dollar problems they are all included so similarly when enlightenment of the true nature of the soul the love of the soul is awakened through meditation then the problems with stress and the problems with lack of clear thinking and love problems of sleep and all of these things are automatically saved the goal of meditation is to awaken the highest in every human which is being way. So similarly, when enlightenment of the true nature of the soul, the love of the soul is awakened through meditation, then the problems with stress and the problems with lack of clear thinking, and the problems with sleep and all of these things are automatically solved. The goal of meditation is to awaken the highest potential in every human life, which is the awakening of divine live.