Yuva Shivir: Learning to Meditate & Spirituality in Workplace

The video starts with a thirty-minute meditation session. Mediation has nothing to do with religion; anyone can do it. It is a necessary food for the Soul/Atman. Meditation cleanses and purifies oneself, endows him with virtue, righteousness, intellect, good memory, peace, and divinity. The best time for meditation is the hour before sunrise. During this time, divine waves/ consciousness fill the atmosphere; the energy of the Sun God (also known as Savita) is preparing to fill the earth for a new day’s activity. The Sadhak should face east (direction of rising sun/Savita) sitting in a cross-legged posture with erect spine. During meditation, one should always try to impose positive energy in him. Since the mind has a tendency to loiter in lowly desires and negative thoughts, we should pull it from such thoughts and direct it towards positive thoughts. Think that you are seated in the banks of Mother Ganga under the shade of the Himalayas. In doing so, we can think of the God Savita and imagine that we are bathing in his divine golden rays. Imagine that those rays are cleansing your sins, washing your desires, and making you divine. Surrender yourself to Lord Savita, and merge within him. Imagine that, like a mother nurtures her child, Savita is caressing you in her lap and awaking your divine energy centers (chakras/kundalini) along the spin. Imagine that the lotus in your Mooldhara chakra is blooming and the energy is rising along the spine towards the upper chakras, and enlightening each one of them. Imagine that your entire body is emanating light, and that you have no more desires, greed, hatred, and have become totally pure. Imagine that just like a coal becomes a fire itself after offering to the fire, you have become like Savita himself after surrendering/merging into him. With a regular practice, meditation will slowly and gradually lead an individual towards Godhood and divinity.
Spirituality is not limited to just meditating in a small room, doing Japa and meditation. Spirituality is a big topic and seeks its application in every field and in every activities: how we talk, how we walk, how we dress up, how we think, how we treat others, what we do, what we see, what we hear, what we indulge ourselves in, and much more. We can become spiritual not just in our meditation room but also in our workplace. Today, there is lack of spirituality in the workplace. Government offices and educational institutions are the worst hit. Becoming spiritual in workplace involves doing your job sincerely. The CEO’s should treat the workers under him like his family members, and promote plans and policies that will focus towards the benefit of the common people. Being spiritual at workplace involves coming to work on time, working with full faith of service to the people, not taking bribes from people, serving them extra hours if needed out of a sense of responsibility without asking for benefits. Teachers should not be thinking of tuition, but rather should teach honestly. Lawyers should be motivated about providing justice to the victim, and not about turning black to white and vice versa. All crises that have existed in today’s society is because of people’s short- sightedness (i.e. people want to acquire more and more at any cost), wrong perception about the meaning of their being, and their readiness to abandon morals for pity selfish gains. Today, we see crisis everywhere: environmental crisis, family crises, economic crises, Health crisis (life style disorders, terminal illness, alcohol/tobacco and drug problems), crisis of faith on God, etc. The video underscores being spiritual in all dimensions of our life is the only solution.

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