“Generally people start meditating and do fairly well in the beginning for their great desire to unfold spiritually propels them within themselves. But when the subconscious mind begins to upheave its layers – as it naturally must for the unfoldment process to continue beYond an elementary stage – meditators become afraid to look at the subconscious patterns of their seemingly not so perfect past. To avoid facing themselves, they stop meditating and the subconscious subsides….For many years thereafter the one time meditator can be heard to say ‘I’d like to meditate, and I do sometimes, but I don’t have time really to meditate.’ What he is actually saying is ‘Most of my time is used up distracting myself so that I won’t have to meditate anymore and won’t have to face my bothersome subconscious. On the path to enlightenment, you have to face everything that has gone into the subsconscious, not only in this life, but what has been registered in past lives.”
- Swami Sivaya Subramuniya
- Swami Sivaya Subramuniya
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