A few weeks ago, Gautum Baiji spoke about how we won't get the realization benefits in meditation if we don't commit to the practice in the first place:
"We all know God is within us, but when a problem comes, we never go inward.
Where do we go? We try to get help from outside.
Meditation is there, but where is the trust? If trust is not there, meditation is not going to help you.
So what do we have to do? How can we get that trust? We can't buy it from a store.
Sometimes we do meditation, but if we are not 'realizing' then we cannot get that kind of trust.
We sit around for 15 or 20 minutes and think, 'You told me you can see this or that, and I don't know why I can't realize these things when I meditate.'
We say, 'God is light,' 'God, you are within me...' but as long as we don't know, we won't achieve what we're looking for.
We have to know first.
So how can we know?
We already know about deep breathing, but sometimes when we sit, we have to check where our mind is. We are sitting for meditation, but is our mind there or not? The mind is thinking something else.
Someone was telling me, 'You know, in the early morning, we cannot do meditation.' Why? 'Because when we get up, our minds go immediately to our job. We have to take showers, we have to make breakfast, we have to do this, we have to do that...' The list is there. And you skip meditation.
Did you ever skip anything else? Do you ever skip breakfast? No, you always have breakfast. Did you ever skip your shower? No, because if you go without showering, other people will not sit around you. So you are very careful.
So if you make time for everything else, why not for meditation? For breakfast, for shower, you get up one hour earlier, right? So we can get up 15 minutes (or more) early for meditation.
(Once we cultivate that, we have a place to go when problems happen in our lives.)
If you think this is a very important practice, then you make it a rule. And if you are making a rule, you will carry it forward in your life."
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