A drink can make you feel intoxicated but that is bliss due to forgetfulness...it is distraction, it is a trick to silent the mind temporarily. Once you are out of intoxication, you are what you were before...NO CHANGE! Meditation is also intoxication but on the contrary NOT due to forgetfulness but in awareness.
In meditation, you are in a state of bliss knowing your inner being and knowing who you are. You are not running away from yourself, your mind, your thoughts etc. You are fully aware of your being and that is the bliss. You are aware and grateful to the existence for what you have got. You are there and happy without anything, without any reason. You graduate from being a beggar to a king who has abundance!
Till several years I never realized what meditation is; I only knew the meaning but never the experience, never the correct way until I visited Osho ashram at Pune. I had so much trust in Osho that I blindly followed the meditation instructions without questioning what, why, purpose etc. After the experience I had, there was no need left to question. Actually the experience that i had was beyond the mind's grasp but the techniques used are very scientific. It had to shut up.
Those 2 days were pure intoxication, so blissful. No liquor needed, no rewards achieved, neither climbed the Himalaya nor became the wisest man on earth, but just experienced the glimpse of my inner being and in a way the whole of existence through meditation.
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