the necessity for meditation:

even a buffalo will reach its home without asking

anybody else  if  it  is  left  ten  kilometers  away  from  its  home.

even  birds  are  traveling  thousands  of  kilometers

and  reach their nests every season.

but man cannot come home without asking anybody else

if he is put  away from his home in an unknown place.

Even during the tsunami 2004 in Thailand you can see in

u tube

that people are standing in the shore looking at the sea which is

coming at an up normal hight without running away and escape

from the waves even ten seconds before the death.

But animals and birds have escaped from the sight even two hours

before the incident.

why?

the intuition and the subconscious mind is covered by the

mind  which is highly developed by uncontrollable thinking

permanently.    the mind is perpetuate. (it will be existing by itself

permanently)

an indian is thinking in indian languages and an englishman in english

and an italian in italy and so on.    since the languages are easily

available to the brain it is thinking permanently without stopping

even if he wishes to stop it.

eventhough the languages are the reason for the development

of the human race in all fields since the thinking is the base of all

developments but he lost his intuitive powers since the mind is

covering the inner mind (the subconscious mind) as he cannot

stop his mind when he wishes.   it becomes a curse.

now the man has lost his identity, his individuality in the midst of thoughts.

he lost himself. he lost his intuitive powers. 

now the mind is like a car in an open place without any restrictions

as it can go zig zag anywhere else.

chanting any words repeatedly ( any words in any religion in any method)

will make the mind a little controlled.    it  is  the  prayer.

it  is  now  like  a  train  which  is  going  in  fixed rails which cannot go

here and there which is controlled by the track.

above this level comes the meditation.

in this you are not thinking anything.   you are not doing anything.

you are simply sits.  you are zero.   it is like the car or train stopped

permanently.  it is not moving.  it is not going anywhere else.

    nirviruthi  thyan....pathanjali yoga sutra ...1.1

   no mind is meditation....  .osho.

it is the brahmam of hinduism.   it is the zero of budhdha.  it is the zen of zenism.

it is the supersoul of christianity.  it is the sufi of islam. and so on.

whatever may be the name the result is one.

anywhere in the world, anywhere in the religion, whatever may be the

approach,  whatever may be the method  you are reaching only one stage.

                            you are in total zero.

after all human beings are having only one system of brain  and they

will reach only one stage.   get only one result.

       meditate.    be zero.  be happy.   be in bliss.