Yes, it is meditative. It is meditative. It is not meditation. Because like sometimes you know people say my music is my meditation, my work is my meditation. But you see everything has in, everything has a purpose. Everything has a purpose also, music has a purpose. And reading is my meditation. It has a purpose. It is very, it makes you meditative. But it also gives you knowledge. What is the purpose for sitting and reading, for meditation? No, you went for reading, you went to listen to music, because you want to listen to music, it gives you a meditative state. That is agreed. But you have, you have, an intention that through this I’ll gain this. So music will give you something. In addition, it is putting you in a meditative state. For some people, they’re very passionate about cooking. They say my cooking is my meditation. Fine, it gives you a meditative state. Meditation has a purpose. That purpose is to silence your mind. There are so many things there, those things don’t come. It’s not that it doesn’t come, maybe it will come only by music or a period of 100 years or lifetimes or whatever. But when you do meditation it will happen in one year. So what is your intention? You want to, I want to make my mind peaceful and this thing, then you should go for this practice. For something else also as a byproduct also will give me. Then you decide okay, I’m happy with by product. I’m doing two things. It will take more time.

Energy differences are there everywhere and our ability to absorb also varies. Sometimes we are more focused, sometimes we are not that receptive. So it depends on how we receive and depends on what kind of environment we are sitting in. Now tomorrow if you go and meditate at the same place, it may not be light. It can be different.
Every meditation is different.

This is something you have to work on yourself. Read about spiritual science. We never do anything unless we feel there is benefit in us. Do we do anything in which there is no benefit? We do anything only because we feel it is benefitting us. You do thrice a week because you do not believe it will really benefiting. You believe but not enough. Belief is 50%. But you come for these programmes, you attended meditation sessions, that means there is an inner belief somewhere, you know. The only way you can convert that into seven out of seven, is understanding the subject more, so, read about this subject. Don’t start reading a very deep spiritual book because then it becomes a study, it becomes a task. Read stories, spiritual stories, people or Gurus who interest you like Osho or Sadhguru, any Guru who has written something. They would have written about so many different things and maybe you could read spiritual stories as recited by Gurus or Gods. Then there will be an interest, knowing that there was this man who did something, who got enlightened, you know. We never know what spurs you, what acts a catalyst for you to really get into the subject. We don’t know. You have to trick your mind, you have to give your mind lot of different subjects, different things and second one would be to be in a satsang on a regular basis. Weekly you should go to a place where there is meditation is happening or any spiritual activity happening. So, when you get to meet people who are at the same page, unknowingly it will push us more and more deeper into it. If you are not in touch with any people who are into spirituality, if you don’t read any book, anything connected to spirituality, then you have to be a very strong willed person to get into meditation on a daily basis, one hour per day, everyday. You have to give yourself certain things around yourself. So, satsang, group meditations or meeting people of the same kind, reading a book is important.

Basically when we look at people, we see physical body but more than physical body there are energy bodies which cover us. We, the souls are covered by energy bodies and the physical body. The energy body has something called chakras. We have seven major chakras and minor chakras so we have something called third eye here, the ‘ajna chakra’ . So, when you start meditating, at some level it will get activated. That is when people start seeing colours.

You’ll get used to it. Basically when energy comes, it moves from the lowest chakras upwards. When it reaches the third eye chakra, you’ll start feeling a throbbing sensation here. It basically tells you that you have become sensitive to energy. It tells you that chakra is getting activated and over a period of time, it will go. Not that you’ll always be uncomfortable, you will stop noticing it. It’s a passing phase.