After finishing lunch, Daaji returned upstairs to finish some work, before getting ready to greet over 250 new seekers for a special outreach event, with a meditation and Q&A. They were invited to visit the center, to enjoy together tea or coffee, and were presented with the Heartfulness approach and practice. A Heartfulness trainer guided the relaxation in Danish after which Daaji conducted the evening meditation. Afterwards, He addressed the audience and interacted with Raja Bjarne from Transcendental Meditation Denmark.
Daaji said, “Good evening to all of you. I do greatly appreciate and admire people craving to rise in spirituality. What better place than these woods in Denmark, the finest place I think I have seen, where nature is unspoiled? Let us all pray that it remains like that. It is our duty to protect nature and hopefully, we can take this initiative all through the globe. That’s not the purpose of talking, though. I’m here to welcome you all and make you experience what these practices are all about. I’m also very grateful to the Rajaji of Denmark, here is a leader here in Denmark representing the Transcendental Meditation of the great Maharishi. So I welcome Raja Bjarne. We’ll have some interactions and if any of you have any questions related to such contemplative meditation practices, I will try my best to answer.”
Speaking on Meditation, Daaji said meditation is loosely understood in the Western world. Not just in the Western world, but even in India, people think that meditation is all about focusing your mind, and coming to one point of stillness. And when you try and understand its true original language, Sanskrit, means dhyana and if you split this word, dhyan, it means “dhy” and “yan”. “Dhy” means “the ultimate wisdom”, “Yan” means, “the vehicle”. The vehicle through which you arrive at the ultimate wisdom is dhyan. You transcend the mind itself. So, what is the point of having a focused mind? You’re transcending the very function of the focusing mind, which is thinking. So, dhyana is not about thinking intellectualizing or even contemplating. It’s all about transcendence. Is it once? No, it’s a continuous transcendence.”
For the question “What’s more important: having the right attitude or consistency?” Daaji responded saying, “Both. There’s the aspect of practice, there’s the aspect of consistent practice, there’s the aspect of practicing with the right attitude.”
