Pt. Vijay Shankar Mehta - Hamare Hanuman

When feelings arise in rituals, it becomes worship (Pooja). And
when commitment enters worship it give rise to devotion (Bhakti).
But if devotion is not combined with Yoga then it will only be a
ritual.
There fore many people involved in devotion from years are
still agitated, disturbed, unsatisfied . How so ever we listen sacred
stories, go to pilgrims, temples, make preceptors, live with saints but
all in vein, its worthless without yoga.
Devotion is just like running water, we have to stop it by
making dam of yoga. There is an important process of yoga, namely
meditation.
To understand it, we enter where swayamprabha a meditator
meets the monkey crew, In this meeting Swayamprabha conveys a
very important message on meditation to monkeys.
The mantra which Swayamprabha gave to monkeys to achieve
bhaktidevi (Sita ) was –
Mudahu………………………………………………………...teera.
You people, close your eyes and leave this cave. You will find
Sita, don’t be hopeless. When they opened their eyes after closing,
they found themselves on the sea-shore.
The important message was-‘to close eyes’. Meditation starts
from here and it become the keyword of ‘manas’.
Eyes are the symbol of man’s valour and reasoning. Closing of
eyes means to admit our inability and be devoted to God.
SwayamPrabha indicated this only, and monkeys adopted the same.
When they opened their eyes found themselves on seashore from
where Hanumanji flew for lanka.
In today’s fast life, where our aims are too high, meditation will
help us a lot and we will reach the sea-shore means our destination
(goal).
Meditation is important is the path of devotion as well is
materialism. The days you miss meditation there is one more form of
it,- JUST SMILE.