How to do this? How to create a field where these forces would work? When you sit in meditation today or tomorrow, just remember one thing: that you are meditating upon God because you have not realized God so far. This is a very clear and simple point. But on the contrary, when you sit to meditate, ego thinks, “I’m meditating today. What a good person I am! What a qualified person I am!” As a matter of fact, what is the truth behind it? “I have not realized God or attained Enlightenment; therefore, I am meditating today.” Here lies our self-exposed foolishness. This should give you freshness to meditate today more sincerely.
      The second question is: why, after you have been meditating for five, ten, twenty or even thirty years and have tried many techniques, have you not become Enlightened? The answer is: because you have not been meditating. The third question arises: then what have you actually been doing? You might say I am playing with words but the corollary would be that if you had been meditating, you would be Realized. That means if meditation is not a farce and you have not realized, therefore you have not been meditating! There could be no simpler logic. So what have you been doing? Thinking!
 

      You have been practicing in a rut with the same thoughts revolving over and over in your mind. This is why I am trying to pull you out. I do not mean you should not practice, but how you should practice. Do not make it a habit, please. Practice with a fresh attitude. Meditate upon your chosen object of meditation, not on your son or your daughter, your spouse, your money, your position, your ego trips, your possessions, your proprietorships or any kind of aggrandizement or gratification. Not that any of these is a rut; your attitude is the rut. Money is not a rut; possessiveness is a rut. Position mongering is a rut; being attached is a rut.

A FRESH ATTITUDE MEANS TO MEDITATE upon whatever you are meditating upon. Work while you work; play while you play; meditate while you meditate. But if while meditating you are thinking, you are not meditating. Just as, if you do not study while you study, you are going to fail the exam; if you do not play while you play, you will not be chosen for the championship tournament. Now your objection or helplessness may be, “I would like to do that but I’m not able to.” In the meantime ten years pass by and you do not do it. Because in those ten years if you had truly meditated for even one minute your life would have changed! This is not hyperbole. One minute of real meditation will change your whole outlook. You will be transformed.