Sharad Bansal — engine-turned seal SB

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Sharad Bansal
On Meditation

Aum

The universe is not made of things. It is made of things vibrating.

Matter, light, sound, thought — take any of them far enough down and what is left is not a substance but a frequency. Nothing in creation stands still. Everything that exists is something moving, and what we call a form is only a rate of movement slow enough for us to name.

The rishis said the whole of it was structured out of a single sound. Om. Not a word about the universe — the vibration the universe is assembled from.

Consider what that claim required of them. They had no instrument. No spectrometer, no interferometer, nothing that could register a wave. They could not have reasoned their way to it, because there was nothing available to reason from.

Which leaves one explanation. They did not deduce it. They heard it. Someone sat still long enough that the universe disclosed what it was made of — and he came back with one syllable.

Now consider the depth of stillness that takes. Not an hour of quiet. Not a technique. A silence so complete that the noise of a whole person falls away and only the thing itself is left sounding.

That is the standard. Everything else called meditation is practice for it.

Sharad Bansal
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Sharad Bansal is an advocate of the Delhi High Court and a partner at Bansal & Bansal Advocates LLP, practising in criminal defence and commercial litigation. The chamber, its subjects, and the case-note reading it publishes are set out separately.

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