Reading or Meditating?

We all read something for those who run away from reading books, can't run away from BOSS's mail. :-) 


People read Mythological books, Novels, Fashion magazines , news papers , regular magazines, comic books, or anything else for that matter. So, the question arises here is why every person who reads the same material catches the different sense from it or like different things to read ??

Well, There is a fair reason to accept that it may depends on one's intellectual level, but what about the fact that same person reading the stuff more than once finds it different all the time?

For a logical answer we may say that It all depends on your current situation, you current state of mind, and even your current life phase. And, to support the fact we may add the reason, comics are often recommended by physiatrist when one is going through stress.

Now, here is an interesting fact that you may compare reading with meditation , which may give all the valid reasons and explanation regarding books, and all related topic to reading.

Starting from the questions which are Why many kids, or students doesn't like studying? Or why some students like one particular subject to read and excels it or why one grown up likes single type of books? Or even why hard work, focus gives you the better marks in exams?

The answer the crystal clear that reading/studying is a type of meditation.

They say books are you best friends, well i would say not even that but also they speaks, they create an aura around you, every word you read , you walk-in the internal layers of it, you can feel and enjoy it. One may enter to a whole new world, may experience total different things. As they say when you meditate , experience differs from person to person, same way happens to the reading, when you read , sense/meaning comes different to every body.

Now as many of us doesn't know the meditation and power of meditation same way, many doesn't know the reading, power of studying, and methods of studying. Ignorance of the real purpose is the main reason of the lack of interest in studying, how ever society have implied many alternative but valid reason with it like, schooling and qualifying for earnings means etc etc, which are failing .

Like meditation should be done under master supervision, same way teachers are appointed , a excel master can tell you the way how you should proceed and in which direction one should proceed, same way a teacher can guide how to read and what to read.

In the same way, how deep you can focus in meditation, decides peace of mind, in studying it decided your dept of knowledge.

Since the point you start getting peace of mind you try more harder in mediation to achieve moksha, in studying you starts achieving excellence in the subject.

Like there are no limited answers to the meditation and its impact, there are no limit of knowledge and one may find whole other aspect and dept.