How to make your meditative state permanent? What is the ultimate objective of meditation? Epi- 1/5

What is the ultimate objective of meditation? Is it possible to stop meditating and still be in the same state of bliss and happiness? The video talks about the ultimate objective of meditation. The way we exercise to lose weight, the same way we meditate for our mind to be happy. The way once we lose weight we can stop meditating, the same way once we reach a certain state we can stop meditating.

Life is like a river full of crocodiles, we have to get used to the crocodiles splashing but to still know that we are safe in the boat. The crocodiles in life are our future and past thoughts. The primary objective of meditation is to ensure that no thoughts come in during meditation. It might take us some thousand sessions of starting again till no thought comes to our mind.

The secondary objective of meditation is to let the thoughts come but not affect us. In the crocodile analogy, this means we can remove the blindfold now and feel that they cant affect us. Let us compare it to a flat tyre corollary. We have to fix the puncture if our tyre is punctured. If we keep filling the air and driving, it would only be temporary. The same way we have to change our mindset and accept the thoughts coming in without affecting us, otherwise meditation would just be like filling air in a punctured tyre.

Therefore, the ultimate objective of meditation is to stop meditating and still be happy and in the same meditative state.