Remembering the Most Sublime (pāramahaṃsapari paricintana)

Apart from concepts and projected desires, apart from visualizations and wishes, there are experiences which are sublime. These occur during meditation and may sporadically happen at other times. These may be for a split second or less. These may be for a duration of seconds, minutes but rarely for longer.

In most meditations the memories which emerge relate to the social and the mundane and not to the sublime. For that matter blank void meditations which are appraised highly by some sects and teachers have little or no sensations to be remembered by. Hence their recall at other times is minimal.

The mind by its very nature drums up memories of the social and mundane experiences during attempts at meditation. Bland void states are frequently interrupted by memories of trivia. Who would admit that this happens? Who experienced that in meditation the majority of the time, there are attempts to reach bland void states only because the mind insist on invoking, processing and reconstructing memories.

First one must have sublime experiences during yoga practice, then we can talk about remembering the same during meditation. Why remember the sublime? Why not aim for blank voidness instead?

Remembering the sublime elevates the mind and gets it to change its behavior which is to acquire and process the low social and very mundane experiences. Remembering the sublime, orients the mind to find higher locales hereafter, rather than to return to the mundane social, which is its current behavior in astral projections and dream states, even in thinking while using the physical body.