Thursday, January 1, 2015

Self-Realization lies in Direct Personal Experience


No amount of education or reasoning can lead one to the direct experience of the inner Self as the immortal nucleus of individual manifestation in the form of multifarious energy waves. In the realm of mysticism and spirituality, logic finds itself totally helpless, since it can confidently deal with only tangible experiences of the material world. Extrasensory and Para-psychological experiences are beyond the range of logic. By reasoning one cannot prove that the person who is being respectfully addressed as gather is actually father of the concerned person.
Hence, for experiencing the transcendental Supreme source of ourselves as well as the universe we will have to discard the logical approach and take recourse to the traditionally established and tested practice of Dharana (concentration), Dhyan (Meditation), and Samadhi (Trance), successively. Therefore, in order that uncertainties of pros and cons of the disciplines being proposed here do not unnecessarily engage the mind and interfere with the objective of experiencing the soul (Atma), let us silence the logical reasoning in these discussions. Test assured, it is not the purpose of the author to confuse thee reader with some rigmarole abstractions or suggest some process of inner growth, which could prove harmful in any way. On the basis of his own personal experience, the author (Pandit Sri Ram Sharma Acharya) is fully convinced about the efficacy of the path elaborated here. I assure all those who have faith in my words that the path being shown is right and Self-Experienced.
Come forward! Follow in my footsteps. You will not be hastened but slowly led to the destination. Practice the exercises given here and through meditation and contemplation explore the hidden domain of your mind. Conceptualize yourself being a central star shining like sun, around which your world is revolving. Repeat this exercise again and again till the impression becomes so deep that whenever you pronounce "I", there is a flash in your mind of a comprehensive image comprising your consciousness, personal thoughts (Vichar), strength and talents, along with your body. With this identification of self, whenever you look around towards your personal world, everything in it should appear revolving around this central star of your soul.
(Note: The relationship of an individual and the beings in his personal world are compared to the Sun and its planets, the former acting as the source of energy to the planets in its system, which are, themselves also rotating around their own axes. All dynamics inherent in the personal world (cf. the planetary system of Sun) of a strength and talents (cf. the solar energy) of that individual. The beings in the personal world follow their independent repetitive daily routines of activities.. (cf. rotation of planets around their independent axes.) To hasten the process sof Awakened Awareness of the Soul (ATMA-SWAROOP DARSHAN), here is another method. In the solemnly and respectfully, as though you were calling someone of eminence. With this practice you will find someone of eminence. With this practice you will find your mind getting concentrated on the real form of self. This was the method used by Lord Tennyson for activating the potentiality of his Soul. He writes that through this Soul and, in due course, also became conscious about the irrefutable existence and indestructibility of the soul and found the basic source of consciousness in it.
While trying to conceive the reality of the soul, some seekers tends to confuse the higher Inner-S elf ("I") with the false narrow self (I, as commonly related to body) and thus become distracted from the reality of the soul. It is necessary to overcome this obstacle. Otherwise such false identification of self with the material body would, at the most, provide petty material benefits of a very low order by developing confidence in the narrow self (body). Identification with the real Inner-Self requires total freedom from body-consciousness.


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