For A Balanced State Of Mind
What kind of lifestyle would facilitate achieving liberation? Should one progressively withdraw from the external world and its inconsequential activities and live in isolation? Or contemplate the Divine while being engaged in worldly affairs? Some sages advocate the path of rigorous asceticism, while others believe that one can gain enlightenment evens householder. A spiritual aspirant is constantly debating-which out of the wo is the better option? The Mahabharata says, a sage named Jamal stood motionless for many months while practising extreme asceticism and some birds built their nest and laid eggs in his hair. Overcome by the thought that f he moved, the birds might suffer and Bye, Jamal remained in that position without food and water till the time the birds grew up and flew away Jamal rejoiced that by doing so he had reached the pinnacle of asceticism, compassion and spiritual growth. Just then a heavenly voice told him that a merchant named Tuladhara was more advanced in spirituality than him and he must visit Tuladhara. When Jamal met Tuladhara he observed that as Tuladhara went about his business of selling goods, different kinds of people came to the shop. Some customers were good, others were bad; some expressed gratitude while others ridiculed the merchant. But Tuladhara remained in perpetual equanimity; he was neither exulted by the love nor distressed by the hatred and went about doing his work honestly. While balancing the scales in his business, Tuladhara had achieved an inner balance that transcends duality. Enlightenment is a transcendent state where one realises that the Self is different from body, mind and its sensory objects. Also, pairs of opposites such as pain and pleasure, love and hate, birth and death, attachment and detachment, loss and gain, activity and passivity are nothing but a playful manifestation of consciousness. Consequently, the person remains in a balanced state, at all times and under all circumstances. The individual is full of bliss, having experienced the vision of absolute consciousness. And all the emotional, physical and psycho- logical problems that troubled him dissolve completely. Enlightenment is achievable if one makes rigorous effort to know the truth. What is important is that the individual tree contemplates absolute consciousness constantly and uproots whatever it is that creates false illusion in his mind and drives him away from the truth. Whether he is meditating ina remote cave or envisioning the Divine while doing his job in a metropolitan city is just an ancillary event. One powerful yogic techniques Ithacan helpAll person achieve this difficutask is Pratyahara, elaborated in the Shandilya Upanishad. Pratyahara is withdrawal of the senses from their objects. It is crucial to understand that he 'withdrawal' is of the senses, andthe external objects per se. Therefore one can withdraw one's attachment a attention to external objects anywhenwhether it is a secluded forest or a buss hopping mall. This is accomplished when one repeatedly tries to see the one Absolut consciousness hidden in all forms and aspects of creation. With repeated practise, awareness comes up, that all senses and their umpteen objects, marand body, are a manifestation of absolconsciousness. The mind then gives carving, it reflects this one conscious and stays in perfect balance.
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Courtesy: Pulkit Sharma and Speaking Tree,Times of India
For A Balanced State Of Mind
What kind of lifestyle would facilitate achieving liberation? Should one progressively withdraw from the external world and its inconsequential activities and live in isolation? Or contemplate the Divine while being engaged in worldly affairs? Some sages advocate the path of rigorous asceticism, while others believe that one can gain enlightenment evens householder. A spiritual aspirant is constantly debating-which out of the wo is the better option? The Mahabharata says, a sage named Jamal stood motionless for many months while practising extreme asceticism and some birds built their nest and laid eggs in his hair. Overcome by the thought that f he moved, the birds might suffer and Bye, Jamal remained in that position without food and water till the time the birds grew up and flew away Jamal rejoiced that by doing so he had reached the pinnacle of asceticism, compassion and spiritual growth. Just then a heavenly voice told him that a merchant named Tuladhara was more advanced in spirituality than him and he must visit Tuladhara. When Jamal met Tuladhara he observed that as Tuladhara went about his business of selling goods, different kinds of people came to the shop. Some customers were good, others were bad; some expressed gratitude while others ridiculed the merchant. But Tuladhara remained in perpetual equanimity; he was neither exulted by the love nor distressed by the hatred and went about doing his work honestly. While balancing the scales in his business, Tuladhara had achieved an inner balance that transcends duality. Enlightenment is a transcendent state where one realises that the Self is different from body, mind and its sensory objects. Also, pairs of opposites such as pain and pleasure, love and hate, birth and death, attachment and detachment, loss and gain, activity and passivity are nothing but a playful manifestation of consciousness. Consequently, the person remains in a balanced state, at all times and under all circumstances. The individual is full of bliss, having experienced the vision of absolute consciousness. And all the emotional, physical and psycho- logical problems that troubled him dissolve completely. Enlightenment is achievable if one makes rigorous effort to know the truth. What is important is that the individual tree contemplates absolute consciousness constantly and uproots whatever it is that creates false illusion in his mind and drives him away from the truth. Whether he is meditating ina remote cave or envisioning the Divine while doing his job in a metropolitan city is just an ancillary event. One powerful yogic techniques Ithacan helpAll person achieve this difficutask is Pratyahara, elaborated in the Shandilya Upanishad. Pratyahara is withdrawal of the senses from their objects. It is crucial to understand that he 'withdrawal' is of the senses, andthe external objects per se. Therefore one can withdraw one's attachment a attention to external objects anywhenwhether it is a secluded forest or a buss hopping mall. This is accomplished when one repeatedly tries to see the one Absolut consciousness hidden in all forms and aspects of creation. With repeated practise, awareness comes up, that all senses and their umpteen objects, marand body, are a manifestation of absolconsciousness. The mind then gives carving, it reflects this one conscious and stays in perfect balance.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Pulkit Sharma and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Pulkit Sharma and Speaking Tree,Times of India