Suryanarayana Raju: In the awareness of Self-inquiry there is transmutation in our way of life

At present our way of life is dictated by thought i.e mind and unfortunately it is behaving like our master now.

Thought which is the outcome of past has not changed man from the time immemorial because past is limited and the action done through it is always incomplete resulting in perennial conflict and so brings fresh problems.

The inner creates the outer and the outer shapes the inner and this ebb and flow of
action and reaction is the movement of thought.Thought has made the thinker and
the same thought divides the thinker and the thought,tries to shape and control
the thought.

Thought being limited tries to invent a limitless entity called God and such type of God is just a projection of thought.

Thought has its role to play in the physical phenomenal reality.If i want to go to
hospital from my home thought is necessary,if i want to drive a car thought is necessary,to diagnose a disease or do surgery thought is necessary,to write an article like this thought is necessary.But at present it is encroaching and functioning all the time in the psychological arena where it has created troubles and still trying to correct and manipulate those psychological problems created by itself.

How can the creator of problem solve the problems created by itself?How can darkness through away darkness.We have to bring in light to through away darkness.There is no other go.Einstein said a problem cannot be solved by the same level of awareness at which the problem is created.

Socrates said true wisdom comes when thought realizes how little it understands the life,about itself and the world around it.Its range of perception is very limited.When thought understands this it becomes still when it is confronted with psychological problems created by it.

Once there is stillness of thought born out of understanding,Self-inquiry progresses smoothly and easily.The passive awareness which happens during Self-inquiry perceives the problems created by the thought in the psyche particularly the problems born out of relating with the others with ego which leads to toxic relationship with separativeness.

Einstein feels that this separative feeling with each other is just an optical illusion but that illusion is causing havoc in human society.In the passive perception in Self-inquiry the problems created by thought flower and reveal their network to the passive awareness and in that very revelation there is the withering of problem.

In the psychological arena just perception is complete action.In Self-inquiry we just perceive the contents and problems of the mind,it is a complete action without any residue of non-understanding and so there is no conflict what so ever.

Carl Jung says that our vision becomes clear when we look with our heart.He says those who look outside dreams,those who look inside awakens.Thought takes us away from our source and land us in the dimension of dreams which happen in spacio-time.

Life is miserable if we are not aware.We think this object knowing awareness is real awareness but this is part of metaphysical sleep in which mind modifies itself continuously from one state to the another i.e deep sleep state,dream mode,waking mode.

Such a life is a bed of thorns of anger,violence,greed,hatred,ambition,possessiveness,arrogance,pomp,desire,jealousy and all these result in sorrow,misery,despair,hopelessness,anguish.

When we are aware whatever we do and demechanize what we call the routine things,we
develop skill to watch subtle things like thoughts,feelings,moods,emotions.This is possible in Self-inquiry.Man is not imprisoned by outer circumstances but by his unconscious instincts and his own biological past.

The awareness of Self-inquiry brings these to conscious level and in the very perception of them without judging or condemning or justifying is to be free from them.Then anger becomes compassion,hate becomes love,greed becomes sharing,darkness of life becomes light with the advent of awareness in Self-inquiry.Everything ugly in the mind is transmutated in the awareness of Self-inquiry.

When we reverse our gear from unconsciousness to consciousness,diverting our awareness from the objects to the perceiver(observer) of them this mutation happens.This is the Art of Self-inquiry.Then life of thorns becomes a bed of roses.

About the Author

Sri Suryanarayana Raju is interested in Self-Enquiry in the light of Sri Ramana Maharshi,Osho,JK.He wrote two books on "Self-Enquiry" and "Commented on Upadesa Saram and Akshara Mana Malai". available for download at http://www.esnips.com/ web/ramana-maharshi

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