Wednesday, March 30, 2011
conscious awareness and unconscious awareness
Body and mind are both such a complicated mechanism that no ordinary intelligence, or for that matter any super- intelligence of man could have envisaged. There is clearly an ultimate superior energy or intelligenbe that is functioning in all of us, which make every complicated organ in us work with utmost unison. But we are not aware of the working of the vast majority of the organs. They work at the bidding of the unconscious part of the ultimate intelligence in us. I find that we all have in us a conscious part of the awareness or Intelligence, and an unconscious part. The conscious part can be seen with some effort while in meditation. A deeper and much more deeper meditation is perhaps necessay to bring the areas controlled by the unconscious part to the conscious domain. Is it impossible to do so? Do we require some better specialized equipment than the existing faculties provide to do so?
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sandananda Gori 5
Sandananda Giri 5
Know Experiences as waves. – We see sights. But the images that strike the eye-balls do not remain in the eye. The eye is clear there. But if a particle of dust falls in the eye it makes the eye disturbed. Likewise objects do not remain in the mind’s eye. They do not stay; they only come and go. But if anything stays there, like the dust in the eye it disturbs the mind. Meditation is broken then.
Like objects coming to the eye and going without remaining in the eye, the meditator should be able to keep his mind clear with equanimity without the matters impinging on the mind remaining there. For this there is no need to practice any posture (Asana) or hand-symbol. While engaged in daily activities also one can remain in balanced equanimity. Science has already proved that Sound, Shape and light travel in waves. Different lengths and combinations of the waves make us distinguish the waves as sound, shape, light etc. There are ultraviolet, infrared, gamma rays and so many other types. In short, objects/matter functions as waves.
It is in the form of waves that objects reach the mind. None of the objects reach the mind in the form of matter. Only images reach. But the mind, giving them colours differentiates them and distinguishes each from others. Life force or energy is lost in modifying the shapes or objects sighted to distinguish and retain them. If one is able to avoid the conceptual images of objects without thus losing the energy, then life can be in equanimity. This is the state of meditation. The life that reaches this state is the Reality itself. If one proceeds in this perspective and is able to avoid names and shapes from getting retained, his experience will be something beyond words that cannot be described to others. Absolute peace is felt. He becomes quiet and silent.
Know Experiences as waves. – We see sights. But the images that strike the eye-balls do not remain in the eye. The eye is clear there. But if a particle of dust falls in the eye it makes the eye disturbed. Likewise objects do not remain in the mind’s eye. They do not stay; they only come and go. But if anything stays there, like the dust in the eye it disturbs the mind. Meditation is broken then.
Like objects coming to the eye and going without remaining in the eye, the meditator should be able to keep his mind clear with equanimity without the matters impinging on the mind remaining there. For this there is no need to practice any posture (Asana) or hand-symbol. While engaged in daily activities also one can remain in balanced equanimity. Science has already proved that Sound, Shape and light travel in waves. Different lengths and combinations of the waves make us distinguish the waves as sound, shape, light etc. There are ultraviolet, infrared, gamma rays and so many other types. In short, objects/matter functions as waves.
It is in the form of waves that objects reach the mind. None of the objects reach the mind in the form of matter. Only images reach. But the mind, giving them colours differentiates them and distinguishes each from others. Life force or energy is lost in modifying the shapes or objects sighted to distinguish and retain them. If one is able to avoid the conceptual images of objects without thus losing the energy, then life can be in equanimity. This is the state of meditation. The life that reaches this state is the Reality itself. If one proceeds in this perspective and is able to avoid names and shapes from getting retained, his experience will be something beyond words that cannot be described to others. Absolute peace is felt. He becomes quiet and silent.
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