The Sources of Healing Power

 

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

 

 The Sources of Healing Power

 We must not give up. We all have latent within us a love for the true, for the perfect. We all want that which is unlimited and eternal. There is an inner longing which drives us constantly. Even the mistakes we make are due to our effort to find true happiness, but we seek it, in the finite, so we suffer. The Eternal is not to be found in the perishable. If we desire a real cure for our ills, physical or mental, we must seek it in the imperishable. The Source of life is not outside and separate from us. It is within us. The kingdom of God is within and we are told to soak that First, then all else will follow. Do we believe it? If we do, then we shall turn towards it naturally,. Whenever we feel any lack or any distress: instead of turning towards the external, we shall turn towards the internal.

 

A wise man goes within himself in his joys and his sorrows. He strives to unite himself more closely with his Source in every experience of life. He knows that all his power comes from there and he takes no credit to himself. No man can become a channel of divine power so long as his ego is in the ascendancy. He may be able to heal temporarily, but it will not last. To become a true channel he must attune himself with God through humility, through purity, through an utter lack of self –consciousness

 

A slow and steady ascent of spiritual awakening

 

By Jayant B Dave

 Just as a little baby slowly grows into an educated and cultured being, religious or spiritual consciousness too evolves gradually, starting from inanimate objects in nature. Religion and spirituality focus on the substratum of every object or being. Spirituality is that condition of consciousness which focuses on the spirit of things, rather than forms or bodies of things, says Swami Krishnananda.

 

Matter is the lowest rung of the evolutionary ladder in nature, and it is characterised by a total absence of perceptible consciousness. All-pervading consciousness is present here but in a dormant form due to the absence of the mind, subtle body, principle required for its manifestation. Matter though inert reacts and transforms as per its inherent characteristics due to the chit, latent consciousness, present therein.

 

Matter effloresces into microbial and plant kingdom consciousness. Life is pulsating here, but there is a complete absence of thoughts, instincts and self-consciousness. Here we find dream-type intermediate consciousness.

 

 

The animal kingdom is the next stage of evolution, where we find thoughts and instincts due to the mind principle that helps manifestation of consciousness. But instinct is about living in the present without regard to the past or future, due to the absence of logic or reasoning attributable to intellect. Consciousness does not manifest as self-consciousness.

 

The topmost rung of the evolutionary ladder is the human being, characterised by a well-defined mind and intellect that distinguishes pros and cons and correlates past, present and future. Consciousness manifests here as self-consciousness, which means ‘I know that I Know’. The human being is at the highest stage of evolution that nature has reached in the world.

 

Religious consciousness is quite different from this natural evolution. It starts from human status. There is a universality behind it due to the perception of Atman, pure Self, beholding all things in terms of pure Self existing in all.

 

Religious or spiritual consciousness is usually absent in humans, because self-consciousness is blended with ego and reason, due to attachment with the gross and subtle bodies. Hence, there is difficulty in arousing religious consciousness that aims at the integration of all existence.

 

Religious consciousness is one degree of God consciousness. The lesser the connection we feel between ourselves and another, the lesser we are religious or spiritual. Total independence or non-connection with objects outside is opposite to religious consciousness.

 

Friendliness is a good quality, but it is only an ethical manifestation, to be one with the existence and characteristics of an object. We impose characteristics of inner uniformity outwardly with the code of law, regulations, and rules. This is just the foundation. Once this psychological affirmation of innate unity is clear, we have to put this into practice in our daily life.

 

Yog is a way that enables us to gradually transform our physical, mental, and psychological consciousness into religious or spiritual consciousness. Religious consciousness is a gradual blossoming of the longing for perfection. One need not reject the body, society, or the world but transcend these relative manifestations to merge into the ocean of satchidanand, one and non-dual reality. (The writer is president, Divine Life Society, Vadodara)

 

Today is Swami Krishnananda’s birth anniversary

 

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

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