Mind according to Vedanta

Quote from true charm and power of Vedanta

Mind according to Vedanta 

During the dream-state, the mind becomes free from the body idea; it becomes associated with any impression that may be prevalent in the mind. When it is dominated by that impression, the mind has a particular ego idea. A dreamer can have any kind of ego. A queen may think she is a beggar-woman. Any kin d of ego can exist there because you do not know which impression will be prevalent in a person while dreaming. The will and power of judgement that are associated with the ego idea based upon the physical body, does not exist anymore. therefore, we do not have any kind of self –determination or definite will in the dream state . We do not have even any definite judgement of consistency or property in dream. In dream state a person does not have a definite ego idea, one does not have nay definite standard of judgment so nothing seems incoherent inn a dream. One also lacks in will power and one cannot resist when resistance is necessary. Any tendency, desire or idea may be prevalent of that time. We are actually at the mercy of the tendency or desire that prevails at that time. Being influenced by the desire or will, or wish, the mind creates an image or picture out of those impressions. The impressions become concretized. Just as we can see a picture painted on a canvas in al three dimensions, similarly , this mind is like a piece of canvas painted by al these imprison gathered during waking hours. 

How to fulfil your genuine desire for bliss

We all are striving hard to attain full satisfaction in a persistent manner. In the material world, nothing can give us such ecstasy. Consumption of a normal good is characterised by diminishing marginal utility; meaning that the additional consumption of the same good renders less and less satisfaction. Thus, we get fed up with it and look for another good to give us a feeling of complete satisfaction. But that also follows the same rule. There is no peace.
In the midst of this chaos, the truth is that complete bliss is possible to attain only through this life. Thus, unknowingly at the subconscious level, there is a constant struggle to seek the state of satiety, though we look for it materialistically. This happens because we get guided by our natural tendencies and the craze for an easy solution. The desire to attain bliss is genuine but the mechanisms we adopt to reach it can be faulty.

It is in this context that rationalisation and the role of conscience become important. The Buddha showed the path of withdrawal from indulgence in the material world and the perusal of the ultimate state through a disciplined life. The attainment of nirvana leaves a feeling of complete satisfaction and bliss. And interestingly, all this is possible only by accepting life. As Ramakrishna pointed out, what appears to be an illusion can actually manifest itself later as a part of truth. Thus, Ramakrishna’s Vedanta is unique and unravels a realistic approach. First attain it, spending time in silence and isolation, later look at the material world and realise the oneness. A combination of detachment and persuasion unfolds the mystic presence.

Introspection in silence establishes a unique connection between the vast and the individual. Even while one is in the midst of the duties and responsibilities in the material world, a sweeping breeze blows over to touch the mind and takes it away to an unknown state of joy. It is as if you have mingled with ecstasy itself and your every part of existence bears the ultimate happiness. Tagore tried to define it as an embodiment of an unembodied existence in your whole presence. The Vaishnavite simplify it in terms of the music flowing from the flute of Krishn, engulfing the existence of Radha and imparting ethereal joy. For, he stays nowhere but in the company of his devotees.

To an ignorant person, of course, a liberated soul may appear to be wandering aimlessly. But within that wandering, he has actually achieved what cannot be explained in words. His joy is too enormous to be defined materialistically.
The unique aspect of spiritualism is that it takes the individual to such heights that all desires get washed away with the glow of composedness that one is able to acquire. The Buddha suggested that we make repeated attempts to attain nirvana. Using an altered expression, Ramakrishna said that he would like to enjoy the enormity in different forms and in different ways. Thus, one can completely empty oneself forever. Once the lamp is lit in this world, its radiance will be evident in the path of eternity. The writer is professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

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 ten 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 ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

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Mind according to Vedanta

Monday, 07 October 2019

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Mind according to Vedanta

You have to reach the superconcious level through effort; you have to go beyond ego through ego; you have to go beyond reason though reason. Not by discarding reason, you have to go beyond action though action. Sri Krishna declares in the Bhagvad gita that you cannot reach the state or worklessness by simply giving up work. If you want to attain serenity of mind and the ability to live a contemplative life, you have to attain it through the right kind of work. Simply by giving up your duties or by not undertaking duties’ you cannot reach that state. Through work you go beyond work . if the work is rightly directed it can lead you beyond work . Similarly, your reason , rightly directed can lead you beyond its scope . Reason has a limited range, beyond that it is helpless. if you lose your way , you ask a traffic policeman for directions. He will direct you , but will not take you there personally . Reason functions in the same way. A man of God tells you of the nature of God and the world and of the path to take to realize God, but he cannot take you all the way. You reason on his works and eventually reach the goal, thus using reason to go beyond reason.

Through will you surrender the will . Self surrender does not mean that you are nothing. A simpleton. There are different kinds of self-surrender in this world. A robber enters your house and says that you have to give all your money to him otherwise he will kill you . you give him all the money you have. You surrender to him a compulsory self-surrender. In another case you understand the worthiness of a great noble laudable cause and you dedicate all you have to that cause; a voluntary self-surrender. Perhaps you find a person who can really guide you and you submit to his superior knowledge; another kind of self-surrender. or another man come and gets you to do certain things by bribing you; another kind of self-surrender . our will in the foregoing cases is overcoming through will .

The Speaking Tree | ET

By S P Mehta

There are only two things in existence. One is the ‘happening’ that we know as physical creation. And the other is the ‘lap’ in which such creation happens. A ‘happening’ — small or big — always happens in time.

That which happens in time is fleeting in nature and, hence, is temporary. Being temporary, physical creation is always subject to rise and fall. In a certain period of time, a ‘happening’ becomes happened.

The important thing is the lap in which creation happens. In yogic lore, though this lap is named variously such as Consciousness, Reality and Truth, we can simply call it as the ‘Sakshi’, or witnessing. It’s non-physical and, hence, is never a part of the time. Sakshi is like the cinema screen on which entire creation appears and disappears and, yet, the screen remains unaffected. Also, the screen is there all the time. It never changes — neither appears nor disappears like physical existence.

Spirituality means to go beyond the physical. Because if you are lost in the physical, then you will belong to samsara that means continue moving in circles but not reaching any place.

Being a sakshi means becoming the very screen on which are projected all the happenings including what happens within you and, yet, remaining untouched by such happenings. An enlightened being is one who is always rooted in sakshi.

Liberation — mukti as we know in yogic wisdom — from physical existence is possible only by becoming a sakshi to the physical world. Meditation is the way forward to becoming a sakshi.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

But, if He exists?

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 ten 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 ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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