Integrating Ancient Wisdom in Modern Life: Original Man
- Discipline is that which you accept on your own. One who practises Yama and Niyama religiously one’s life will be self-disciplined, not by any effort, but by your inner understanding and becomes non-violent from his core of being. Not only will he not harm anyone now but people, circumstances and animals also don’t harm him. He becomes so compassionate that love starts radiating from him.
- Truth needs no proof, it simply is. It cannot be proved or disproved. It is luminous, it is radiant. One who is established in Truth, will be pulsating and vibrating in truth. Then whatever he will say will be Truth.
- One who has established non-stealing in all the dimensions; possession, thoughts, knowledge, becomes the original man. His originality can flower which has the fragrance of Trust. The original man only means that he carries all his wealth within himself. That which is not knowledge but knowing, is not thought but no-mind and has no possession but Universe possesses him.
- Accumulation means one tries to see and perceive everything as an object and not energy within it. Unoccupied with the object, energy remains free, untethered to anything. And that brings the transformation. It accumulates inside you. When the energy is unoccupied, it becomes understanding. When energy is occupied, it remains ignorance, it remains: unconsciousness. Only by going beyond all learned and copied behaviours, discarding all accumulated superstitions and beliefs, will we find and experience the real.
- Purity out of this understanding will drop all your memories, experiences and accumulated karmas not only for this life but all the previous life. Release of energy will move towards your being, self-realisation. One who has attained inner and outer purification understands the temporary nature of the body of self and others. With dignity and respect they shall not use their own or others’ bodies as objects of orgasm. It will become the temple of the soul and keep the body healthy for the experiments of life.
- Now purification of mind will be freed from ego, attachments, anxiety, enmity etc. With this purification one will find inner joy. Mind starts focusing. This is preparation for self-realisation. When the meditator finds joy from within, becomes silent he will only understand the phenomenon of contentment. This will open the door to self-realisation.
- Studying scripture, Svadhyaya the first part of the word – sva – means “self.” The second part – dhyaya – is derived from the verb root dhyai, which means “to contemplate, to think on, to recollect, or to call to mind.” Thus, it works to translate dhyaya as “study” – to study one’s own self.
- Surrender to the universe, surrender to the cosmic principle, surrender to God, and then nothing can destroy you and nothing can defeat you. Surrendered to the ultimate you become the ultimate. When the dewdrop disappears into the ocean it becomes the ocean.
