The Inner Self - Rilegato

Virendra Kumar Gupta

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 8170843103 ISBN 13: 9788170843108

Casa editrice: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan, 2005

Pages: 261
Preface

Any person turning inward at a certain moment essentially stands in the midst of his life, at a point when he has lived a good part of it and the remaining one is before him to be lived. His inside is crowded with numberless sweet and bitter memories (of others’ and of his own actions and of their impacts), ideas, dreams, cravings etc. and a field of action lies sprawling before him. The question arises: could one bypass or overpass his crowded inside and his psychic bends and curves to go in search of spiritual achievements? Could he, at all, write off or sever this concrete part of his self from his spiritual self? Could man stop this part of his self from coming alive even when he has reached the pinnacle of his spiritual attainment? is happiness or bliss something isolated from living? Perhaps. no part of the whole self can be dropped for good and any attempt at that has invariably proved counterproductive. Bliss cannot be isolated from living, as God cannot be isolated from His creation. Man has been given this life to live it and not to run away from it.

Hence, turning inward or meditation has to help man in living a wholesome, creative and enriching life. For this it has to be aimed at enlightenment and wisdom and not just at physico-mental health, mystic or divine experiences or the gaining of supernatural energies. These would spontaneously join up when the achievement of enlightenment and wisdom is sought The first revelation in the Nirvanopanishad is —What Supreme Soul is, that am I. It implies that the Supreme Soul or the Para-Brahman and the individual soul are essentially one, as the ocean and the single drop from it are one. It means that both have t be meditated upon simultaneously. The Supreme Soul would h

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