Some Avenues for Reflection towards ’Know Thyself’
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Gliding Into Oneself
The thought vortices function in the form of anger, fear, regret, self-pity, attachment, resentment, jealousy etc. Their constant rubbing of the mind during the waking hours causes the depletion of the much needed mental energy to lead a sane life in this strife-torn world. Religions offer to help but they themselves end up as cause for conflicts. So, can there be freedom from all these? The answer is found by each one for oneself through quiet self-awareness and the eagerness to discover what lies behind the palpable. This journey of discovery is obviously imbued with patience and humility. The associated 'gliding' into oneself brings in a calmness and serenity that prevents one from falling a prey to the propaganda of man-made systems. As one Near Death Experiencer said, all exculsivistic religions are man-made; this is evidenced by the fact that ego places a significant role in their practices. "My religion is the only way to God" says it all through its stamp of the "I', 'me' and the 'mine'.
As the man-made systems serve only to sustain the above mentioned vortices, we begin to wonder "Is there a way out of it all?" This wonderment is the basis for the self-awareness that helps us take the inward gliding. Such people, who form only a small minority now, are there all over the world doing their soul-search quietly and helping the collective-consciousness to be freed from exclusivism, fanaticism and separatism. If you feel drawn to this matter of inward journey of discovery, your life becomes enriched, not in the sense of belonging to the largest group or governed by similar megalomania, but in being washed clean by the purity of aloneness. There is a world of difference between loneliness and aloneness. In order to understand such hidden truths, one has to look for one's intuition rather than depend merely on the rational mind. In this connection, the book "In Quest of the Deeper Self" can serve as a wayside companion.
As the man-made systems serve only to sustain the above mentioned vortices, we begin to wonder "Is there a way out of it all?" This wonderment is the basis for the self-awareness that helps us take the inward gliding. Such people, who form only a small minority now, are there all over the world doing their soul-search quietly and helping the collective-consciousness to be freed from exclusivism, fanaticism and separatism. If you feel drawn to this matter of inward journey of discovery, your life becomes enriched, not in the sense of belonging to the largest group or governed by similar megalomania, but in being washed clean by the purity of aloneness. There is a world of difference between loneliness and aloneness. In order to understand such hidden truths, one has to look for one's intuition rather than depend merely on the rational mind. In this connection, the book "In Quest of the Deeper Self" can serve as a wayside companion.
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