Most people spend their
waking hours with their minds caught up in conventional thoughts – thoughts
that breed fear, anger, regret, anxiety, self-pity, loneliness etc. Discovering the Esoteric Path takes them on
to a well-ordered and useful life.
The Other Path
Endless conflicts arise due
to the conventional mental state and people go on with it year after year, for
many years. The attrition by thoughts
that are heavily centered on self-importance wears out the mind. Even those who are socially successful
realize, rather late in their lives, that they have been chasing a shadow all
along – a very deceptive shadow at that.
Mental mediocrity sets in and there is a general dullness. Is there a way out of all these so that one
can live with a child’s freshness notwithstanding the crowding in of many
negative things in life? When people
take up that question as an intriguing puzzle, they begin to discover the
Esoteric Path that helps them live without mental conflicts and enjoy the
freshness of wholesome living.
Esotericism implies that we wouldn’t
be carried away by social ways, nor would we be conditioned by belief systems
or driven by habitual neurology. There
is a tendency to understand how the mind gets bogged down by the usual vortexes
of fear, regret, anger, attachment, resentment etc. The same tendency moves us to have insights
into life (and the afterlife too!) rather than our using life merely for ego
satisfaction and security.
The Transformation
Once on the Esoteric Path,
people turn their attention inward and understand how the conventional thoughts
bring in all the mental attrition. The
ensuing awareness is what takes them along the path of self-knowing without
which one becomes a slave to the tyranny of the conventional thought
stream. They wake up to the poison of
such slavery and release themselves from the stranglehold that thought has on
us. Even as one functions in society, one frees oneself from falling prey to
the mental pollution created thereof.
This brings in some calmness and quietude to the mind, countering the ill
effects of the attrition. The repose is
somewhat like the placid waters of a still lake. Under those conditions, just as the turbidity
in the water settles down leaving the water to be clear, the mind too becomes
lucid and shines like a single star in a limpid sky. Once we get a taste of these happenings, we
become increasingly interested in the still mind and its ability to make us
understand the unconditional love of Divinity.
When a person who has had a Near Death Experience (NDE) speaks of the boundless compassion while
being engulfed by the Light, we are in a position to sense and appreciate what that
person is talking about.
Two of the immediate effects
of being on the Esoteric path are: (1)
We become empathic and begin to pay more attention to others than we normally
do and (2) Begin to show interest in the messages of paranormal phenomena such
as terminal visions before passing away, out-of-body experience, NDE etc. These things bring about a natural austerity
to oneself helping one to easily steer away from personal evils such as
addiction to alcohol and social evils like indulging in unscrupulous methods of amassing wealth. Consequently, there
is an inward integration and the associated peaceful mind. There would be the joy of giving and the
vicarious happiness of making others happy.
Further Reading
More about the effectiveness
of the Esoteric Path is brought out in the book “In Quest of the Deeper Self”;
details are given in the website http://spirituality.yolasite.com The author can be contacted at
gopal.tc@gmail.com He would enjoy
interactions with all those interested in the topic.
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