Awareness

Jesus Meditating

Awareness is a higher stage of knowledge in its evolutionary progress towards wisdom. It is the bridge for a man to cross the river of illusion. There are tow schools of thought over the meaning of awareness. One is materialistic awareness and other is esoteric awareness. When one cooks food or does some work carefully,. there is awareness which is called materilistic awareness. It is only sensual factulty. Even though the knowledge in such an activity is alert enough, it such an activity is alert enough, it function in a self forgotten state. Here the soul transforms itself into the shape, action and results of the object with which it gets into contract. This state is defined in Vedanta teachings as Maya. Here I mean the spiritual awakening as esoteric awareness. It is a state of Self Consciousness.

This state of awareness is the life-light for a man to lead a harmonious life. It is not easy for all to know, the reactions caused to the soul, under the law of nature, when one gets into contact with a shape, or action. He in his pshchic state is being transformed into that shape, action or quality under the cause and effect system. Then his own experience reflects as shape, action or quality again and again and this only is called sub-conscious mind. It is a subjective understanding. This faculty is to be attained by inward travel and research. As this state of self consciousness is to be achieved by systematic pshchic practice under a Master, it is called as esoteric awareness. The perfection in this kind of awareness is wisdom. Unless and until one acquires this faculty of in-sight he is deemed to be in the delusive state.

Generally for a common man the soul is in the delusive state by the intoxication of sensual activities the sensations of pleasure and pain. In such a state, the soul transforms itself into emotions according to the time and place.

The Body and Life :

            Although the concept of men comprises of two main phenomena i.e., the body (Objective) and the soul (subjective) the body is only an instrument for the soul. The soul is the architect, technician and absolute owner of the instrument, the body. When a technician does not realise his  responsibilities and handles an instrument  carelessly  what will happen? Similarly when the soul deals with the body without realising its own responsibilities and without knowing the real value of the body it commits mistakes by its ignorance. As a result the pains, miseries and so many problems of life emerge in the life of man. For want of esoteric awareness man gets emotions by the intoxication of senses when he contacts with outer activities through his senses. He transforms himself into emotional moods, such as six temperaments and does wrongs which are categorised as sins. By the force of needs, habits and circumstances man repeats the same wrongs again and again in the forgetful state.

The temperaments and other qualities of man evolved from emotional activities, create and multiply the evil results among the society. Also they descend through the progenies, generation after generation and multiply the problems of life of mankind for a very long period and in wider areas. The only way to relieve mankind from this puzzling chain of miseries is to develop esoteric awareness which keeps up man in his soul conscious state and regulate thoughts, words and deeds under the clear light of insight.

Grace of Religious Heads :

            Of course, various methods of regulate and control the thoughts, words and deeds of man for harmonious living were formulated and taught to the people by the founders of religions. As such teachings were made to the people in their delusive state and in superficial means under rituals, they have not given satisfactory results.

            There was no easy way out or well planned perfect psychic practice to redeem a common man from his forgetful state to the state of awarness. We cannot blame the religious heads imagining that they did not work out sincerely in this regard. In the earlier age there was not scientific background for the advancement of knowledge anf they could not understand and follow the esoteric path. Any how, beyond all the rituals the religious heads and philosphers have elucidated for the emancipation of deserving souls, the clear way to attain wisdom. Such methods were kept secret under the presumption that it will weaken the faith and rituals which were formulated to suit the knowledge of ignorant and illiterate people for their better living. Further the method of living under fiction, faith and rituals was satisfactory in the environmental conditions of those days.

Need of Today :

            In these days of scientific age there is intrinsic need for man to lead his life with esoteric awareness.

            There are many methods of psychic practice to bring a man into spiritual awareness. Among them an easy and safe one is Simplified Kundalini Yoga. It is a systematic psychic practice to attain the esoteric awareness, and wisdom.     

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