The highest thing in this
universe is knowledge, which is true and eternal, which is unchanged and
divine. True knowledge keeps the men free from bondage and elevates us from
this worldly thought. True knowledge separates the truth from untruth. True knowledge
disappear the ignorance. True knowledge removes the sorrow & suffering.
True knowledge gives us the sense of sath, chit and Ananda. As in the presences
of light, darkness disappears and never exists so is the power of knowledge.
The Veda has uttered these truths loudly and clearly.
The universe is made up of 2
aspects Prakruti and Purusha. The material aspect which is made up of Pancha
bhuta and tri-guna belong to Prakruti. The whole universe which appears before
us, which we can sense using our sense organs(panchendriya), which we can know
using our organ of knowldge(gyanendriya) are nothing but Prakriti. It is
ever-growing, ever-changing and ever-evoluating.
There is somethings by which the existence
of this prakriti is possible. That is always there in the backgrounds. That,
which is very subtler then the subtlest; which is free from these material
aspects, which the Veda explains as the Neti Neti is nothing but Purusha. It is
something no predicate can justify, no word can explain, mind cannot understand
and intellect cannot perceive. Because this is altogether a different
dimension. This synomyns as Atman if considered individualy; and as a whole
Paramatman. That’s the reason of all of our existence.
As per Sankhya darshana this is
the highest knowledge. A man can understand this being elevated himself or
herself from this material nature. Yoga is the only means by which this can be
realized. Once a man understands this in its true senses can liberate himself
from this universe, can be a Jivanamukta. Sorrow and sufferings cannot touch
him, storm cannot shake him, and material pleasure cannot influence him. He
will be still, tranquil and non-disturbed. Bhagvat Gita explains this as
"Sthitapragyan". The same
state which Buddha attained, Bhagavan Ramana lived and many saints and sages
reached there and many more are in the way.
We all are part and parcel of
this Prakriti. As the Prakriti is in a continuous evolution process and so are
we. So consciously or unconsciously we are part of this ever-changing evolution
process. Already we are in a state of evolution where we can decide our own
destiny, we can realize the fruit of our own karma. We are already in the
highest form of evolution process, the human being. Vivekananda has rightly told "This
misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that
it will have to be undone by me alone. That which I created, I can demolish;
that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy.
Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your
own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the
strength and success you want is within ourselves."
Though we are part of this
Prakriti still we are the only fortunate being who has got the Buddhi, the
intellect which is a very subtle aspect of our mind. It is a tool given to
human to discriminate, discriminate between good and bad, discriminate between
vidya and avidya, discriminate between divinity and worldly stuff, discriminate
between knowledge and Ignorance. As the gross mind is created using gross
material hence the nature of mind is also worldly. It gets completely involved
with the material aspects of the universe, the prakriti. The mind also runs
very fast and changes very often. It identifies the prakriti as true and permanent
as Prakriti is ever-changing & visible. Prakriti appears beautiful to our
eyes, it satisfy our senses and gives us pleasure. The ego aspect of our mind
gets fulfilled through Prakriti. In this process we never exercised our higher
mind the intellect. These are the reason for our unfulfilled life, unsatisfied
senses and incomplete mind. The whole mankind is roaming around the sense of
incompleteness & feeling of vacuumed. The goal is never clear and neither
that is achieved.
Understand the reality, read
scriptures and try to analyze the dimension beyond material world. Yes we are
made up of materials and part and parcel of this prakriti. Because we are part
of the evolution process we have to be part of this material world till the evolution
is complete. The evolution will continue till we transcend our-self to
divinity. It is really a long journey from human being to being divine as
travelled by our great sages and saints. Post this journey lies our real goal
of completeness, bliss-absolute. The true vehicle for this journey is nothing
but only Yoga. As Swami Vivekananada says "Yoga is a means of compressing
one's evolution into a single life or a few months or even a few hours of one's
bodily existences."
Because of the material natured
mind, we thinks in all different directions, Senses moves our mind for it's satisfaction.
Physical hormones drive us and navigate our mind. Our Buddhi loose the track
between our intellect and instinct. We drive away by our thoughts which are
material nature. We are identified by our bodily existences, emotional requirements
and material needs. We spend our whole life satisfying our bodily needs,
emotional needs and material needs. This looks very logical to our mind and to
our society. When our mind thinks about growth or any development it cannot
think beyond material growth. Even science is progressing only on material
aspect. Hence our mind can only understand the value of material things. We are
treating the luxury house and life style as our basic needs, without which we
are going down as sad, depressed and tensed. We are emotionally bounded with
our near and dear and considering them as our own world, without which we
cannot see any meaning to life. Mind keeps rendering about past experiences and
future predictions. Mainly it gets worried with negative experiences and future
happening. We consider all of these as true and in this process we loose using
our Buddhi(The conscious mind).
The mantra of this life is to
remember each time who are we. Keep remembering our-self and keep convincing
our mind on that aspect. Use your buddhi(the conscious thinking faculty of
mind) to know the real goal of life. Keep remembering the goal every time. Once
the goal is clear then we can use Yoga to elevate our-self to that goal. Then
we will never consider our-self just as an emotional being rather we will
consider our surrounding as our companion who can help us achieving our goal.
We are just a living being in the process of evolution, all our actions,
surrounding, people, material are the ingredient for our upliftment. Absence of
any material aspects will not make us sad, neither addition of any material
asset will add extra pleasure. Because we can understand that both are equally
important to our spiritual upliftment. Yogic life is a systematic process for accelerating
the growth of human being in his entirety. With this growth man can live at a
higher state of consciousness.
