We have been discussing about internal search and internal exploration under various articles. Ancient scriptures declare in unambiguous terms that our body is the place of worship like temples, churches or masques. The sanctum sanctorum that is found in the places of worship is within our body. Within that sanctum sanctorum dwells the Brahman or God. There is no difference in interpretation between God and the Brahman. By this we mean God in His purest form without any attributes. He does not have a form and due to our ignorance we give Him forms of our choice. When contemplations of His forms – which is merely a visualisation arising out of one’s imaginative capabilities – crosses the admissible levels fanaticism, it leads to hatred and enmity. The eternal scriptures like Bible, Qur’an and Upanishads manifest God in the form of light. That is why they do not differentiate between self and Self. They point out that they are one and the same. Again due to our ignorance we differentiate between the two by using ‘S’ while referring God. This is meaningless when we understand that God resides within our body, in every cell, in every drop of blood and in every piece of excretory matter. If this is not understood in the proper perspective, the omnipresence of God would be lost.
Meditation is one of the processes to explore Him within. In fact a mere thought process is more than sufficient to realise Him. Though different forms of meditation are advocated, in reality such differentiations cannot exist. Again it is our ignorance that makes us to worship God through different means and in different forms. There is only one way of attaining Him, the process of Self-realisation within self, our physical body. For this process one needs superior knowledge, the knowledge that is capable of transforming one’s mind looking for the source by gradual transformation from external to internal. At the completion of such a transformation, the internal exploration or search commences. This alone is the starting point of spirituality. Spirituality does not begin in the places of worship, but begins in our mind, wisdom and intellect. A refined mind leads to the highest form of consciousness, where God can be realized. When transformation from religion to spirituality commences, to make further progress one has to acquire sufficient knowledge by understanding the secretive interpretations of the scriptures. They are authored in such a way that they are capable of providing gross and subtle meanings. Gross meanings are for religious minded people and subtle meanings are for spiritual minded people. One has to look for the subtle meanings and understand them. This is where a Guru assumes a pivotal role. In reality such Gurus are rare to find. There are excellent writings available with good interpretations and all such writings ultimately advocate universality of God. Universality should be understood as universal brotherhood, universal love, universal consciousness, universal well being, etc. All that is concerned with our society for peaceful co-existence is universal. Peaceful co-existence leads to prosperity. For such an ideal situation, we need to invest nothing except purification of our mind. When someone finds few minutes to visualise a world filled that is filled with happiness, joy and prosperity, he will not hesitate to put his first step forward to transform his visualisation into concrete action. The world needs someone to put this first step and the world is ready to follow. The need of the hour is more Allahs, Buddhas, Christs, Krishnas. But the time is too short to have incarnations. The best possible option available to us is to transform ourselves as incarnations.
Manblunder is doing its level best to play its role towards attaining such a world. Whatever that is dealt with in this site is more on the spiritual side than on the religious side. Religion means multiplicity of God whereas spirituality means the uniqueness of the conceptualisation called God. Transformation from religious to spiritual is a critical process, mainly because of habituation. Generally people call themselves as religious instead calling themselves as spiritual. Spiritually advanced persons would not like to be known as spiritual persons, as they realize that God within them is the same in all living beings. The main duty of this site is make such transformation possible by providing sufficient inputs to make one gain the supreme knowledge that is required to make the process of Self-realisation possible at the earliest. There are many sites that are far superior in delivering quality contents than this site. But, one cannot shy away or shirk from one’s duty, just because others are doing the same duty much better. Manblunder is completing its first year shortly and takes this opportunity to thank its viewers and assure the viewers that every effort would be made to improve the quality of the contents further.
Your comments and feedback at feedback@manblunder.com
2 comments: