Swami Vivekananda has showed us the royal path of mental discipline. But many of us may not be aware of it. The powers of the mind should be concentrated and turned back upon it; and as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate into its own innermost secrets. Thus shall we come to the basis of belief, the real religion. We shall perceive for ourselves whether or not we have souls, whether or not the life lasts for some minutes or for eternity, whether or not there is a God. All this will be revealed to us. This is what Raja Yoga proposes to teach. The goal of all its teachings is to show how to concentrate the mind; then how to discover the innermost recesses of our own minds; then how to generalise their contents and form our own conclusions from them. It never asks what our belief is - whether we are deists, or atheists, whether christians, Jews, or Buddhists. We are human beings, and that is sufficient. Every human being has the right and the power to seek religion; every human being has the right to ask the reason why and to have his question answered by himself-if he only takes the trouble. The yogi teaches that the mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a super conscious state, and that when the mind rises to that state, then this knowledge, which is beyond reason, comes-metaphysical and transcendental knowledge comes to that man. This state of going beyond reason, beyond ordinary human knowledge, may sometimes come by chance to a man who does not understand its science; he stumbles upon it, as it were. When he stumbles upon it, he generally interprets it as coming from outside. So this explains why an inspiration, or transcendental knowledge, may be the same in different countries, but in one country it will seem to come through an Angel, and in another through a Deva, and in a third through God. What does it mean ? It means that the mind brought out the knowledge from within itself and that the manner of finding it was interpreted according to the beliefs and education of the person through whom it came. All the different steps in yoga are intended to bring us scientifically to the superconscious state or samadhi.... This meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings us real enjoyment and happiness.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:39:53 +0000
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