The Road To The Inner World
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PART I
A Unique Spiritual Book
The Road to the Inner World
It is a book on spirituality, guiding one onto a path, which is spiritual and simple leading one through the simplest ways to the domain of meditation. Those who seek peace and happiness through Spiritual yoga will find a great friend in this book. It explains karma deep to its roots and guides one on freeing oneself from the dominating destiny. The explanation accorded by this book on how happiness, sorrow and bliss emerges within oneself underlines the importance of this book. If one is looking for a Spiritual Book, or a Book on Yoga or on Meditation reading it must not be missed. No amount of words can convince you unless you read it and find an admirer within yourself.
Let the “Mutual Assessment” among the human beings shift its operation from possessions to deeds and thoughts lest they should continue to lose peace. It can, in certainty, be achieved by changing what can change people.
Dedicated
To
Right thinkers
Of past and present,
who bless* us invisibly
Brief Note
The man is full of infinite love; rather he is himself Love and Bliss. He is full of love, knowledge and feelings of sacrifice. The divided state of mind does not allow him to be in his true form. He is leading the life of a dumb, deaf, blind and headless person.
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What divides him is the dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction results from thoughtless efforts made for attainment of power and wealth, etc. Let us call it “mad pursuit”. All that we see, read or listen must reflect solely humanitarian views.Literature and various media of arts etc. must be produced with an intention to impress upon the human beings exclusively the importance of humanitarian deeds. Of course traits of entertainment in literature etc. are indispensable.
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Intelligentsia
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The man is full of infinite love; rather he is himself Love and Bliss. He is full of love, knowledge and feelings of sacrifice. The divided state of mind does not allow him to be in his true form. He is leading the life of a dumb, deaf, blind and headless person.
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The Right Thinkers ought to aim at the revelation of the real nature of the human beings and annul the so called selfishness and niggardliness by making the best possible efforts to remove the fog of what prevents the real nature of the human beings from acting freely.
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What has Perverted us
spark of knowledge escorted by waves or radiations of human magnetism can set conflagration to the wild forest of ignorance that prevents the real nature of the mankind from acting freely.
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Elucidation of The Right Thought
The fact that a tragic scene on the screen of a cinema hall or on stage in a dramatic theatre moves the hearts of the keen spectators not only to the extent of draining tears but sometimes they are thrown even to the helpless state of sobbing, proves emphatically that human beings are basically not hard-hearted.
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Bliss, Pleasure & Sorrow
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What is the source of pleasure, then?
Does entertainment give us happiness? When we are drowned in deep sorrow, can entertainment fill our hearts with happiness? Can immense wealth make us happy for ever? Can attainment of world fame throw us into ocean of ever lasting joy? Alternatively, can all the Mister and Miss Universe get us out of sorrows for ever? If not one aught to think over it.
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Some Thoughts
“Firm faith is the secret of our success”
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“Man is basically full of love”
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“Man is basically full of feelings of sacrifice”
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Proposed Form of Society
The real thinkers should be prepared to take off the thought-proof garb of prejudiced view that stops them from accessibility to the “Right Thought” Ocean.
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Radiations (Basic Concept)
Like Television Centres, Radio Stations etc., human bodies are source of certain radiations or waves perpetually. As long as a man is living, he is more or less in state of thinking. The current of thoughts dissipates in form of waves or radiations. Let us name them spiritual emissions. These emissions are stronger or weaker according as the intensity of the thoughts is stronger or weaker. These emissions have their place in the space of feelings surrounding us. The period of their lives is longer or smaller according as they are stronger or weaker.
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World Peace
It should be equally impressed that a ruler should never be admired for extending his domain else whatever is spoken in favour of humanitarian deeds would meet the fate of a cup of milk before a bottle of liquor. To change the thinking of the masses, it is indispensable to follow the concept laid in the foregoing pages.
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PART II
Bliss, Pleasure & Sorrow
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There goes a story in India. It is said to be having historical truth. Some hundred years ago there was king of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. He was known as Maharaja Bharatri Hari. He loved his queen very intensely.
One day, he went to a jungle (forest) for hunting. He went too far. While he was riding back to his home, the sun had paid goodbye to that day. More and more of stars started peeping through the heavens. The jungle was full of lions, leopards and tigers. The atmosphere grew more and more dreary and scary.
Fortunately he saw some firelight at a great distance. He spurred his horse towards the fiery place. Finally he got to this place where a hermit welcomed him warmly. The hermit asked him to drink water. The king felt relieved of the fear. Then the hermit offered him some fruits and baked tubers. The king ate to his contentment. Being tired, he fell asleep. Historically the name of the hermit is said to be Nripati.
The king got up in the morning and bade adieu to the hermit. The hermit with a fruit in his hand said lovingly, “Here is the fruit which is called amarphal (a fruit for immortality). You take it with you and eat it completely. If you eat it you will become immortal.” The king was overjoyed to receive the fruit for immortality.
While riding the horse back to the royal palace, a current of thoughts ran through his head. He started talking to himself. If I become immortal and my queen Pingla dies, I shall live forever with my heart burning. No, I cannot embrace such a painful immortality. Better it shall be to make Pingla live eternally. What is the use of me being on this earth without her being there? O my sweetheart I want you to be living forever. These thoughts ended up in a firm decision to give this fruit to the queen.
He offered Nripati’s gift to Pingla. She thought that life for her was meaningless without the life of her lover who gave her such a great erotic pleasure. Her lover was a groom. The king had employed him to take care of the horses in his stable. The queen, without wasting any time, decided to leave the fruit in the hands of the big source of pleasure. Next morning the fruit was stationed with the groom. The groom could not be the last station of the journey between love and immortality. He was at once moved to the dream of immortality of his bigger sweetheart who was a beautiful prostitute.
To him his life was to no purpose without she being on the earth to cool his eyes and fill his ears with her natural melody. Who else could he think of offering immortality to?
He at once rushed to her house and knocked at her door at midnight and whispered into her ears, “I am giving you this fruit to give you immortality; God has sent this fruit to me as a token of my infinite love for you.”
The great lover left her with the hope that she would attain immortality. Poor prostitute had ever been averse to the type of the abominable life she had been undergoing. She was the wife of everybody; still she was the wife of nobody. She asked herself, “Whom do I belong to? Why should I become immortal? What for? For these lustful men! God should grant me freedom from this life as early as possible.
Our king is really great. He is so kind and supporter of the sufferers. If he becomes immortal, millions of people will be rescued from sufferings. Nay! Billions and billions will have his helping hand. May He be granted immortality! As long as the sun shines – he will live and improve the lives of the human beings.
She went to the court and bowed her head before the King. Having paid regards she said, “My Lord, I have a fruit that will make you immortal. I do not want to live any more; I am a sinner. This earth needs you.”
The king was surprised and shocked. He was rather stunned but still gathered his senses and said, “O Nice woman, where did you get this fruit?”
The humble hearted woman replied, “O Great King, O saviour of every sufferer, my customer, the groom in your stable presented it to me.” At this the king sent for the groom. When the groom came, the king asked, “Where did you get this fruit from?” The groom replied, “My Lord, The queen Pingla had presented it to me.”Finally the king enquired of the queen, “Did you give this fruit to the groom?” The queen could not deny.
The King Bhartri Hari was absolutely disillusioned. Consequently he reached the eye-opening realization that nobody had ever loved him. It was all his illusion.
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What is God?
Our eyes can see but cannot hear. Our ears can hear but cannot see. This is true for every sense. How is it possible to think of God in the language of our five senses? God could have created sixth sense, seventh sense, eighth sense, and even unlimited senses. Poor ears cannot see; eyes cannot speak. No organ (sense) can do the job of any of the other organ (sense). It is true for every other organ (sense). What have we got to think of God?
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Road to Happiness
If you have faith in the unknown care-taker of the universe, surrender everything to Him. Where should we see Him, He is formless. One has to decide where really one can see Him. If you see Him in a tree, He is there in the tree. The fact is that he is not in the tree; He is not in anything; He is in your faith. Your faith can find Him anywhere and everywhere.
Devotion & Devotees
I am telling what I experienced; I may be right, I may be wrong. I have felt that one can have the highest joy beyond which there is nothing. This achievement is irreversible. One is happy when one meets dear ones and unhappy when I separate from them. The dear ones do not and cannot offer any happiness; just that in their presence one’s mind loses its speed of running faster.
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Prayer
Below is an example of prayer. Why do we need to pray? Who do we pray to? If it is God, what can He do for us? Does God not know about our problems and the help we need? How can He be omniscient? Who is the creator of problems? Who is the creator of life? Why did he create life at all? Who asked Him? And who created God? If the infinite universe were not there, what would be there? There should be, and there are answers for all these questions.
“I also know that if the ever-wandering mind can stop I shall find myself in an infinite ocean of joy. I do not know how to stop this
mind. People say try to change its direction of thinking towards you patiently and gradually.”
“Tell me from within myself the art of thinking of you. Books failed to guide me. If you too fail to guide me, this human life is gone forever.”
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Radiations Elaborated
One late morning, I visited a temple. I looked around; I looked at the idol and stood gazing for some time. The idol was about fifteen feet away from me. Five feet away from me towards the idol was sitting an elderly person chanting the text from The Shivstotra. I was standing about five to eight feet behind the devotee. At last I decided to walk away. When I was just about to turn back, the devotee of Lord Shiva turned his hand back beckoning me to stay for some time. After a few minutes I was again bored and therefore, decided to leave this temple and go somewhere else. I was about to turn back when I saw the devotee beckoning me with his hand to stay there for some time more. I again had to postpone my departure. But I was restless to go. The third time too his hand came back asking me to stay for some time more. How many times did this act repeat, is out of my memory. At last I said, “Please you continue your text, I shall be back in a few minutes.” I went out, wandered here and there to do away with my restlessness. Before long I was back. He had finished his text, just waiting for me. He asked me if I was happy to follow him to his little residence, which was in the complex of the temple. I followed him to what he called his quarters. He cooked meals for himself as well as for me too. After having taken meals he talked at length to me. He told me that he was a veterinary health director in Mysore (Karnataka). He told about his sons and the other members of the family. I listened to him very quietly. He further told me that he was living in Vrindavan for doing his spiritual practice as the town had a very good environment for a spiritual aspirant.
I do not remember if I had told anything to him about my personal life and attitude. I asked him only one question, “Whenever I was about to turn back for leaving the place, why did you beckon me to stay there?” He replied, “I felt attraction from backside.” I had nothing more to ask him. It was not the first experience. But his words certainly augmented my views based upon experience.
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Celibacy
There can be nothing other than God that is all pervading and permeated in everything. If one cannot see God in everything, one will certainly distinguish between male and female. Therefore he is bound to be drawn into the domain of sex and romance at any moment leading to erotic actions. If one does not and cannot see God in every being and everything, one cannot escape thinking of the charm between two opposites. – a male and a female, which normally is perceived as the root of erotic union. Nobody can ever overcome erotic and amorous feelings without being able to realize the presence of God everywhere.
Treasure & Blind Men
Do not miss the wall: The most important thing is to know what we have to do. Once we have known it, we ought to do it every day and every moment without fail. It may be difficult for the majority of us to start doing it. We should sit down and think how much we can do it. Once decided, we have to stick to our decision. The best way is writing a diary regularly before going to bed. Whether or not we are true to ourselves we will know it. We would also find out if we have deceived ourselves by neglecting the duty. Every great saint wrote his daily diary. Some did it on paper whereas other did so on their memory. In early centuries saints watched themselves continuously. It is why saint and devotee Kabir says, “O fool, you have finished the days of life in preaching and listening; you have not cleaned your heart. You have only wasted your time.” It is how we should read our past record, advises Kabir.
Theory of Love
The Eternal Love
What is love? Being attracted to opposite sex or to the same sex or thinking of one person for a long time and abandoning him/her at another time in life followed by a hunt for a fresher object of love to get rid of the boredom acquired because of monotony? Is it all love? Is “having sex” a form of love as we all label it as lovemaking? Can liking someone for beauty or for physical strength or for beneficial wisdom be considered as love?
Separation divorce, bereavement and heartbreaks are the outcome of what we call love. Is love so bad? If not, why do human beings suffer so miserably. Not the love but at least the transient attraction between two sexes looks normal, as it could be architectured plan of nature for perennial flow of the creation without which life on this earth would have not come into existence. All of us are misled by this attraction to be infatuated to call it love. This chapter has tried throwing light on eternal love. Here is an excerpt from the book
King Ashoka was disgusted with himself; his soul was awakened. Lord Buddha was there over two hundred years and more ago. Buddha never disseminated his message of “Non-Violence”. Whatever his close associates had learnt from him was in air, still with the people. He thought of atonement and came to the conclusion that he could get real happiness by following the path shown by Buddha. Now Ashoka was no more a tyrant. Although he was a ruler but just to serve the people, just to help the people, just to guide the people. He sent his sister and other members of family to disseminate the message of Buddha. He was the one who spread the one-place-located message to different parts of Asia. Buddha is described as the light of Asia. Ashoka treated the entire creation of God as a family. Clean hearts are always full of Love; rather they are synonym to Love.
The souls of people are intoxicated with greed for wealth, lust for erotic pleasure, irresistible temptation for power. Not to speak of loving the whole of the humanity, they cannot love even the members of one family, if the hearts are tainted with these petty desires?
Vivekananda, the young genius and saint, while addressing the audience at Chicago could not think of any word other than brothers and sisters. For the westerners it was something wonderful, strange and impressive. His voice came from his heart; it had to impress them. The fact still remains to be understood is that we have to clean our hearts, change our hearts to a state, which we have been talking about in the foregoing pages.
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The Street Girl
Stop judging yourself or anybody else. Just call Him at your heart; knock at His door within yourself and wait patiently until your prayer is heard. If you run impatient, just remind him. He has no reasons to ignore you provided you feel extremely distressed with the mirth of being in the mire of maya. Can we throw away our body to the head of the world as the street girl did? We need to have the deepest urge for it. Are we not attached to it? The moment the child raises the hands; the mother promptly picks him up. “When in Rome do as the Romans do.” is the only lesson that the majority of human beings have learnt. They do not want to waste time over thinking of God because others are not doing so. One needs to stop following the suit.
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Stories on faith
Whenever we the human beings reach a painful stage in life with no outlet for escape from the sufferings, we are forced to pose faith in God, who we have never tested, we have never known even. Coincidentally or by His grace if some help appears from unforeseen quarters, an element of faith is generated within us; a little candle of hope for support from the unseen hands is lit.
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My Experience on Faith
I had been waiting all along for a Guide, who could bring me back not only up to that stage but even beyond from where one has never to return. I could see none and hopes were lost. I looked for some help in the books. I came across books on celibacy advising to abstain from all type of spices, stimulants and all the tasteful things. I started feeding myself only on chapattis abstaining even from salt. No milk, no pulses, no other form of protein to keep this body going on properly. Before two years could elapse, my digestive system collapsed. In consequence, I had to postpone my studies.
It won’t be extraneous; rather it would perhaps be relevant as well as indispensable to picture some of the happenings of earlier days of my life. Out of the many stories I am narrating only a few.
My mother left me as an infant and poor father too left the world after my sickly condition had set in. I wanted to depend on my motherly sisters no longer, and therefore decided to look for some job to sustain myself. I prayed to God, the only companion of mine, to bestow faith on me.
I looked so weak that nobody was prepared to give me a job. People thought I was a patient of tuberculosis. In wake of this fact, I went out to a Thoracic Hospital for the
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Need for a Guide
In ancient times, Gurus would look for deserving spiritual practitioners and aspirants. If the aspirant was not a disciplined and devoted person, the Guide could refuse to accept him. The following parable is a nice anecdote to read:
A spiritual aspirant went to a Guru. Some of the Guides used to smoke tobacco etc. They needed a pot for the storage of tobacco. Half burning cinders (fire) was required to burn the herb.. Forceps and a piece of wet cloth were the ultimate requisite before smoking could be started.
The Guru welcomed the aspirant. The aspirant told him that he wanted to realise God. All the things the Guide needed were placed inside the temple. A bell was hanging from the ceiling down to five feet 4 inches, above the floor. The Guru asked him to bring tobacco for him from inside the temple. The aspirant went in but his head struck against the bell, the bell rang. When he came back, the Guru asked him to bring the smoking pipe (chilam). He brought the chilam but his head rang the bell. The third time, Guru asked him to bring the fire pot. He did it but could not avoid the bell. Last time Guru sent him back to bring the forceps and a wet piece of cloth. Even this time his head could not escape striking the bell.
At last Guru spoke, “you have poor memory for bitter experiences, you could not bear in mind that the bell is low enough to bang your head again unless you are careful. You are incapable of learning anything from what you have suffered; you keep repeating your folly. What can I teach you? Go back, correct yourself and come back to me after two years.” I do not know if Paramhans Ramkrishna had made many disciples. The only name known to us is Vivekananda. These two are a great example of Guru and Chela (disciple) in the available and popular History.
The idea of having personal touch with every aspirant is very difficult and also not feasible under the prevailing conditions. Howsoever heavily and nicely too the clouds may rain, the crop will not grow well if there is no farmer to take care of. It may be destroyed even before the harvest is ready. Every genuine practitioner needs to be told what faults or defects or shortcomings he/she has, also one needs to be told how he can get rid of them. If spiritual teachers provide a general bookish solution, it would not be effective so much. Public speeches may be interesting but they would not hold much water for the practitioner. Every known guide is drawing larger crowds because one gets great publicity through web pages and other media for telecommunication. We cannot say that the spiritual guides need crowds. They are helpless; they cannot do anything about it. It is all because of telecommunication facilities and the lives being full of stress.
In one’s human form no spiritual guide can take care of the huge crowds without paying personal attention. The worry of paying personal attention is the result of the conditions that prevail. It is out of the control of the Kind-hearted spiritual guides to prevent the followers from growing into what we may call out of proportion. Guides then have to do what the leading followers say. How else can the guides manage the big crowds? They are helpless. It is technology – telephones, aeroplanes, and finally Internet – that helps so many sufferers get close to the guides of great repute. The guides have to work tirelessly. What more can any guide do? It is the Destiny of the human beings that the role of the guides or reformers is also limited – beyond any doubt it is the human Destiny.
One requires a Guide with personal contact, which is impossible as long as the era of telecommunication prevails. Telecommunication has given conditions that have been widening the distance between human beings resulting in stress and unhappiness. Therefore the number of sufferers is growing larger and larger turning into more and more of peace-seekers, who look for guides more and more. Forget the idea of having a Guide with personal touch, unless you are very fortunate. Do not blame any Guide. None can get out of the limitations of the human body and prevailing conditions. God the eternal creator of the creation is always there to help you.
I have emphasized the need of Guide with personal touch. A spiritual practitioner without a Guide (a Guide without personal touch is not so significant) is like a little baby without a good mother. I am nobody to tell what a Guide should do so that his followers might make satisfactory progress. We have already dwelt on destiny and Karma. Like everybody else no Guide can cross the barriers of Destiny, no matter how close to God he is.
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Going without a Guide
The Eternal Guide is with us; we have only to accept Him. If Mira Bai was an exception, everybody else can be equal to or superior to Mira Bai provided one accepts His Grace and give up all desires and ego in all its forms. Desires are the children of ego. Having doubts or not accepting Him is poisonous to our spirituality. As long as we cannot resist the ephemeral pleasures, we shall find ourselves doomed to doubts. The only royal road to accept Him is to reject the idea of drawing pleasure from the material, from the mundane means, from the mundane life. It does not imply that we have to renounce the material. Let all the material be around us, but without the idea of dependence on them for our happiness. If it cannot be done, it is wiser to let go of the idea of spirituality. If we are in two minds, we shall fail miserably and blame God and spirituality. Nobody can escape failures in material life. They are inherent in “Nature” at one point or the other.
Quite a significant number of people on this earth are tired of material life but they do not resort to analysis of the self to look for the real solution. It is no use blaming the world around. In the inner world they do not decide to walk away from the material world.
Not holding on to the material world within oneself is labelled as spirituality. We do not like to practise spirituality. We try finding happiness where we have failed again and again. The reason is that all of us lack in patience required for spiritual practice. It is what keeps us dreaming of material.
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Theory of karma
Who is responsible for karma? The mind? The body? The conditions? The means – fair or foul? Impulse? Desires? Destiny? All of them? None of them? The person himself? Who is responsible for all the karma?
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Changing Destiny
Does something like destiny exist to come into play in an individual’s life? Or it is simply an expression of the people who fail in their lives? If things are not pre-ordained, let one work cautiously and carefully? No doubt, even the strongest may fail miserably. Even the laziest and the most stupid fellows may succeed brilliantly in their lives. If at all we assert that lives are swayed by destiny, how to deal with Destiny?
Meditation
Ever since the dawn of spiritual practice on this globe, closing the eyes and fixing the mind on a certain point has been done by most of the saints. The object of focus may be different, but the goal of the practice has been to move the mind away from the ephemeral things to the well-understood self, which is the undiscovered destination. The Gita hints at the tip of the nose as the object of the focus. Most of the saints have suggested the middle of the chest as the place where the mind is to be focussed with its internal eyes.
Dhyana should not be practised on one’s own. It is better to look for a guide and helper who can sincerely lend you morale support. One should look for a genuine person. If we pray to Him either He gives a guide or He Himself guides us from within.CATEGORIES
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The Road To The Inner World
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