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     Ego Seeks

Struggle of a spiritual seeker

        Spiritual life is a struggle because, he or she has to swim opposite the direction of the river flow. To flow with the river is easy, but there is always bumps and humps of life, which is also sorrowful. The spiritual seeker has to go backwards to the "Source of the river" to extinguish the reflection of the Sun, the Ego. Because we have already seen that going backwards to the second stage of river, the reflection becomes less hazy and in the glacier stage there is no reflection of the sun but only pure awareness. This is the state of a self realized person.

      All beings proceed towards this state of self Realization, which is a process called evolution. Every being has that inherent tendency to reach that state of pure awareness and merge to the pure Consciousness. This is the propelling force for survival that is seen in all beings.  This Vedantic concept  took thousands of years in the west to be popularized by Charles Darwin.  However the evolution theory proposed by Charles Darwin is not complete because it only gives the answer of how through survival of fittest, evolution moves forward, but there is no explanation for a why does it have to occur.

      Vedantic view of evolution and its purpose is complete. In the next few pages we will discuss why life originated and how life evolved through various stages for Self-Realization. The Vedantic view is about internal Evolution and gave only least importance to external evolution.

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1. Journey To The Source: Decoding Matrix Trilogy- Pradheep Chhalliyil  to read about this interesting book that describes the evolution as a Journey to the Source more vividly.

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     We are , Who we think we are 

       All If we think we are this mortal body, mind and senses, then we are subjected to a life of birth and death (Samsara). If we transcend into the reality that we are just the perceiver or the witness of all the actions, then we are the immortal, eternal light. Transcending to realize that we are not this mortal body but the eternal Consciousness principle is Salvation or Moksha or Nirvana or liberation or freedom.

     All of us are flowing in that direction whether we like it or not. This is the order of evolution. If we do break this flow disasters happens in life in the form of diseases, pains, sufferings, just to hit us to go further in the process of evolution. Many a times people suffer from serious set backs in life and understand that the pain and suffering help some of them to think and correct. Some may not correct hem and so had to undergo again pain and suffering until they learn it right.

   This is why we undergo sufferings in life. Diseases or accidents come in the form to awake us from the deep slumber of ignorance. But when we encounter pain and suffering in life we tend to take short cuts to overcome it and do not learn from the mistakes. We think we are smart to forego the lessons to be learnt.  There is no escape for us from not realizing our own Self. Our Journey ends when we realize our True Self.  Till we realize our true Self, we will under go all the sufferings and pain for one goal, Self Realization.

      It is like school children who are in pain and suffering when encounter with examinations or tests. The reality is that these exams are not really to torture the children, but to self evaluate their own understanding of the subject. Similarly the pains and sufferings we encounter in life in not meant to torture ourselves, but nature organizes that based on a set of laws called "karma". The laws of karma are like exam rules and regulations.  Nature has beautifully organized based on these laws. The law of karma can be given in one  short proverb" what we sow we reap".

     So if we take care of our health of the body and mind we reap benefits of good health of the body and mind. If we misuse then we are going to suffer correspondingly. Here is the catch, we take care of the body and mind only when are strengthen our intellect and then slowly drift into the state of awareness. To put in other words, all these health care tips are in fact to drive us into the state of awareness. It is our laziness and our ego that prevents us from taking this forward step.

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1. Journey To The Source: Decoding Matrix Trilogy- Pradheep Chhalliyil  to read about this interesting book that describes the evolution as a Journey to the Source more vividly.

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     Good & Evil 

       All the question about does God exists, did God create evil, is God in heaven etc arise out of the ignorance of our Self. Knowing our self, all these questions vanishes like the mist in the presence of Sun. Hundreds of years back the king of Persia (Iran) had a very logical question, if God who is Good and all powerful is there , then how come evil exist in the world. Who created evil, was it God?. Zoroastrian a powerful teacher explained with a simple example that evil is only another name for the absence of goodness. Its absence only becomes conspicuous when light and shade play hide and seek. Yet shade is not a substantial thing. It is only light that matters and seems to create shadows. Shadows however are not created by light but are the name for its absence. Likewise it is goodness alone which needs to be created, sin will by itself appear whenever goodness is eschewed.

        Similarly concepts of heaven and hell are the creation of the ego mind. Heaven and hell are our own states of mind. When we are away from the light of our consciousness, we then live in the realm of the Ego which is nothing but hell because through the Ego we inflictpain and suffering to own self and as well as others.  However when we transcend to the realm of the Self, we have peace or heaven in us and radiate that to others also. Hell and heaven are experienced right now when we live and not after death.

     There is no judgmental day waiting for us after death. When God itself is beyond judgments (Judge ye not), then how can God have a judgment day and punish and reward. All these concepts arise when the Ego mind project God (Consciousness) as a person sitting some where in a place called heaven and controlling everything. God or pure Consciousness is like the light of the Sun that we have seen in the previous illustration which has nothing to do with the shadows.

      Without God or pure Consciousness, there is nothing, but God has nothing to do with whatever is happening in this world. Like the light, that is unaffected by the play of the shadows.  It is all the shadow  play of the Ego. This concept of God is confused vastly in all religions, however spiritual traditions are very clear about it. Not understanding this concept is ignorance and leads to all confusions, pain and suffering. All the problems that we suffer are our own creation. We create thoughts with our own free will and suffer from it. This is why from the beginning we have been insisting on creating positive thoughts to create a blissful life.

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      Maya 

            Maya or illusion is also widely mis-understood. Maya does not mean that the objects in the world does not exists, it is an illusion. This is how Vedanta is highly misinterpreted.

 The whole confusion goes away by understanding four words.

 1. Sathya (Real). Consciousness is Sathya (Truth or Reality). This means it exists by itself. It does not need anything for its existence.

 2. Mithya (unreal, asath)- Anything that is not self-existent but depends on something else. For example, if Gold is taken as real, then Gold ring and gold necklase is mithya or unreal. Unreal does not mean illusion. Gold ring is not an illusion, but mithya. This means the ring (form) necklase (form) depends on Gold for its existence. If there is no gold, there is no Gold ring or Gold-necklase. So they are mithya.

 3. Thutcha (illusion). Horse horn is an illusion. It never exists. This is clear and does  not require further explanation.

 4. Maya. Maya is the inability to distinguish between the real (sath) from Asath (unreal). Maya is wrongly translated as illusion. Maya is not illusion. It is the lack of awareness to understand the real from the unreal.

Therefore this Universe is not an illusion (thutcha) but Mithya (unreal). Only Pure Consciousness is real.

 Maya is the inability of seeing "Oneness". Everything we see as different. From the day we are born we are taught to differentiate things. We are not taught to see the Oneness.  Maya is beautifully explained in the following scriptural verse from Tirumandiram, a Tamil classic text, from 2 BC by Tirumoolar, a Saint, astronomer, alchemist,  philosopher and a physician.

 "Marathai Maraithathu Mamatha Yanai Marathil Marainthathu Mamatha
Yanai"

"Parathai Maraithathu Parmuthal Bhutham Parathil Marainthathu
Parmuthal Bhutham"

Wood is masked by the toy elephant
And the toy elephant by the wood, and so is
Consciousness masked by the five elements in the Universe
And the Universe is hidden in the Consciousness.
 

        The above verse means that a child sees the toy elephant and not the wood that makes the elephant. But a the carpenter is only interested in the wood and not the toy. A learned person may study all about matter in the universe, but the wise man sees only Consciousness.

The ordinary person looks at the five levels of their personal beliefs as the five elements (Panhca Bhootas)but the wise looks at the ultimate Truth (Consciousness).
           

                 To see the whole world as different objects are of that  of the eyes of the immature child. But to see the world as that of Pure Consciousness is the sight of the divine "third-eye", which is opened upon the purification of the mind.

              We started Pancha Bhoota five steps for healing diseases of body and mind. But there is a disease of Samsara, the cycle of birth and death to be healed. This is only possible when we purify our mind and realize the Consciousness as our real Self. Without knowing the reality that everything is Consciousness,  we are caught up in a world of pair of opposites of good and bad, right and wrong, virtue and evil.

           Who created these pair or opposites? Did God create it. Does God exists?. These are the questions often asked by us. We will briefly discuss about it in the next page.