Hari
Om
Each 'Choose-day' we will investigate the process by
which we can reassess our activity and interaction with the world of plurality
and become more congruent within our personality.
KINDLE LIFE. We continue exploring
points raised by HH Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda-ji in the publication of
this name. Remember, you can purchase, (very economically!), the book
from Chinmaya Mission Publications or if you prefer,
the Amazon Link. Thus you can read
Gurudev's words directly and bring your own voice to the discussion.
(This
is a continuation of a discourse - please read the previous Choose-day post for
complete picture.)
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The
Rsis did not consider life to be meaningless. They viewed life as something
which offered the highest potentialities for perfection. If Darwin visualized a greater and nobler stage of
supermanhood, according to the Rsis, this supermanhood (or Godhood) can be
achieved by man in this very life, through an intelligent process of
self-integration and meditation. In their view, Truth (Reality) is One,
All-pervading. They concluded, then, that life must be the basis of everything
perceivable in nature. Thus, they found that in all layers of life among the
living beings and the existing things, Life (Truth) expresses itself in varying
degrees and in different languages. The various equipment constituted of names
and forms in the world were divided into four groups; inert stone life, plant
life, animal life and man life. In all
these four layers of varying degrees of Life, they tried to see the expression
of it.
They found that Life in the inert stone simply expresses as existence, while, when
we come to plant life we Life has started expressing through a more developed
equipment with the vaguest awareness of an external environment. In animal
life, compared to plant life, there is again an increased variety and
complexity of equipment along with a greater awareness and interaction with
environment and each other. Also, for a few of the higher levels of animal
life, there may be some 'self' awareness, albeit very basic.
In
man life though, the finest equipment is found; large amounts of 'awareness',
termed now as 'consciousness' which permits the greatest amount of expression
and interaction with the environment, with others in that environment, but also
within themselves.
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Thus,
when we view nature, we understand that beneath the superficial contentions of
names and forms, the confusion of values and the complication of the problems
of life, runs a scheme silently fulfilling itself. To complete this scheme, therefore, should be
the grand aim of Life. From the lowest evaluates to the members of the highest
grade developed, there is at every stage a greater expression of consciousness
and therefore to realise that in itself, if at all possible, would be the
peaceful and perfect, the dynamic and divine goal of existence.
In
order that our BMI, (body, mind, intellect), may be driven to this
Self-discovery and to be fully aware of the Pure Consciousness in
ourselves, we have appeared in the field of activity with the sorrows it
brings, the limitations of power, the imperfections; all encouraging 'whips'
that make us run on the road and reach our goal earlier.
The
greater our identification with the matter envelopment, the greater become
our sorrows. To detach ourselves through right understanding and correct
discrimination from these erroneous connections, is to reach ultimately the
Pure and the eternal Self within us. If a progressive liquidation of the
perceived plurality is thus possible as we view the pluralistic world from
deeper and subtler layers in ourselves, it appears clear that there must be a
still subtler fact within, from the gates of which we shall have the vision of
the All-pervading Divine…
LIFE
IS ONE. A being is considered to be living when it is conscious of the outer
world or both the outer and inner world.
Therefore, to live consciously is to fully live Life; a life that is one
without a second everywhere, throbbing in and through the different equipment
in different degrees of experiences.
The
purer the mind and lesser the number of agitations, the greater is the
consciousness that beams through such an individual and he becomes prophet,
saint, sage; one who gathers unto himself the world of beings in the compelling
embrace of Love. He comes to experience and live entirely in unison with this
sacred life as expressed through the multiple equipment, all around the
universe in terms of Conscious Awareness.
He is a God-man; his state is supermanhood. Such a man - call him Krishna, Christ,
Mohammad, Mahadeva, Buddha, Shankara…- appears on Earth to lead and guide his
generation from time to time.
With
the magic of his love and the strength and sharpness of his wisdom, he tries to
erase the animalism in mankind an to lift the entire generation to a higher
pedestal of peaceful co-existence in a web of mutual love and understanding.
...to be continued...
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