Conscious Immortality by Paul Brunton

Author:Paul Brunton [Brunton, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788182881785
Amazon: B00F13MWMU
Goodreads: 19247369
Publisher: Sri Ramanasramam
Published: 2018-05-12T05:00:00+00:00

14. THE ULTIMATE AS TRUTH

The Self is like a powerful hidden magnet within us. It draws us gradually to itself, though we imagine we are going to it of our own accord. When we are near enough, it puts an end to our other activities, makes us still, and then swallows up our own personal current, thus killing our personality. It overwhelms the intellect and overfloods the whole being. We think we are meditating upon it and developing towards it, whereas the truth is that we are as iron filings and it is the Atman-magnet that is pulling us towards itself. Thus the process of finding Self is a form of Divine Magnetism.

It is necessary to practise meditation frequently and regularly until the condition induced becomes habitual and permanent throughout the day. Therefore meditate.

You lost sight of the bliss because your meditative attitude had not become natural and because of the recurrence of vasanas. When you become habitually reflective, the enjoyment of spiritual beatitude becomes a matter of natural experience.

It is not by a single realisation that “I am not the body but the Atman” that the goal is reached. Do we become high in position by once seeing a king? One must constantly enter into samadhi and realise one’s Self, and completely blot out the old vasanas and the mind, before it becomes the Self.

If you keep to the thought of the Self, and be intently watching for it then even that one thought which is used as a focus in concentration will disappear and you will BE, the true Self.

Meditation on Self is our natural state. Only because we find it hard do we imagine it to be an arbitrary and extraordinary state. We are all unnatural. The mind resting in the Self is its natural condition, but instead of that our minds are resting in outward objects.

After the expulsion of name and form (nama-rupa) which compose the external world, and by dwelling on existence-knowledge-bliss (sat-chit-ananda), take care to prevent the re-entry into the mind of the expelled name and form.

Q. How to find Self?

A. There can be no real investigation into the Atma. The investigation can only be made into the non-Self. Elimination of the non-Self is alone possible. The Self being always Self-evident will shine of itself. [Talk 78]

‘Knowing’ means ‘being’. It is not relative knowledge. [Talk 354]

Progress can be spoken of in reference to things to be attained. Whereas here it is the removal of ignorance and the not the acquisition of knowledge. [Talk 49]

Q. What is the jnana path?

A. Yoga is similar because both help concentration of mind. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the Universal Reality. Yoga is itself an aid to Self-realisation, the Goal of all. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now. Therefore jnana tries to find out how separation came about. [Talk 17]

Q. How did avidya arise?

A. Avidya is like Maya, “that which is not.” Therefore the question is what is avidya? Avidya is ignorance. It implies subject and object.

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