My experience of self-inquiry

Today I was sitting in the practice of self-inquiry. Usually, I do this practice for 2hours in the morning and two hours in the evening sitting. My mind was going outside into worldly objects. But I didn’t stop my practice then it started to be calm. That is why I am writing this post. Our mind has been use to go outside and never want to be calm. From so many lives it is wandering outside. Like a bird who is caught in the net. by total effort, it wants to come out of the net. It only stops when it dies. So to gain this eternal bliss more practice is needed.

18th question of self-inquiry

Of the devotees who is the greatest?

Answer by Maharishi Ramana: He who gives himself up to the Self, which is God, is the most excellent devotee. Giving one’s self up to God means remaining constantly in the self without giving room for the rise of any thoughts other than that the self.

Whatever burdens are thrown on God, he bears them since the supreme power of God makes all things move. Why should we, without submitting ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should be not done and how not? We know that the train carries all the loads, so we after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our heads to our discomfort, instead of putting it down on the train and feeling at ease?

A question to Maharishi Ramana ( December 1913)

How will the mind become quiescent?)

Maharishi Raman; by the inquiry “Who am I “? The thought “Who am I”? Will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then there will arise Self-realization.

Mind and world

Even though both the mind and the world rise and set together, the mind lights the world. The source from which the mind and world rise and into which they set is the reality ( self or ataman ) that doesn’t rise or subside: Maharishi Ramana.

Comments:

Our self, which is an observer of our body and mind, is reality. Our mind is in front of us. We can see our minds, and we say, please tell me again, my mind, not hearing it was thinking of another person. So you can see your mind because it is different from the you(self ). When the mind goes out, we can see the world, and when it is inward, then the world disappears. In a deep sleep, there is no mind and, therefore, no world. In deep meditation or samadhi, there is no mind and world also. Only bliss shines here.

Need for practice.

Your effort is not to allow yourself to be distracted by others thoughts : Maharishi Ramana.

Comments: This is essential when watching your thoughts that others may not be allowed to come into your mind. As J. Krishnamurti used to say in his public talks that, meditation is ending the thoughts. It is necessary.

Vedanta is the ultimate truth.

What I want to explain in this post what is the teaching of Vedanta; it is the teaching of Upnishdas. Upnishdas are that part of vadas

These are fundamental teachings of the Hindu Vedas as have been described in Bhagavad Gita and other Upnishdas. In Vedas, there are some wrong things have been added also. How can we misuse mantras for harmful effects on someone? But real knowledge of the self has been described in Upnishdas. This is the knowledge of Vedanta.

I will give some ideas of this knowledge.

1. ‘I’ is the only real thing, it is our being or self. But my Is illusion.

Understand that my body, my mind, my son, my wife, my money, my property this is different from me or ‘I’. It had been described in the 13th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita very briefly. Now when I will leave my body. I can’t take it with me ‘ my ‘ I will leave here. But ‘ I’ will remain forever because ‘ I am ‘ is the deathless spirit. There are two parts to this knowledge. First, we have to understand the knowledge by theory and then the second part is of meditation. With this practice and by the grace of the Lord. If we can work very hard on this subject which I said something so one day you will understand the importance and beauty of it. It’s a vast knowledge so I will explain It with very keen interest in other posts.