Saturday, October 8, 2011


Means to Purify the Inner Senses 

7th October, 2011, Friday
Ashwin Shukla Ekadashi,  Shukravar, Vikram Samvat 2068

Method of Purifying the Inner Senses


Desires-Anger etc. are born and they later subside, it comes and it goes.  But are you (Self) born and later die, or come and go?  No!   Then these faults that arise due to attraction and aversion, are separate from you, aren't they?   Being separate from you,  these are not in "you" (self).  This is a firm and absolute point.  Thereforewith a firm conviction you must think that these are not in you.  If these were in you, then as long as you were there, these faults would also remain,  and when you were not there, then these would also not remain.  However, you remain and these do not remain.  They are temporary, you are certainly not temporary!  Your existence (IS-ness) is at all times!      In deep sleep "I am" is not clearly perceived, then too on waking there is the feeling that I was sleeping till now, but now I am awake.  One never feels that when I was sleeping, at that time I was non-existent.  Our existence is constantly in our experience, and the temporary nature of faults is also apparent in our experience.  Existence and non-existence of flaws, are both in our understanding.  This means that this attachment and aversion, they are both not in your "self", they come in the mind-intellect-senses.  However, by considering the body as me-mine  we do not see the lack of any association we have with them. 
See!  Let me tell you something.  Pay attention and listen carefully.  However much of knowledge we have of the world, it is all from affinity with the worldly objects, body, senses, inner-senses etc.   But enlightenment of the Self is not from affinity with the body, senses, inner-senses.  Now on having purified the inner-senses, the knowledge of the world will become clear, but how will enlightenment take place?  On this one must  query further.
Questioner – Maharajji !  when the inner senses are purified, one servers relationship with the inner senses, then enlightenment will take place on its own. 
Swamiji -  The discrimination between sentient and insentient, real-unreal,  eternal-transient,  it is only by not giving importance to that discrimination (vivek)  that one does not get enlightened.   On giving important to the discrimination, the ignorance will be wiped out and enlightenment will take place.  That "vivek"(discrimination) is in you and it is there right now.  That "vivek" has not been revealed in you, it has not been awakened in you, you have not given it due respect, you have not given it much importance.  This is a mistake. What will happen with the purification of the inner-senses?  Yes!  There is a point, that on purification of the inner-senses the one thing that will happen is that you will become inclined towards spiritual pursuits, nothing else will happen. 

There is one extra-ordinary point,  where an aspirant's attention generally does not go.  The realization of Divinity and Truth, the realization of the Self are "Kaaran Nirpeksh"  (not aided by inner-senses). They are not attained by doing something.  Therefore whether the inner-senses are purified or non-purified,  by being apart from them, enlightenment will take place.  (to be continued) 

From "Bhagwat Praapti ki Sugamtaa"  in Hindi and English  by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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Date : 5th October, 2011 – Antahakaran ki Shuddhi ka Upaai 


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