External world is always changing. If the external world
keeps changing, then the real Truth is not to be found there. Sand changes to
form bricks, they in turn form house. Our utensils are made from metals who
take different forms at different level. Form changes yet we call them
differently though they all are made of the same material of universe.
What about senses, do they help us in attaining the
Truth? When the external world changes our senses have a tendency to see and
feel only a limited version of the same. Eyes can see a limited world; ears can
hear limited things and so on. Our senses do provide useful information in this
journey of truth but its inadequate and limited information. Hence the eternal
Truth or the absolute truth cannot be gained from them.
Different Yog Sutras tell us, it’s the mind which helps.
But this mind is in itself the most limited one. It is like clouded by a dense
fog always. Our own mental conditioning's, habits, thoughts, spiritual
ignorance, they all form a foggy cloud, thus not letting us see or understand
anything clearly. A clouded mind is the reason why we completely miss the
points regarding spiritual path teachings and method.
Clouded mind is the biggest problem in this path of
attaining ultimate Truth and this need to be cleared. And the first step to
this is to accept the fact that your mind is clouded. Unless we accept this
fact we can never work towards taking action to find remedy.
Next we need to train ourselves to be consciously more
observant, do a better job of discriminating, and to repeatedly go over the
same basics of meditation, contemplation and communing with the Divine. You
experience or not, go on doing it in disciplined manner. This means doing the
same simple practices, reading the same books, and listening to the same
explanations, over and over, and not always looking for something new around
every curve in the road.
With time this sufficiently cleans out the clouds in our
mind. You start getting the experience and now when we carry on with the process;
we start understanding more clearly the path our past great sages showed us.
And thus we can finally reach the goal we have set out for, the Ultimate Truth.
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