Psychology of Enlightenment

SR No.: 001807
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu
Publisher: New York Dodd Made & Company
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Dhyan
File Size: 5 MB

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Manipura-The Indweller, Your Hidden Power
his head in my lap and while I was comforting him, he quietly repeated the mantra, Om namo arihantānam (“I bow to those souls who have conquered their inner enemies"). Then he closed his eyes. At that moment, a doctor who was present told me it was over. "What is over?” I asked.
He said, “Your father is dead.” Dead? I couldn't understand what had happened, and I felt a little angry. Just one minute before, my father had been alive and, in a moment, he had had a heart attack and was gone.
I later meditated on this incident, which opened the whole mystery of life to me. I saw that while we are thinking and planning everything, we really have no idea who is behind the plan. While we are constantly weaving the cloth of life with so much jealousy, anger, hatred, prejudice, vanity, and disconnected thoughts, we don't really know who is weaving, nor for how long. We have no idea when our play will be over.
In meditation, however, we experience that Self who makes the body live and the senses and the mind function. We are all born for the purpose of getting in touch with that invisible Self.
As I have mentioned, the first step is to understand that the body is comprised of material elements whose nature is to compose and decompose. Next, we must realize that anything which can be composed can be decomposed. Then we begin to differentiate between the composite form which is forever disintegrating and that inner, indestructible energy which has the power to keep these elements composed and revitalized. This energy is the Self, the soul;
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