Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space

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start blaming woman as the cause of temptation. Eve was made the cause of Adam's fall. Birth is considered evil because it is born from desire, and desire is not good. So all of us are born from mistakes. As a result of this approach, you criticize everything; you leave the inner world out.
Life comes from inside feelings, from unity. But in this negative approach, there is no unity. Anything you do with two ends pulling you in opposite directions may give you temporary pleasure, but it does not give you life. You will see the day you are unhappy, you may eat good food, but it will not turn into health. You have burned it up in the oil of worry. The whole process is caught up in fight. A person who is fighting is not free. Always his hands are caught up. Whom are you fighting? Your left hand wants to win over your right hand. You become exhausted.
In the other approach, you do not fight. You don't make an effort to give up. You choose something better, you transcend.
ANTARATMAN (interior soul) means to find something better. When you find better, good is left behind. When you go to the best, better is left. What is the process of turning inward? To see that the same doors which take you out have the power to bring you in. You have not to make two doors: one to go out, and another to come in. It is a matter of changing your direction: facing this direction instead of that; turning inside instead of out.
BHAGWAN MAHAVIRA says, "Have SAMYAK DARSHAN! Watch! Don't fight!” Watch the nature of these senses. When you turn inside, you start using your senses to see your inside world. As you see beauty in the sky, you see radiance in meditation. As you hear music outside, so you hear the soundless sound and the inner music within. Your whole approach changes because you are not fighting. You not impatient either. You know, "it cannot be done overnight. Only I have to grow in my understanding". As you grow in your understanding, your outward approach becomes inward.
PARAMATMAN is the Goal. It is transcending both sides. There is no outside, no inside. It is “I am in myself. I am in my own light of awareness.” The highest soul has reached its own state of peace. There is nothing to get, to win, or to achieve. If we keep our eyes on PARAMATMAN, our attachments, expectations and demands gradually fade away and we will feel that we are there without any fight or flight to experience the state of being which is LIGHT, LOVE, and PEACE. Otherwise, life will be competitive and a constant fight in which we live in turmoil and frustration.
When we change and turn the senses inside, we go from BAHIRATMAN to ANTARATMAN. Eventually all duality ceases. What is felt inside is inside unity, fulfillment: the transcendent state of PARAMATMAN.
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