Mysteries of Mind

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Book Agency

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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
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Our journey is a very short Let us not be apprehensive. The journey as well as the distance we have to cover are very short. They appear to be long and arduous only so far as we do not see things in the correct perspective. Ordinarily we do not know how to see. The journey is short and the goal you have to reach is that state of your being in which you have simply to perceive and know and to do nothing else. In other words you become a perfect seer and knower. With the achievement of this state, your journey will come to an end. Yours is a short road, a short journey and that too in a single vehicle which is the current of the vital force in you.
We live between two entities, the state of being a knower and a seer and the taijasa body or the current of the vital force. When the current of the vital force begins to flow in a direction against the state in which the practitioner feels himself to be a knower and a seer only and nothing else, his journey and the road on which he travels become very long and the distance which he has to cover becomes longer and longer. He becomes overwhelmed with one obstruction after another. He comes to feel as if he is lost in darkness and sees no ray of hope anywhere.
King Bharata sent his envoy to Bahubali with the message: "You live in Taxila and I in Ayodhya. There are We hills, forests, rivers and many more things between us. live miles apart from each other. All these are immaterial because we do not have tale-bearer between us. In the absence of such a person we are nearer to each other although physically we are miles apart.
If there is nothing between the soul as a knower and spectator par excellence and the current of the vital force to disturb both, there will be no distance between the two. If delusion or attachment intervenes, they will stand apart and the current of the vital force will begin to flow in the opposite direction.
Existentialism as well as spiritualism imply two things: One is Knowledge-perception and the other is Energy. The former cannot come into operation without the latter. According to the Kamaśāstra, knowledge and perception cannot be acquired until the effects of antaraya karma (obstructive