Mysteries of Mind

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

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SEARCH FOR EXISTENCE: RIGHT VISION
IS
The practitioner departed and engaged himself in the exercise earnestly and vigorously. Then he again came to the preceptor who asked him if he had any more questions to ask. The practitioner replied that he had none and that all his doubts had been removed.
There are doubts and misgivings in us only till we stand on the plane of the intellect. Once we have ascended on the plane of experience they subside. Hearing what others say about knowledge and knowledge itself are a matter of intellectual concern. Vijñāna or discernment stands on a higher plane. Sadhană or self-exertion begins with the rise of discernment and leads to experience. The practitioner has to perform a number of exercises before he can arrive at Truth.
Viveka-pratima and kājotsarga are the two means of achieving Right Vision. Let us now consider what the consequences of discernment or enlightenment are. Discernment produces the following:
1. Calmness. You cannot achieve calmness without
making a distinction between what is desirable and what is not. Right Vision enables you to make this
distinction. 2. An earnest desire for freedom or emancipation. He
who desires to be emancipated would never like to be conditioned in any way. There is no peace in a
conditioned life which is not free from attachments. 3. Detachment in every walk of life from the beginning
to the end as well as not to be attached to any path. 4. Karuņā or compassion and freedom from all kinds
of cruelty. This develops the spirit of friendliness
towards every one. 5. Dedication to truth and freedom from all kinds of
falsehood.
An enlightened person who has the power of discernment will achieve Right Vision which enables him to perceive his real existence.