Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
pleasure, aloof and unassailable; then the pursuit of happiness ceases and the resultant sorrow too. For pain aims at pleasure and pleasure ends in pain, relentlessly.20 What is the root of the pain? Ignorance of yourself. What is the root of desire? The urge to find yourself. All creation toils for its self and will not rest until it returns to it”21
"Turn within and you will come to trust yourself. In everything else confidence comes with experience.22 Understand one thing well, and you have arrived. What prevents you from knowing is not the lack of opportunity, but the lack of ability to focus in your mind what you want to understand.23 Develop the witness attitude and you will find in your own experience that detachment brings control. The state of witnessing is full of power; there is nothing passive about it”. 24
"To work in the world is hard; to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder”.25
God—within or without?
“What is God to you? A sound, a word on paper, an idea in the mind? Why not work with the theory that you are your own creation and creator. At least there will be no external God to battle with. But if you think otherwise, think to the end. If there be God, then all is God's and all is for the best. Welcome all that comes with a glad and thankful heart. And love all creatures. This too will take you to your Self”. 26
Awareness of the Self and pain
“There is no such thing as a person. These are only restrictions and limitations. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of pot. Fight with all strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable or describable. You are not. There is no other way out of misery that you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for enquiry; all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.27 Pain is physical, suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is merely a signal that the body is in danger and requires attention. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is the sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.28 Pain and pleasure happen, but pain is the price of pleasure, pleasure is the reward of pain. To know pain and pleasure are one is peace. Pain and pleasure are the crests and troughs of the waves in the