Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS-MODERN THINKERS VIS-A-VIS ANCIENT TEACHERS
then mind becomes no-mind and you achieve the Godhood. He is the most enlightened.944 The Sutra is as follows:
“One who constantly knows that pain and pleasure are external tendencies and have nothing to do with the Being, he becomes enlightened. Being free from desire, he is freed from the birth death syndrome and attains Godhood."
One who is free from desire is free from pain and pleasure and so totally free and emancipated. What more epithets does he need? There is no place like ‘moksha'. Nibbana or Emancipation is a state of mind. One, who is free from mind, fixed images, prejudices, society, things, people, desires, emotions, ego etc., is really free and emancipated. He is the Buddha, Mahavir, Yogi, and Kewali (omniscient), the enlightened. Free from desires, pain and pleasure is to be Siddha (One who has achieved his objective), Buddha (the enlightened) and Emancipated.
Conclusion
The foregoing shows clearly that the ancient enlightened sages and the modern spiritual thinkers are agreed on the point that attaining selfawareness is the objective of life and through meditation one can learn the art of living in the present with full awareness. Present is the most important thing. The past, being in memory, and the future, only foreboding, are the root cause of suffering. The way to get rid of suffering is to live in the present, be aware of the self and accept the natural flow of life. Enlightenment means end of suffering resulting in peace and eternal happiness.