Vedanta is an adventure into the unknown frontier of your inner self. If you did feel the connection — way beyond words or explanations — till everyday life with its grime again smears you recognizably.
The people who wrote the verses of Vedanta over 3,000 years ago weren’t religious in the sense we currently understand. They were not conjuring dry theories of God and the universe. They were doing something far more beautiful. They were powering up their minds by the engines of intuitive truth. They were soaring. They were rocking. They were touching eternity.
Would you care to soar like they did? It isn’t that easy. It’s not so difficult either.
That which is woven into space, earth, the universe, into your mind and life know that alone as your soul. Silence your mind. Focus. Discern the bridge and cross over. It goes all the way to the deepest part of you… to your real self, which was never born, will never die. Mundaka Upanishad (Ch 2-2-5)
Walk into any open place where you can see a bit of sky. Even a window is good enough. Out there is the endless universe. Look at it.
Try and feel the connection. If you can’t, try and summon enough innocence to open your childlike mind. Your system is hard wired not to feel anything even remotely mind blowing. It is programmed mostly for worrying and tension. You figured that out. Flow with your breathing. Billions of atoms are leaving and entering your body from the universe each second. Isn’t that something? Can you trigger a connection on that? Maybe.
Cosmic rays are conversing with atoms in your body continuously. These messengers travelled 14 billion years non-stop just to reach you. Can you open the mind’s eye to subtle ideas? Yes, you can. You suddenly feel the universe humming like a giant Internet that is connected everywhere — on a bandwidth so vast it defies imagination. ‘That which is woven into space into your mind and life…’. You seem to be heading there… If you are really focused, you will suddenly unexpectedly arrive.
Click. One timeless instant and you are connected. Something awesome instantly happens… you are actually downloading a fragment of the infinite into your tiny self. You need to focus on it. Remember what those ancient guys said. ‘Silence your mind’. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
You begin to ‘cross the bridge’. You have touched the field, the deepest part of yourself ‘that was never born, will never die’. You have touched eternity.
In case, you didn’t feel any connection — take heart. You walked up to the window. You saw the vast universe. You powered the engines of your mind, but it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t sufficient to soar. Or, just as you would have taken off something disturbed you, a thought, a worry, a distraction. In a split second you landed back at the window even before you started.
> to be continued next Sunday...through 46 weeks :-)
( Source : Mani Shankar/ Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad - 18th Jan, 2009 )
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