Tag: contemplating
Which is more important, consciousness or the knowledge?
No, one cannot attain complete knowledge solely through intellectual understanding, and consciousness cannot even be touched based on knowledge alone. Knowledge, irrespective of its field, always arises from within and radiates outward, not the other way around. Even the scriptures we study today, in the form of books and texts, once originated in the elevated minds of certain individuals. These elevated individual were our great spiritual scientists, our sages.
Now, you might say that people are becoming doctors, engineers, and other professionals through external knowledge.
Firstly, the kind of knowledge obtained in this manner turns a person into a robot, not a wise individual. You may call them a specialist or an expert, but essentially, they are robots only.
Now, you might argue that many doctors work with great wisdom and skill. That is because they merely use books as a reference, but contemplation, reflection, and repeated consideration of the subject are their own efforts. This is precisely what our scriptures explain.
At the end of the Upanishads and Vedas, there is a piece of advice that says, do not accept what is written as it is, but only after contemplation, reflection, and meditation, should you accept the facts.
Consciousness and Knowledge
To speak truthfully, knowledge cannot even be born without consciousness. Keep in mind, I am not talking about the knowledge found in books, and you aren’t asking about that kind of knowledge either. Consciousness will arise, and it will bring meditation along with it.
Consciousness is a mysterious power which comes after awakening the mysterious chakra.
How Will Consciousness Arise?
Consciousness will only emerge after deep meditation. If I speak in the language of chakras, when you cross the Anahata chakra or Heart Chakra and reach the Vishuddha chakra or the throat, that’s when you will understand what consciousness truly is.
From there, consciousness will start to awaken. Afterward, you will realize that the information you were feeding yourself from external sources wasn’t true knowledge. The understanding that develops after consciousness awakens, that is knowledge.
Only through deep meditation you can meet consciousness. By reading books or articles on consciousness, you never can touch even a bit of it.
Consciousness and the Power of Understanding
It is quite fascinating that consciousness brings the power of understanding along with it. Because without the power of understanding, you wouldn’t even be able to grasp what consciousness is.
When such an experience happens in life, your life transforms, and so does its purpose.
Thus, let go of mere intellectual knowledge because it cannot come without consciousness.
Who am I?
The question is as short and simple as its answer is difficult and filled with complexity.
In fact, the nature of human existence and the environment around it are structured in such a way that one hardly pays attention to the question – Who am I.
The very nature of the mind is such that it always runs outward. The five senses are designed to focus on the external world. In such a scenario, thoughts about the inner self do not naturally arise in the mind.
Who am I?
“Who am I?”—hardly anyone contemplates this question because the mind doesn’t allow it.
However, it’s not impossible to find an answer. There is a soul, or you may call it the self, or even by another name, which does awaken within everyone for fleeting moments, albeit rarely. If someone recognizes those moments, they embark on this inner journey, and if not, the world takes over.
How to Know Oneself?
The process begins with the power of concentration. Concentration is a power that not everyone possesses. Those who have it achieve success in life as well as in spirituality.
Without concentration, you won’t even recognize those moments I mentioned earlier. So, the first task is to develop concentration.
After that, one must understand consciousness. Without understanding consciousness, you will never know what the self is. However, consciousness is not something that can be grasped easily. But we have the tool of regular practice. Regular practice is like a “magical remedy” that has the potential to accomplish any task.
The true understanding
The true understanding will come to you only after you develop some degree of concentration. “Some concentration” means that even concentration has levels. The real secret lies here, in concentration.
As your mind becomes more focused, your life will begin to change accordingly. One thing to clearly understand is that without concentration, nothing will happen.