The Inner Consciousness: How to Awaken and Direct It — John Shaqi
The Inner Consciousness: How to Awaken and Direct ItPrakashananda, Swami
Religion
The Inner Consciousness: How to Awaken and Direct It
Prakashananda, Swami
Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Vedanta
There are many details, but I am only mentioning the most important
points.
When, through proper training and daily practice, one is able to learn
how to gather up the wandering mind, and withdraw these different powers
of the mind from different sources and focus them on one thing, then so
much energy has been combined, as it were, and we can accomplish
something. Otherwise, so much of our energy has been dissipated.
Regarding the difficulties and dangers of concentration, let me mention
that there are difficulties in all paths, in all fields of knowledge.
Nothing worth achieving has been accomplished without a little
difficulty, without a little sacrifice, without a little sincere and
earnest effort. You know, curiosity-seekers never reach anything in
life. Those who are sincere and earnest searchers and seekers have
gradually unfolded themselves and reached the higher realms of
understanding. So there is no real danger in concentration. We must
start with that idea, and not be hasty. Many of us try to take things
like a pill. We take a pill, and it must accomplish its results.
Concentration is not a pill--and we do not know what accumulated
experiences and impressions are at our backs. Through different lives
and through the present life we have been gathering up so many things.
We are performing so many karmas, as we say, and we have to eliminate so
many things in our lives. Through proper effort we shall remove many
obstacles, many difficulties, and our task will become easier and
easier.
Now, the Yogis, in figurative language call this opening up of the inner
consciousness the awakening of the Kundalini. You will see--if you
analyse your life--that there are a few things which are constantly
holding your attention. The mind, as it were, is drawn into certain
realms. As I explained in the beginning, sense perceptions are in
different forms and include many things--our eating, our drinking, all
sorts of habits and many other things. Thus the best of our energies are
swallowed up, as it were, by these things. The Yogis claim that the
nerve centers--the lower nerve centers--have absorbed these energies and
the energies are chained there, or enslaved there, and you have to
release them. There are two sides, the physiological and mental.
Physiologically, when we begin to practise concentration, this energy is
gradually released from the lower centers. It is called the awakening of
Kundalini--coiled-up energy--energy in latent form or enslaved form.
Simultaneously our mind is released from its impressions and begins to
work in a higher realm.
Time will not permit me to enter into the details of this subject, but I
just want to touch upon some important points, so that you will think
and study and investigate more.
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