Sunday 7 August 2011

The Being


Our life starts with breathing and thinking. The being manifests itself first in the form of Prana and mind. Thinking is the basic element of all kind of activities. Though we all understand that we must think first before doing anything but we rarely try to understand that what is our thinking depends upon. To think at least one has to be, without being there would be no thinking and no doing. So it is found that being is the basis of all activities, behavior and the different ways and forms of living. So by taking care of being all areas of life can be glorified.
Being is the ultimate realty of all that exist and it is absolute in nature. The glory of being can be experienced directly and recognized as ultimate realty. It is imperishable and eternal; water cannot wet it nor can fire burn it. Wind cannot dry it weapons cannot slay it. It is in front, it is behind, it is above and below. It is to the right and the left. It is all- pervading omnipresent, divine being.
Vedic philosophy describes the relative and absolute as two aspects of the one realty. Life is nothing but being in all its phases of absolute and relative existence. Oneness of being is nothing but the diversity of life, imperishable being is the ever-changing, perishable universe. The words abstract and concrete are relative and neither expresses the nature of being in its true sense. But for the sake of understanding if we have to use a word to define its nature we can say it is abstract and not concrete however the experience of it is far more concrete than any thing in relative life.
The knowledge of being has been shrouded in mysticism because of its abstract nature, as the result the common man has been deprived of the great advantages of experiencing being. The Bhagavad Geeta describes very clearly the path of enlightenment, meditation and claims a little practice can relieve a man of great fears and there will be no obstacle to have a direct experience of it. This practical message of the direct experience of being as the ultimate realty glorifies all aspects of life.
Our experience in the field of perception shows that we experience gross and subtle things. We use our eyes to see, our ears to hear and so on but there is limit to what the eyes can see, the ears hear and the tongue taste. This marks the limit of the experience of grass creation. This is the case with all the senses of perception. They are only able to experience grass objects.
The subtle field is beyond our ordinary range of experience. There exist the subtle strata of creation with which we are not familiar because our ordinary capacity for experience is limited to the grass.
Since being is by nature transcendental, it does not belong to the range of any of the senses of perception. Only when the sensory perception has come to an end can the transcendental field of being be reached. In the practice of meditation a suitable thought is selected and the technique for experiencing it in its initial stages of development enables the conscious mind to arrive systematically at the source of thought, the field of being. The transcendental state of being lies beyond the all seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting, beyond all thinking and beyond all feeling. This state of the unmanifested, absolute, pure consciousness of being is the ultimate state of life which can be easily experienced through the systematic process of meditation.  
         



Presented by
Sunil Sinha                                                                                                                                     
(Honored in USA, Europe, Australia, New Zee land
and Japan as an associate of Maharishi Organization.)