Self-Enquiry is real religiosity.

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Dear all,

A religious person is one who sets out search for his " I " and more

 

he goes on searching,the more he finds out that his " I " is not there at all.

 

The day the shadow of " I " disappears,the day neither " I " or " you " remains,

 

you will be pulled into the Self with it's magnetic effect.Then you feel at home

 

for the first time.

 

At present you are mistaking workshop of mind for your home and you are

 

identifying with the utilitarian body- mind complex and suffering from

 

uninterrupted mental conflict because of this wrong identity.So we have to

 

find our real home through Self-Enquiry with awareness as the basis for

 

investigation.

 

If we live in the mind thinking that it is our home,there is continuous

 

chattering interrupting our innate peace.There is anxiety,worry,tension,

 

anguish,misery,suffering,desires etc and all these create many,many

 

layers of curtain around the consciousness making it to appear cloudy,

 

and you cannot feel at home because of them.These disturb the joy,peace,

 

blissfulness which is our innate nature.

 

At present we are experiencing the things in unawareness and we go on

 

repeating the same mistake again and again.That is why history repeats

 

itself.If we are aware during an experince,we will not repeat the same

 

mistake again.If we comprehensively encounter one experience in

 

awareness,we develop the capacity to face any situation and there is the

 

flowering of the art of Self-Enquiry.This is the real religiosity.

 

Wrong belief that we are not the Self which leads us to identity with the

 

body-mind complex will continuously obstruct,negate and closes the doors

 

to all possibilities of flowing of light and energy of Self.The creative energy

of

 

Self is plugged,blocked and diverted to some activity that society thinks is

 

going to pay.

 

In Self-Enquiry one should not judge his mind,instead one should love it,

 

by just witnessing it,then only the mind reveals it's content in the

 

awareness and withers.During this destructuring of mind in awareness

 

there is pain of disillusionment because so far we thought ego is is our real

 

home and leaving it now causes pain.One has to pass through this pain of

 

disillusionment before transcending pleasure-pain ego life.

 

In the awareness of Self-Enquiry,one will purify himself of all wrong

 

conditionings and auto suggestions.Self-Enquiry is an act of witnessing

 

consciousness.The life you have so far lived is a long pretension of things

 

that are not.For example one talks about compassion,universal brotherhood,

 

service to humanity etc keeping intact the ego with it's intrinsic separative

 

feeling.These pretentions veil on your essential Self.You go on acquiring

 

more veils in the form of knowledge,learning,scholorship etc.But Self-Enquiry

 

is not a question of learning,it is an art perceiving the things " as they are " ,

 

it is an act of knowing which is verbal in nature.It is just witnessing the

inner

 

chattering of mind with love.Everything,that which is not,disappears if you

 

are aware,so also the inner chattering.When inner chattering stops even for

 

few moments,you feel at home.Whenever inner chattering starts again

 

simply " be aware " ,the inner chattering stops and you will suddenly feel at

 

home.This is Self-Enquiry.

 

Once the mind understands that you have found something greater,

 

something better,something higher,slowly it receeds.It's function is fulfilled.

 

Now the mind is inward turned.It's activity is is a hurdle now.

 

When your mind is silent without any activity of thought,you will at home

 

anywhere and you will be in tune with the whole.Gradually the awareness

 

spreads slowly during sleep also and your whole energy is turned into

 

silent pool without any ripples.

 

Then there is no need to crave for anything including the hope for God,

 

liberation.Then you will just " be " which is synonimous of " being the Self " .

 

This is real Self-Enquiry and real religiosity.

 

Then deep inside you will be full of joy,celebration,ecstasy and

 

you will be continuously receiving more and more blessings from

 

Godliness.Your life will be a life of benediction.