A lyricist wanted to write a song and tune it in a very catchy way. So he went and sat under a tree and started humming tunes in his mind. He remembered his last song and the tune he has given it. He wanted to listen to that song and closed his eyes and mouth and started listening to his tune. The tune flowed down beautifully in his mind in a better way than he could have sung it by way of singing it loud. He was so proud of it that tears rolled down his cheeks. At that moment his friend wandered into his presence and saw him crying. So he asked “My dear friend why are you crying?” The lyricist then said “I was overjoyed while singing one of the tunes I composed. It was so beautiful.” Hearing this friend said “Hey, but I didn’t hear you singing at all?” So the lyricist said “The singing was going on in my mind”.
Here the lyricist listened to his song and he heard it extremely well and was overjoyed.
If we put the question “How could he hear a song which was never sung by his mouth?”
And who heard it? For his ears to hear it the singing has to be loud. So his body has not heard it. That’s certain. So there was certainly another entity with his body which could hear the song in the tune and understand it too.
The lyricist said “‘I’ was listening to the tune “. The ‘I’ was listening to the tune collected by the ‘Ears’, the sense in the body for hearing sound. It can only gather the sound of the tune. The enjoying person was the ‘I’.
The five sensory organs in human body are Ears, Eyes, Nose, tongue and the Skin for hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching respectively. The mind collects the data brought in by these five agents in the body. The four inner subtle instruments are mind, intellect, ego and memory. The mind is of the nature of indecision, decision is the nature of intellect, ego is the notion of “I am the body” and memory is the storage of data collected. Generally these four subtle parts together is known as ‘mind’ only.
The mind keeps collecting data continuously according to its inherent tendencies. This process keeps running untiringly. One finds it difficult to stop this process at one’s will initially. The data is in the form of thoughts and the wrong notion of ‘I’ finds itself harassed by this continuous activity of the mind and becomes restless resulting in loss of peace and quititude.
'Bhagavan' says that it is at this point that one has to become aware of what is going on. Many come across a dead end here not knowing how to quell the mind. Because the active mind starts telling upon the gross body leading to various psychosomatic illnesses like anxiety, depression ,fear loss of appetite, hopelessness and many other diseases.
He comes to the rescue of the suffering individual and leads him by hand and shows him how to get rid of the disturbing mind and arrive at peace and life’s goal.
Let us now listen to his instructions on holding on to one’s ‘I’ thought to begin with 'self enquiry'.
Here the lyricist listened to his song and he heard it extremely well and was overjoyed.
If we put the question “How could he hear a song which was never sung by his mouth?”
And who heard it? For his ears to hear it the singing has to be loud. So his body has not heard it. That’s certain. So there was certainly another entity with his body which could hear the song in the tune and understand it too.
The lyricist said “‘I’ was listening to the tune “. The ‘I’ was listening to the tune collected by the ‘Ears’, the sense in the body for hearing sound. It can only gather the sound of the tune. The enjoying person was the ‘I’.
The five sensory organs in human body are Ears, Eyes, Nose, tongue and the Skin for hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching respectively. The mind collects the data brought in by these five agents in the body. The four inner subtle instruments are mind, intellect, ego and memory. The mind is of the nature of indecision, decision is the nature of intellect, ego is the notion of “I am the body” and memory is the storage of data collected. Generally these four subtle parts together is known as ‘mind’ only.
The mind keeps collecting data continuously according to its inherent tendencies. This process keeps running untiringly. One finds it difficult to stop this process at one’s will initially. The data is in the form of thoughts and the wrong notion of ‘I’ finds itself harassed by this continuous activity of the mind and becomes restless resulting in loss of peace and quititude.
'Bhagavan' says that it is at this point that one has to become aware of what is going on. Many come across a dead end here not knowing how to quell the mind. Because the active mind starts telling upon the gross body leading to various psychosomatic illnesses like anxiety, depression ,fear loss of appetite, hopelessness and many other diseases.
He comes to the rescue of the suffering individual and leads him by hand and shows him how to get rid of the disturbing mind and arrive at peace and life’s goal.
Let us now listen to his instructions on holding on to one’s ‘I’ thought to begin with 'self enquiry'.
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About this poem:
Self Enquiry is the answer for all problems one may face. It leads one to meaning, purpose and goal.
Self Enquiry is the answer for all problems one may face. It leads one to meaning, purpose and goal.
