V RAVI - Emancipate Your Soul: Simplified Theory and Practice

Emancipate Your Soul

Simplified Theory and Practice

BY

V. RAVI

MANBLUNDER PUBLICATION

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Date of publication: April 14, 2011

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Manblunder publication

Chennai, India.

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C ONTENTS

Introduction

PART I

Inner psychic organs

- mind

-intellect and knowledge

-consciousness

-ego

Interconnectivity among inner psychic organs

Maayaa

Concept of karma

Brahman

Individual soul

Prakrti

Sensory organs

Interdependence of psychic and sensory organs

Cause and effect

Creation and death

Sheaths of body

PART II

The Practice

The Epilogue

INTRO DUCTION

Spiritual realization is not that tough to pursue. It only needs proper understanding of the psychic being and the making of it. What is really needed is a thorough knowledge about the process of creation. Unless one knows all the components of a machine, a perfect machine cannot be made. Unless one has total knowledge of the Spirit, spiritual knowledge cannot be perfect. An ill- conceived spiritual knowledge will only be an erosion of time in ones precious life.

There are too many theories about spirituality and too many jargons are used, thereby complicating the process of understanding spirituality. Pursuing the spiritual path is easy for those who could understand the intricacies of the phenomena involved. Once a proper spiritual life is pursued, the result will be distinctly evident, resulting in eternal happiness and joy. The one who has truly realized the cause of his existence continues to lead a normal life. He cannot be identified and distinguished from the rest. He will continue to exist as one amongst us. Only those who are able to read energy level of others can identify him. He is evidently different from those who project themselves as the realised souls.

This edition has simplified the process of realising the Self within. The book has been divided into two parts. The first one is the theoretical aspect and the second one is the practical aspect. Theory deals with the process of acquiring knowledge and eluci dates all about Soul and soul. Technical terms have been avoided as for as possible and all that is necessary to understand spirituality have been explained to the extent that is required to understand them. The first part deals with inner psychic organs, maayaa, karma, Brahman, individual soul, Prakrti, sensory organs, creation and death, sheaths of body. The origin of worldly experience begins when inner psychic organs set out their interdependence with gross body. The second part deals with the practice of uniting self with the Self.

Every effort has been taken to present this edition as simple as possible, so that spirituality is understood in its true sense and practiced perfectly to attain final liberation.

Please begin reading this book by making an affirmation that you will be liberated when you reach the last phrase of the book I am That. To achieve the logical end of spiritual life, repeated affirmations are necessary. Affirmations infuse positive influence on your mind and make you the object of affirmation. When you affirm I am That you become That.

PART I

INNER PSY CHIC ORGANS - MIND

Inner psychic organs comprise of four subtle components that work on the inner subtle plane. What is visible in you body is gross and what is not visible is subtle. They are mind, intellect, consciousness and ego. Each one of them not only functions independently, but also functions in consorting with each other. The inner psychic organs are very powerful components that decide the quality of an individual. They are too subtle in nature, hence difficult, but not impossible to exercise control over them. They work along with external sensory organs and makes a person to function as a human being. For example, your existence has become possible because of the triad mind, body and soul. The perfect balance between these three is an important aspect of your existence and also for realising the Self within.

Mind is one of the amazing instruments of human life. Mind is endowed with the power of creativity and when manifested, the dualities like pain and pleasure are realized. The mind could be pure or impure depending upon external influences. If mind is not properly trained and tamed, it turns out to be a potential source of danger, dangerous than the weapons of war. Therefore, when one decides to pursue the path of spirituality, mind has to be quarantined; as otherwise, it acts according to its likes and dislikes. It develops likes and dislikes from the three attributes or guna-s goodness, passion and darkness or harmonious, mobility and inertia (sattvic, rajasic and tamasic). All the three attributes are always prevalent in all the human beings, but not in equal proportions. The only time when all the three attributes are in equal proportion is pre-creation period. These attributes play an important role by influencing the mind and making the mind susceptible to likes and dislikes.

Mind can be termed as the combination of the next two of the inner psychic organs viz. intellect and consciousness. When the mind is not observing to the happenings before you, it means you are in attentive to what is going on in front of you. The subtle mind, in conjunction with the gross brain make things happen. There are two types of minds. One is the conscious mind and another is subconscious mind. Out of the two, subconscious mind is more powerful, as it acts as a store house of all the impressions of the mind without your knowledge. Even if you wanted to forget an incident, without your knowledge, it gets stored in your subconscious mind. The impressions thus got embedded in the subconscious mind get transferred to the conscious mind and the conflict between the impressions of the subconscious mind and the impressions of the conscious mind take place. Impressions of the conscious mind are of recent origin and the impressions of the subconscious mind are very old, even pertaining to your previous lives.

Let us take an example. A person had abused you long time back. At the time of abuse, though you would not have retarded, the abusive words would have deeply entered into your mind. This entry into the mind is called impression. Impressions are nothing but the traces of thought processes. Some of the thought processes do not get deeply embedded in the mind, whereas certain others go deep into the mind. You are under the impression that you have forgotten about the incident as the impressions got transferred from your conscious mind to your subconscious mind. When the impressions are transferred to your subconscious mind, you forget the incident temporarily. Temporary means any amount of time may be months, years or even births. For sometime, till the impressions get deeply rooted in the subconscious mind, they shunt between the conscious mind and subconscious mind. During these times, you are bound to get quick flashes of those incidents. Once the impressions get deeply rooted into the subconscious mind, they get stored for ever and will manifest in the conscious mind in the most unexpected time. When this happens, this causes the killer instinct in the conscious mind. This killer instinct transforms a good person to a bad person prompting him to indulge in evil activities. Therefore, a quality of a person is determined only by his subconscious mind. When you are entering the spiritual path, all the impressions in the subconscious mind should be eliminated. This can be done only if your ego is dissolved.