Rebuilt your own self.
What is better between material life and spiritual life? What are the limits of physical life? Why is the spiritual life called a complete life? What is extraterrestrial life? What is the inner voice? What are the outer and inner end and conclusion? These are some of the questions that every thinking person must ponder.
To live external life means to experience the world. This is the stage in which a person does various types of work-business, enterprise, etc. to fulfill his material needs. He gathers various types of means for body pleasure and material happiness. In this journey, he takes care of the needs of the stomach, fertility, and family and fulfills their needs.
In this journey, a person sometimes does good deeds and sometimes do bad deeds, but some people do only bad deeds. Such people end their lives only while indulging in acts of immorality, atrocities, corruption, dishonesty, violence, etc. This is material life. These are the limits of material life. Therefore material life is considered an incomplete life. A life lived only for the flesh is material life.
Thus our outward journey is limited to fulfilling the needs of our material life. In this inner journey, people are apprehensive about the good and bad results of their actions because performing actions are inspired by the feeling of vision in this material life. As a result their concentration, efficiency,
Efficiency gets affected and they fail in life. Their failure breaks them from inside so much that they are not able to make any big effort. When they get the results of their actions according to the expectation, they are drowned in joy, and when they get the results contrary to the expectations, they are drowned in despair.
Worldly people swell with pride as soon as they get an honor, and fall unconscious when they get insulted. Mostly because of indulging in bad deeds, such people are scared and immersed in worry about the ill effects of bad deeds. The bad deeds done by them always scare and intimidate them. Some people live a life full of miseries and deprivations as a result of their bad deeds, while some people live a life of comfort among material pleasures as a result of their good deeds, but still, they never get real happiness and peace. are not received. There is always satisfaction in them. There is always an emptiness inside them.
In this way, the life of such people is full of humiliation, humiliation, happiness, sorrow, joy, sadness, etc. In the outward journey, the life of a person is full of frustration, despair, depression, guilt, suffering, etc. The last moment of life comes and the person has to leave this world crying. This outward journey, that is, worldly life, is the conclusion, the result, the end of material life. This is the reason that a person can never be free from the bondage of birth and death. If a person lives on the inner journey, he is in this world, but his life remains different from the people living the worldly life. If he lives, he is in this world, but he remains unaffected by the attachment of the world, the inner journey is the journey within himself. In the outward journey, the person looks outside only.
Life is penance.
On the contrary, self-recognition is a wonderful art, in which, according to the Kathopanishad (2.1.1), a person who aspires to immortality looks at his soul by restraining his senses, that is, by stopping external temptations’. He looks into his soul. He enters within himself. He walks within himself. He looks inside himself. He lives in this external world, but he looks at his soul with the eyes of his mind, turning away from the many attachments and attractions of the external world. With the continuous practice of knowledge and meditation, as the turbidity of the mind disappears, so does the concentration of his mind.
After attaining complete concentration, one thing becomes clear to the seeker like the light of day that I am not the body. I am different from the body. I am not even the mind, the intellect, the senses. I am beyond the mind, intellect, and even the senses. I am such an immortal element that is eternally equal. No change is taking place in him, but he is the eternal witness of all changes, the soul, which is immovable, unchanging, and stable. He is the seer, who is watching the changes happening every moment in the visible world with a watcher’s sense, with a witnessing sense. At the beginning of this inner journey, we are also introduced to the good and bad karma sanskars prevailing in our unconscious mind. We become aware of our merits and demerits. We look at our present life, every action of the present life. After practicing it continuously for a long time, the seeker starts getting this light.
On January 1, 1886, in the Kashipur garden of Kolkata, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Ji blessed the devotees with a feeling of devotion – ‘You people become Chaitanyavan. To become conscious means to experience the conscious being present in one’s conscience. Know that I am not flesh and blood. I am the soul situated in this body. I am the divine part of God, the immortal, imperishable soul. Truth, love, and joy are my true nature. I have absolute right over truth, love, and joy. In this way, as soon as this conscious being is realized, a person changes from within.
The Upanishads have called it ‘Purnamadah Poornamidam’, that is, that too is complete, it is also complete. There is perfection everywhere inside and out. The realization of this state is fullness, true bliss. This is the ultimate aim of spiritual life. This is the ultimate stop of the journey. This is the ultimate conclusion of the inner journey, it is the result, it is the culmination and this is also the fulfillment of life. Undoubtedly, in meditation, along with the attainment of material happiness, prosperity, peace, spiritual bliss, salvation, liberation, etc. The inner journey is undoubtedly a journey to find bliss, the ultimate bliss. Every seeker who aspires to attain immortality and bliss must set out on an inner journey.
The sanskars of our unconscious are revealed to us in the form of the world outside us. Our inner world creates and destroys our outer world. The more orderly, beautiful, and blissful our inner world is, the more orderly, beautiful, and blissful our outside world is. This is possible only when our unconscious has been fully refined through continuous knowledge, meditation, self-study, and service.
Spirituality is beyond science 