Understanding our world

Understanding our world, we must understand ourselves.

When you look at your life today, how do you feel?

Are you satisfied, are you calm most of the time, do you feel joy.

Are you silently inward looking – soul directed?

Do you believe that you will receive answers to our questions in silent contemplation?

Is our mind constantly outward rushing?

Why the question?

I general terms what we experience and how we see the world is a reflection of our spiritual development.

What are the indicators?

Are you searching for meaning in life?

Are you drawn toward Holy Scriptures?

Are you yearning for Truth?

For those on the path of devotion

Do you feel joy?

Surrendered love?

Compassion?

Call for service?

How can this be felt?

When you see the spirit of God in every one and in everywhere where there is life, then

pray for God to reveal Himself to you, and then pay attention.

How do we perceive our world?

We perceive the world through our senses – our senses send a signal to the brain – the mind interprets – in this process we employ logic.

What if our perceptions are faulty?

What did the sages and seers do?

They turned inward – they found not a world of solid separate objects, but a ceaseless process of matter coming together, dissolving and coming together again in different forms

Yet below this, they found something changeless, which they called Brahman – the divine ground of existence.

The world is always changing, but Brahman (God beyond creation) never changes

How do we turn inward? Be still, Reflect, contemplate Being, Repent (change your ways).

Contemporary physics states, that ultimately things are not separate from each other and from us, we perceive them as separate because of the limitations of our sense.

If our eyes were more sensitive to a finer spectrum, we would perceive the world as a continuous spectrum of matter and energy. Nothing would resemble a solid object.

Sages, examining themselves, instead of finding a single personality, they discovered different components such as senses, emotions, will, intellect, ego all being in constant flux at different times and when in company of different people.

They found that by withdrawing consciousness from the senses, emotions, mind through meditation, the idea of ego or separate existence disappears into a state beyond time and space in which all is one. They called this the Self.

For many people devotion, bhakti, love, service is a powerful spiritual way to embrace.