little-self

ls workshop) Quest In Reality………68

Shantnu You are confusing the actual meaning of these two words. Every word gives a proper meaning when it is appropriately used. Presently, we are talking about pure-conscious and the Self. The self we usually identify ourselves with is the combination of body-senses-mind, whereas the Self which is associated with inner-identity, is the gist of intellect-conscious-wisdom.
Presently, our endeavor is to remove our doubts and questions so that at the end we have a conscious which is without the dark smudges. We have often used the word, influence or affect in place of shadows on the Self. Remember our Self is always pure as it is the reflection of our finer sensitivities. Intellect, sense of discrimination and wisdom lets in only the purest gist of the self (knowledge/conscious) which ultimately constitute the Self.
Student Then it is shadowed by the negative tendencies or knowledge.
Shantnu First let us understand knowledge is never negative. The quest that leads to Reality is the real knowledge. Everything else is acquired knowledge used for selfish attainments. When we start the inner enquiry to know about our real Self, our search is blocked at the gross-conscious level by the acquired knowledge, which is mostly composed of useless ‘data’. That irrelevant data is the dark shadow which trails our endeavor right to wisdom level. Only at this stage (wisdom) these accompanied accomplices are sieved out and thrown as ‘dirt’.
Now about soul point, it is a religious word and we shall discuss about it, when we talk of religion. Your other query about the diet part having effect on the self…
Student It is already answered Sir, that Tamasic (negative) diet, action; even association leaves their impressions on our minds, which can only be removed by the application of wisdom. And that is a tremendous job, Sir.
Shantnu Knowing of yourself, you automatically know about your Self, which is your true form. And for that we have to transform our forms from gross to subtle state and then transport our self to casual which is neither a state nor a level.
Student Does casual also reside in Self, which is currently confined in the physical self.
Shantnu The Self is not confined to the body, though we have this impression, it, actually, is Universal. Once we come to comprehend it, we shall immediately know the self in us, is the same Self that resides in each of us. It not only pervades in us but in the neither worlds that were, are, and shall come into form. It is the one Universal truth whose only veracity is its eternal existence. We as human beings have a unique gift from nature, of mind, through whose proper application, we can have the glimpse of this august Reality not only the glimpse but merge in it and become Eternal like it.
Student Sir, what do you mean by ‘we’?
Shantnu ‘We’ mean the individual Self.
Student But, Sir, if the Self is Universal, it can’t have individual entity.
Shantnu A very good question. The Universal Self did not bifurcate into parts and establish itself in the individual selves. On its own principle it duplicates itself; on the same principle, nature and its creations came into being. By doing so, it does not deplete its splendor; rather it enhances itself into many.
Student Kind, Sir, this has removed our misconception about the ancient statement that our Source it from Bliss. Now we understand how our origin is from the Eternal Bliss.
Angelee Then let us disperse now. Your period for today is over.
They all left the presence of Shantnu with bowed heads.
Umeshwari noticed that whenever Angelee was in the presence of her husband, Shantnu; she kept her head covered with her sari or dupatta (head scarf). It showed her reverence for her man – Shantnu. She often wondered, as she did fourteen years ago, if he really belonged to anyone! Now, he took more interest in his family affairs but simultaneously he showed equal interest and concern for all the persons he met. She concluded that he had become more universal than the individual Shantnu she knew. Though he loved her more, but it was also a fact he loved everybody else as equally. She loved his personal-self; other seemed to love his impersonal-self.
She heard a loud voice.
Shantnu Where are you lost dear?
Umeshwari In you, as ever.
Shantnu How true you are. I love you the way you are.
Umeshwari Or you love the world, the way it is.
Shantnu My dear, you are part of that world.
Umeshwari But not ‘that world’! Like I love my world and that world is only you.
Shantnu What about our daughter?
Umeshwari She is the expression of our love.
They both fell silent like the silence around them.
Tbc…