There was an air of euphoria among scientists around the world when the news of discovery of ‘God particles known as Higg’s Boson’ was announced. I remembered my grandpa’s words, who was a very successful business man in those days, telling his sons,” Can’t you see the gold lying there in front of you? I can see them but you can’t see them?” What he meant was, there were many opportunities in the world and only few people could identify them. People can see things which are visible to eyes but there are things which are invisible for naked eyes. That is why we need a third eye called ‘Gnana’, the wisdom that can cut across the barriers of human visibility.
I described my ‘mirror experience’ earlier in an article that caused a great transformation in my life. I often think about it and try to comprehend the significance of this experience. The more I think about it the more I realize that it is part of my ascent in the ladder of human evolution. We have evolved from primitive beasts to human beings and we are on our way to further evolution to reach our final destination called Divinity. I learnt there were primitive lives that lived millions of years ago and some of them were so primitive that they did not even have a head but they can reproduce and multiply. Nature has provided necessary mechanism for their growth without providing them a brain and intellect. We human beings have not fully evolved into higher intellectual species though we have made progress in science and technology. But human evolution is all inclusive in which science and technology plays a role. The human evolution is more about ethics and moral values that forms the basics core of our evolution. We still have ‘beast’ in us and this beastly quality is an obstacle in our spiritual evolution. This is because we have sidelined the core moral and ethical values with our constant pursuit of wealth and materials though science and technology. We have failed to grow as a society where human beings genuinely love each other without any expectations. There is a fundamental flaw in our path to evolution. The anomalous part is we all have ‘divinity’ in each one of us and we hardly remember them though it can reveal itself sometimes in our everyday lives. Most often we fail to recognize it even it reveals itself. My mirror experience is one such event in my life. It revealed my divine side of my personality. There is a beast and there is a divine nature in each one of us, super-imposed on each other. It is up to individuals to realize this and identify themselves with divinity. This can be done only by ‘discriminative knowledge’. It requires razor like sharpness of ‘pure intellect’ that can identify the beast from divinity every moment of the day and every day of our lives. Only by cultivating ‘Vairagya’ (dispassion) and ‘abyassa’ (practice) one can achieve this ‘discriminative knowledge’.
There are many ways to identify the beast and eliminate them and the best tool available to us is ‘our intellect’. One form of yoga ‘called Gnana Yoga’ teaches us exactly how to use our intellect by way of ‘discriminative awareness’ to identify this beast. When you get a ‘new thought’ we have to probe deep into us and question this ‘thought’ its origin and its purpose. Sometimes such thoughts are overwhelming, forcing us to act instantaneously. We need to understand that it is the physical manifestation of a thought that causes physical and mental changes within us those forcing us to act. Every action has a reaction and consequences, whether good or bad depending upon whether the thought is good or bad. This thought and action is called ‘karma’ which creates actions and consequences. Past karma is our vast store house where our past thought and actions manifested with their consequences leaving an imprint in our sub-conscience mind. One can successfully practice ‘gnana yoga’ in everyday life and you will find yourself at the top of the ladder of human evolution. At this evolved stage, you will not be perusing what everybody is persuing, called material wealth. By a discriminative analysis you will come to the conclusion that ‘material pursuit’ will not give you happiness. Even if it gives happiness temporarily, your mind will still for search for something else. Many of us in our society do not really understand what exactly we want and what will make us happy. We seek answers for our questions by trying various things without any discriminative analysis of the beast within us.
