Once a Disciple asked The Master, "How does ignorance of the Reality unhappily arise in the case of the Ignorant?
The Master says, "In this world, there are three kinds of people, the Ignorant, the Seeker and the Saint or The Known. The Saint is one who has Realised His Self, He has Realised The Truth. He is One with The Lord.
The Seeker is one, who has found The Master and has started to tread the Spiritual Path. He is yet to Realise The Self.
The Ignorant is one, who sees only the mind, which is a mere reflection of the light of Pure Consciousness arising from The Soul. He is Ignorant of The Soul itself. He lives the life, with mind in command. He has not yet begun his quest to Realise The True Self.
Why has he not been able to do so? The answer is simple. It is because his mind is extroverted, its focus is on the outer world. It has never sought its Source, which is available in abundance within."
The Disciple then asked, "What prevents the infinite, undifferentiated light of Consciousness arising from The Soul from revealing itself to the ignorant?"
The Master replied, "It is a normal human tendency to push the blame on others. It is the mind which is the real cause for the blame game. Rather than looking at our natural vital instinct, we are looking at the illusionary point. It is We, who need to open The True Eye to see The Truth, Feel The Truth.
Just as, water in the pot reflects the enormous sun within the narrow limits of the pot, we feel we have seen The Sun. In reality, we have just seen the reflection of The Sun.
Similarly, our Sense organs, acting as the reflecting medium, catch the all-pervading, infinite light of Consciousness arising from The Soul and present in the form of a reflection, called the mind. Seeing only this reflection, the Ignorant is deluded into the belief that he is a finite being, the jiva.
Only when the mind orients itself within to enquire into the source of its Natural Vital Instinct, the Senses become extinct, and in the absence of the reflecting medium, the mind also disappears, being absorbed into the light of the one Reality, The Soul.
This is the sum and substance of all that an aspirant needs to know. What is imperatively required of him is an earnest and one-pointed enquiry into the source of His Existence.
To understand and Realise The Truth, He needs to reach The Master. Only The Master, who has Realised The Truth within Himself, can show us the path to reach The Truth.
From an Ignorant we become a Seeker when The Master bestows us with The Naama, laced with His Spiritual Consciousness. As we do Simran and Dhyaan of The Naama, our mind which was busy in The outer world orients itself towards The Inner Realm. By The Master's Grace, we collect our scattered consciousness and bring it to the eye center. The eye center is also called as the entry gate to the Spiritual path.
It is only after our Dhyaan transfixes on The Master's Physical Form with our total collected consciousness, that we Realise our True Existence. We Realise, we are The Soul and not the mind. The Seeker now is on the path to become The Saint, The Master.
Once we reach The Master, we too become The infinite light of Consciousness."
Our journey towards The True glory is through The Naama Bhakti of The Naama given by The Master. It is this Naama which Frees us from the cycle of birth and death. It is The Naama which enables us to be in The Master's Company during our Spiritual journey. It is The Naama that is The Lord. By merging in The Naama, we too merge in The Lord."
Let us not live like an Ignorant, let us become The Seeker. By The Master's Grace, we too will one day become The Saint.
Authored by K. Giri
