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    How did the Rishi's discover the Eternal Truth? - II

A Special request to readers - understanding this page and the previous page is most crucial to understand the whole of Vedic and its Spiritual Knowledge. So Please read this with full attention.

From the previous page we understood that the mind (thoughts) wanders externally through the world of objects using the sense organs. In other instances, it is depressed of the past events and anxious of the future. In some other moments it relishes on the past happy moments and excited about the future. Or the other combinations.

Awareness - Witnessing

   To summarize, at any moment, the mind is wandering and not present in the present (current)moment. The real potential of any individual lies in his or her Awareness state. It is the state of potentialities, possibilities, creativeness, ingeniousness,  body's involuntary actions (also called as healing), Energy, Bliss, Peace and "Being" or Spirit, Love. 

Awareness is the "Power of Now". It is in the present moment. The mind and the Ego is always in the past or the future. the awareness is the present. To be in awareness is the Spirit. This is where "inspiration" comes from.

   To be Spiritual means to be in this state of Awareness. To be religious is different from being Spiritual. The fundamental aim of religion is to make an individual spiritual but caught in the web of organization, only very few end-up being Spiritual.

It is this Awareness state that is referred as the Individual-Soul or Jeeva-Atma in Sanskrit. 

The Rishi's have discovered this beautiful state of Awareness and created two great technologies Yoga and Meditation, which modern people are feeling the greatness of it in this 21st century, just by skimming on its surface. Deep diving into this state, one will discover the rare pearls of Cosmic secrets.

    Among a few Rishi's who dived deep into the "River" of Awareness, countable ones swam into the Ocean of Consciousness and experienced bewilderness. Without a proper trainer (Guru) going into this deep Ocean of Consciousness can be dangerous, like swimming from river to the Ocean. This is why this knowledge was kept as Mystic or Secret. In Vedic Tradition without a Master (Guru), it is impossible to get this knowledge. Only under the tutelage of a Guru, an individual can get this Eternal Knowledge, superior to the Objective knowledge of the objects.

Purpose of the technology of Yoga and Meditation:

     The fundamental purpose of Yoga and Meditation is to help humanity to enjoy bliss and Peace and not suffering in life. Suffering is because of ignorance of this field of Awareness. The great Vedic teacher Yogi Patanjali, devised Ashtanga Yoga, the Eight Fold steps towards this state of Awareness. It is the most logical and "the" way to Spiritual enlightenment.

     Elsewhere we will discuss how this body-sense-Mind-Intellect path is the foundation of Yoga and Meditation. It is a step by step process without each leading to the next like steps in a ladder leading to the heights of Awareness.

     Awareness is the Seat of all Miracles and powers called "Siddhi's". The Kundalini Shakthi described is also seated in this State. All have used Yoga and Meditation to reap the different powers and knowledge.  Next page we describe the different branches of knowledge they were able to excel.

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  How did the Rishi's discover the Eternal Truth?

A Special request to readers - understanding this page and the next page is most crucial to understand the whole of Vedic and its Spiritual Knowledge. So Please read this with full attention.

   As we discussed in the previous page, Rishi's (seers of Eternal Knowledge)  developed methods of inner enquiry into the mystery of the universe equally exact and reliable in practice as the most rigorous scientific study.  They started their search from the simple body and sense organs and journeyed deeper and deeper to the core of the "Being".

What is this "Being" or Soul? 

Internal Physical examination performed  on a human body finds no Soul anywhere in the body. Vedic tradition alone gives answers for these questions through inquiry method devised by Rishi's.

  The Rishi's approach is scientific, simple and can be experimented and experienced. Their query started from the perceivable gross-physical body composed of  the five sense organs. They started with the sense organs because we perceive everything only through the sense organs.

Body and Sense organs:

However, enquiry of the nature of the five sense organs of eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin, it is clear that these physical organs cannot perform independently of some intrinsic/subtle (internal) factor. The eyes may  be turned towards objects but nothing need to be seen.

     We all had this experience of having  eyes fixed but without the sight of the teacher in a class-room. Not to say about the physical presence of ears in the classroom without hearing a single word spoken by the mathematics teacher. So what is this subtle/intrinsic factor that makes an physical sense organ  perceive the world full of sensational objects?

Mind and thoughts:

The intelligent Rishi's discovered that mere presence of these physical sense organs alone cannot perceive the world. All sensational perceptions of the world is registered as "thoughts". Every thought (Vrithi) is attributed to a form (Gana). The flow of the thoughts is called as Mind.  Thousands of thoughts arise every day.  Most of the arise through the interaction of the sense organs  with the world of objects. Other thoughts are created  independent of the physical body and sense organs but based on the memory of the existing thoughts.

     So the mind is what helps perceive this world of objects. With this perception of materialistic world along with the body of sense organs, the  Mind also creates a personality within, which we called individuality.  Without the mind there is no world for the individual, even though the world may exist for other minds. In other words, using the body as the center point, the Mind creates a world in relation to the body of sense organs. 

     In sleep, the mind creates a "real-like" dream world with thoughts completely unaware of the world in which the body exists. That is, in the waking state, the Mind makes us to feel a real world based on the body and sense organs. In the dreaming state our mind makes us to feel a real-world independent of the our existing body.  This shows that the mind alternates in two worlds with the thoughts it generates. This is the solid proof that it is the mind that creates the world.

Intellect - the decision maker:We are always performing actions, action of speech, hearing, tasting, smelling and movements. The cause to do all these actions are thoughts in the mind. In other words, the thoughts in the mind are expressed as actions by the body organs.

     Though many thoughts of actions arises in the mind, there is a choice making in executing the type of actions.  at every moment. The decision maker in executing the choices is called as the intellect. There might be a conflict between the individuality and the intellect in choosing the type of actions to be performed. The outcome of choice then depends on the strength of the individuality verses the strength of the intellect.

     The power of the intellect is to give information on the pros and cons of  result of an action based on inherent knowledge. Some past experiential knowledge may help the individuality to yield to the decision making of the intellect.

     Example, when some one feels to steal an object belonging to another person, the inherent intellect warns of the consequences of that action. Again it is the war between the strength of individuality and the Intellect (supported by past personal or other's experience of crime-punishment)  that decides the type of action that will be performed.  

     At any instance, immaterial of the choice of action,  the Intellect gives an opportunity to with-draw (pull) the mind from actively wandering state to a state of stillness, or focusing state or so called concentration state.  This concentration state is a bridging state towards the "Awareness" state.

    Concentration is anchoring of the wandering Mind by the intellect. This is the state which leads to discovery or any creativity. We experience this all the time. Every moment is not a discovering or creating moment because of the wandering nature of the mind.

Nature of the mind is to brood over the past or to be anxious of the future. Our mind is never at rest. Always thinking thoughts of what good or bad happened in the past or anxious and fearsome of excited about the future. 

     So the mind is never in the present. It is always in the past or in the present. It is the intellect that pulls the mind for brief seconds to the state of the present.

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Fundamental principle of Vedas  Cosmos as a human body: In the previous page we mentioned that the Rishi's probed deep inner and found the cosmic secrets. They said that the human body is a miniature of the cosmos.  Hence, the Vedic Scientists (Rishi's)  proclaimed                                        "Yatha Pindae , Thatha Brahmandae"  "As is the Micro-cosm (human body) so is the Macro-cosm (Universe)". This Sanskrit verse means that this Universe is like this body and vice versa. This means that all the laws that govern this human body also governs the laws of Universe. Our human body is just a micro-cosm of the Macro-cosm. Now what is surprising is that the Modern scientist have re-searched and found this fact as true. Click at this beautiful work of National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. about The Universe Within. This will help us understand the Vedic Statement  As is the Micro-cosm (human body) so is the Macro-Cosm (Universe). (Do not miss to see the above link and see the beautiful representation).        What they have shown is the pictures of the milkway, universe, planets, Earth, finally a tree in Florida, its cell, its nucleues, it atom, its subatomic particle etc. Each picture is actually an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it. The number that appears on the lower right just below each image is the size of the object in the picture. On the lower left is the same number written in powers of ten, or exponential notation. Exponential notation is a convenient way for scientists to write very large or very small numbers. For example, compare the size of the Earth to the size of a plant cell, which is a trillion times smaller: Earth = 12.76 x 10+6 = 12,760,000 meters wide (12.76 million meters) Plant Cell = 12.76 x 10-6 = 0.00001276 meters wide (12.76 millionths of a meter) Knowing Body and Mind of Human helps knowing universe and its creation. This is the logical approach of Rishi's to know about  the mystery of the Universe. By studying the human body they understood the physical characteristics of the Universe and by knowing the mind of the human body they understood how creation occurred.  To summarize, the Rishi's  studied the body and mind of the human and discovered the mysteries of the cosmic body or Universe. What they found is that the physical nature of human body is similar to the physical characteristics of the universe and the Human mind and the events occurring in the Universe are also similar. Among these two facts, the fact the physical body is similar to the Cosmic physical nature is proved by modern scientists also (See the above work of Florida University).   It may take some more years for Modern science to prove the other fact that the mind of human is the same as cosmic events. Now let us go deeper what technology the Rishi's used to probe into the mystery of the Universe and human existence.     For more details 1. "Journey to the Source" by Pradheep Chhalliyil .

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  What is the Core message of Vedas?

   The core message of Vedic Tradition is "Freedom", which is applicable in all aspects: freedom to think, question, answer and live and ultimately realize that Consciousness is the fundamental of this Universe and is also our real-nature and not the mere physical body. "Ved" means to Know or Knowledge. Only though knowledge, Man can Self-realize the inner Freedom, the Spirit or Consciousness that is in him is infact the essential nature of this Universe.

The ancient Vedic Scientists who realized this knowledge    are seers  of eternal Truth, who developed methods of inner enquiry into the mystery of the universe equally exact and reliable in practice as the most rigorous scientific study.  They started their search from the simple body and sense organs and journeyed deeper and deeper to the core of the "Being".

    Through their ancient Scientific research, the Rishi's developed inner technologies like Yoga and Meditation through which not only physical and mental well being can be achieved but also the cosmic mystery of "Consciousness" can be realized.

Without knowing the fundamental principle of Vedas, the whole Vedic tradition including the rituals, Puranic stories , Symbolism and culture will be totally be mis-understood and ridiculed. This has happened over time, but thanks to teachers (gurus) who impart right knowledge at different time periods whenever the Vedic Knowledge is at the verge of mis-interpretation.

Let us now go to the next page to understand the logical methodology adapted by the Rishi's.

     Please click here to read  Rishi's Methodology.