Listening!

While most of us are still groping to “feel” even our consciousness right now, there is a question about how to get to “listen’ to a Sub-Conscious voice!
Mind itself is not very clearly visible. Yet we are able to talk of our mind being calm, confused, upset, alert, dull, etc. So, logically, there is another fellow within us, who is keeping a ‘watch’ on this mind. (The brain is no problem at all, and not our problem too, as long as we can pay for a doctor!). This another fellow, seems to be one of these things :- soul, consciousness, life-energy, Aatma, Praana (with its 4 or 5 brothers) etc etc….
This subconscious is a bit fuzzy thing. Is it subordinate to the main conscious? Or is it the real boss, but known as ‘sub’ just because it lies hidden below the main conscious? Or is it the deeper layer of the conscious itself? As long as our “routine” life does not depend too much on this group of conscious/sub-conscious etc, it is not really a priority right now.
It was quite interesting to know that there are people who are keen to listen to something that is extra-sensory!
Having answered, I was curious to put it across to yet others, just to know how they “listen” to the echo!! (Yeah! Echo it is, for dubious reasons!)
Regards,
Psn(27th November, 2009)

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The question:
How does one learn to listen to their subconscious?
I am a firm believer in our powers of intuition, the subconscious if you will. Are there any tactics to enhance our receptiveness to it? Any ways to be able to tune in to it easier? I have a pretty good intuition, but would like to strengthen it even more.


My answer:
Well, with such strong belief, it makes the matter only too simple (though not quite easy!)...

When we have to "listen" well on a phone, we have to keep shut and then try to listen.This sub-conscious cannot speak to us through a phone-like-means... So, we have to keep silent on our "inside", and yet remain very alert, sharp, focused and patient! It is the quality of 'waiting' silently and patiently that decides how soon we get to hear the subconscious!

Remaining silent inside is evolved into a great technique by evolved Masters since ancient times. This can happen naturally too, but it is a matter of chance and could take anywhere between the next moment to even a lifetime. These techniques are mere tools to make the possibility better, and sooner. "Meditation" is indeed a very high sounding word, but that is what the technique is about. And to bring us close to this meditativeness, the path is called spirituality. When others observe a person on spiritual path, and practising meditation, it looks like a very 'tough' thing to do. But, once the priorities are set firm, it is just fun all the way!
Best wishes.

A desire to create THE desire!

While the bulk lot of us are busy with just trying to fulfil our own desires, chasing them, running after them, pursuing them etc, it was interesting to find somebody who wanted to know how and when would a desire to pursue something woud arise! And when that something was the ultimate goal of a spiritual pursuit, what I felt was ‘gratifying’, way beyond ‘interesting’.
My answer, I know would not have done much help to ‘create’ any such desire. But it looks like he or she got some clarity.

I was wondering if we too did try sometime to create a desire about something first , and then try to pursue that desire. We would have tried it on those innocent children, the sitting ducks at our homes, when we try to create an interest in them to somehow score high marks in the exams! The marketing in-charge tries to create a desire in his sales-team to reach a target. A shop keeper tries to create an interest in us in some new gadget. Brooke Bond, (I was told by an elder from an instance that happened when he was a kid), it seems, came early in the morning with a mobile van unit, and offered Tea to people in the village. Later, they insisted that the free-morning-cup of tea would be given only if they brushed their teeth well, and cleaned their tongue sharp. Once they got addicted, the cost factor came in to stay and rise for ever!
I know from personal experience, how difficult it is to get somebody interested into spirituality. They may settle easily to talk about it a lot. And then drop out inconspicuously, but to get them into it, and retain them so, is an arduous task.
Regards,
Psn(21st Sept., 2009)



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Desire to attain enlightenment comes to a find of full matured mind is that True, then in what sense?
My answer:
True, but the problem is, we do not have that measuring rod to find out if the mind was really a matured one!
Most of the enlightened people in India were unlettered!Enlightenment has happened at all ages to these people.
It has happened to people irrespective of what they did for it in terms of concerted efforts!
At all stages.
'Just like that' cases, and after 'great struggle' cases too!Statistically, enlightenment is about one in ten thousand or even much more.
This maturity of the mind can happen quite early too.
That is what I attempted to 'hint' at when I wrote a 'post' in my blog under the title 'Evaluation Copy'. Seeking a person's attention towards this priority is too difficult. The body has its priorities. The mind has its priorities. The mind has to first tame the body, and then surrender itself unconditionally to the 'subtle' being within! That is what maturity is about. It is too an abstract a concept, to be explained with the help of tangible examples!But the question is excellent. It comes from a genuine urge to 'create' that desire first, and then to work towards it, when there is an 'acceptance', an honest one, that our logic does not right now permit us to view it even, as anything worth one's while!