by Viswanathan Subramanian
[box]The right way to understand reality is through the process of intimate feeling of one’s existence, rather than intellectualizing and making a theory of the message about the absolute reality. This is the right and total action says Viswanathan Subramanian.[/box]It is important to understand that the moment one is awake, memory stored up in our brain takes over. We have the self-recognition that “I am so and so”. This is in effect our identification with this body. Instantaneously, the brain starts building on concepts and this includes the sensation of ‘me’ and what is around ‘me.
And that’s when the Trinity of the Seer, Seeing and Seen comes into picture. Well, is the seen independent of the so called seer? Isn’t it true that without the ‘seer’ to be first there to recognize, see and say “I have seen”, there would be no ‘seen’?
With clear attention, it should be perceived that the trinity of Seer, Seeing and Seen are not three different things, but only one awareness. There is nobody to be aware. When there arises somebody, problems start by such an imagined entity. Can you not recognize this feeling as the ego? Ego is nothing but the conceptual product that we have spoken about– an imagination.
The all-pervading awareness as we are is not process of intellectualization but is an absolute, intimate feeling of existence. Such existence does not need the confirmation of the intellect to realise itself! We all feel we are. Do we need to reason this fact out by intellectual agreement? Obviously not. To know that you exist, do you seek confirmation from anybody else?
Hence, according to Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharishi, there is only awareness and everything else, the names and forms are all imagination.
Having grasped the reality (not wordy explanation) of all that is conveyed here, there is only being. Our duty is to be and not to be this or that. Then, what happens? We are one with our Truth- we are consciousness.
This consciousness has all the intelligence to act. Nothing is deliberate about it. Action then flows out naturally like all the natural happenings around us: flowering, the sprouting of a plant, the rising of the sun, the blowing of wind, the falling of drops of rain, and the flowing of a river. The sun rises in the east and there is no motive there. The rays of the sun change in colour with time, without any motive. The flower blossoms, of course, without any motive. Tender leaves sprout in a plant, with total vulnerability and no motive there! There is absoluteness about such movements of nature. There is integrity in all these.
When we have realised our oneness – that we are none other than and inseparable from the consciousness that we are, action blossoms out of us. Then, there is no conflict in action as there is only awareness. Having said that, here is the paradox; whatever one has read so far – if the brain says it has understood all these, it is the theory of what it written here. Theory is not reality! Unless the message is perceived totally, with no interference from a perceiver, theory only will persist. Alas, one does not get transformed then!
Viswanathan Subramanian was a banker for over 35 years. In his new retired life, he loves poring over business newspapers and journals and making notes. Spirituality also interests him, and so a good number of Sri Ramana Maharishi’s and Jiddu Krishnamurthy’s books find space in his bookshelf. He is extremely passionate about movies and music too. You are sure to find some good old English movie DVDs and an enormous collection of old mp3 Hindi and Tamil songs at his place!
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