Insight-Only way to self-inquiry: self-inquiry

by P V S Suryanarayana Raju Raju

Overview

Just being a watcher, a witness is insight. Witness is

highest growth of consciousness. If there is no witnessing

and we indulge in events we are in dark night of soul.

Waking mode of mind looks so real and tangible to us and

we never doubt events in waking mode and the entity

which sees the events. Doubt is part of dark night, but it is

a search for rising Sun, but once you have reached the

rising Sun, dark night goes and with it doubt too. Self-

inquiry is doubting the seer, the "me", the ego, the

self. Once you know doubt, ego commits suicide on its

own accord. Doubt that is written in scripture, otherwise

you will be confusion.

Truth has to be experienced, not believed. So all belief

systems are illusions. Organized religions are organized

belief systems and so they are illusions. If you seek for

reward you will miss the fact. You are a collection of

problems and it is a fact. Enlightenment is way of extinction of of problems which have their origin in Self-

ignorance.

Practicing everything without sense of attainment is

profound transcendent wisdom which cuts of source of

cycle of birth and death like a sword. The source is identity

with sensations which occur to us. Enlightenment is third

eye that looks inwards with awareness which can be

recognized only by those who have looked a little inwards.

Trying to attain Self creates anxiety and tension. We pay

attention to wrong things in objective reality.

We don't pay attention to movement of own self and its

mechanics of functioning which is right attention.

Thoughts belong to nature, so known and they are material

in nature and so they are limited. We are using thought

to solve every human problem through thought which is

intrinsically limited and so divisive. Naturally thought

cannot solve all human problems. Thought has a lace in

solving physical problems. Being a response of memory it

cannot solve a living problem in psyche but we are using

thought for this purpose also making the things much

more complicated and the present condition of society is

the proof for it. Society is based on sense of separation,

ambition, greed, violence, fear, desire, pleasure,

fragmentary outlook of life. So we have to take leap from

thought which is known to unknowable and for that leap,

meditation is the jumping board and meditation is state of

mind in which there is no-thought. There is cessation

thought activity in meditation. Meditation is non-

discriminative awareness without judgment, evaluation but

mind is discriminative awareness with judgment and

evaluation because primarily it is meant for physical and

dead things. So at psychological level we require

witnessing consciousness and at physical level we require

discriminative awareness in form of thought.

Mind knows only one language-that is of fear, danger, how

to survive and make yourself safe against an antagonistic

universe.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497364530
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/16/2014
Series:	Self-Inquiry , #1
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

The author, Dr.P.V.S.Suryanarayana Raju is a pediatrician from Andhra Pradesh, India, born on 12th December 1950. He has been working on the subject of self-inquiry for the past 30 years under the living Presence and guidance of Osho and Ramana Maharshi which he discovered 30 years ago in Ramanasramam. He met Osho personally in 1987 and 1989 in whose presence there happened radical transformation of being.He is a frequent visitor to Ramanasramam and out of gratefulness to Bhagawan he has written many books analyzing his teachings and these are some of them: The Art of self-enquiry, Alpha and Omega of self-inquiry, The essence of self-inquiry part 1 & 2, Insights in self-inquiry Part 1 & 2, Theory of self-inquiry, The Practice of self-inquiry, The theory and Practice of self-inquiry, The comprehensive book on self-inquiry, Know Thyself, He also wrote self-inquiry quotes in two volumes,commented on "who am i", Upadesa saram,Bhagavad Gita, self-inquiry in Bhavad Gita,Beyond Religion, The Art of living and all are products of his own experience. He has also written many books on Self-inquiry in Telugu which include "Nenevadanu? which is a commentary of his on "who am i" in Telugu, Nija Vicharana and his most recent books in Telugu Vichara Chudamani, and Vichara Chandrodayam which mainly deal with the practical aspect of self-inquiry and he explains in them why self-inquiry is a direct and easy way for realizing the Self. He also wrote self-inquiry in Bhagavad Gita in 3 volumes, Bhagavad Gita commentary vol1, The essence of Bhagavad Gita, Beware of structure of society-it enslaves you, Gold nuggets, Inner conflict leads to outer disorder, Integral self-inquiry, Self-inquiry is the Art of comprehending the self activity, Self-inquiry is the Art of being with your Self, Self-inquiry quotes of Dr.Raju and most recently, A B C of spirituality,The genesis of self-inquiry,Self-inquiry-The science of soul,Pathless path-The Golden path of self-inquiry, Introduction to self-inquiry,Original facelessness,Awareness-The means and goal of self-inquiry,Despair to bliss-The message of Bhagawad Gita,New man is emerging with a new way of life,Self-inquiry is the Art of being with your Self,The Sage and the scientist