I. INTRODUCTION to the INWARD JOURNEY
PEACE and Welcome to the JOURNEY INWARDS !!!
Everyone is looking for love, joy, happiness, PEACE , liberation, contentment, completeness, totality. Compiling all this in one word “LIFE” which comes from “ANTAR YAMI”-“THE TREE OF LIFE” THE INTERIOR SPRING” THE INNER BEING,THE DEEPEST POINT is THE HIGHEST POINT “AWAKENING” the sixth sense who is dwelling within us in the depths of our SOUL.
We might be living a biological life but it is only through “THE INTERIOR SPRING” that we will truly experience LIFE. Earlier people were nourished by “ANTAR YAMI” within. Today, we have lost sight of “THE TREE OF LIFE”, “ANTAR YAMI”, THE INNER BEING in our core being and we don’t take time to listen to our heart and have taken refuge in everything around us.
Life in today’s context is all about what we have or what we acquire through name, fame, talent, status, look etc rather than who we are. The SOUL by responding to everything external withdraws from this “ANTAR YAMI”, “THE INTERIOR SPRING”.
Further, many people are lonely in a crowd and even in marriages. So can we look at marriage or a relationship as a solution for loneliness?
No relationship on earth will be able to fill the vacuum in our hearts in totality but connecting with “THE INTERIOR SPRING” which is welling in our SOUL, which we will experience through THE PATH will restore a person’s mind, body, soul and Spirit and most of all it will fulfil us in totality.
JOURNEY INWARDS is about connecting with ourselves and who we are and returning to the homeland which is within us and perfecting Life!!!
ले जा असत्य से सत्य के प्रति ।
Take us from the untruth to THE Truth which lies within us.
(Let us detach from untruth which our 5 senses are used to).
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya,
ले जा तमसे ज्योति के प्रति।
Take us from darkness to light.
(Light lies within us, let us seek that light so that we can light the path outside us).
मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।
Mṛtyormā’mṛtaṃ gamaya,
मृत्यु से ले जा अमरत्व के प्रति।
Take us from death to LIFE.
Although death comes once in a lifetime but the SOUL is deprived of life every time, we face grief, hurt, pain, betrayal, depression, loneliness etc and being connected to “THE INTERIOR SPRING” and “THE TREE OF LIFE” within, there will be everlasting LIFE.
Source
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28
Let us go INWARD so as to seek answers from “ANTAR YAMI”,“THE TREE OF LIFE”. Only with death of self can we experience LIFE. When the seed dies, is when we can see the fruit.
INWARD JOURNEY
Most of us of are fascinated by the outer-space, whatever be it, the most fascinating JOURNEY in space is through one’s inner space with the help of “ANTAR YAMI” -“THE TREE OF LIFE”, “THE INTERIOR SPRING”, “THE INNER BEING” -dwelling in the depth of our SOUL, THE PEARL, the sixth sense within us needs to be connected to THE DEEPEST POINT is THE HIGHEST POINT “AWAKENING” the sixth sense !!!
THE JOURNEY INWARDS is a JOURNEY of excitement, as one encounters and unravels one’s bright areas distance and at the same time. It is also an experience of reliving tremendous pain and free and fair as one comes to one’s dark areas within.
As one JOURNEYS within oneself with the help of “ANTAR YAMI”, “THE TREE OF LIFE” or “THE INNER BEING” – What an expansion! A mystery! The external expansion can be held within one’s INNER expansion as one’s liberation comes to completion.
This PATH is about enjoying our five senses perfectly. It is a world inside us and it is up to us what we make of it. We see others, we know others with our five senses but how do we ever know ourselves it is only through “THE INNER BEING” within us and when our sixth sense is awakened by being connected to “THE DEEPEST POINT is THE HIGHEST POINT “AWAKENING” the sixth sense .
The Path
Detachment- from external distractions to gain control over senses. Being sensitive to what is chewing us up rather than what we chew, through introspection and reflection.
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The Silence of the Quietude – Cleansing the soul, fostering self-acceptance and healing.
Self- Discovery- Love and humility balances personal life and empowers societal harmony. Charity’s original meaning is LOVE. It is not much of an activity, it is inner expansion of the heart which brings THE INNER LIBERATION which brings external change through the struggle to Love.
We are brothers and sisters, all belonging to one great human family, and are children of Father, that is you O Ahura Mazda. Teach us, O Father, to live as comrades, all willing fellowship and loving brotherhood, in fraternal helpfulness and cooperation. Inspire us, O God, to live in mutual understanding and true peace.
SOURCE – Reading from THE ZEND AVESTA
हे अहूरा मज़्दा, हम सब भाई–बहन एक महान मानव परिवार के सदस्य हैं और पिता की संतान हैं, अर्थात् आप ही हैं। हे पिता, हमें सिखाएँ कि हम साथी बनकर रहें, भाईचारे और सहभागिता से एक–दूसरे की मदद करें और सहयोग करें। हे ईश्वर, हमें प्रेरणा दें कि हम आपसी समझ और सच्ची शांति से जीवन व्यतीत करें।
स्रोत – ज़ेंड अवेस्ता से पाठ