Soul is the nucleus of your world

In the state of meditation collect all your thoughts on the nature of 'I'. Think absolutely nothing about any external person, place, thing or event. Conceptualize, that factually your Soul (the real Self, 'I') is an independent entity; that it is infinitely powerful, indestructible and indivisible. That it is the central star around which your personal world, i.e. everything related to you, is continuously revolving (is in perpetual cyclic motion) like the planets of the solar system orbiting around the Sun. Conceptualize the Inner-Self as the nucleus of your world, brightly illuminated like The Sun. Resolutely create such an imagery in your mind with the help of the creative nature of your mind. In your mental horizon, establish your Soul as a centrally located stationary central star, around which everything related to you is perpetually revolving. Assure yourself that these things around you are dependent on you but that you are not dependent on them and that, though you are providing them energy for their movement, nevertheless they have their separate existence and in no way belong to you. After persistently practicing in this way, in a few days, such an awareness will become deep-rooted.

This concept may be further understood in this way. Whatever be the dynamism of interactions between the various animate and inanimate systems related to a person, the driving force behind it is his mind. It is the mind of the individual, which creates and shapes his world. Further, the mind, as we have discussed earlier is only a tool of the Inner Self i.e. Soul. Hence the Soul has been referred to as the central star of the personal world. Besides, as, in spite of being the source of energy to the entire solar system, the Sun itself remains unaffected by the dynamics in its system, the Soul of a person (not his body) remains an independent entity, uninfluenced by the activities in one's personal world. In this way, the real Self and the associated world, though related, exist independently. An oft-quoted classic analogy is the lotus leaf floating on water being in water yet not submerged in it.

The First Signs of Success

Conceptualize yourself being a central star shining like Sun, around which your world is revolving. Repeat this exercise again and again till the impression becomes so deep that whenever you pronounce 'I', there is a flash in your mind of a comprehensive image comprising your consciousness, personal thoughts (Vichar), strengths and talents, along with your body. With this identification of self, whenever you look around towards your personal world, everything in it should appear revolving around this central star of your Soul.

Additional Method

To hasten the process of Awakened Awareness of the Soul (Atma-Swaroop Darshan), here is another method. In the state of meditation, repeat your own name, slowly, solemnly and respectfully, as though you were calling someone of eminence. With this practice you will find your mind getting concentrated on the real form of Self. This was the method used by Lord Tennyson for activating the potentiality of his Soul. He writes that through this method, he had become vaguely aware of the reality of the Soul and, in due course, also became conscious about the irrefutable existence and indestructibility of the Soul and found the basic source of consciousness in it.

Be Careful

While trying to conceive the reality of the Soul, some seekers tend to confuse the higher Inner-Self ('I') with the false narrow self (I, as commonly related to body) and thus become distracted from the reality of the Soul. It is necessary to overcome this obstacle. Otherwise such false identification of self with the material body would, at the most, provide petty material benefits of a very low order by developing confidence in the narrow self (body). Identification with the real Inner-Self requires total freedom from body-consciousness.


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