The Experiencer has to be Properly Attuned

What is this experienced world?

It is the world of material objects, emotions and thoughts. The scientists, economists and politicians are continuously striving to improve the scheme of things in the external world so that the experienced becomes better and better.

But this is only fifty per cent of the whole situation. We must also take care of the other side, the experiencer.

Even if the total scheme of things in the external world could be made ideal, but the experiencer is not properly attuned, his life will be miserable.

Thus the yogic seers of yore found that unless the experiencer is evolved and properly developed, no happiness can be assured in this world. So they started concentrating on this particular work of evolving and developing the experiencer.

Now who is this experiencer? It is one's own self, the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual components which together make up the total personality of each human being.

Yogamag

That is the answer I was looking for in the past years. It is about the relationship between the experiencer and the experience.

Who am I, the experiencer and who is going on, the experiencer and what is changing is the experience, therefore, the experiencer is real and it is about the relationship between the experiencer and the experience.

Meditation and yoga takes care of the experiencer and the relationship, and even if we have everything on the relative level, if the development of the experiencer is missing we will not be happy and fulfilled.

The aim is to develop the experiencer or better the relationship between the experiencer and the experience.

While investigating the threefold aspects of experience, the rishis of yore not only discovered that there are four different entities within the experiencer, but that every man must be ready to sacrifice the grosser in preference to the subtler entities in him.

Psychological satisfaction is richer than physical gratification. The subtler the personality, the greater is the satisfaction derived by the individual while identifying with it. Thus transcendence of the grosser world and its joys and sorrow occurs spontaneously in the process of evolution. This is a scientific fact, and there is a method by which we can all identify ourselves with the subtlest in us and learn to live in the world continuously in that state. This method is yoga.

When Baba asked in the interview room, who I was, it was also his teaching, we are three people, the one I think I am that is the body, the one the others think I am is the mind and the one I really am is Atman and that is the experiencer, it is the self.

What is the relationship, it is the experiencer,

'men may go, men may come, but I go on forever'.

Repeating the Name of God saved Prahladha from the agony of torture. He learnt the Sacred Name and understood its sweetness. He chanted it constantly and internalized its nectarine taste.

When the enraged elephant rushed towards him, he did not call out for his physical parents to rescue him; he instantaneously cried out "Narayana". The Lord is the source of strength for the weak and the strong; He is the Supreme Power.

When Prahladha took the Name of the Lord, enraged elephants backed out, no fire could touch him and no poison could affect him. The Lord’s Name was his armour, his shield, his breath, in fact his very life.

For chanting the Divine Name, no expense is involved, no materials are needed, no special place or time is required. Scholarship, caste or creed does not matter. When a piece of iron is rubbed on a slab of stone, heat is generated. So too, in order to generate sufficient heat to melt the soft heart of the Lord, repeat the Divine Name vigorously and constantly. Then, the Lord will shower His Grace.

Baba (thought for the day)

Pralada is the story of a boy who was born into the family of one of the biggest demons of his time.

The demon father tried with all means to kill the boy who just silently referred to the divine name and was saved finally by the lord. It is the story of Narashingadev or how the lord took the form of a lion to come and save his devotee.

It shows the power or strength of a mantra. A mantra keeps the inside focus on the higher self and strengthens from inside. It is the path to developing the experiencer, and if he is properly attuned, nothing can happen to him.

That is why it is said, it is about knowing ‘that’. If we know it, we have everything, but if we don’t know ‘that’, we have nothing.  

Even if the total scheme of things in the external world could be made ideal, but the experiencer is not properly attuned, his life will be miserable.