Self-awareness

Self-awareness

Published 17.10.2023 | By Йосиф

Self-awareness

What kind of word is this and why is this self-awareness actually needed. In fact, this is a magic word, by understanding which a person can not just become advanced, it is not easy to become a yogi or an orientalist, by understanding what self-awareness is, we can become immortal…

To better understand this word, let’s try to guide it through a philosophical understanding. Self-awareness is self-observation, because in order to realize something, it is necessary to observe it. Observation is a materialistic version of this process, but we will turn to the term – to contemplate. So, the one who contemplates something can understand it. And in order to contemplate the process, you need to be a little away from the process itself, so to speak, behind glass.

Look at how a person looks at fish in an aquarium. He is a centimeter away from them, but how clear everything is, how sad the life of these fish looks, how he himself does not want to become a fish and how scary it becomes for fish if they try to turn off the lights in the aquarium. So it is worth an observer and from the outside to understand all the stupidity of what is happening, what kind of life the fish have is hopeless. Or look at how calm a person feels on an airplane, he does not even feel how fast he is rushing, but if this plane flies over your house, all the windows will fly off, I myself lived all my childhood in the area of the runway.

Accordingly, in order to engage in self-awareness, you need to see yourself from the outside, see how my body goes through all kinds of life changes: how it lives childhood, youth, maturity and becomes old. How stupid it behaved in the past and how not very smart it behaves in the present. And we have such an opportunity, we can begin to contemplate ourselves from the outside. And what happens at this moment? As soon as we begin to self-contemplate ourselves – at this moment the soul wakes up and separates from the body, we get freedom and remember that we are eternal living beings.

It is at this moment that the soul magically exits the body, when we can actually understand that I am not the body, I am the observer of this body. I entered it once, I can withdraw from it at any moment and I will definitely have to get out of it. I wonder who is actually laughing in the room of crooked mirrors? Does the soul become very funny when it sees changes in the body in which it is located?

Exit of the soul from the body

And now I’m going to teach you a secret practice that will allow you to get out of the body every single day. Do you want to? What comes to us all the time? Yes, happiness and grief come to us with frightening frequency. And as soon as one of them enters our life, we have a chance to take advantage of it and go beyond our body. How to do it? That’s right, we should try not to be very happy when luck comes and not to be very upset when failure comes. In a word, one must become a contemplator of the fate of one’s material body, which consists of joys and sorrows. This is such an effective practice that you can get the result from the very first time, you just have to try a little.

It is possible to understand that we are an observer of our fate, and it does not carry a clear definition of grief and joy, by the effect of detachment in time. Look at how our attitude to life events changes over time. See how historians’ conclusions are constantly being rewritten. Every time, after a certain time, our attitude changes, and we think: but I thought it was grief, and it turns out to be my happiness… and vice versa. As a child , a child thinks: it’s great that I live on the outskirts of the city, forest, river, mushrooms, hedgehogs; in adulthood , a person thinks: how unlucky I am that I live on the outskirts of the city, and not in the center, there is no supermarket, disco, far from work and there is little light on the streets in the evening; and in old age he thinks again: it’s great that I live on the outskirts of the city, quiet, calm, fresh air, you can go out and take a walk in nature…

Head and feet

Another way to become an observer is to see that the thoughts that are in my mind are not my thoughts. The head is the place where both the gross and subtle energy of this world enters. Food enters the mouth, and we can assimilate it, or we can not, it all depends on digestion. But thoughts also enter the head. Who knows what is on the head a mouth for thoughts? Yes, hair. Subtle energies penetrate through the hair into our head, and they are conceived as ordinary stupidities, since there is not much wisdom in this world. How to see this process of penetration of thoughts into our head? To do this, you need to completely relax. The two most stressful places in the body are the head and feet.

If a person was able to relax one of them, the rest of the body relaxes by itself, so often the massage consists only of a head massage or a foot massage. So, if we can relax, close our eyes and ears with our hands the way yogis do, and be silent for a while, we will catch this moment right as a thought penetrates into our head and disguises itself as ours. We’ve heard people say: I didn’t mean to do this, it’s not my fault. What did he really do? He did not resist the stupidities that penetrate our consciousness. This is wisdom, wisdom is protecting yourself from stupidity. What is this protection? – do not let strangers into the house.

The logic of destruction

And for lovers of logic, I can give interesting ideas that are set forth in the Bhagavad-gita. What is annihilation? Destruction is decomposition. What can be decomposed? What consists of something, in a word, it is possible to decompose what consists of its component parts. Now think and tell me why the body is mortal? Yes, because it just consists of components: liver, kidneys, heart, arms, legs, etc. Who remembers how many bones there are in a human skeleton? This is a Lego set for Brahma. He wants to collect a person with the help of DNA, but he wants a hare or a hedgehog. What is made of something can be easily destroyed. Now tell me, why can’t the soul die? Yes, because it is not composite, there are no parts in it, and what is not composite, it cannot be destroyed, it does not decompose, it is eternal by its very nature. Think about it at your leisure, it’s very
inspiring reasoning.

Ruzov V. O.

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