Put into words by a disciple: “Moreover, he outgrew the fallacy, almost Universal in the West and increasingly common in the modern East, that it is possible to help mankind only by outer activity. Sri Ramana Maharshi- one of the great Indian sages - taught this very maxim. Oddly enough, introspection may be the most sane & potent form of altruism.īeyond the platitudes of New-Age self-help guides that circulate the Barnes & Nobles shelves - “The Best Way to Help Others is to Help Yourself!” - exists a wealth of knowledge urging this very counter-intuitive aphorism, diversely fueled by the masters of the East as well as the intellectual giants of the West.
RAMANA MAHARSHI SELF ENQUIRY HOW TO
The point at the end of this introductory-tunnel sheds a peculiar light on how to best pursue Einstein’s selfless maxim, “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” The fallacy that being a positive force in the lives of others corresponds only to external action, and that inner-work’s sphere of influence reaches no farther than oneself is an unhealthy, destructive, and ultimately backwards creed. In probably less obnoxious English and certainly fewer words: the systemic neglect of the inner-world incarnates our latent neuroses into the outer world. Any external action ensuing from this inmost and atrophied center - spanning humanitarian efforts to eating a bologna-sandwich lunch - remains subtly plagued by the afflictions of subdued internal ventures (such as the self-excavating force of meditation). Coupled with the industrialized proclivity towards valuing only those quantifiable dimensions of life, the repressed pool engulfs progressively more of the interior realm.
The byproduct of this filtration system is the dogmatic tendency to mistake our own fragmentary collages of the world for the ineffable, inconceivable whole. The brain acts as messenger between these depths and our conscious thoughts, constantly engaged in the profoundest of double-tasking: simultaneously reconciling nebulous surges from within and sensory stimuli from without.Įmbodying the spirit of efficiency characterizing the modern Capitalist era, the brain developed tricks - subjective filters - designed to retain information deemed valuable and relegate the rest to the scrapyard of the unconscious. Beneath our immediate and illusory layer of consciousness lies the proverbial, undifferentiated ocean of awareness - the subsurface unity comprising the formless. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” - ARISTOTLEĪ mind is complex, cavernous, and labyrinthine, but not by nature.
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