Yogananda - Beyond thinking and intellect: The unlimited insight of soul - intuition
- 2016
All the children of God are endowed with the highest intelligence; intuition, the omniscient wisdom of the soul. Intuition is the power of the Spirit inherited by the soul by which the truth is perceived directly, without the mediation of any other faculty. Intuition is the orientation of the soul, which appears naturally in man during those moments when his mind is calm. Almost everyone has had the experience in an inexplicable way, in a correct "hunch" or has transferred their thoughts accurately to another person. Every man has the power of intuition, since he has the power of thought. As thought can be cultivated, intuition can be developed. At intuition we are in tune with reality - with the world of bliss, with "unity in diversity, " with the internal laws that govern the spiritual world, and with God.
But it needs to develop: In each person's life, two forces of knowledge are operative from birth: (1) the power of human reason, along with their satellites of sensation, perception, n, conception, and so on; (2) the power of intuition.
The first was developed through institutions and social interactions. The latter usually remains without culture, undeveloped, due to lack of orientation and appropriate training methods. While intuition has not developed, it is guided primarily by the limited understanding of mortal intelligence, with only occasional dictates of intuitive wisdom. In this way he engages in some good deeds, but also in many erroneous actions, and acquires many bad habits. Through the operation of the law of cause and effect, or karma, he finds himself following his own destiny without being able to do anything of his own creation, which often leads to misery.
A life can be successful, healthy and complete balanced with wisdom and happiness when the activity is guided by God's internal, intuitive direction.
The only way to know and live in the truth is to develop the power of intuition. Then you can see that life has a meaning, and that no matter what the inner voice is doing it is guiding it.
While animals are guided mainly by instinct, and ordinary man is guided by his ego, the yogi who is united to the Being is guided by the soul.
This intuitive power can be developed by learning the step-by-step methods of deeper scientific meditation that lead to self-realization.
Qualities of intuition
The senses and the mind are the outer doors through which knowledge is filtered into consciousness. Human knowledge is filtered through the senses and is interpreted by the mind. If the senses err in perception, the conclusion drawn by the understanding that the data is also incorrect. A flutter of white gauze cloth in the distance may seem like a ghost, and a superstitious person thinks it's a ghost; but the closest observation reveals the error of that conclusion. The senses and the understanding are easily deceived because they cannot capture the true nature, the essential character and the substance, of the created things. The highest faculty of man is not reason but intuition: the apprehension of knowledge derived immediately and spontaneously from the soul. Intuition comes from within; although it is thought, from the outside. Intuition gives a face-to-face view of reality; Thought gives an indirect view of it. Intuition, by a strange sympathy, sees reality in its entirety, while chops thought in parts.
And includes feelings
Beyond the senses and the intellect, intuition manifests itself in a clear conscience as a sensation, mostly perceived through the heart. When this feeling comes in meditation, it receives through it a definite sense of right direction and unwavering conviction. Each time you will be able to recognize and follow this intuition. That does not mean that you give up reason. Fair reason in calm and can also lead to intuition. Use common sense. But remember that arrogant or emotional reasoning leads to misunderstandings and mistakes.
Pure reason and pure feeling both have intuitive qualities. Pure feeling sees as clearly as pure reason. Most women have a deeply developed intuition. Only when they become excessively excited do they lose their intuitive powers? Pure reason is also intuitive, if this power is sufficiently developed. Otherwise, it must be the wrong premise, the conclusion will be bad too. Sooner or later, every man who reasons clearly will develop true intuition, which is never wrong.
You must feel as well as reflective; If you do not have the feeling along with your thoughts, you will not always succeed in reaching the correct conclusion. Feeling is an expression of intuition, the repository of all knowledge. Feeling and thinking, or reason, must be balanced; Only then does the divine image of God in you, the soul, manifest its full nature. Therefore yoga teaches how to balance your powers of reason and feeling. One who does not have both equally is not a fully developed person. The perfect balance between reason and feeling leads to intuitive perception and the ability to know what is true. Achieving this balance, men and women become gods.
Consequences of underdeveloped intuition
The ignorance
Without developing intuition it is a crystal placed before the soul, producing a double image. The soul itself is the real image; The reflection is unreal - the ego. The more without developing intuition, the more distorted image of the ego will be. When human life is guided by this false identity, which is produced by the presence of undeveloped intuition, which is subject to all limitations and false notions of deception. A chaotic existence of error and its consequences is therefore inevitable.
When a man identifies with his body, he feels nothing but the sensations of sight, smell, taste, touch, sound, weight and movement. God sent man to earth to be entertained by bodily dreams., not obscure your awareness of immortality by identifying with the body. If it is possible for a sufficient period of time they remain unidentified with thoughts and sensations, and without being unconscious, he will know through the development of the intuition of the nature of the soul . “I am not the breath; I am not the body, neither the bones nor the flesh. I am not the mood and the feelings. I am that which is behind the breath, the body, the mind and the feeling “ When one goes beyond the consciousness of this world, knowing that it is not the body or the mind, and yet, conscious as never before you exist -. That divine consciousness is what you are. You are the one in which everything is rooted in the universe. The advanced student must meditate deeply until his thoughts dissolve into intuition. In the lake of intuition, free from the waves of thought, the yogi can see the reflection of the serene moon of the soul.
Errors in the trial are the result of not having developed intuition. Most of you have had the feeling that you could be great, and do great things; But because it has lacked intuitive power, that potential has, for the most part, remained dormant. Since the criterion of your mind is conditioned by the information that is contributed to it by the senses, if your senses become illusive you can think that you are a wonderful person, without knowing what is really inside. You may think that you have found your soulmate, to enter into marriage; and then end up in divorce court. But intuition will never make a mistake. You will not look at the magnetic power of the eyes or on the attractive face or personality of a person, but feel and perceive precisely in the heart what that person really is. For progress and to avoid misery of mistakes, you have to find what is true in everything. This is only possible if you develop your intuition. That is the practical truth of the matter. That is why I ask you to cultivate and use intuitive energy in everything. In your relationships with others, in your business, in your married life, in every part of your life, intuition is essential. By not developing the faculty of intuition, wrong decisions are made, pick up the wrong business partners, and get caught up in the wrong personal relationships. There is always uncertainty in depending only on the forms of success material. But the intuitive way of success is different. Intuitive perception can never be wrong. It is an internal sensitivity, a sensation by which it is known in advance whether or not it will succeed following its particular course. Many people, who lack intuition, put a lot of money in financial perspectives that produce nothing, and therefore lose everything. I have succeeded in every decision I have made through intuitive power. It never fails. The scientific man or the entrepreneur or anyone looking for success would achieve more if he concentrated on increasing the receptive quality of his brain cells, instead of relying solely on books and university work for his progress. The world begins with books and external methods, but you must begin by increasing the receptivity of your intuition. In that lies the infinite seat of all knowledge.
Ways to develop intuition
First of all we have to develop common sense. Intuitive wisdom, although it transcends ordinary knowledge; He is the father of common sense, which is the simply intuitive reaction to the environment itself. Next, add the sentence for intuitive guidance: Learn as much as you can about your goal and the practical measures necessary to achieve it. Whether you are investing your money, starting a business, changing your occupation, after researching, in comparison, and applying your intelligence to the limit, no rush into it. When your reason points and research a thing, then meditate and pray to God. In inner silence, ask the Lord if it is okay to move on. If you pray deeply and wholeheartedly and find that something that is becoming of her, do not. But if you have an irresistible positive momentum and this momentum persists, then go ahead. Your prayer for guidance should be sincere, so all that feels the impulse will be from God and not a simple support of your own defective desire. That is the way I have developed the practical application of my intuition. Before beginning any effort, I feel in meditative silence in my room and go in the expansion of that power in my mind. Then I throw the concentrated light of my mind on what I want to achieve.
Always ask the Father to guide him. If your ego is blind and has a strong voice, it can stifle intuition and deceive it. But if he seeks only to please God for his efforts to do something worthwhile, He will guide your steps from error to good.
Meditation is the safest way
The safest way to release the expression of intuition is meditation, early in the morning and before going to bed at night. Whenever you want to solve a problem intuitively, first go into deep meditation or silence, as you have been taught in the lessons. Do not think about your problems during meditation. Meditate until you feel a sense of calm fill the inner hollows of your body - even a divine happiness fills the inner hollows of the soul - and the breath calms and tranquility. Then they simultaneously concentrate on the point between the eyebrows (Christ Consciousness Center) and the heart. Finally, ask God to direct your intuition, so that you can know what you should do about your problems. The clear-thinking man must be distinguished from the man who thinks too much. Intuition manifests itself only in calm; in the non-evolved man, only occasionally does he appear through the gaps of the leisure periods of the active mind and restless senses. The individual with clear vision does not allow intellect to ignore intuition; for his patient calm, which allows the full functioning of intuition in guiding him to the appropriate determinations.
To reach a higher state of consciousness and divine perception, it is necessary through meditation; withdraw your mind from your tireless continuous activity. In that internalized state, spiritual sensibility, or intuition, awakens.
An advanced Kriya Yogi, who in Samadhi meditation has withdrawn his consciousness and life force from the realm of the dense body and senses, enters that inner world of the revelations of wisdom. He realizes the seven sacred altars of the Spirit in the spine and brain, and receives all the knowledge that emanates from them. Thus, in tune with the truth through the intuitive perception of the soul, he always knows the correct orientation for all aspects of his spiritual and materially obedient behavior.
The goal of science is yoga to calm the mind, which without the distortion the infallible advice of the inner voice can hear .
God speaks through his intuition.
Spirit does not necessarily speak through the lips of a form in a vision or a materialized human body, but it can imply words of wisdom through the means of the awakened intuition of the devotee. God can advise a devotee assuming the form of a saint, but usually He adopts the simple method of speaking through the intuitive perception of the devotee. The voice of God is silence. Only when restless thoughts cease can the voice of God be communicated through the silence of intuition. That is through the expression of God. In the silence of the devout silence of God ceases.
Without devotee he must be satisfied until his intuition has developed sufficiently - through impartial introspection and deep meditation, as in Kriya Yoga - to experience the communion of the soul and spirit. If a devotee meditates intensely for periods of at least short every day, and has periods of three or four hours of longer deep meditation once or twice a week, he will find it his intuition to become sufficiently superfine to perform the dialogue endlessly of the blissful wisdoms exchanged between the soul and God. He will know the internalized state of communion in which his soul "speaks" with God and receives the answer, not with the words of any human language, but through the exchanges of intuition without words.
True religion is based on intuition.
Everything in good faith revealed world religions are based on intuitive knowledge. Each has an exoteric or external particularity, and an esoteric or internal nucleus. The exoteric aspect is the public image, and includes moral precepts and a body of doctrines, dogmas, dissertations, rules and customs to guide the general population of its followers. The esoteric aspect includes methods that focus on the real communion of the soul with God. The exoteric aspect is for most; The esoteric is for the fiery few. It is the esoteric aspect of religion that leads to intuition, first-hand knowledge of reality. Intellectual speeches about the Creator will not be given by God. But looking for it inside, making the effort every day, you will find it. God's way is not through intellect, but through intuition. Ordinary human beings, who study and work with material life, are circumscribed in their understanding by their sensory perceptions and rationalization intelligence. With undeveloped intuition, your limited power of intellectuality cannot truly understand the things of the spirit, even when that truth is exposed to them. Although colossal intelligences and famous theologians may be well read about the soul, they may, however, understand little about it.
On the other hand, even illiterates given to deep meditation will clearly be able to describe the nature of the soul from their own direct experience. Intuition bridges the gap between the intellectual knowledge of the soul and the effective realization of the divine Being.
Intellectual giants, teachers of many languages, true walking libraries of knowledge and deductive philosophy, but lacking the help of clear-eyed intuition, have a deceived intelligence - functional in the plane of relativity, but obstructive to divine wisdom . It is by intuition that God can be realized in all its aspects. We have no feeling that he can reveal knowledge of him; The senses give knowledge only of their manifestations. No thought or inference allows us to know how He really is, for thought he cannot go beyond the data of the senses; You can only organize and interpret the impressions of the senses. God is beyond the mind and intellect. Its true nature can be felt only through the soul energy of intuition. You have to find your consciousness through the superconscious mind - the core of the mind and intelligence. His infinite nature is revealed to man through the super intuitive awareness of the soul. The joy felt in meditation reveals the presence of eternal joy spread over all creation. The light seen in meditation is the astral light from which our tangible creation is made. Contemplating this point of view, one feels a unity with all things.
It produces true wisdom intuition, the antidote against false cosmic illusion
Man is so drunk with delirium, his true perception is erased so that the darkness of his ignorance cannot stop in the light of God vibrating everywhere. Both the cosmic illusion (maya) and the individual illusion or ignorance (avidya) work together for this dark way and confuse the intuitive sense inherent in the soul of God's omnipresence. In the meditation of this darkness of sensory dependence it disappears and intuition prevails, revealing itself as light in the magnitude of a whole universe of light. When man settled in that inner realm of divine consciousness, the awakened intuitive perception of the soul penetrates the veils of matter, vital energy and consciousness and discovers the essence of God in the heart of all things. When by meditation and the devotional practice of divine teachings the soul's intuition begins to guide the development of intelligence, it is then that illusion instead of wisdom is doomed to destruction.
The transcendent vision
This life is a master novel, written by God, and man would go crazy if he tried to understand that by reason. That's why I tell you to meditate more. Enlarge the magic cup of your intuition and then you will be able to keep the ocean of infinite wisdom. The devotee who transcends the myopia of body consciousness sees with the superior vision of divine intuition, and resolves all previously incomprehensible dualities in the perception of ecstasy of creation. Even as beauty and joy. How expressively the Gita extols this truth: adonado with innumerable costumes and garlands and celestial ornaments the stars are his crown jewels; the earth is his feet; the rays, thunder, storms and cataclysms the flash of their equipment and complement of their mantle while dancing in the joy of the dancing rhythms of creation, preservation, destruction. Everything in the objective world is a decoration added to embellish the cosmic garment of God; Behind all this is the hidden divine reality. Meditate with patience and persistence. In the meeting of calm, one enters the realm of intuition of the soul. Over the centuries, the beings who attained enlightenment were those who had recourse to this inner world of God-communion. Jesus said: When you pray, enter your room, and when you have closed the door, pray to your Father that he is secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you in public. Go into the Self, closing the door of the senses and their involvement with the restless world, and God will reveal all its wonders to you.
* Matthew 6: 6.
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Article of the magazine Self-Realization Fall 2011
