Importance of Educating The Inner Man
Divine Life
Society Publication: The Eye Of The
Hurricane by Swami Chidananda
In what direction are we
going? What is the aim, the goal, the focal point of our interior? It is in
that area that the question of bondage and liberation, bliss and sorrow,
darkness and light has to be solved. In your innermost being, in your essential
reality, there is no problem. It is all perfect. It is all a mass of light.
There is wholeness and completeness. There is all joy and peace. There is
nothing to be done there. It requires nothing to be done. You cannot paint a
lily as it were or hold a candle to the sun. Your Reality is a mass of Divine
Light.
So far as the body is
concerned, there is no problem really, because it is just an unconscious,
non-intelligent material vesture. It cannot do anything. Just consider it for a
while. The moment that consciousness is withdrawn from it—at night when you go
to sleep—what is it? It is like a lump of wood—be it that of an emperor or a
commander-in-chief of an army or a multi-billionaire or the world wrestling
champion. So it has no power to cause you either sorrow or joy or bondage or
ignorance. The problem of earth-existence, the problem of bondage, does not
reside in this physical, non-intelligent, inert body. Neither does the problem
in here, in the ever-perfect, ever-free reality of your true essential being.
So it is neither in the
spiritual dimension nor in the physical material dimension that you have to
work out this problem which has been defined as a problem of suffering and a
problem of bondage, pain, disease, old-age and death. It is therefore in the
interim area, where you are a thinking, feeling, conscious, intelligent
being—if that area is given the right direction, then your life is made, you
are the emperor of emperors. If that takes the wrong direction, you make a mess
of your life. In the world of today you see what prevails everywhere.
The cause of this situation is
precisely because that in the progress of human history, in the evolution of
human society, no one thought it necessary to bring about this correct
direction of the inner nature of man, the education of the inner man. All their
concept of education, all their concept of training and civilization was
oriented only towards the outer, the physical and the material, the body and
the senses. No conscious effort was ever made to take up the great task of focusing
the inner man upon the Eternal, the Divine. No conscious effort was ever made
to try to educate each generation into a state of Reality consciousness.
Therefore humanity has ever
been suffering from an illness, a malaise, spiritual malaise. The great regret
is that it is all avoidable. It is avoidable; it is not inevitable. It is not
necessary. The science of Yoga is a scientific system of focusing the interior
of man towards the Eternal and the Divine—to bring about a transformation in
the nature of the inner man which constitutes the essence of the human
personality.
In the earthly sense, what is
it that makes the human being human and not animal? It is the faculty of
thinking and reasoning. Otherwise, the entire biological aspect of man is
hundred per cent animal. All the behavior of the biological mechanism in man
duplicates in every respect the biological mechanisms of the entire rest of
living beings—the various internal viscera, respiration, circulation,
digestion, elimination, relation to the various other systems, the hair, the
skin, the nails, everything else.
That which makes the human
being human is the thinking/feeling faculty. It is this aspect of the human
personality that requires to be channeled, God-orientated and made to change
its inveterate nature acquired through millennia. Various explanations are
given as to how this psyche of man acquired its nature of the physical, and the
Reality within, its nature of the spiritual.
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