The Process of Withdrawal
Divine Life
Society Publication: Kathopanishad – The Science
Of The Inner Life by Swami
Krishnananda
The energy that is spent by
the senses should be conserved through the stoppage of the activity of the
senses. When the senses are prevented from their functions, there is a natural
revolt of the senses, as a reaction to the attempt at their subdual. The reason
for this revolt is that the energy that is withdrawn from the senses is,
usually, not utilized well.
No energy can rest in suspension,
without being used; it shall find a way out. Hence the totality of sense-energy
should be dissolved in the mind, so that there may not be any chance or
possibility of its being expressed once again through the senses.
But the mind also, being an organ
which is an extrovert in nature, may project itself again through the senses,
if the energy is allowed to stay in the mind without being utilized for a
purpose.
Generally, forced stoppage of
sense-activity without proper discrimination results in nervousness,
excitement, confusion and ultimately in a kind of mental aberration. For this
reason, the energy of the mind should be spent in the process of purifying it
and transforming it into the purity of intelligence. The character of
intelligence is not dynamic energy, but unruffled consciousness.
Consciousness does not require
itself to be spent out, because there is nothing subtler than consciousness.
But, when the mental energy is transformed into the intellect, it remains in
the individual in the form of a dynamic power. Power is always objective and
tends to motion. Power cannot rest in itself and so forces itself out in some
way or the other.
The intellectual energy should therefore be
reduced to universal consciousness or Mahat, where there is no danger of power
getting itself externalized. The Mahat should further be reduced to the
Santa-Atman or the Absolute Self which is free from even the possibility of
objective consciousness. This is the ultimate Goal.
The drift of the whole
statement is that all ideas, names and forms, actions and their results, have
to be resolved into their Source, by a knowledge of its absoluteness.
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The Process of Withdrawal - Kathopanishad – The Science
Of The Inner Life by Swami
Krishnananda
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