How Does Transformation of The Personality Take
Place?
Divine Life
Society Publication: Chapter
68-Fear of Losing The World – Your Questions Answered by Swami Krishnananda
Visitor: I have a question,
Swamiji, about transformation – how does transformation take place in time?
SWAMIJI: What kind of transformation?
Visitor: Of the personality,
of the old way of being, the old way of seeing things, and understanding things
to the new way of being more interested in the Self.
SWAMIJI: Transformation is actually a state of consciousness. When
you are aware of something, consciousness envelops that thing, and it takes the
shape of that particular thing, whether it is a human being, or any particular
object of the world. And, you are transformed at that time into the form of the
object which you are thinking in your mind. But, if the object does not exist
for you – they are not matters of concern for you – you have nothing to do with
anything in the world, and then the consciousness transforms itself into its
own true nature.
Now, we are empirically
conscious, sensorially aware, and filled with object consciousness. We are
seeing this world; we are looking at the buildings, we are seeing the wall, and
so many people around us. There, in that condition of perception of things, a
psychological transformation takes place. The mind assumes the shape of that
which it cognizes; then, you are able to see that such a thing exists. As
molten lead cast into a crucible takes the shape of that crucible, the mind
takes the shape of any object which it cognizes, or perceives through the sense
organs.
This is called bondage to the
objects. If you are not concerned with anything – you are seeing so many people
here, but your mind is not transformed into the shape of these people, because
the mind has no concern with them – it is a blank looking and seeing, without
any emotional connection. If that emotional connection with things is
withdrawn, and your concern is centralized in the Pure Self, you undergo a
metaphysical transformation, as they call it – a transcendental transformation
– transformation into a form of God Himself, I should say. Instead of your
consciousness taking the shape of a thing that it cognizes outside, in the form
of objects, etc., the centralized consciousness, with no concern external in
space and time, gets modified into the form of the Transcendent Being, which is
God-consciousness. That is the transformation that you are expecting, which
will take place automatically, if you are freed from object-consciousness, or
any kind of desire-consciousness. That is what you are expecting in your
spiritual transforming process.
The Self almost loses contact
with itself, and moves outside in the form of objects of sense, when it desires
anything. That is an unnatural condition of the mind. The senses have to be
withdrawn from such perceptional activity, and consciousness has to rest in
itself. The resting of the consciousness in its own self, which is Universality
of Being, is the highest Yoga or meditation. There is nothing more to be done
afterwards. That is the final goal.
Excerpts from:
How Does Transformation Of
The Personality Take Place? – Chapter 68-Fear of
Losing The World – Your Questions Answered by Swami Krishnanandahttp://www.dlshq.org/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?
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