Mystic Awareness for The Modern Mind

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This book is a capsule of correct and complete knowledge on existence. It is a harmonious blend of latest scientific information and ancient mystic insights. After an exciting intellectual expedition through this book, you will reach a compassionate vision of existence. A spiritual pathfinder will emerge in the mind leading you to the ultimate reality of undifferentiated awareness.

Mystics said to have achieved such enriched states of existence through meditation and yogic practices. It is now made accessible to you through the pathfinder outlined in this book. It shows that the universe is the outcome of the intelligent activity of a kind of self- organizing energy. Our existence is seen as the manifestion of its ingenuity to create higher order of complexity through the exchange of information in a conducive context.

The author holds degrees in chemistry, physics, psychology and economics at graduate, post-graduate and doctorate levels. He is a senior civil servant who has authored two books on tax reforms and several articles on Indian economic policy. This book is the first in a series of rational studies on spiritual awareness. More intensive discussions will follow for the advanced seekers of the wisdom of existence. The author intends to set up spiritual awareness centres for propogating the wisdom of the unity of existence.

The title of the book briefly tells you what it is all about. It is a capsule of knowledge to extend the ordinary consciousness to a far superior and holistic level of perception. The sole purpose is to enable you to realize the unity underlying, all kinds of existence. It would eventually give you a pathfinder to return to the dreamy state of innocence of the early childhood. In the absence of the concept of self, the infant feels no needs, desires or ambitions. But, with the fixation of body awareness, the childhood serenity gives way to innumerable miseries of the adult life. Mystics claim to reach such exalted state of undifferentiated awareness through meditation or other mind- altering, means. This book shows how even ordinary mortals like you and me can enjoy the ecstasy of unlimited awareness simply by following the path of knowledge to self-realization.

The innocence of childhood can be restored when the mind is slowly unbound from body awareness. The loss of individual identity may make one feel rudderless in the vastness of undifferentiated existence. But true knowledge will ultimately remove the misconception of identity created by the pleasure- seeking neural network in the brain. You may not immediately get instant enlightenment or ready answers to all the mysteries of nature. But if you involve actively in the pursuit of the wisdom of existence, you will definitely gain the most enjoyable experience of self-realization. The creditable achievement is that all this enlightenment is attained solely by your own efforts.

We begin our exciting intellectual adventure with systematic exposure to the facts ascertained by scientific inquiries on universe, life and mind. The intention is to take you to a higher level of awareness to appreciate the unfolding rational worldview. The missing links in scientific knowledge are supplemented with certain rational insights in our great heritage of mystic wisdom. You can incorporate in the emergent worldview all the spiritual and cultural values that you may cherish to preserve. At the end of the voyage of discovery, you will get an exquisite experience of rational wisdom emerging spontaneously without any external mediation. In short, though no free spiritual lunch is offered, you will get plenty of delicious appetizers that will entice you to reach the wisdom embedded in your own mind. The truth of reality will reveal to you the utter futility of the competitive struggle to amass wealth by any means. Of course, all this can happen only when you accept that the self is only a reflection of the eternal existence of universal consciousness. The wisdom to know what life is all about would change our mundane material existence to an enjoyable spiritual experience.

In our evolutionary ascend from apes to intelligent humans; we have come across several inexplicable enigmas of nature. The entire humanity must have shared from the very beginning, the quest for the true knowledge of where we are, what we are and how we become capable of seeking answers to such profound matters of identity. At one extreme, some people simply assume that we are the chosen ones blessed with all the intelligence and authority to control the destiny of the universe. Some others feel that humans are mere biological curiosities created by random blunders accumulated during the saga of evolution of life on a tiny planet! But no universally acceptable rational explanation is available to solve the mystery of the existence of the great cosmos consisting of several complex structures including the humans.

Now we have plenty of scientific knowledge to answer the first and second questions. But in spite of all modern tools that enhance our perception, the third question on the emergence of a conscious self is still beyond our comprehension. We do not find a convincing explanation for an intelligent life of very short duration in the enormity of cosmic time. In fact, all our struggles to achieve higher standards of life seem to further shorten the inevitable destiny of a hasty exit. The apparent futility of our intense efforts to secure a few decades of worthless existence creates immense despondency in sensitive minds. Unless some rational explanation is found for our short sojourn, we cannot enjoy the experience of even the limited existence. Some acceptable explanations would surely emerge at the end of our voyage of discovery in to the origin and evolution of universe and life.

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