The path to truth is the path of self-knowledge (Arguments of the Unified State Examination). Man's knowledge of the world and himself is the path to a new life
Chapter 11 - "The path to God through self-knowledge"
The way of self-knowledge is outside of religions, directly, alone. Regardless of who said what, get the answer yourself, get to the bottom of it. I tell you that this is possible through self-knowledge, but I do not say that this path is superior, as well as any other. This is the path of many. Why argue? You should not compare mathematics with chemistry, let alone contrast. I suggest to everyone who wants to know himself, and through himself and God, to ask questions to himself, about himself. And ask them before realizing your divine essence, in order to find one, if it exists. Do you know how the Master recognizes the disciple? - For questions! It is questions that indicate the direction of development of their asker. Good question the answer itself.
It is said: Man is created in the image and likeness of the Creator himself. So, knowing yourself as a man, you recognize God in yourself. And, knowing yourself as a Microcosm, you will understand the structural, karmic and other laws of the Macrocosm.
Let's slowly, bit by bit, discover a new world in ourselves - the world of perfect harmony and predictable regularity. The deeper our penetration into our own sensations and reflexes, the higher our understanding and more voluminous representation of the process of the Universe and the ways of interpenetration of parallel and cross worlds.
The organism of the Universe is very similar in its laws to the human structure. No wonder we are so fascinated by the genius of mutual understanding of all systems of our life. While we are healthy, we do not notice this, but in those moments when we experience difficulties, and the body copes with them on its own, we are aware of the divine improbability of its structure. What a brilliant car! It self-heals, restoring even destroyed tissues, and even self-reproduces. It is true that more than one person reproduces on Earth, but only he is endowed with a high consciousness. Studying the work of the human body, many scientists believed in God - the only possible Creator of such a perfect structure. Here you have a miniature of the Universe - the harmony of all the universes that make up the Divine being.
The highest wisdom can be traced in everything that happens around us, with ourselves, within us. Billions of individual cells multiply inside us and die, having previously given birth to a replacement. The lifespan of some cells is only a few hours. In every millimeter of our body, life boils, millions of separate lives that make up a single whole. All systems clearly work, even when we sleep. Why was all this created? Just for a person to live? Billions of particles barely visible under a microscope, for the sake of one big and important? Why is it so important? It’s not just for watching TV and eating sandwiches that we are so ingeniously arranged. Then... What are our bodies? Carriers of something more important? What are we? What is a Man? Capsule for the soul? Souls return to Earth from life to life for the sake of the Creator? Are they keeping Him alive? Are they him? Are we Him? Just like our cells are us? I don’t know about you, but for me, any chain of questions turned inward leads to God. In everything one can trace the genius of the Highest Order.
The strongest awareness and mutual assistance between separate parts of our body is simply amazing in its genius. Even exceptions confirm the pattern. Ever heard of someone else's arm disease? Parts of one body hardly contact each other, like aliens. Moreover, this "foreign hand" is always trying to harm its breadwinner, as if it has another owner. Huge problem. But in a normal state of consciousness, our nose doesn't need to negotiate with the hand to scratch. And at the moment of danger - the mosquito will just sit down, the hand will automatically slam, the brain will not even have time to figure it out. I think that the interaction of all external worlds and civilizations is no less regulated. You just need to get rid of the alien hand syndrome in your mind, and the feeling of alien life will disappear.
If you try to get to know your body in this connection, then you begin to understand and feel others like you, and not only. That is, first you go deep into yourself, and then you realize that something similarly structured, but on a different scale, opens up for your review and understanding. All this is created by a higher mind, and we are created in the image and likeness of the creator. What are we capable of? The thought is breathtaking. Well, why not try your hand here?
Our positions with you, of course, may be different, but the views are not at all opposite. Everyone just looks through the prism of their own experiences. One will say: - "My microcosm, upon close study, breaks up into a million separate pieces, which are something completely random, it is not known how that arose, moreover, created on some kind of illusory basis."
So it is Big world as a whole consists of a huge number of unrelated (at first glance) realities. Many of them are not perceived by a person at all, most remain beyond understanding, only a few are accessible to our mind, and, finally, only a few are involved by us in the process of our own development.
We are outraged by the discrepancy, and even the opposite of something new we already know. All delusions come from the desire to give an explanation to everything at once, at the very first moment of acquaintance, instead of simply stating and tracking. Cognition is a process, while awareness can be instantaneous, like insight.
In our memory there are many boxes - stash boxes, with a variety of topics. Every time we learn about something for the first time (not denying, just stating), a new box is opened. Then everything that carries a co-direction to a given topic automatically joins there. Information is sorted and accumulated. If now you have nothing to substantiate what is true for another, do not rush to conclusions, just accumulate the material of your own knowledge. With a sufficient confluence of information and circumstances, there will be a surge of consciousness. Then you will understand what is at stake, you will understand what is not expressed in words, which somehow connects all the drawers of your pantry into a single rational system. No, it won't come full world and peace is a fleeting vision. Knowledge It will become when you put it into practice. And then you will be able to build your own theory of explanation of what happened to you, based on inner knowledge and outward manifestation.
Overcoming difficulties includes a reflex of inner freedom. We even need this kind of inoculation so that our lives do not pass in deep hibernation. Just as regular exercise strengthens the physical body, and overcoming obstacles strengthens our will to win, so spiritual trials strengthen our spirit and purify our soul, making us more sensitive and wise. Tracking our reactions to what is happening around us, we learn to regulate our internal state approaching the peace in which knowledge of the truth is possible.
So what do we know about ourselves? And how can this serve us in the knowledge of the external (but only at first glance) world? One persuasion: taking any example from inner life, we become more attentive to ourselves, look deep into ourselves, listen to the sensations and follow the reaction. Do not limit yourself to reading other people's thoughts, your own experience is important.
And so, let's take one of the brightest sensations - pain. How to know her? Just like anything else - through questions. Questions, questions and more questions until they answer. After all, it opens to the one who knocks. Each question is a knock on the door, behind which is true understanding.
In this case, pain. What's this? Why do we need this? What do we know about her? Does it hinder us or help us? Is this a distress signal? This means that it cannot be turned off, otherwise we will not know about the destruction taking place inside us. If physical pain is a consequence, a signal of an aggressive intrusion or internal damage, then why did the Creator need such a sophisticated and most ingenious system of impulse transmission of information to the outside world? Can pain predict, warn, and not just state destruction? Can we read her messages? Does a full understanding guarantee timely help, or is it needed for something else? If internal, physical pain is a signal to the owner of the body, then to whom does mental pain signal? Maybe the souls of the people inhabiting the earth, like nerve endings, transmit signals to the outside world? About what? On behalf of whom? To the Creator himself? Does he listen to our prayers as signals of internal problems? Maybe that's why after self-enragement in prayer comes peace of mind?
Do we get help from outside the same way our body takes a pill? Does this mean that our heartache for the evil done is a call for good? It turns out that deep remorse for what you have done works as spiritual self-healing? Does pain require an understanding of the pain itself, its cause, or is it a way of transformation? Or maybe all this combined and much more? A very interesting chain. And how does it work for you?
Ask your questions. Let the rain of questions pour the truth on those who ask them. Ask questions without stumbling while waiting for an answer, and when you guess most of the correct questions, you will have the key to understanding all the answers at once. You will understand the essence of what is happening without asking more questions. But in order to transfer this knowledge to another, questions will again be required. History repeats itself with each individual. It is impossible to see the light collectively, but access to the collective consciousness lies through personal insight. Rely on your subconscious, it knows what you need. Do not come up with questions, let them pour themselves, from the depths of the soul. Accept them with your brain, without turning on the analytical mind, just write it down. You will discover the logical construction of a profound chain later, when the whole meaning as a whole is revealed. Do not be afraid of intermediate absurdity. The experiment will be brought to fruition if you are really seriously concerned about the questions: What is going on in the depths of myself? How does it relate to the outside world? Maybe it's a reflection of one in the other?
Knowing yourself, you will know the meaning of your life, the divine plan of all lives. What is the meaning of my life, and is there any? I have asked myself this question many times.
Oh yeah! Every moment of my life is meaningful. And these are not loud words, not pathos and not a simple desire to captivate the interlocutor. Maybe that's why he lives happily because there are no meaningless events, meetings, minutes. I like to pour light and drive away darkness (where I can). I tremble with delight, when the "signs of God" are simultaneously understood by others, then the waves of love multiply many times over. Feeling and understanding the creation of the Higher in what I come into contact with, I see how it is being transformed before my eyes (healing, awakening, becoming kinder). The darkness of ignorance recedes, and earlier only the absorber begins to radiate light and love.
I never get bored, because the conversation with nature is not interrupted. This is the real forum! No need to be a hardened speaker, everything is clear without words, at the level of feelings and consciousness. Round the clock, without restrictions in space and direction. An unceasing stream of love and wholeness, solidarity and perfection. It can be transformed to Earth only by people, god-like beings endowed with universal consciousness. Our feelings are the engine of evolution! Great knowledge is inherent in everyone, you just need to remember. Wake up anyway! This is the meaning of my life. This is the meaning of your life. It's good to be human!
On February 2, the whole family was present at the birth of my eldest daughter. A wonderful toddler was born - Nicholas! Comfortable hospital room, twilight. Light, quiet music ... A woman in labor is put on a huge Balloon, swaying on which helps the child to take the correct position. Sitting on it like a goddess on the planet! She does not feel pain, because. received the strongest painkiller in the spine. There are jokes, memories of childhood and its birth. Then I remember my birth....
My God! I heard music... the song "we are not stokers, we are not carpenters..." and women's voices... one of them is my mother's... Then noise, whistling in my ears from tension... push... I see a light in the distance. ..bright light... heavy in the chest. New world... shadows and loud voices. And again, my God! .. When I was dying, ... I already went through this ... this is a painfully familiar transition to another world, through a tunnel, to the light, .. to the music, voices and ... you are met by those who love and joyfully excited... Angels and souls of those who left before you. Absolutely the same feeling!
Birth and death - maybe this is the result of a favorable pregnancy! In the human body, our soul is hatched, fertilized by the Holy Spirit. When it is ready, death comes - rebirth. Then our mature (afterlife) life ends with the death of the memory of everything that we knew and - again birth, from scratch, stupid person in which the soul is hatched. And such a whirlwind is endless... This idea captivates and inspires me. What's this? Wheel of Eternity? Where is the real Christmas? In the birth of a person who falls into the hands of a father and mother, or in his death - the return of the soul home, to the Father - the Creator and Mother - the Matrix? What is a Matrix? Love? One thing is for sure - death is nothing but a continuation of life, but not its completion. Created from a single cosmic pollen, like everything that exists in the universal space and time, we simply change our substance, with regular cyclicality and enviable constancy.
The paths of all future forms that have not yet arisen, from our point of view, exist simultaneously with us as real as our Path. Let us assume that a certain ball is capable of feeling and evaluating its position. If he is destined to roll straight, and he wants to go right or left, and he thinks that he is able to choose and plan, he will feel miserable. But as soon as he understands and sees what prompted him to move and why his trajectory is such, to feel the ultimate goal of his movement, he gains the meaning of his being in moving along his path and, devoid of illusions, finds true love and happiness.
The consciousness of each person's personality does not disappear, but becomes sharper with the understanding of the task entrusted to him. We are not a herd of controlled sheep. Each is a bright individuality in a brilliant consonance with all the others.
It was said (yes, not once, but only to complete the conveyance of the feeling of God-knowledge in oneself) that, they say, the "I" disappeared, and only God remained. But this happens only in moments of enlightenment, when you simply forget about the routine of worldly life. And there is absolutely no need to transfer these feelings as a selection criterion for truly advanced people to everything that is discussed in the process of progression itself (deep inside everyone).
God wants everyone to have their own "I" (reasonable), like a drop in the ocean, carrying all the power of information of the whole (Reason). In our "I" is hidden and can unfold at any moment the entire power of the Macrocosm. An example is the sudden discoveries of "uneducated geniuses". By themselves, "macro" and "micro" are not the same thing, but one does not exclude, but includes the other, and one cannot exist without the other. Simply, it is easier for a person to say: - I do not exist, but there is only God! - how to explain in words that there are both, at the same time, in everything, everywhere, always, so as not to cause a murderous remark: - Who do you think you are? - so they say timidly that they say there is no me, there is only God. But it was not God who demanded self-denial, but people! (except for priestly and monastic people) We fully belong to God anyway. It is then that we can rule the world, perform miracles, etc., when not only we dissolve in God, but God also dissolves in us. Enough appetite to devour the immense.
Within each of us there is a force of attraction that creates whirlwinds of creativity and advancement - this is the Spirit. Holy faith, by its strength and selfless prayer, acquires the Holy Spirit in us. He is one for all and lives in everyone who is devoted and faithful. It is He who knows and does the work of the Creator through us and beside us.
You can sum up the results of life on personal matters. The only results possible on the way of the advancement of the Spirit are the realization of the next goal. If you saw the scale of the unknown by you, then you have come a good segment of the path. If you see only what you know - you are marking time.
I don’t know whose words these are, but you can’t say more precisely: As long as your eyes are able to cry, you are not able to see clearly. As long as your mind is raging, it is not able to understand correctly. As long as your heart is unable to contain the whole World in unity, you are not able to cross the threshold of the Eternal.
Impersonality is indifferent to everything that happens, because merging with his consciousness with everything he meets and crosses, he literally perceives everything as himself. But we are going to this by a long, thorny path of development of our own consciousness.
Maybe I will repeat myself, but still let me remind you that we can move from the usual, 3-dimensional perception of the world to a more subtle one. To make it clearer what I'm talking about, imagine a box of matches. At first, you perceive only its external signs: dimensions, substance, while not seeing its reverse side. But as your consciousness advances, you will be able to see the inside of the box. Vision becomes voluminous. Further - more, you will be able to penetrate into the astral flare, learn the background and subsequent use of matches. To see the fates that have come into contact with him in the past and the future. If you continue your development, you will be able to merge with the energy of the object and act in its body, changing its structure.
And finally the highest degree advancement, which makes it possible to materialize objects from cosmic pollen by the power of one's consciousness. You are the creator!
There is only one way for mankind - this is the knowledge of oneself.
Yuri Burlan
begins from the first minute of life and continues until the last breath. Often, due to incorrect upbringing, imposed stereotypes and desires, the whole life of a person in the world turns into a mistake. And many leave without finding their place, their meaning. Having lived someone else's life on an alien planet, lost among strangers. And having lost hope of finding the very path to a new life ...
“I don’t know who you are and what kind of cross you are carrying…”
Turn around... Grandmother leading her granddaughter to kindergarten. A man carefully cleaning the windows of his car from snow. A woman hurrying to a stop. An approaching trolleybus, gloomy passengers. A girl looking out the window of a minibus at this world with a completely unchildish look. Car drivers, shop assistants, office workers, housewives and bankers. Unemployed and freelance artists, rich and poor, happy and not so…How many of us are there in this world different people? A lot of. Enough to get lost, to get lost, to become invisible, transparent, unnecessary... Why and for what?
Call to Know Thyself! - more and more often sounds today from the pages of the Internet, magazines, from TV screens. And what does it mean - know yourself, you don't know. The process of knowing oneself assumes that as a result a person will understand who he is and what his purpose in the world is.
The path to a new life in self-knowledge
The system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan shows that we are driven by the desire to have fun. From food, sleep, communication with others, relationships in the family, in a couple, from a dream come true and goal achieved, favorite work, from beauty, art and so on. This is how we taste life and find meaning in it. And through pleasure we understand who we are and how we want to live our lives in accordance with the principle of pleasure.Who are we to prevent ourselves and others from getting this pleasure, from developing according to the laws of nature inherent in us? However, this is what we do always, everywhere and every day. Starting with our own children, whom we do not understand, relatives, friends, not to mention strangers on the street. In such a vast world, among people, isn't it strange that we are so lonely and unhappy? Irritation and hostility towards each other only intensifies. We hate, we are offended, we are angry, we envy, we wish evil to everyone who somehow, even accidentally, appeared on our way.
Why is this happening?
None of us know who we really are. Without imposed patterns and really unnecessary desires. We want something and we don't get it, we strive and we fail, and so on, day after day. In the end, our lacks accumulate, self-esteem falls, and unfulfilled dreams and plans grow into anger, hatred, despair. And we blame everyone around and life itself.
We are born in physical body, endowed with five senses that help us from the very beginning to know the world around us and our reactions to it. And all our lives we go by touch, in the dark, stepping on the same rake, multiplying the number of bruises and abrasions. We only observe others outside, most often without thinking and not distinguishing what is hidden behind the behavior, words and reactions of a person to the world around him.
We really need new way to a new life. We are tired of floundering in the endless darkness of the night, languishing from an incomprehensible pain in our souls. But how do you know yourself and your true desires? Guided by the knowledge that Yuri Burlan's system-vector psychology gives, each person has the opportunity to discover his own inner world, understand the laws of the external and clearly see your own path to a new life, opening up all hidden possibilities.
How does a person understand the world and himself
In this world, a person cannot live and develop outside of society. According to systems-vector psychology, knowledge of oneself is possible only among other people, realizing that hidden unconscious that drives us all. Understanding the properties and desires of others, we can in the best way understand others and build harmonious relationships with them. Thus open the way to a new conscious life among people.For example, for a person with an anal vector, the main value is family and children. And he finds the meaning of his life in them. It is people with an anal vector who educate the younger generations, instilling family values. For the skin vector, this is success, career, social status. These are people who bring progress to society. And only the sound vector leads a person along the path to a new life not on earth. All earthly desires relating to the desires of the body are secondary for the sound engineer. He is looking for an answer to the question - who are we all and what are we doing here?
A sound vector is an abstract, not expressed in earthly language, desire for spiritual search. They are attracted to various spiritual practices. The sound vector strives for self-knowledge. Trying to independently understand the root causes of all things, sound engineers make many discoveries that are used by mankind. However, all these are advantages with a plus sign. And in life most often we gain experience of knowledge with a minus sign. And make our lives unbearable.
Life is not to blame!
Yuri Burlan
What gives a person self-knowledge? We live in a civilized world where people do not have to run across the savannah for food, it is easily bought in stores, and the walls of houses reliably protect us from predators. But today humanity has a different problem - the growing hatred and hostility towards each other, generated by our own shortcomings.
Philosophy and religion no longer provide answers to the questions of who I am and how to live in this world. And a person's knowledge of himself is a very important, if not the main task of a person. The feeling of happiness and pleasure, the meaningful living of every day for the benefit of the whole society is the result of a person's knowledge of himself.
Realizing the hidden mentality of every person in this world through the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan, we can accept him as he is. So, to justify his shortcomings and actions. This means building a new better life in which there will be no place for hatred and crimes.
“...Finally, a picture of the world, people and oneself has developed from fragmented puzzles into a clear and distinct picture. And the most interesting thing, I would never have guessed that this picture would be just like that. In this regard, I can say Systems Thinking THE BEST GUIDE IN THE WORLD FOR THE USE OF YOUR OWN BRAIN…”
Ildus K., psychotherapist, MD, Ufa
“…Training fills not only with knowledge. The feeling of life arises - as if the light has finally been turned on.
It’s hard to believe until you go through it yourself and experience it… but after the realizations that we are led to in the classroom, the world around us appears as an incredible splendor of colors and sensations, filled with a harmony of meanings. And all this sounds like a beautiful symphony of states inside.
The imaginary evil and negativity of the world begin to be comprehended in a completely different way, they cease to oppress and suppress. The smile of understanding! Finally, you feel and understand the whole and yourself in this whole: man-in-the-world and the world-in-man…”
Lidia G., Lecturer, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Ulyanovsk
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What is the path to self-knowledge? This is a very philosophical question that can be approached in different ways. Because for each person, of course, this very path is individual and not applicable to others. That is why we can probably argue that this question is eternal and has been asked from time immemorial, including by the famous classics of Russian literature. Consider one of the most famous examples of a multifaceted and long path to self-knowledge, namely, Pierre Bezukhov's self-knowledge from the work of Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace". Initially, Pierre decided to know himself through the Moral way, having tested marriage on himself, in the desire to gain inner enrichment of the spirit, being convinced of the sanctity of marriage and its great spiritual significance. But the hero entered into an alliance with a woman for whom he had absolutely no feelings, and, feeling the insincerity of everything that happened after him, he realized that it was a mistake and received serious disappointment and turned his attitude towards the transparent and highly moral process of marriage that once seemed to him .
Without giving up, he continues to search for the truth, and enters the Masonic society, imagining that all this carries High and correct goals. However, even there, only once inside, he sees all the falseness and pretense of people who do not really stand for great ideas. Having received a new disappointment, he is still ready to continue searching for his inner harmony, and decides to stand up for his people in the war with the French, and even prepares to kill the main enemy of the Russian army at that time - Napoleon, whom he once treated with sympathy. On the battlefield, Pierre feels close to the people, and that they are all doing a great job. And when he is captured, he meets an ordinary Russian soldier Karataev. In Karataev, Pierre sees an unfamiliar simplicity to him, and the dialogue with him endlessly amazes him, and also changes his worldview. Bezukhov understands that human simplicity is the essence of life, something that is always under your nose, but so actively ignored by many.
Finally, he gets peace of mind, he finds the truth thanks to these realizations, starts a family and lives happily, the Hero got exactly what he dreamed of during this long journey. Based on the example I have given, we can say that everyone has their own way to self-knowledge. It is not the path of a person that is important, but his desire to search for the truth. In any case, mistakes in this difficult search cannot be avoided, but those who really burn with the idea of knowing themselves will always be able to do this in the end and will certainly find peace of mind.
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421. The path to oneself: ups and downs. 422. Why is it important to comprehend the path traveled? 424. Love as a way of self-knowledge. 425. Do you agree with the statement that there are no hopeless situations? 426. What can be the path to self-knowledge? 427. What does it mean to "go your own way through life"? 428. Choosing a path as a vital problem. 429. Is it necessary to err in order to find the right path? 430. By what path does a person go to himself? 431. How does travel enrich a person? 433. What salvific guidelines help a person not to get lost on the path of life?
LISTEN TO THE WISE...
- D.S. Likhachev. Following the path of goodness is the most acceptable and the only path for a person.
- N.D. Arutyunov. “The path is a kind of anchor of salvation, thrown to a person in a raging ocean of elements and chaos.
- Wayne Dyer. There is no way to happiness: happiness is the way.
Confucius. If you love what you do, this is not a job, this is a fascinating journey towards a dream. - Steve Jobs. Take a step and the road will appear by itself.
- Francis Bacon. A hobbler on a straight road will outstrip a runner who has gone astray.
- Paul Valerie. When you reach the goal, you understand that the path was the goal.
- Dante Alighieri. Follow your path and let people say whatever they want.
- I. Guberman.
Two meanings in life - internal and external,
The external has a family, business, success;
And the inner - obscure and unearthly -
Everyone is responsible for everyone. - Khayyam Omar (1048 - 1131) - Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer
In this vicious circle - do not twist -
It will not be possible to find the end and the beginning.
Our role in this world is to come and go.
Who will tell us about the goal, about the meaning of the path? - Anthony Robbins. The road to someday leads nowhere.
- L.N. Tolstoy. In order for a person to live his life well, he needs to know what he should and should not do.
- W. Shakespeare. My honor is my life, both grow from the same root. Take away my honor and my life will be over.
- O.Henry. It's not about the road we choose; what is inside us makes us choose the path.
- R. Gamzatov.
Probably not to be found in the world
People who have never gone astray
Hearts never shrouded in mist.
And if your friend is in trouble:
He said not that, not that and not then -
Do not consider his mistake a deception ... " - Boris Akunin. The main duty of every person before God is to find himself, his own path, to live his own, and not someone else's fate.
- Rabbi Baruch. The world is filled with light for the one who knows it, and covered with darkness for the one who loses his way.
- Confucius. The path of a noble person is born in himself, but is tested by the people.
- Sergey Dovlatov. The only honest road is the path of mistakes, disappointments and hopes. Life is the identification by one's own experience of the boundaries of good and evil.
- Lion Feuchtwanger. The path to the ability to live in peace with the world is hard, but not to submit to it.
- Ilya Shevelev. Life is the path to happiness, but not everyone can overcome all stages of this path.
- Vadim Kulik. Every person is free to choose their own path in life. When it coincides with the calling, the path is illuminated by the light of providence and makes a person like a lit candle. Its light can warm or illuminate, that's not the point. It is important to light it, for a candle without fire is devoid of its original meaning.
- Marlon Brando. Only those who go their own way will never be overtaken by anyone.
Know what is before your face, and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed
Self-knowledge is perhaps the very first step before embarking on self-development and self-improvement. For, without knowing yourself, you are doomed to delusion, and you will develop and improve, most likely, not what you need. After all, it is not for nothing that this ancient saying: Γνῶθι σεαυτόν - has become the basic rule for all initiates. Yes, and resorting to elementary logic, you can understand that for proper development, perception of the world around you, you must first know yourself. Who are you, where did you come from and where are you going. Why were you born and what awaits you after the death of your body. Of course, for material people, with a small age of the soul, all these questions are insignificant. But actually our site is not for them. And they will not be interested in reading all this, because there is not a word of truth here, but that is exactly how it all happens. We publish information for those who have already approached the line when they realize that everything here is not just like that. But for beginners, a natural question arises: where to start? In fact, our entire site is devoted to this topic, and not only.
In order not to retell everything that has already been published earlier, I will try to briefly outline the ways of self-knowledge. Of course, better than the master stated it, you can’t say:
First requirement self-knowledge is the feeling of one's own ignorance; feeling with all the fibers of your heart that endless self-deception in which we live.
Second requirement lies in the deep conviction that knowledge of oneself - intuitive, but well-defined - can be achieved as a result of purposeful efforts.
The third and most important requirement - an irresistible desire to acquire this knowledge.
This self-knowledge cannot be achieved by so-called introspection alone. For it, only logical reasoning or any other mental activity is not enough, because it is associated with the awakening of the consciousness of the Divine nature of man.
The acquisition of this knowledge is much more important than the ability to control the elements or the ability to see the future.
However, I will try to describe it in my own words.
First requirement
At the very first stage, each person needs to understand and realize that he is not yet a higher being, and that all his knowledge is negligible in comparison with the One who created it all. Hence, human ignorance, and arrogance and pride, which must be completely eliminated. In some way, you have to become like an alcoholic, thirsting for a hangover in the morning in order to alleviate his suffering. With the same zeal, perseverance and perseverance, it is necessary to understand and realize that we live in an illusion. The world around us is not entirely real, it is real only for our body, which is an instrument of knowledge of this world. Many will object, saying, they say, how is it not real when I can touch, smell, lick, feel? Quite right, you feel it all, but! Only if you accept the concept that you are not a body, but a spirit and soul, and each of us is one. And it is they who feel and feel it all thanks to all five sensors of the physical shell. But the lower ego , using our brain, it builds its own illusion of the material world for us, thereby introducing us daily into self-deception.
After all, in fact, nothing bad can happen to you, only if you yourself have not prepared it! Thus, realizing the fact that we know absolutely nothing about the world around us, we must put all our knowledge aside for the time being and begin to find out how everything really works.
And the most important point stop fooling yourself! As soon as you begin to be honest with yourself, it will be easier for you to understand where your lower nature speaks inside you, and where the voice of the higher “I” sounds. Without a clear definition of these two voices, it will be impossible for you to proceed to the second step.
Second requirement
Intuition. Yes, yes, this is a miracle tool, which is, do not believe it, you! She is called the voice of God, higher intelligence, providence, insight, teacher and many other words. People already familiar with intuition will not let you lie. They know how clearly, always correctly and intelligently this voice prompts. Believe it or not, he never lies and what is most interesting is never wrong! It is difficult to believe in this for a simple layman, but for people on the way, this will no longer cause the slightest surprise or denial.
Perhaps the second condition, the ability to work with intuition, will be more difficult than understanding and realizing that you live in the illusion of your feelings. And yet, absolutely every person hears these two voices within himself. One of which says one thing, and the second, as a rule, always rereads. Having acted one way or another, a person often later regrets that he did not listen to that second voice, which, as it turned out, prompted the best option. But even here it is not as difficult as it might seem. Realizing the simple thing that you contain two natures, one of which is divine, the other is demonic. Having understood how both of them manifest themselves in you, and where you manifest either the qualities of a “white wolf”, or a “black wolf”. And having stopped lying to yourself, you can easily learn to distinguish these two voices in yourself. And having given the reins of government to your higher "I", your divine nature, your intuition, you will take the path of Evolution.
Third requirement
This is where no one can help you. Neither the Buddha himself nor Jesus will force you to follow the path. For, apparently, this very desire comes with the age of the soul. It can be traced by analogy with people. AT kindergarten you have no desire to drink, go to football or do something there. You have desires of a different nature. But as you grow up, your desires change. And an adult certainly does not want what he wanted at 7, 10 or 15 years old. Something similar is happening here as well. Before the soul matures, it is unlikely that she will want to return home. The young soul has not yet worked up, and has not suffered.
And now only adult souls, having tried all the “charms” of physical life, acquire an irresistible desire to acquire this knowledge. Actually this is logical. For they do not need to prove those things that are in no way perceived by young souls. The experience of past incarnations, the voice of intuition for them become a guiding star. Plus, having read the necessary and correct books, they are able to build the Antahkarana bridge. And forever start moving from the wheel of Samsara.
And remember, no introspection, no self-esteem, even mental stress will not give you the opportunity to know yourself. For the divine man must wake up in you, and the animal must leave. But if you consider yourself a reasonable, but still material person, then it is in your will to start correcting yourself as an animal, thereby awakening your divine nature.
