Sri Humananda
Advaita Vedanta Tantra Yogi
Satsang: Invitation to Self-Discovery
"Self-enquiry is not the mind's inspection of its own contents; it is tracing the mind's first mode, the 'I'-thought to its source which is the Self. When there is proper and persistent enquiry, the 'I'-thought also ceases and there is the wordless illumination of the form 'I'-'I' which is the pure consciousness. This is release, freedom from bondage."
(Sri Ramana Maharshi)
Invitation to Self-Discovery - July 22, 2006
You are invited to an exceptional gathering of Self-Inquiry.
This subject will simply be the entity that you refer to as “I” or “me”. So, this is all about you, and that’s all.
We will begin the investigation with what would seem to be the most simplistic of topics - "Who am I?", and look at the usual ways we tend to come up with suitable answers for ourselves. Then we will examine the tools by which these conclusions are arrived at and see where that takes us.
We will question the following: How relevant are your tools for the task at hand? How satisfactory are your conclusions? By what methods and tools do you make such a determination of self-concept satisfaction? And why, after all is said and done, are you then still seemingly unsure of your conclusions? Why is it so that the deeper you look into this "me", the darker it seems to get?
It may be so that you have been going at this self-investigation process in a way that bears only questionable fruit for you. The monologue will suggest some new avenues that you may find interesting and perhaps even worthy of further investigation, and provide you with a few new insights and even some simple, possibly new tools to try and work with if they seem suitable to you. We will look a little deeper - why the warp and woof of life seem to be all that is seen as important and the substratum - the spaces in-between seem to be ignored.
Namaste.
