Metaphysical Blog October Archive

Hidden paths to enlightenment

By Wilbur Corncob at 10/30/07 11:31

In the ancient days the wise men set upon finding such hidden paths which could lead to the inward journey thus illuminating the inner real self if it existed. As with any other field of study this was not done in a day, but was a result of painstaking efforts carried out over a period of time with the sole aim of achieving the desired objective.

They had to face misunderstanding, persecution and disbelief similar to the scientists of the olden days such as Galileo who were scoffed at when they mentioned to the world about the findings of the universe. But ultimately their theories came to be accepted worldwide and the scientists who were a subject matter of scoff in their own lifetimes are now revered as the pioneers of science.

Similarly the ancient Seers and philosophers contemplated and found out that various paths existed for carrying out the inward journey. I think by now you must have thoroughly understood the concept of the inward journey and now we will stop revolving around the topic and dive deep inside the concept of going inside from the next blog, in an effort to understand the crux of the matter.

How would you perform the act of 'going inside'?

In the previous blog we saw how the ancient Seers, Sages and philosophers found that the solution to finding the origin of life and existence might be found by going inside. Now if you ponder for a moment how you would practically perform the act of "going inside".

In the case of matter the solution lay in devising devices and machines which could see finer and smaller things than a normal human sense of vision could reach. But in context of life, going inside could be very confusing and complicated especially to the uninitiated.

So before going into more details about the process let me remind you of a couple of activities which you must have performed many times unconsciously in your everyday routine life. For example what you do when you get totally engrossed in something for example while doing something extremely interesting or absorbing such as reading a favourite book or writing a letter to your loved one from deep inside your heart.

Well you know the answer to this question is that you literally forget everything around you and even if somebody was talking you would not hear them or notice what the conversation was all about. This is so because you went somewhere inside so to speak so that you became oblivious of the outside world. Here might be a clue to the answer to the question posed in this blog.