SIRD Malaysia

A spiritual seeker will continuously be examining his thoughts, speech and actions. He is also watchful about the different types of perceptions and interactions he gets through knowledge organs,jnaanendriyas. Spiritual seeking is a continuous process, leading to greater and greater refinement and purification. In this, the seeker's intelligence plays a very important role.

"How is my mind? Am I thinking in the right way? Is there any rigidity in my thought process? Am I becoming too addicted to any of my pet notions? And because of the addiction, do I try to justify myself? Do I speak properly with straightforwardness? Or, is there any stealth or deception lurking in my words?  What about the actions and activities that I perform – are they really impelled and persuaded by a clean and honest motive? Is my mind receiving proper inspiration and guidance from the intelligence? And what about the intelligence itself – is it getting illumined or enlightened?" In this way, the earnest seeker constantly examines himself.

When the intelligence receives the right input and you know what to do and what not to do, i.e. when the discrimination becomes sufficiently strong, it starts moulding the mind. The mind must receive it well. When the mind, so guided by the intelligence, starts restraining the senses, the entire personality becomes sufficiently integrated and wholesome.

It is such an integrated, wholesome personality that spirituality aims at. The growth will be all-fold. In the bodily level, interactions with the world will go on harmoniously. In the oral level, you will start expressing what is in your mind without any corruption or stealth. In the mind level, you will always cherish good and auspicious thoughts. The wrong emotions are never promoted, but discouraged through sublimation. The nobler emotions are nurtured, absorbed and preserved. At the intelligence level, contemplation will be upon the supreme Reality, God, or on the extensive complex Nature or on one's own inmost Self, the Atma.