To tell you the
truth and thinking in practical and realistic terms, people like me and you
find it very difficult to live the life of a genuine Yogi. Especially, someone
like me who is not yet a clairvoyant and a siddha (there are genuine reasons
for it) and someone like you who has petty and trivial matters to attend to
than aspiring to be fully God realized. All past and present genuine Yogis has had
that rich culture and tradition from innumerable lives that shaped up their
spiritual destiny and produced plus refined them into purified God like beings
that enabled them to radiate a blaze of light and leave a trail. A life of
Paramhansa Yogananda or J.Krishnamurti is exactly how genuine Yogis live their
lives. Spiritual success depends a lot on your principle character trait and
your daily interview with God as you live your everyday life. Therefore, it
wouldn’t be a wonder how God clearly seperates people who uphold anti-God
values onto the atheistic stream and God natured habitants onto the theistic
realm. Saints who uphold specific moral and spiritual values produce likewise
descendants and heirs who propogate their spiritual legacy. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
who laid so much emphasis on character has produced thousands of students with
strength of character than any saints has produced. Likewise, it is impossible
to find such perfect devotees of God like Paramhansa Yogananda’s disciples with
spiritually living examples like a Daya Mata, Mr.Roy Eugene Davis and Ram Dass
etc. If you want to talk about genuine yogis, no one till date has had the
spiritual caliber of someone like Paramhansa Yogananda and J.Krishnamurti. What
then are the true qualities of a genuine yogi? Let us look up this matter in
detail.
A Self-Realised or
an Enlightened Being is Self-Referred and not object-referred. A person who is
not Self-Realised let alone Enlightened seeks identification through people,
things, situations and circumstances. If you listen to their discourses, these
object-referred individuals focus the masses attention on themselves, try to
defend their point of view, prefer to give specifications that they are
spiritually elevated beings (Self-Realised or Enlightened) and make an effort to capture the limelight
and get noticed. In fact, the moment a genuine yogi gets Self-Realised, reaches
the state of God consciousness or becomes Enlightened, the entire achievement
of being spiritually awakened is forgotten then and there. The moment the state
of the highest Supreme Reality is realised, it is kept a secret, the chapter
closed and the superhuman feat never dealt with or discussed even once.
Everything is forgotten. This superhuman feat of getting spiritually awakened
is a blessing from God if kept a secret and a curse of a thousand witches if
revealed. Enlightened Beings are not concerned about their Enlightened state
rather focus their entire life on serving God and humanity. A Self-Realised or an
Enlightened being is identified with the symbol of purity, the soul, and would
you care to think if it is necessary for “purity personified” to prove that he
is pure? There was a lady saint in India who passed away a few years back. She
had a disciple who was taught occult powers to multiply wealth. This particular
Nepali disciple used the occult power to increase his wealth many times over
and got very wealthy. The next time I hear about him is from his own son who
discloses to me that his father goes around claiming that he is a Self-Realised
being. Very ironic, ain’t it? How can a subjective reality be claimed to
people? The subjective realities starting from the fifth plane is something
that is never disclosed. There would be no need at all for a Self-Realised or
an Enlightened being to make an effort to get noticed by claiming highly
elevated states because he is already a fulfilled being. Being already
fulfilled he does not have an identity crisis and does not need to prove rather
shies away from being called and claimed
a spiritually elevated being. A Self-Realised or an Enlightened Being does not
claim anything.
The next in line of
the superhuman qualities of a genuine Yogi is the egoless state .Egoless or the
state of perfect humility. An egoless state in which he realizes that we are
not the doer and none of us are the roles we play. He has realized that the
Infinite Will manages the World and executes everything in the Cosmos. He has
now known that his will is non-existent and that his so-called will is
dependant on the Infinite Will of God. Since he has encountered the stark
reality that every thought, word or deed is an act of God and he is but only a
divine instrument enacting a role on behalf of the Infinite Being he has
surrendered wholeheartedly to the Will of God. Therefore, such a realized being
who has known the whole secret behind the mechanism of human existence is a Being established in great peace, harmony and profound humility. You would not
find a person established in complete modesty besides a Self-Realised being. To
cut short, an egoless being considers his existence insignificant compared to
the Being of the Universal Self and sees no need at all to exercise his
non-existent will. To exercise and force ones will would be being resistive to
the Infinite Will and seeing no need to execute the non-existent will and
restraining from using it would mean a state of total surrender to the Supreme
Will. Exercising ones non-existent will is not being Self-Realised and adhering
to the Infinite Will would mean being established in Self-Knowledge.
A genuine Yogi
is not a phony and very very authentic because Enlightment is a state of
innocence. When the effects and influence of the external World has stopped
taking a grip in the life of an Enlightened being the fully restored Self takes
over his nature and moulds plus magnifies pure soul qualities into him. When
the material World stops having an effect in the Enlightened Being, innocence
is born because of the virgin soul qualities. When innocence is born after one
is Enlightened he stops modifying his nature as he is no longer drawn by the
external World. Therfore, an Enlightened Being starts putting on an authentic
nature because of the dawn of innocence in him. When someone gets Enlightened,
the soul, a permanent reality, starts emanating real and authentic nature
unlike the human habit which has a custom of seeking refuge in hypocrisy every
now and then . It wouldn’t be a false assumption to state that since the state
of innocence and Enlightment is unaffected by the material World genuine soul
qualities sprouts up in that particular being.
These three qualities
of a genuine yogi are the primary characteristics and there are numerous
others. We shall discuss more later on. To wind up this article let us conclude
with a quote and see what the Enlightened state of a genuine Yogi really is
because the state of Enlightment altogether, does not imply a different lifestyle from the unenlightened state but only with a
heightened state of God awareness from the initial individual human nature to
now, one of the image of the Universal Self or God. The great Sufi saints live
their life this way,
“Before Enlightment
chop wood and carry water
After
Enlightment chop wood and carry water”
-Zen Aphorism.
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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