Mind Blowing Spiritual Purification Process explained | Jesus, Swami Vivekananda | Ramana Maharshi | Ramakrishna

 In the New Testament, Jesus Christ makes a beautiful statement in the Sermon on the Mount.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God

Swami Vivekananda even goes so far as to say that if all of the world's scriptures were lost, this one statement of Jesus Christ could save humanity.

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It only shows how much Swami Vivekananda was impressed by this particular statement of Jesus Christ and how highly he regarded this statement of Christ.

The matter is completed in a very short time for those who have a pure heart. The Divine is very near to them. They are separated from the Divine by only a thin veil. The water of worldliness has completely dried up in these, like a fully dried up wooden log.

Just a spark of fire is enough to set the entire log on fire, and the entire wooden log is quickly reduced to ashes...

The cycle of worldly existence is completed for them with a single utterance from the lips of an enlightened master.

But the rest of us, whose water of worldliness has yet to evaporate, must engage in some form of spiritual practise that is appropriate for our temperaments and practise it diligently.

This purification process is the most painful in the life of a spiritual seeker. It's as if my spiritual practises have woken up these a million lifetimes' worth of sleeping vasanas. These vasanas will provide fierce opposition. The more I try to focus my mind on the Divine, the more these vasanas try to distract me.

My conscious sadhana and my unconscious vasanas will be in a constant tug of war.

I am not on the shore where I began my journey, nor am I in sight of the other shore (known by various names such as Moksha, Mukti, Liberation, Enlightenment, Nirvana, Yoga, and so on...).

I'm floating in the middle of the ocean. I can't go back to my old ways of life, but I'm still a long way from the other shore I want to reach.

To get through this stage of my spiritual journey, I'll need patience, determination, perseverance, satsang, and divine grace. The unconscious vasanas' power will be at its peak here. Maximum opposition to my spiritual journey occurs here...in the middle of a vast and deep ocean.

What is the solution to this problem?

Understanding why I am constantly dragged by my vasanas is the key to getting out of this situation.

If it's to my liking, I'm carried away by my vasanas; if it's not to my liking, I fight with them, try to suppress them, because I regard them as real in and of themselves.

It is my perception of the vasanas as real in and of themselves that gives them an advantage over me, a power over me, and I become its slave, its victim. I dance because they make me. My perception of the vasanas as real in and of themselves is what fuels their hold on my mind.

To gain an advantage over the vasanas, I must reverse this entire process. I must now begin to regard the vasanas as fictitious.

Why are the vasanas unreal when I can see their play in me so clearly? And how can they be unreal when I perceive them as vividly as I perceive other objects?

Is there any reason to regard these vasanas as unreal?

I must consider the sadhana I am performing to be the only reality. Only then will my mind be able to remain in sadhana.

If I worship Personal God, I must regard the form of Personal God that is my Ishta Devata as the only reality. His/her form alone is real, as is his/her name alone. Anything less is unbelievable.

If I am to follow Jnana's path, I must regard only Atma Vichara as real.

This is a benefit of spiritual practise.

This is something Sri Ramakrishna would always emphasise. "God alone is real, and everything else is unreal," he would say. God in this context can refer to either the Personal God or the Impersonal God.

By doing so, all the vasanas will lose their grip on me. My awareness of the Divine grows stronger by the day. The water of worldliness will completely evaporate.

The Divine then appears as my own Self in such a mind, such a heart, thus purified. Even "my" "Self is not quite the right word... as the Self is devoid of the words I, me, mine, you, and yours.

I've realised that "I" "is not limited to any one person and is all-encompassing. That realisation cannot be described in words.

This is the epiphany that occurs at the conclusion of the purification process. A realisation that ends all comings and goings in the form of repeated births and deaths; a realisation that makes us heirs to that ever-present bliss and unconditional happiness.

May the Divine grant us all the strength, patience, perseverance, discrimination, and dispassion we need to go through the purification process and realise who we have always been — THE UNIQUE SPIRIT, THE UNIQUE CONSCIOUSNESS

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