Development of the intuitive faculty

I:15.01 - The purified ego is like a very bright mirror. Its reflection

is very bright, but it is, after all, nothing but a reflection.

I:15.02 - What is wanted is the development of the intuitive faculty

that makes one realize the presence of the Divine in a direct way.

Even in the path of out-and-out Jñana, what reveals the Truth is not

reasoning and ratiocination at all, but direct intuitive vision.

I:15.03 - When the salt-doll ceases to be, it becomes one with the

ocean. When the individual gives up all the limiting adjuncts [upadhis] he becomes one with the Absolute. The Absolute cannot be known, but one can become one with IT.

I:15.04 - So the knower has to transcend his mind and become

one with the Absolute. The mind must be blasted, destroyed. Everything must first be thrown off.

I:15.05 - The man of realization feels ITS working in all states of

consciousness. His knowledge never leaves him.

He has no decision to make, because for him there is no choice between two or more ways, but only one way. Everything else becomes like shadows. He is the Eternal Witness of all things.

I:15.06 - It is the self-luminous Principle that does not stand in

need of any other thing to illumine It.

I:15.07 - The highest physical and mental purity is necessary if

one wishes to attain It, and not merely that:

— one must also transcend the purified mind in order to be one with the Impersonal Principle. The purified mind becomes an instrument for the realization of the manifestations of the Personal God as spiritual forms.

I:15.08 - A new body, a new instrument of spiritual vision is

formed in the course of one’s spiritual practice, and without this new

body, no perception of the Truth is possible. Sadhana is absolutely

necessary, and strict regular Sadhana at that.

The body, the mind that is fit for spiritual vision must first be created, and this is the sense and meaning and importance of Sadhana.

This new instrument is quite different from the ordinary body, the ordinary mind.

I:15.09 - The body, the senses, the vital energies, the mind,—are

all to be polarized in a certain definite way.

Swami Yatiswarananda

READINGS ON THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA

-- Wiesbaden, Germany, May 19, 1934 -- (Vol.I 107-110)[CG 74-77]