Deep Secrets about Our Senses🔗

Let you be very clear: For any enjoyment, for any joy, your inner space needs to be completely relaxed. If your inner space is tensed, you may be doing the activity that brought joy to you sometime, but you will not be experiencing the same excitement this time.

The excitement or the joy depends on two things: one is your senses coming in contact with the objects that give pleasure. Second thing: a deep relaxed inner space which can internalize this joy and experience it.

Your inner space needs to have some empty space to internalize the experience. For example, this moment, say you are enjoying a sweet, or a beautiful touch, or some melodious music. At this moment if you are relaxed, you can use the sense object to create joy in you, because you have enough space to receive the experience, internalize it, cherish it and relax into it.

If you don't have an inner space to internalize the joy which is experienced by the senses, your senses will lose their sensitivity. Please understand, if your senses come in contact with sense objects or the things which give you pleasure, but your inner space is not relaxed, you don't have enough of inner space to internalize that joy and cherish it, experience it. Then your senses will become dull and insensitive.

If your inner space is tensed, restless, disturbed, there is an urge, a pressure to squeeze the maximum joy out of that object. With that pressure and tension when you approach the object, even when you come in contact with that object, your senses will only become insensitive, dull and disturbed.

The things which give you pleasure, the objects which gives you pleasure can be used in three ways. First, the sense objects can be used to give you joy if your inner space has got enough space to internalize that experience. Second, if your inner space is tensed and doesn't have enough space to internalize this experience of the senses coming in contact with the object, your senses will become dull, disturbed and insensitive. Third, if your inner space is completely empty and your senses come in contact with the sense objects, even before you start enjoying them, the same sense objects will open a new door to reality, to enlightenment.

What Exactly are Our Five Senses?

Let us first understand: what is sense? What are our five senses?

If a stone is polished nicely it will shine and you will be able to see your face in it. The same stone might have been previously lying in a quarry. Not only can't you see your face, but it is also may not be useful. If you take that stone and nicely polish it, it starts reflecting your whole face.

In the same way at five points in your body, the matter has been polished so nicely, it can reflect consciousness. The senses are those parts of your body which are polished intensely and hence which can reflect consciousness.

Physiologically the cells in your body are fundamentally the same. But through the special cells in the region of the eyes, you are able to see. Through the skin and special cells in the region of the ears, you are able to hear. Through the region of the nose, you are able to feel the smell. The cells in that space, in that area, have a different quality.

Your senses are like polished stones. At five points in your body, the matter is polished to such an extent, it has become sensitive to such an extent, that through it the consciousness can be reflected.

Fulfillment through Awareness of Pure Inner Space

So you can use the senses in different ways. You can use them with a lot of pressure, to extract enjoyment and make them dull, dead and insensitive. Second, you can be relaxed this very moment, come in contact with the sense objects and enjoy pleasure or joy this moment. Third, if you are completely relaxed from the engrams, the very coming in contact with the sense objects itself will open a new door and liberate you to enlightenment.

So understand, fulfillment cannot be directly achieved through the senses. It is the inner core of bliss that enables even the senses to be a means of enjoyment and fulfillment. If fulfillment can be achieved through objects, at least some people should have achieved by now.

You can see around you, so many people have achieved whatever money can give but they are still not fulfilled. There are so many people who have achieved the peaks of name and fame, but they are not fulfilled within themselves. In the same way, have you seen any person who is completely fulfilled through his relationships, whose fulfillment is untouched by the ups and downs of emotions?

You can never achieve fulfillment by just running behind the sense objects, without awareness of your pure inner space.