by: Kip Mazuy
Self inquiry is one of the most powerful and effective meditation
techniques used by thousands of people all over the world. Taught by the
enlightened Guru, Ramana Maharshi, this meditation technique alone has
helped many people experience profound states of meditation, samadhi and
even self realization.
At the most mundane level, self inquiry is asking "Who am I?" In asking
this question, your attention reverses back onto itself, the mind
becomes still and for however long it lasts, you experience nothing but
pure consciousness, pure attention itself. Dualistic subject/object
perception is gone and there is only the experience of one infinite
consciousness.
The amazing thing about this meditation technique is that it uses the
mind to stop the mind. "Who am I" is not an intellectual question,
instead it is a question to cut right through the intellectual mind.
Because if you really look to find the answer, you will find that your
name, body and occupation is not what you are.
Certainly intellectually, these things would be your answer. But if you
really inquire into the nature of what you are in this moment, you move
past all mental definitions and come to something which cannot be put
into words, something that actually silences the words.
So in practicing the self inquiry technique, in asking "Who am I," your
attention moves inward instead of outward, past intellectual knowledge
to that which cannot be described or defined. You begin to experience
what is here beyond your thinking, beyond all ideas and definitions of
what you know intellectually. This experience of pure consciousness,
pure attention is often referred to as the Self, Atman, the feeling of
'I am,' stillness, silence, the void and the absence of me.
All of these words may point in the direction of what is here, but it is
necessary to note that the words themselves are not the answer. The
answer is the silence, the mystery that is there every time you ask the
question. You use the self inquiry meditation technique to take you to
the essence of what is here beyond thought and in that you learn to
remain in that essence, to rest in pure consciousness.
When you begin practicing the self inquiry meditation technique, you may
ask "who am I?" and the experience of pure consciousness may only last a
moment before you are again caught up in thinking. So then you repeat
the question to again take you out of thinking and into your natural
state of pure consciousness. At first, it may be that you ask "who am I"
with every inhale and then on the exhale you experience what is here
beyond thinking.
But as you improve, you can remain in your natural state of pure
consciousness for longer and longer periods of time. At first, the
experience of pure being may last 2 seconds, then 5 seconds, even 30
seconds before you are again get caught up in thinking.
But with practice, you come to a point where the question is no longer
needed; you come to a point where the feeling of pure consciousness
becomes dominant enough that your attention can remain in that without
actually needing to use the question any longer.
It is here the meditation technique no longer becomes an inquiry, but
rather you simply relax into pure being, you surrender in pure
consciousness. You begin to be able to directly experience this moment
beyond mental perception, without having to use your mind. You begin to
experience that you are not your thoughts, but the consciousness behind
the thinking, the consciousness from where the thoughts arise and
disappear on their own.
It is important to note that a large part of Ramana Maharshi's teaching
has been overlooked, and that is the Guru himself. Ramana Maharshi
radiated Shaktipat, the energy of enlightenment. Just by sitting in
Ramana Maharshi's presence, people would effortlessly experience deep
states of bliss and self realization, without having to practice any
meditation technique.
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