THE MIND’S EYE
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
THE significance of our perceptive abilities is very worthy of notice and they are very delicately poised in such a way that they constitute a unique balance with each other in the Body-Mind composition. Our senses, five in number are vital for our enterprise here with the acquiring of materialistic pleasures as well as pains. Our concern in this essay is associated with the Eye of the Mind, which is usually referred to as the Third Eye or the Sixth Sense.
Due to sheer ignorance of it we often withheld one of our true power of the Will & Mind that is the Mind’s Eye. It calls for deep concentration into the ocean of one’s inner space of the Psyche. All the fairies of discoveries & inventions were outcomes of this Third Eye’s working. It is the power, which is often sheltering within it an abundant resource of the techniques of converging or focusing our attention into a point. The greatest scientist and philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton was once asked how he made such discoveries to which he replied, “By always thinking about them.” This reveals Newton’s sustained concentration and ability to use the Mind’s Eye. The same question was also asked to the Prince of Mathematicians, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and he was said to have replied with profound modesty, “If others would but reflect on Mathematical Truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” Like Newton, Gauss was also a master of using the Mind’s Eye for creative work.
The universe is an expansion of our inner pointed self. This self is unidimensional so as to make itself common with the other manifolds. With the help of the Third Eye we can indulge ourselves into the intricate details of a problem. For persons working with advanced concepts in all walks of study, there are one and many notions, which can be only pierced through this ‘Eye’. That is with this Eye which is the Eye of the Eye itself we are able to perceive & admire many abstract ideas & notions. To achieve perfection in Yoga, Meditation, etc., that is, in order to make our efforts a complete whole we must have to make use of this Eye & with its help only we have to see the so called Truth for ourselves.
As we use the converging lens in order to focus the rays of Sun light on a paper to see the paper catches fire, likewise so is the case when we focus the light of Gnana or Wisdom inwards so that the ego gets burned and as a result glows the ever shining light of the Athma. This is the ultimate benefit of the Third Eye or the Mind’s Eye.
Now let us draw the ablest conclusion using this ‘Eye’ regarding itself and the Mind. The Mind is covered by clouds of ego, all semi & full thoughts along with the bundle of memory. Using the principle of Nethi or Negation, if we negate or dismiss all the non-personal i.e. the pseudo-self, we will end up with the omnipresent Jyothi, which is nothing but ‘I’ the Identity. It is this ‘I’, which Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi refers to in verse no.15 of his “The Bridal Garland of Letters” that he had composed in praise of Lord Sri Arunachaleswara Swamy in Tamil entitled, “Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai”, seeking for the Divine Everlasting Communion with Arunachala, the manifestation of Lord Siva.
Verse No.15 of The Bridal Garland of Letters:
Eye of the eye you are!
Who can see you who sees
Eyelessly? O see me,
Arunachala!
So the ‘Eye’ we have been so far talking about is nothing but ‘I’, which is the Self of the Mind. As a result we conclude that the Eye of the Mind is the Self of the Mind itself, which is the Sixth Sense. As we shut the Body’s Eyes, the Mind’s eye begins to see. God, the Supreme is visible only with the help of this ‘Eye’. Let us bow & pay our due respects to this Third Eye, which is enshrined in the forehead of Lord Maheshwara.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Composed on 4th May 1998 at 11.45 AM, Indian Standard Time.}
Due to sheer ignorance of it we often withheld one of our true power of the Will & Mind that is the Mind’s Eye. It calls for deep concentration into the ocean of one’s inner space of the Psyche. All the fairies of discoveries & inventions were outcomes of this Third Eye’s working. It is the power, which is often sheltering within it an abundant resource of the techniques of converging or focusing our attention into a point. The greatest scientist and philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton was once asked how he made such discoveries to which he replied, “By always thinking about them.” This reveals Newton’s sustained concentration and ability to use the Mind’s Eye. The same question was also asked to the Prince of Mathematicians, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and he was said to have replied with profound modesty, “If others would but reflect on Mathematical Truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” Like Newton, Gauss was also a master of using the Mind’s Eye for creative work.
The universe is an expansion of our inner pointed self. This self is unidimensional so as to make itself common with the other manifolds. With the help of the Third Eye we can indulge ourselves into the intricate details of a problem. For persons working with advanced concepts in all walks of study, there are one and many notions, which can be only pierced through this ‘Eye’. That is with this Eye which is the Eye of the Eye itself we are able to perceive & admire many abstract ideas & notions. To achieve perfection in Yoga, Meditation, etc., that is, in order to make our efforts a complete whole we must have to make use of this Eye & with its help only we have to see the so called Truth for ourselves.
As we use the converging lens in order to focus the rays of Sun light on a paper to see the paper catches fire, likewise so is the case when we focus the light of Gnana or Wisdom inwards so that the ego gets burned and as a result glows the ever shining light of the Athma. This is the ultimate benefit of the Third Eye or the Mind’s Eye.
Now let us draw the ablest conclusion using this ‘Eye’ regarding itself and the Mind. The Mind is covered by clouds of ego, all semi & full thoughts along with the bundle of memory. Using the principle of Nethi or Negation, if we negate or dismiss all the non-personal i.e. the pseudo-self, we will end up with the omnipresent Jyothi, which is nothing but ‘I’ the Identity. It is this ‘I’, which Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi refers to in verse no.15 of his “The Bridal Garland of Letters” that he had composed in praise of Lord Sri Arunachaleswara Swamy in Tamil entitled, “Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai”, seeking for the Divine Everlasting Communion with Arunachala, the manifestation of Lord Siva.
Verse No.15 of The Bridal Garland of Letters:
Eye of the eye you are!
Who can see you who sees
Eyelessly? O see me,
Arunachala!
So the ‘Eye’ we have been so far talking about is nothing but ‘I’, which is the Self of the Mind. As a result we conclude that the Eye of the Mind is the Self of the Mind itself, which is the Sixth Sense. As we shut the Body’s Eyes, the Mind’s eye begins to see. God, the Supreme is visible only with the help of this ‘Eye’. Let us bow & pay our due respects to this Third Eye, which is enshrined in the forehead of Lord Maheshwara.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Composed on 4th May 1998 at 11.45 AM, Indian Standard Time.}
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