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In your body there are ‘five in the house’ — the five senses. Really, deep down you have five bodies, because each sense has its own center, and each sense goes on manipulating you in its own direction. The eye says, “Look at the beauty”; the hand says, “Touch, it is so lovable.” The eye is not at all interested in touch; the hand is not at all interested in looking at a beautiful person, a beautiful body or a beautiful tree.
All five senses exist as five separate centers and your mind is just a coordinator; it goes on coordinating between these five. When you look at me and you hear me, you hear from the ears and you look from the eyes. Eyes never hear, ears never look; then how do you conclude that you hear the same person you see? How can you conclude? The mind goes on coordinating. It is a computer: whatsoever the eyes feed in, whatsoever the ears feed in, it combines and gives you the conclusion.
A friction has to be created. The senses have to fight and the fight has to be made conscious. They continuously fight but the fight is not conscious; You are fast asleep and the fight goes on. The eye is continuously fighting the ear, the ear is continuously fighting the eye — because they are competitors.
Have you observed that a blind man has more listening capacity than a man who has eyes? That’s why blind men become beautiful musicians, singers. Why does this happen? They have more capacity for sound, rhythm, more sensitivity in their ears. Why? — because the eye is no longer a competitor. The energy that was being used by the eyes is available for the ears; they are the competitors.
Just remember following incidents:
You are hearing a great music and you sway with your eyes closed.
You are tasting finest cake and you are feasting with your eyes closed.
You got to prayer place and suddenly you are smelling the lovely fragrance with your eyes closed.
All these incidents have only one thing in common. Your eyes are closed in all the above incidents and your other sense is taken over you.
Your eyes are using eighty percent of your energy, leaving only twenty percent for the other four senses. They are starved; they are continuously fighting. The eyes have become the supreme, the dictatorial force. You live through the eyes and some senses have gone completely dead. Many people have no smell, that sense has gone completely dead; they never bother, they are not even aware that they cannot smell. The eyes have completely exploited the nose, because it is so near that it can be exploited. Children have a sense of smell, but by and by it is lost because the eyes go on using more and more energy. The eye has become the center of your being, which is not good.
It’s not accident that in prayer you close your eyes. Prayer is needed to evoke all your senses. In prayer when you close your eyes energy starts moving into other senses. In prayer you become whole. Holy man means one who is whole or one who is not acting out of part.
Go to Temple, Church, Mosque or any religious place. You will find music ,bells, incense sticks, food – everything to help your senses. But priest and religions have made these places as places of noise, both in sound and in content. Find your own Mosque, Church and Temple in your heart – that way you need not be troubled by idiotic priests.
Find at least twenty minutes a day to just to close your eyes. Just close your eyes and hear, smell, taste everything around you. Learn to spend sometime with yourself. suddenly you will notice new colors , new smell, new fragrance around you. I promise you that probably first time you will also notice true face of your beloved too. Unless there is energy in your eyes you cannot look thru beloved’s eyes.
Methods of friction use the senses against each other. In many methods the seeker remains with closed eyes for many months. The energy starts moving, you can feel it. If you remain constantly with closed eyes for three months, you will be able to feel the energy moving continuously towards the ears, towards the nose. Your sense of smell may come back, you may start smelling. There have been methods and schools where seekers completely cut one sense against the other; a fight is created. If you close the ears for three months and just see, don’t listen, then you will see there is a constant movement of energy.
My whole effort thru this site is to bring sudden energy into your eyes thru my photographs. if for one moment your energy is as a result of stillness not of noise then my work is done.
When all your senses start working together you will find your center. When you find your center you have already found the center of cosmic world. and you also probably for the first time find yourself.
Love and lots of it Dear ones
Suresh
The photography is a feast for the eyes and the writing, a feast for the heart. Thank you for sharing it and keeping it update. I know what work it is and appreciate it greatly. Makes a huge diffference in my day!
Thank you seeing. thanks for visiting and reading often. that makes me feels lot more motivated.
sometimes I wonder why do you write? what’s your motivation. You pictures looks like million dollars!. I rarely write on your site but when I read “seeing” comment – I just felt like writing.
I am old and left to die by my childhern. I live alone and sad. But everyday like a prayer I read your blog. I have been reading since you have started writing. I read everyday for comments and new photos.
Wish somebody told me all these when I was young. I was always busy surviving and cooking for my family.
I never prayed after my childhern left me. But now my prayer is your blog. I read every morning your blog and spend at least 30 minutes. I just love the beauty and the words of your site. it makes me so peaceful. everytime I feel like crying, I come you site and sit for a while and read your wisdom.
I have only one prayer left. Lord give me eyes till my last moment so that I keep reading your Blog.
GOd bless you son for wonderful work you are doing. I just want to end like the way you always do.
Love and lots of it dear ones.
Dear Mr.Suresh I live In India and I want to know if you still take meditation classes? I need a life coach & someone told me you take students for coaching them on life’s issues. Can I know where Can i reach you?
You site is so inspirational and motivating.
Greetings, Suresh. I am so glad you found my blog and left a message, because it has brought me to this wonderful oasis of tranquility and beauty. Thank you from my heart.
This is excellent, … and a wonderful piece to read!
Suresh,
Another great picture, another great message.
Thanks.
I had an idea. For the upcoming brain fitness blog carnival, I would love to highlight one of your pictures, and link to one of your posts. A great picture would be the trees & the sunset, since growing dendrites in our brain are similar to those trees.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95005052@N00/217524772/
or you can pic any other picture. And also a post.
regards
PS: another idea was to use the pic of the monk and the donkey and ask “who is the mind and who is the brain”..
Thanks Alvaro. please go ahead and do whatever you feel right.
Cathy , I am touched and honoured by your effort to write. I am also thrilled to know that you went out of your old age home just to write a note to me!. Love and lots of it.
Tremendous picture, I love seeing your work, both with my eyes and my mind
Last weekend I saw the auto biography movie done on Rey Charles. This post came just in time.
Thank you for posting this wonderful read.. i enjoyed absorbing it… although i have to admit.. i did use my eyes.. none the less.. i understand you like to serve food for thought…. this is your special gift in life… turning over the stones to see what one can uncover.. most delightful one you are… thank you for sharing… tiandra…
Hi,
I’ve been reading your blog for a while. Your words are inspiring and thought provoking. You analyze things in a great perspective. Keep writing for people like us.
I see these photoes have copyright, Can i take print out of these pics to hang them in my house. Let me know if you have any issues in doing so.
Sure Ramu, Go ahead and use photos.
Suresh, do you really think the senses will help me to find mySelf?
We go in our lifes, endlessly seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and reacting to the senses with thoughts and feelings.
But I belive they are just like the horses of our chariots: it is they, the horses, who lead the chariot, not “I”/SELF/Spirit, the charioteer. And other chariotees do not even notice that the chariot merely goes where the horses want to go… LOVE
I agree with you Shakti that senses are not going to help you to find your center.
But the way to move beyond senses is to be aware of them. Awareness and living in present-moment helps you to move beyond senses. Similarly body awareness and sense awareness are the first few blocks you need to overcome towards choiceless consciousness.
Beauty of sense -awareness is that it is a path to transcend senses and mind assoicated with it. In my opinion this is what I call common sense! your awarenes towards all senses!
thanks for your comments
Cathy Fitzgerald asked in her comment, “Sometimes I wonder why do you write?”
It may even be a question most people have asked themselves at some point after discovering this enormous treasure plus would Suresh bother to write if there were only a handful of people that could benefit? I sincerely believe he would with just as much enthusiasm.
These words of wisdom, as well as the lovely photographs, are a gift that he has chosen to share with all of us. The photographs alone take our breath away while the topics force us to take a much deeper look at ourselves, blemishes and all, so to speak. We’ve been on the receiving end of a caring, generous spirit that’s been inspirational in more ways than I can possibly count. Each piece serves a purpose always touching a unique place within that can either be joyous, gut wrenching or any other emotion in between.
Thank you, Suresh.
Gracie, thank you for writing so eloquently. Probably you have said it in a manner I always wanted to say. Like suresh you have great way with words.
wow! MashAllah, this was an amazin post! its just lovely! thanks a lot for postin on my blog..now i can read urz!
I recall from a forwarded SMS some well known evidence for the truth of your words: “Some of the best music was composed by Beethoven . He was deaf . Some of the best poetry about nature was written by Milton . He was blind .”
Thank you.
Sanjay, What a lovely sentence! Thanks for sharing and I really enjoyed it!
I was touched by the article. I usually force my eyes open when the close while I say my prayers. As a hindu I look at the picture of God while saying the prayers am extremely scared my mind will wander if my eyes are closed. I do make a conscious effort to keep my eyes open while praying and I think this article is God’s way of saying I can relax and concentrate on praying instead of concentrating on opening my eyes each time they close. Thank you for opening my eyes.
I am also touched by Cathy’s comments. What will open her children’s eyes. I will pray for you dear Cathy, that God will grant you your wish of being able to Read Mr Suresh’s blog everyday. Take care Cathy and may your good work continue,Suresh.
Dear Suresh + readers… came across something else related to energy and eyes…
Mr. Manek explained: “Sun-gazing is an alternative to eating . Every evening, I gaze at the sun for an hour without batting an eyelid. This is my main food. Occasionally, I drink coffee, tea or water.” Mr. Manek reportedly gave up eating after a visit to the Himalayas in 1992.
~ Hindu: Sharing their love for food, water, sunlight
See also: Sun Gazing
From the second link in the previous comment:
Sun energy is the source that powers the brain, which can enter and leave the human body or the brain only through one organ that is the human eye. Eyes are the Sun Energy’s entry door to the human brain. They are also known as the windows of the soul. Recent research has found out that the eye has many functions other than vision. And more information is continuing to be revealed about the functions of the eye. The eyes are complex organs and they have 5 billion parts much more than a spacecraft that has about 6-7 million parts. By this, you can see the immense capacity of the human eye.
Experienced this at this concert… was much more fun listening with eyes closed!