WHO CARES TO GO IN ?
Inwardness is the primary condition of spirituality and that begins by learning to love how to stay at home after the day's work is done. The mind must be trained to look inward and and that can never happen if one is in the midst of frivolous enjoyment of the senses all the time. The student must study, the householder must work and the retired man must contemplate the Divine.
The object of life is Self-realisation through education from experience, both internal and external. Work must overcome inertia and wisdom must consume work. Then will come true inaction which is the highest mode of phenomenal living with action proceeding out of the impulse for world-welfare without attachment or a sense of proprietorship sullying it. A free flow of spontaneous execution of work by Nature through the agency of the mortal coil having no vestige of egotism clinging to it and having no residuum of effect on the soul is the essence of such detached performance of work and is verily the living-free state. Action now is inaction and inaction the most intense action. This is the depth-condition of the soul where surface waves have no access and the disturbances thereof are no more. The mind in this deeper realm feeds on the super-conscious and often dissolves in the process to reveal the luminous Self by whose light the universe is lit up. This inwardness, this awareness of the deeper Self, this diving into the inner recesses of the Being forms the core principle of spirituality and is the basis of ethics, the discovery of the higher laws of existence and of whatever is good and noble in life and living.
Renunciation is, thus, the life-line of spirituality and sacrifice the watchword of civilisation. Without the inner life there is nothing substantial to religion or morality, nothing that can sustain man through the vicissitudes of terrestrial life where the blows of Nature are terrible and death-dealing. The life of the Spirit is this seeking within for the inestimable treasures of the Soul that otherwise elude the material man engrossed as he is in the pursuit of his evanescent dreams, the perishable commodities of life. The inner life opening, the gateway to freedom is thrown open. Mortal man is no more captive within the confines of the body and the mind but is free to soar high into 'that heaven of freedom' whence there is no more a return to this terrible quagmire of relativity where death stalks all and fear rules the life of things.
Care must, thus, be taken to restrict the outward flow of our mind and we must consciously traverse within ourselves, deep within the soul of our existence, to be free and blissful, fearless and blessed, unfettered radiant beings rambling through the play-field of phenomena careless of consequence, for we have burnt the very seed of desire and attained to kaivalya (the lonesome, solitary state of the Being).
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