There is an outer personality consisting of our habitual reactions, habitual thoughts and feelings and impulses based on the immediate sensory input. This surface personality with which we are strongly identified as our self is largely based on the sensory inputs, identification with the body and the sense mind.
But there is behind the surface personality, an inner being not identified with the body but by a set of thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, aspirations which exists independent of our outer physical reality our outer reactions and responses, our outer situations and circumstances. This inner being is open to insights, creativity, inspiration as well as high climbing aspiration and sacrifices that may even endanger the physical body and outer personality. And finally deep within the inner being is the secret soul, the seeker after Truth and Beauty and Good and Freedom and Immortality, in one word, the Divine.
To discover the inner being, to live in it, we should learn to step back from the immediate surface reactions and rushing and leaping at every sensory input. Then, especially in moments of inner quietude we should reflect upon the purpose of our existence, the aims and goals, the hidden motives and ideas that move us, the love that moves our heart and within it all, our true aspiration. Thus slowly we discover our inner being.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
