The psychic being is the straight door to inner knowledge. But it requires a lot of patience and perseverance. Most people are too much in haste, too satisfied with mental knowledge, too much full of doubt to pursue the path of inner knowledge steadily.
Meanwhile until one accesses the Veda within it is good to read the scriptures that provide the mind with a framework for the true knowledge to come. It is essentially important to have humility, to understand once and for all that the mind by itself cannot know or understand spiritual things. It must become quiet and turned upwards in an aspiration for true knowledge. Then after a while the doors of knowledge begin to open. The more we become quiet the sooner the doors open. One has teach the mind not only to be quiet and peaceful but also to contemplate and meditate upon the truth of things. For this we have to keep in hold the different view points and opinions and learn to wait upon the Divine Wisdom to inspire us.
An important discipline in this direction is control of speech and thought. One should never let crude and vulgar vibrations, anger and ill-will etc be projected through speech. In this direction it is good to have a mantra that cleanses the mind and prepares it to receive a greater and higher Light. Equally important is to avoid the company of people who debase the consciousness or engage in animated discussions. The mind should be wide and supple but this wideness is not acquired by creating a pudding inside the head by carrying all sorts of contradictory opinions. True wideness comes by going beyond viewpoints and opinions and suppleness by placing each viewpoint in its just and rightful place in the total scheme of thoughts.
Finally, what the mind cannot achieve by its own efforts comes by the action of the Divine Grace. To open more and more to the Divine Grace through whatever means is the swiftest way to open all the doors within.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
