There is a deeper consciousness inside
everyone, hidden beneath layers of thoughts,
feelings and desires.
This consciousness is like a strong bulb of
light, which covers upon covers of thoughts,
feelings and desires hide. The purpose of self-
inquiry is to remove the covers, let this bulb of
light – this consciousness, shine unhindered.
After removing these covers hiding your “inner
self”, your awareness and insight expands, and
you experience happiness, bliss and inner
peace.
You can compare this process to taking off
the colored glasses, through which you see
the world. This allows you to see life and
reality as it is, without filters, leading you
greater understanding about you and about
life.
How do you remove the colored glasses? How
do you remove the covers hiding your deeper
consciousness – your essence? You do this by
removing the layers upon layers of thoughts,
beliefs, feelings and desires hiding your true
self.
The process of removing the covers is called
self-inquiry, and has been made available to
the public through the teachings of a scholar
Below, you will find a simplified version of
how to use self-inquiry.
7 Tips for Self-Inquiry and
Gaining Inner Peace
1. Find a place where you can be alone and
undisturbed for at least ten minutes.
2. Sit down comfortably and relax your mind
and your body.
3. Calmly, watch your thoughts as they
come and go.
4. As each thought enters your mind and
claims your attention, ask yourself, to
whom, does this thought belong, without
using words and without thinking. The
answer would come through your
intuition.
5. Treat each thought with lack of interest
and detachment and be careful not to
follow it. Time and again, you might find
yourself following your thoughts and
forgetting what you intended to do. Your
strongest ally should be your
perseverance.
6. Don’t analyze your thoughts, just look at
them with detachment, as if watching a
boring movie.
7. Always bring your mind back to just
watch your thoughts without getting
involved with them.
The important point to remember while
practicing self-inquiry is to detach yourself
from your thoughts. Developing this attitude,
would give you power over your thoughts and
desires, and enabled you to silence your mind.
This would lead to inner peace, awakening,
and letting your “true self” shine unhindered
by any sort of cover hiding it.
In time, if you repeat self-inquiry every day,
you will discover that your mind is becoming
quieter and producing less useless and
restless thinking. The compulsion to think and
follow every thought would decrease, and you
will begin experiencing a sweet taste of inner
peace in your everyday life.
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