updated as of summer 2019 The Search for the Self
The Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato held a view of man's original nature quite similar to that of the Vedic sages. This temporary world, they taught, is not our real home; we once existed in a spiritual world. In Plato's famous dialogues, Socrates says that in our original condition, "We were pure ourselves and not yet enshrined in that living tomb which we carry about, now that we are imprisoned in the body like an oyster in his shell [Phaedrus, translator Benjamin Jowett]. The purpose of philosophy, for these early Athenian thinkers, was to awaken a person to his original, spiritual identity, now hidden within the covering of the physical body.
The very same thing was taught in Galilee four hundred years later by Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of St. John, Christ says, "It is the spirit that quickeneth [gives life], the flesh profiteth nothing." [John, 6:63] In other words, the body is simply an external covering for the soul, which is the real life-giving force. Therefore, Jesus warned, "What profiteth a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his immortal soul?" [Mark, 8:36] The highest goal of life, Christ taught, is to understand and experience our inner spiritual nature. In the Gospel of St. Luke, Jesus instructs mankind to look within for true spiritual life: "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or lo there! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you." [Luke, 17:21]
During the Middle Ages in Europe, there was widespread interest in meditation, with many saints and philosophers writing of their thoughts about the inward quest for divine reality. Thomas a Kempis, in his classic Imitation of Christ, cautions man about material life and summarizes the purpose and goal of meditation: "What do you seek here, since this world is not your resting place? Your true home is in Heaven; therefore remember that all things of this world are transitory. All things are passing and yourself with them. See that you do not cling to them, lest you become entangled and perish with them. Let all your thoughts be with the Most High." [Imitation of Christ, translator Leo Sherley-Price. Baltimore: Penguin Classics edition]
When one achieves this deep spiritual vision, his entire world view is completely transformed, as in the case of St. Francis of Assisi, who devoted his life to prayer and meditation. In his Life of St. Francis, St. Bonaventura says, "In all fair things, he beheld Him who is most fair, and, through the traces of Him which He has implanted in all His creatures, he was led on to reach the All-loved, constructing of these things a ladder whereby he might ascend to Him who is Loveliness itself...." [The Life of St. Francis. New York: Everyman's Library, 1912]
The Vedic scriptures advise that the proper technique for awakening spiritual consciousness is the hearing and chanting of transcendental sounds or mantras, like the Hare Krsna mantra. The power of sound to effect changes in consciousness has long been recognized. The English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon noted that "the sense of hearing striketh the spirit more immediately than any other senses." [Sylva sylvarum, in Works, ed. James Spedding, et. al. New York: 1864, IV, p. 231]
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