HUMAN SENSES AND THE ANCIENTS

AND WHAT THEY KNEW ABOUT BASIC AND HIGHER SENSES


 

In old times the ancient people thought that the Earth is a flat sheet. But they had knowledge of “unknown” forces. The ancients  knew the human senses. The sixth and further senses they have experienced themselves. And they left us to practice.

Today, man explores the stars and celestial bodies with the most fantastic and incredible instruments, yet he is trapped in the knowledge of these “unknown powers.”

Although today we are inventing new machines, robots, computers and machines with incredible speed, we still read and interpret the old knowledge and texts that the ancients left us.

Each Person Can Awake the Sixth and the Higher Senses


 

The ancients had a great knowledge of higher human senses.

And about the power of our basic human senses, how to master them and what is the sixth sense or higher senses it remains for us to do something, to get to know and feel ourselves. Old texts indicate to us what the higher senses are and what are not. That is why they should be consulted.

One of the extremely valuable old texts is Katha Upanishad. It is a study of the mysticism of creation, the study of life and death. About the human senses, Katha Upanishad says:

 „Know the body for a chariot and the soul for the master of the chariot: know Reason for the charioteer and the mind for the reins only.“

The following text is Vivekachudamani left to us by Adi Shankara, a sage who lived in the 8th century AD. About the power of the human senses it says:

„Turning both kinds of sense-organs away from sense objects and placing them in their respective centers, is called Dama or self-control. The best Uparati or self- withdrawal consists in the mind-function ceasing to be affected by external objects.“

„The resting of the mind steadfastly on its Goal after having detached itself from manifold sense objects by continually observing their defects, is called Shama or calmness.”

Bhagavad Gita is part of an ancient Indian text in Sanskrit, the Mahabharata. It was created long before the new era and says:

1.3.5:
„Now the that is without knowledge with his mind ever unapplied, his senses are to him as wild horses and will not obey their driver of the chariot.”

The five human senses are described as five horses and the mind as a chariot.

The ancients knew that if a charioteer had no knowledge and was incapable of eliminating what was not good and making a distinction between right and wrong (this is called Viveka), each of the five horses would be towed to their side.

Instead of unification and harmony, this inability to make differences leads to even deeper separation.

 

So, hence the ancients knew that ignorance hurts.

 

The second chapter of the Yoga Sutra explains nature and causes of obstacles and how to eliminate them.

The third chapter defines the higher concentration, the synthesis of the previous practices and the result, explains the concept of time, how to apply the highest experience and the results which lead to the perfection of the recognition. Every recognition leads to a higher ones. These are the powers of the higher stages of Yoga and theirs practice. Those are:

Dharana or concentration,

Dhyana or meditation and

Samadhi, which is self-realization, which is the same as self-knowledge or knowledge of the Self.

When the time is ripe, one finds himself on the stages of that higher Yoga without much effort. These three high stages of Yoga, concentration, meditation and samadhi narrow the mind, where “narrowing of the mind” leads to great depth of heart and not to endless suffering caused by deepest ignorance.

 

Basically, there is no difference between these three high states of Yoga and consciousness. These states are rather different degrees of transformation.

Practicing concentration and meditation can awaken the greatest potential of the brain.

the ancients and human senses

As always and for everyone, so for you too, it is better not only to read and criticize but to practice and gather own personal experience and knowledge.

So, go ahead and prove what the ancients were telling us about our human senses.