9. Self Observation

If all the human beings, apart from those who are mentally retarded and who are like beast in nature, try to understand the preachings of holy persons and holy scriptures, then they can know the truth-untruth by self observation and can achieve their own upliftment.

Though the worldly objectives seem to be yielding happiness, they are nothing but painful and perishable. Only the form of Parmatma is the cause of permanent happiness and eternal peace. A worshipper gains this knowledge by self observation.

By means of self observation, worshipper can decide his aim, can remain completely awakened towards it without becoming lazy-careless and can achieve the ultimate aim of realizing God.

Our ignorance and illiteracy are only the root causes of all the failures, distresses and downfalls; whereas knowledge lies in the root of all the happiness, peace, success and progress. By means of self observation a worshipper can know as to in which condition he is and can elevate himself by eliminating the ignorance-illusion.

A worshipper should know by self observation, is he compromising with the defects and errors? Efforts should be made to eliminate the defects by remaining alert and by adopting strict approach if required. Real seeker cannot tolerate defects or ignorance within himself.

Worshipper should know by self observation whether the means of pleasing God like meditation, prayers, Swadhyay -self study etc. are performed due to temptation of becoming well known or any pomp or to show off! If a worshipper is devoid of such alertness then he will nourish the hypocrisy and will be directed towards adversity instead of prosperity.

Inspite of spiritual experiences to some extent, it is must for a worshipper to preserve continuous awareness, by self observation, to see whether he is under false impression or belief of being perfect!

By self observation, a worshipper should keep on checking whether any of the welfare qualities of God have been adopted by him in life and if there are any defects yet to be removed. Continuous sincere efforts should be made alongwith such tests, to adopt the divine qualities and to eliminate the defects.