Discovering Your Own Atman or Inner Teacher

Discovering Your Own Atman or Inner Teacher by Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA)

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Let’s try this exercise:

1) Stand up and focus on the sense of Self inside of you. This is the source of your thoughts, but not your thoughts. It is the sense of I in yourself.

2) Now ask yourself if your name is _____________________. Use your real name. Make your body a pendulum and see which direction it sways when you ask what your name is.

3) Now choose a different name that is not your name and ask your Atman or Inner Teacher if that is your name. The Atman responds to you in yes and no answers. Now see what direction your body sways.

4) For me, forward is a yes, backward is a no. This could be different for others.

Developing a Relationship With Your Atman or Inner Teacher

By developing a relationship with your Atman or Inner Teacher, you will gain the ability to acess your own intuition with great ease. I consult the Atman about everything. For instance:

• Is this food I am about to eat good for me?
• Will this supplement I am considering taking be beneficial?
• Is this the correct remedy for this individual? Is this the best strength, how many pellets should I use?
• Is this the right person to hire for the job?
• Is this the day I should lock in my mortgage loan?
• Can I skip meditation today?

Your Atman is not bound by time or space.

• Should I drink this glass of wine?
• Should I light up this cigarette?
• Should I take a puff of marijuana?

Sathya Sai Baba says that the goal of life is to discover or realize the indwelling Atman and develop a relationship with it. The great discovery is that Atman in not outside of you, but it is you, it is inseparable and identical with you.

By meditating and learning to cultivate silence and a clear mind, you can access the mystery, the unfathomable beauty of your true nature.

When you develop yourself spiritually you realize that your Atman or Inner Teacher is identical with everyone else’s. This realization enables you to truly embody love, as you see yourself in everyone and as everyone.

Cultivate your relationship with Atman here and now. Do it by asking questions and seeing where the answers come form. When you see that the answers come form within, you are becoming Self-realized, as you have realized the indwelling Atman, which is the Self of yourself.

The Ego and the Atman

The Atman is a life-long gift that accompanies you at your birth. The self-realized person becomes aware of the presence of the Atman, and cultivates a relationship with the Self or Atman. The Atman is the immortal partner in this duo. At the time of death you lose connection with the things of the ego: the places you lived, your family and friends, as it was never real in the first place, but an ever changing transitory illusion that makes a very convincing presence as something real.

What does not change after you die is the Atman, your immortal partner – the ever real, permanent Beingness, which I call the Atman or Inner Teacher.

Conclusion

Minimize your own suffering, gain access to your intuition, realize your true nature, allow the Atman or Inner Teacher to benefit you. These are the gifts of Self Realization, which are with you at every moment, because they are you.

In love and service,

Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA)

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