The Inner Self? Who or what is that you might ask. It is who you really are, that part of you that lies beneath all the trappings that this mundane world has turned you into.
For almost three decades, I was like a machine that only moved whenever fueled with something worth moving for. I disregarded that I have my Inner Self lurking in the deep recesses of my body which I have forgotten is the dwelling place, the temple of the Soul, the Atman.
In the past few months, many things have unfolded in C's awakening and her Inner Self was in constant communication with her. I have wondered when I was going to have my turn and wake up my Inner Self, the God Within me, and know more about what I really must know.
The last three months had been significant in the sense that I have received all these revelations and had realizations that I have never thought would cross my mind. One time when we were meditating as a group, I had the weirdest experience that I have never thought would happen too soon. While radiating positive energy to the Universe, my hands started moving.
Having learned from C that the initial manifestations of the IS could be very surprising, I wanted to make the movements stop because I didn't want the others to take notice of it and they might have misconceptions about it. I wanted to stop but it seemed like I can't control it, so I just let things be and observed what's going to happen.
As if in a trance, my hands moved gracefully and seemed to have their own wisdom that I never expected. The right hand made weird movements, it seemed to draw circles and stuff. The hand then stopped, with the palm outwards, as if posed for blessing. Then the left hand started moving and even reached out and almost touched the person sitting next to me. After all those movements, it rested on my lap, palm upwards, looked like begging for alms.
It never occured to me until about a month later when I saw a photo of a statue depicting Buddha in the same pose. I was amazed but I never sought what that pose meant until a few days ago. I found out that the pose my hands were doing was a Mudra - a symbolic gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. The particular mudra that my Inner Self performed with my hands was the Abhaya mudra.
The Abhaya Mudra is believed to be the gesture that the historical Buddha immediately made after achieving enlightenment. It symbolizes fearlessness as well as protection and peace. I guess my Inner Self only showed me that I should never be afraid of the changes, challenges and circumstances that are coming my way.
The other day my obsessive mouse clicking on links led me to a website about the Inner Self.
I AM that inner self of you that you cannot see (or don't want to acknowledge) because of your boundaries, the barriers placed to the concept of your infinity and innocence, the pre-conceived ideas of who you think you are, the illusion you think you are that has been built up by your pre-conditioning, your genetic heritage and with everything that has happened to you since the time of your conception in your mother's womb. See the rest in this website.
The Inner Self is God Within You. God is in every one of us through our Inner Self and to this God Within you give your salutations to when you say Namaste to people you meet.
Namaste!
