Decoding the secrets of Dahara Vidya (super sensuous knowledge) to uncover the timeless formula for success
This is as true as bizarre it sounds.
The Gen Z and Gen Y people, who want their 2050 dream ideas materialized in the 2020s, need rarefied knowledge to bring the future back into the present.
From Mozart to Bach; from Einstein to Newton, from Buddha to Plato; from Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr; from Michelle Kwan to Nadia Comăneci- These men and women and many others, were perhaps ignorant of this knowledge which contains in it all the known and unknown facts as well as the reality of all dreams waiting to be realized. Just as the ancient sages, who developed a higher faculty to understand deeper aspects of human existence, these great achievers looked beyond senses to clearly see their dreams as a reflection of the reality in hiding.
Dahara-vidya, as mentioned in Chandokya Up; (7th Century BCE) is the knowledge of Consciousness residing in the heart of every human like lotus, ever illuminating the deficient mind. After obtaining this knowledge, contemporary man by reversing the process used by the ancient sages, can develop the higher faculty known as bodhi derived from the Sanskrit word bodhati, which means ‘he is awake’. It is unique because it aids man in obtaining knowledge imperceptible to instinct, reason, and intuition which are the basic instruments of knowledge. It’s powerful because it frees the man of all preconceptions and prejudices from his mind, which per se is a negative instrument of perception replete with accumulated impurities.
The aspirant after obtaining the profound metaphysical knowledge of Daharakaasha from a competent guru engages in a six-step meditation practice, to withdraw the senses from the outside world to make the unsettled mind one-pointed. This process filters unrelated and intermediary thoughts, sharpens focus to enable synchronizing wildest dreams with the reality waiting to be revealed by the Consciousness.
Verily, every scientific discovery is a small revelation of nature to select individuals, who uncovered hidden knowledge with this subtle power and concentration. The creation of a masterpiece statuette from the unshapely stone is simply the manifestation of the dream object (an imagination) that already exists in the stone. As sculptor chisels away the unwanted fat, a spectacular figure emerges to signify the truth that a dream is the un manifest form of a reality, both resting in the Consciousness of the man. A resounding piece of artwork becomes a reality, when the artist taps the higher faculty to bring out the art hiding inside the canvas. And from the art rises great artists like Picasso.
All discoveries in the world are abstract thoughts at the start. A scientist discovers and formulates a new theory, after reasoning out the knowledge obtained through senses. But sense organs with limited capability, cannot perceive facts resting in the super sensuous realm. Many great ideas never become a reality, because the man ignorant of the higher faculty gives up too soon.
Based on epistemological deliberations, it is concluded that great achievers combined bodhi and Dahara vidya to unearth hidden facts of physical science as in Einstein’s relativity theory or the metaphysical doctrine-the philosophy of non dual spirit propagated by Sankara or for cultivating a unique quality unacceptable to the mind and making it as one’s nature- ‘extreme personal humility’, which Gandhi developed, to win the hearts of the world.
According to notes appearing in Wikipedia, a surviving letter of Mozart’s to his father Leopold indicates that “he considered composition an active process—the product of his intellect, carried out under conscious control. In the quiet repose of the night, when no obstacle hindered his soul, the power of his imagination became incandescent with the most animated activity, and unfolded all the wealth of tone which nature had placed in his spirit”.
It must however be noted that all great achievers possessed few qualities that dominated their thinking and distinct behaviour. That’s what we read in bestselling books which highlight visible traits as exceptional habits of successful people, although they are at best secondary contributors to their success. Gandhi became known world over for his nonviolent philosophy of passive resistance and not for his hidden quality of ‘extreme personal humility and resolute will to serve the people’. Therefore it is emphasized that the primary reason for all these men and women to go beyond senses was their undaunted ‘will’ to benefit the world through extraordinary value creation, even if we admit their intense desire to be different from the rest as the initial motivator.
The skills prescribed in “Seven habits of highly successful people, the Covey doctrine and other best selling ideas of the 1900s” are not exceptional anymore, but basic requirements to succeed in the new millennium. Changing habits also will not work; as every habit can be replaced by changing the routine, says Charles Duhigg in ‘the power of habit’. A change in character, which requires going through an arduous process of unlearning, cannot fill the gap either. What is needed today to expedite achievements is a radical shift in vision, an intellectual realignment of one’s nature, and regulating the thought patterns. This means a total personality transformation needed to diffuse ego and self-deception.
Success has not been easy in any given era. Dahara vidya is profound and a powerful metaphysical truth that has in it all what you need to succeed in any age. It can do the same magic as it did to the risis, well-known musicians, scientists, philosophers, and leaders of yesteryears and now to you.
