Understanding the supreme being

The Supreme Being that lies deep within the core of every being, which is our own Inner Self, cannot be seen by our ordinary faculties of sensation, our sense organs. He can be seen and apprehended only through the heart, in the inner recesses of the mind and those who know Him become immortal. When the five senses, together with the mind, cease from all activity and the intelligence itself does not stir, that is the highest state, they say. 

Having seen the futility of trying to understand the Supreme Being through the senses, and having seen the futility of coveting and enjoying that which can end at any time ; having completely understood this, when one makes no more attempts to achieve anything outside, and settles down quietly, when the mind becomes absolutely still, when even the intelligence remains steady in itself, one is at the highest state. 

That state, where there is steady control of all the senses, is called yoga. One remains undisturbed from the practice of yoga.  

Not by speech, not by mind, not by sight can it be experienced.  The Supreme Being exists, so the sages say. The only way to comprehend the Supreme Being is to accept that It is. So when one is free from that which “is not and ever becoming”, which is our mind, and one remains in that “which is and never becoming”, then one is in the state called Asti. Asti is that which is without any movement whatsoever, in its essential beingness. 

At the start, the only thing one can do is to understand that It is only pure existence, without any movement. As you keep contemplating on this fact and go deeper and deeper, you will understand what that real Self is.  Why does it take time to understand that real Self? It is because there are still some conditionings in the mind that stop us from looking at it clearly.  What are these conditionings of the mind?  When all the desires that dwell within the heart are cast away, then a mortal becomes immortal, even here, and attains Brahman. 

How does one even begin? One cannot cast away all desires. But when all desires become united into one strong, single desire for the understanding of that Supreme Being, and one sees the impermanence of fulfilment of desires of this world, then one becomes steady and begins to think of the Supreme Being as pure existence. Gradually, the hold of the senses gets loosened and they drop away and one reaches that Supreme Brahman. When all the knots that fetter the heart are cut asunder, then a mortal becomes immortal.