Self, the
starting point
They point out that the essential and basic requirement
of spiritual development is the full conviction about the nature of the
‘self' and the efficacy of the role of Nine Tattvas in the spiritual
journey. This conviction is the starting point in the journey. This
spiritual journey is possible only after one is convinced that material
objects of the world are alien to the ‘self', that the real nature of the
‘self' is all Bliss and all joy, also that this bliss and joy are not
available to him because the luminosity of the ‘self' is clouded by the
material karmas due to the attachment towards worldly objects, foreign to
it, it would naturally set on finding out the means for dispelling clouds
of these material karmas. In fact, every one of us inherits the capacity
to dispel the clouds. i.e., alien materials covering the soul. What is
required is the will and the eagerness to realise the real nature of self.