The Truth Behind Rejection

1 week ago By Yogi Anoop

The Fundamental Purpose of Rejection

(A subject of: Dhyan workshop- inner Healing; )

Whether it is acceptance or rejection — the ultimate goal of both is only one: the experience of the “Self.”

Every thought, every reaction — whether it is about rejecting the world or accepting a certain value — deep within, only one inner effort is at work: to experience the “I,” to affirm one’s own being.

Even when someone is angry and raises their voice — why does that happen?

It is because, through that shouting, the person is trying to forcibly make others feel their presence. Even in a state of fear, something similar is happening — an attempt to assert one’s being.

When we criticize someone, deep within we are also trying to feel better about ourselves (our own being). The “I” experiences itself as weak or inferior to others, and that’s why we criticize others — to feel our own existence as powerful and knowledgeable. The same hidden urge lies even behind mocking others.

In a similar way, in spiritual practice, methods like “Neti Neti” have been adopted.

That is because the tendency to approach life through the negative is, in some way, present in everyone.

Take note: According to the gurus, to practice in a direction opposite to one’s natural (negative) tendency is slightly less effective — hence, perhaps, the gurus chose to utilize methods like “Neti Neti.” That’s how it appears to me.

This is why the sages said — search for the spiritual through the very path to which you are already accustomed.

For example, experience this body as a house of excreta and waste; experience, with awareness, that this body and the senses composed of the five elements — “This is not me.” In other words, practice Neti Neti with experiential intensity.

However, today its practice has been reduced merely to a mental repetition, which — in my experience — is not appropriate.

When you take your own organs of action and senses of perception — those that are within your field of direct experience — and feel deeply: “This is not me,” then something begins to shift.

“I am the experiencer, yes — but I am not this.”

This is the essence of Neti Neti.

Gradually, after years of inner observation, a lasting sense of separation begins to arise between the “I” and the objects of experience.

This separation dissolves all unnecessary tension within the body — it can even help reduce physical inflammations in the body and the senses.

This is because: “I am not for the body, rather, through the body and senses I am able to experience myself.”

The “I” has two tools — either it experiences the body and senses through the senses themselves, or it uses them as instruments to experience the Self.

Through Neti Neti, the experience of the “I” being separate from the seen (mind, senses, and body) gradually begins to arise.

This principle is meant solely for that experience of separation.

And as soon as this separation is felt — the Self begins to be experienced directly:

“I am… I am.”

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