Seeing is simple as an act but complex in its functioning. Many things coordinate in the simple act of seeing. When we see something, we know it is round or square, we know the color, we get to know several of its qualities just by seeing.
Mind records whatever it sees and that goes up to build a person’s life. This is because whatever we see, the qualities of those things descend in us with the exchange of energy and shape our lives.
Even if you don’t understand something at the time of its happening, later the information is recalled and made use of as and when required. Seventy five percent of information that we record is in our childhood in the first seven of years of our life. The remaining twenty five percent is spread over the rest of our life span. Children’s eyes work like cameras recording everything around. Mostly children learn by observing the elders.
Whatever one sees is recorded in the mind just like data feeding and it is stored as a data bank and then it is the intellect that translates the data into meaningful information that is available as memory ready to be recalled for use as and when required.
Seeing has become an obsession; we keep on seeing something or the other. Now there are new things involving seeing, our televisions and other electronic gadgets like laptop, smart phones, tablets what not, all draining away our energy. Often we don’t realize that what is the point in seeing the whole day? Is all that information of any use to us? We hardly pause and think and so by day end we land up exhausted without doing anything worthwhile.
The seeing process involves workings at various levels of body and mind. We can known by the following example- look at the simple act of walking down the stairs, you just see and you go down but in the process of seeing the mind is able to know the height and the width of the steps, their number, their landings everything is registered by the mind and then accordingly a particular amount of energy is released to the legs just sufficient to help the person step down, no less, no more. It is done so meticulously that one can go down the steps smoothly without any special effort. It is only when your judgment goes wrong due to not seeing properly that you get a jerk or you may fall because the energy released is not in proportion to its requirement. Likewise, all your actions are regulated within you by a beautiful coordination of that which you see around and the numerous functions within your body and mind. This happens at the gross level in the process of seeing.
Then there are subtle things that happen when you see something. Everything animate or inanimate has its own energy and in the act of seeing there is energy exchange that takes place. So, when you see some things, you feel tired, drained of energy and at other times you may feel energized. When you see something with love the energy of that thing increases and that love echoes backs to you manifold. If somebody looks at you with love then too you feel light and happy due to increase in your energy level. The reverse happens when you see things with dislike.
Attention seeking that we see everywhere around is because that makes one feel better due to increased energy level. People try to draw attention by showing things that attract. The entire wardrobe with branded clothes is just to draw attention. Again, the cosmetic industry is all ready to make people turn their heads to look at you. There are very few who dress up well and look good because they like to dress up well and feel good and not for drawing any attention. There are many whom you may find difficult to recognize or clumsily dressed when no one is there to look at them. Likewise, behavior or talking etc. everything, out of the ordinary is to draw attention. Not many would behave the way they do if they did not get that attention. If somebody is neglected and ignored, one loses all interest in looking and behaving well.
When someone is not doing things to get noticed and appreciated, it can only be a seeker who has learnt to look within and see the source from which all energy within and without plays. It is all a play of energy. Such a person knows his completeness and has no desire to be noticed by others. He becomes independent and feels a burden when extra attention is paid to him.
In Hindu Culture there is a great importance of Darshan. We go to the temples to have Darshan that is merely seeing, not praying or asking for anything. Then we go for Darshan of Gurus, sometimes even a glimpse transforms us. We go to holy places, and even rivers and mountains etc. that we consider holy as they are places of high energy fields and just by seeing they have the power to change and transform us.
