What is sixth sense?

Sixth Sense
Everyone is aware of his or her five basic senses: seeing, feeling, smelling, hearing, and tasting.

Then, what is the sixth sense?

Sixth sense has been defined by some as Extra-Sensory Perception, or ESP. ESP is the supposed ability to acquire information by some means other than the normal human senses, such as the traditional five senses of taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing.

Sixth sense is the medium to realize the spiritual, the unforeseen, the unfelt, and the unheard of power within you.

The dictionary says, "grasping the inner nature of things intuitively."

The Oxford dictionary gives the definition, "as a supposed intuitive faculty giving awareness not explicable in terms of normal perception."

Summing up, this is a power within you to realize and attain a deeper realization of your spiritual being.

So how to get that perception? Is it too hard to attain the power of ESP?
Consider the mind to be a lake. Every stone that is dropped on it create ripples. These ripples on the mind lake do not allow us to see the full moon clearly. Though the moon is reflected in the water of the lake, we do not have the correct vision because the surface is disturbed. Let the surface be calm. The beauty of the full moon reflecting on the lake is clear now.
For us, the stones are our five senses. When we only focus on these senses, our mind is agitated as it runs after the senses. The spirit is already ther,e but we fail to see it, realize it.
Stop these waves. The only way to do so is by getting calmer through meditation.

To reveal yourself to infinite joy, to realize and attain the sixth sense, you will need to control your mind and meditate.

Is this process scientific? Can this state really be achieved?
We will deal with the answers in our next article.

I conclude today with a verse.

Thinking about sense-objects
Will attach you to sense-objects;
Grow attached, and you become addicted;
Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger;
Be angry, and you confuse your mind;
Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience;
Forget experience, you lose discrimination;
Lose discrimination, and you miss life’s only purpose.

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