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Upanishad…sitting close to our Soul, sitting close to God.

“Sitting close” means sitting close to our Wholistic Self. Every human being has the innate desire for happiness, love, joy, and friendship. Unless we come to our Wholistic Self, we will find life to be incomplete. We will find ourselves struggling to feel secure within our own nature. We will struggle to be satisfied with who we are and who we want to become. We will find it difficult to maintain loving, kind, and compassionate friendships and relationships. This struggling with life is what brings about suffering for humanity. However, if we come to our Wholistic nature, we will discover how to live within our nature of Satyam (Divine love), Shivam (Divine harmony), Sundaram (Divine joy).

There are two basic religious schools of thought. One is that there is only God, an idea of oneness. The other thought is that God is away in the heavens, and there is God’s creation, which is the idea of separateness. Both schools of thought are true. In reality, there is only one God, one life, only a oneness, of which everything in creation, including us, is a harmonious aspect. But there is also the Mayac sheath, which makes life appear to be a separateness. With this idea of separateness, God unmanifested seems to be separate from the manifested, and the Soul seems to be separate from God, and each unique Soul seems to be separate from other unique Souls. The Mayac sheath is the illusion, or the idea of incompleteness.

To come to our nature of Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram, we must embrace the philosophy that we are created in the image of God. Whether we accept the oneness or the idea of separateness with the Mayac sheath, it is irrelevant in our education because either way, we will be pursuing the greatest miracle…self-knowledge, and the realization that we, and everyone else, are created in the image of God.

The journey can be very simple—we accept intellectually that we are created in the image of God. We accept that God the Absolute, which always has been, is now, and forever shall be, is without form. From this formless God the Absolute, or Satyam Consciousness, came the Word, the only begotten, the first born, the Christ/Krishna Consciousness. From the Christ/Krishna Consciousness comes the Holy Stream, the Aum. Then around a tiny piece of this God Consciousness, Christ/Krishna Consciousness, and Holy Stream a tiny golden net is woven, and this become the unique Soul.

To this unique Soul is given the mind, with its four attributes, which are the ego with the ideas of ownership, then the higher mind, the lower mind, and the field of memory. To the unique Soul and mind are given the senses and Astral body. To all these are given the Physical body, with its five organs of senses, and the creation. This becomes the small spirit that is created in the image of the large Spirit. The small unique body correlates to the entire Physical creation, which is the body of God. The Astral body (the senses) is the spirit body of God. The Causal realm (the mind) is the mental sheath of God. The individual Soul correlates with the connection of every unique spirit within the interwoven of life, or the Cosmic Soul of God. Then there is the Holy Stream, the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, and then God the Absolute without form. This theology that we are created in the image of God is what we accept intellectually, and work towards experiencing. Then we set out on our journey of self-discovery and discover the truth behind this philosophy for our self.

During all times and all traditions, Holy Ones have come to the planet and have given the message that we are created in the image of God. If we have not yet discovered this for our self, we must start the journey of self-discovery with this faith. We can utilize the guidance of the Holy Ones and Satgurus as inspiration on the way, but we must unfold and discover this truth (that we are created in the image of God) for ourselves. Every Realized Soul has said that we are eternal yet people still fear death. The fact that we are told we are eternal Souls is not enough to remove the fear of death. This is why we need to discover for ourselves our own eternal Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram nature.

We make the discovery of our Wholistic nature our life goal. We discover that the eternal absolute God Consciousness is part of our nature. We discover that we have the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, the harmony, the truth of all life, the alpha and omega; we also have the delight and beauty of the Holy Stream or Aum. We discover that our Soul is pure Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. We discover that we have the Causal body, the Astral body, and Physical body. We discover how to live in harmony and fulfill the desires that come from each body, and each level of consciousness. This includes the seven levels of creation that correspond to the seven chakras. Each chakra seeks fulfillment, and requires a different nutrition to satisfy it. This is not about renouncing life, but rather about fulfilling our desires in a manner that is beneficial and in harmony with our Wholistic Self. We don’t renounce life; we renounce the limitations of our ideas and beliefs.

This journey to our Wholistic nature will be about the Royal Path, which includes how to be in our nature of happiness, how to nurture our Physical body with activity. It will be about how to nurture our Astral body with beauty, art, and music, how to nurture our Causal body with positive affirmations and right understanding in order to be in harmony. It will include how to nurture the Soul with Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram, the Holy Stream, the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, and then finally immersing into the absolute God Consciousness.  This is our nature, and can be experienced.

TANTRA

We must understand that in order to move forward on the path, we need to be open.  We don’t reject life, or say “no” to life.  We open our self up to become more inclusive to Sex (Physical), Love (Astral), Prayer (Causal), and Transcendence (pure Consciousness). Tantra is the awareness and surrender to the harmony of the Divine impulse, as it flows from formless to form, and is the dance between form and formless.

Sex: We don’t say ‘no’ to sex, but rather we add love.  Sex is when we are trying to get our own needs met, when we are only concerned about our self.

Love: Love is when our thoughts and feelings are concerned with others.  We aren’t concerned only with our self, but also with other people. When we add love, it doesn’t mean we give up sex, or stop taking care of our body, or stop eating properly, or stop doing the things that are beneficial for the body. It doesn’t mean we stop enjoying the senses.  Adding love simply means we now think of others first.

Prayer: We then add Prayer…we begin to identify with, and appreciate, Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram in both form and essence.  We begin to harmonize with the Divine Will.  We begin to understand how this unique Soul is part of the wholistic wave, or God Consciousness, and how we fulfill our dharma or purpose. Now we have gone beyond just Sex and Love and have included Prayer, or what is beneficial for others in our thoughts and actions, but it doesn’t mean we no longer have sex or love.  It means that we have added a higher or greater awareness that is more inclusive.  Once we realize we are created in the image of God and begin to experience it, we find that the creation, within the Mayac sheath or cosmic play, is delightful, beautiful, and enjoyable, yet there will still be times we want more. We will want more than to be eternally busy, eternally active, so we will also want peace. This is when we will seek transcendence, which is beyond prayer, love, and sex.

Transcendence: Transcendence is the direct experience of God the Absolute that is without form or activity.  This is where freedom or liberation truly begins.  When we realize our nature is Satyam (eternal love), Satyam without the need for any other person or activity or anything, this liberates us.  First, it liberates us from the idea of incompletion and the idea of separation. These ideas of incompleteness and separation always have us seeking someone or something outside of our self to complete us, to help us feel connected.  Ironically, as long as we are seeking fulfillment, connection, or a sense of fitting in externally, we will never attain those things. The realization of our nature as Satyam then also liberates us into the continuous experience of Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. This is the meaning of the poem it is better to call out to Divine Mother in your aloneness than to seek shelter in someone else’s arms. It is better to call out to the God Consciousness to try to experience this Satyam Consciousness.  Once we do this, freedom begins and we are now on the path to ecstasy, and joy, and ultimately liberation.

Now that we have the Satyam, have experienced God that always has been, is now, and forever shall be, we come back, and realize it is also our nature.  This state of pure Satyam is the greatest ecstasy, the greatest joy we can ever have.  As we come back out to our unique Soul or self, we come under the influence of the idea of separateness again.  This idea of separateness, or the Mayac sheath, allows us to see the dualistic nature of the creation. We can call it the cosmic play and delight in it, but there may also be the feeling of two again. We realize that in reality there is only God, but we have accepted the illusion that we are separate again, and the ecstasy is not there. However, we also realize that we can still experience joy and delight in the creation. There is the absolute God Consciousness without form (ecstasy), and then there is the absolute God Consciousness with form (bliss), manifested all the way through the creation (joy and delight).

As we come back out from Transcendence, we come out to Prayer. Now we have appreciation or thankfulness.  We see divinity, the Om Satyam, Om Shivam everywhere.  We see that everything is made up of the Om Satyam, because it is the very nature of creation. Seeing this, we strive to see the harmony and appreciate life.  Then we come back down to the spirit body or Astral, and we add the senses.  Now we have the joy and delight of the five senses, and we can enjoy the pleasure of them. Finally, we come all the way back to the Physical, knowing that it is the most limited form of Satyam Consciousness, but still we can enjoy our life when we identify with our Wholistic nature.

Samadhi is when we experience Satyam, or God Consciousness (without form) in our meditation. Then we come back into the cosmic play and fulfill our interests, desires, or the dharma of the Soul, the expression of God through the creation of the unique Soul.  This is the Royal Path, a complete inhalation and a complete exhalation.  We do all we can to be in harmony, to enjoy, delight, and work to be a pure, healthy, and happy vibration while on earth.

This is also the process of Tantra—Sex, Love, Prayer, Transcendence, and Transcendence, Prayer, Love, Sex. It is incomplete if you only go upward, or only inhale.  To make it complete is to come back outward with bliss-bestowing hands, with joy, delight, selfless service, and compassion. This becomes the goal of living.  The Soul once born, lives forever, on a daily basis of inhalation and exhalation, and on an incarnation basis of inhalation and exhalation, and including a creative day of manifesting out and then back to a creative night of absolute peace, and also beyond, depending on how large our vision is of the inhalation and the exhalation. How much we will enjoy and delight in life depends on how large our vision, our understanding, how much harmony we have, and how much love we feel.