UNDERSTANDING OUR DHARMA OR PURPOSE

This brings us to the purpose of our dharma and our incarnation, which are part of the impulse of God to begin to see the harmony of life. We begin by understanding that the three gunas[1] (tamasic, rajasic, sattvic) correspond with the Individual ego (lower), Universal ego, and Divine impulse or inclination. The lower ego will bring suffering, which is tamasic. No matter what activity we undertake in thought, word, or deed while in the lower ego, it will end with incompleteness and will therefore bring suffering. The Universal ego is rajasic; it is activity. The rajasic activity of the Universal will or ego will be influenced by our intent. What is our intent? Do we want the activity to be selfless and for the benefit of others? This would be sattvic. Do we want the activity to be a harvest for our own benefit? With this, we have added either a sattvic or a tamasic intent to the Universal will. This is why some people can flourish while others, doing the same activity with seemingly the same motives, hardly get anywhere. One has the intent of giving unconditionally, and the other has the intent of partaking in the harvest.

The sattvic guna (vibration) is part of the Divine Will or impulse. It is identified with Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram, and is beyond any thought of individual identity. It is part of the one God, part of the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, part of the Holy Stream. Once we go beyond the Individual ego, and move into the universal ego, we can then surrender to the Divine Will or impulse.

We need to have a working understanding of these three stages of the Divine impulse. Then we need to understand that each chakra is seeking fulfillment, and is calling out for completion.  At the first chakra, we want to survive, learn, grow, and mature. Whether we want liberation, or Self-realization, or just happiness, the Soul will call out for more. The Soul calls out for the completion of the Divine impulse. The Soul will call out for completion of all seven levels, or at each chakra.

The first chakra will want food, rest, self-preservation, and procreation. We can channel it in a more harmonious way by having more prana as nutrition, more meditation to be in harmony with our nature. Instead of sleep, we have rest and feel peaceful. Instead of the procreation desire, we can be more creative within the Divine Will. For the self-preservation instinct, we realize that we are infinite and eternal.

At the second chakra where we are looking for completion in the male/female relationship and for children, instead we can balance the ida and pingala, and allow the sushumna to be the offspring running up to the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, and allowing the kundalini to awaken. When we inwardly find the balance of the ida and pingala, we will no longer feel the pull to have the completion take place externally with the sexual relations of the male/female. Rather we will find a creative expression to fulfill our dharma, whether we choose to be a host to children or not.

At the third chakra, the desire for human affection and connection, and the desire to fit in with humanity will, with meditation, transform into a desire to fulfill our Divine purpose, or dharma. We will begin to feel like we are connected to humanity. We will feel like we have a role or purpose within the Cosmic Consciousness. We will feel the pull of our Soul with God.

At the fourth chakra we have unconditional Love. We begin to live in a state of Om Satyam, Om Shivam, Om Sundaram. We now begin to give to life, give to God, give to humanity, give to the planet, give to the angels and devas. No matter who we encounter, we will want to be constantly feeling Om Satyam. That is what we are trying to vibrate out and identifying with. No matter what we come into contact with, whether the minerals, animals, plants, humans, angels or devas, they will benefit from the Om Satyam joy of love, harmony, and beauty that we are vibrating.

At the fifth chakra, we are now willfully vibrating the Om Satyam. We are willfully manifesting and beginning to create more Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. Instead of just identifying with and vibrating Divine love, we are beginning to willfully channel and manifest more of the Om Satyam. We are beginning to influence those who think of, or come in contact with us. We are beginning to influence those that our vibration reaches or touches. The power of our vibration will reach out to be inclusive of all we are aware of.

At the sixth chakra, we continue to expand beyond the Universal will to the Christ/Krishna Consciousness. We are now in union with God. We are from God, of God, and part of God. We are now becoming the Divine Will. We begin to create more and more Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.

We have become what is referred to as a Realized Soul, or an Enlightened Being.  When this Realized Soul attains liberation and leaves the body, and then comes back out of the formless and takes an incarnation, they are given the title of Avatar. This Avatar, or Divine Light that incarnates back, takes on original sin and ideas and samskaras, which they will have to work off.  Still there will be a part of their consciousness that is in a constant state of union with the Christ/Krishna Consciousness. They will constantly be emitting the vibration of Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. When you read the ancient scriptures, you will find stories of someone who walked into the presence of a young child, not knowing who they were, and they were uplifted and healed because the Divine Light was so strongly vibrating out of the child. This is the state we strive to attain. I don’t necessarily mean attaining the state of being an Avatar and healing people, but to the state of realization of the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, the state of being in union with God. This is the state of Oneness, the dance of the Soul with absolute God Consciousness. We will be vibrating Satyam and continuously giving it to life at all levels. This is the Soul calling out for more, and experiencing its completion.

INDIVIDUAL WILL (lower ego)

First Chakra: Seed mantra Lam. The first chakra is about the four primal instincts (food, sleep, procreation, and self-preservation). This is also the lower ego, where people are thinking only of themselves and their own personal wants and desires. Self-centeredness is the vibration and quality of the first chakra. This is fine in a young child or Soul. It allows for self-preservation, and protection of the vehicle (body) that the Soul is using on its journey during the incarnation. The vehicle is used for the learning, growing. and maturing of the Soul. This is a natural healthy state. When we evolve beyond this stage, we don’t renounce the first chakra, but include the qualities of the first chakra into the qualities of the second chakra.

Second Chakra: Seed mantra Vam. The second chakra is that of the male/female, the ida/pingala qualities. We balance the male/female qualities with our love and relationships within the family unit. We can provide a loving relationship to bring other Souls into an incarnation. The male/female relationship and small family unit is a natural evolution when we quit thinking of only our self and want to include others in our life. At some point there is the natural desire for the inclusion of a member of the opposite sex, and having children also becomes a natural step. The small family grows, and the procreation instinct of the first chakra is completed. At the second chakra, creativity is also stimulated.

UNIVERSAL WILL (higher ego)

Third chakra: Seed mantra Ram. As we continue to evolve, we want to experience more of life. Now we move to include the large family or our community, country, and all of humanity. At this stage, our “family” is not limited to only those we are biologically connected to, but all of humanity becomes our family. We aren’t renouncing the small family of spouse, children, or parents, nor do we renounce self-protection and self-preservation. Instead, our vision has expanded to include all of humanity as our family. As we evolve as a human being we become more and more inclusive. We expand our consciousness. The first two chakras are the individual will (lower ego), which is the first stage of our evolvement and development of the Divine inclination. The third and fourth chakras expand to include the universal will.

Fourth chakra: Seed mantra Yam.  To continue maturing, we must go beyond the individual ego to the universal ego. This is where we make the inward journey to the inner consciousness. We must become aware of our larger Self. We move up into the fourth chakra, which is beyond the self-centered and dualistic nature. The fourth chakra is the residency of the Soul. It is also the part of God that is the Soul of humanity. When we expand into the fourth chakra or fourth level of creation, we begin to feel unconditional love toward others. This is love without any conditions. We begin to accept and appreciate others as they are. We begin to accept and appreciate the Wholisticness of God. Many people have an understanding of God that revolves around human characteristics or qualities. At the fourth chakra we expand out to be more inclusive of qualities of the mineral kingdom, bird kingdom, animal kingdom, the human kingdom, the angels and deva kingdom, the Christ/Krishna Consciousness and the Prophets, Masters, and Avatars. We include the Wholistic qualities of life or God. At the fourth chakra, we are more and more inclusive. Our understanding, appreciation, and acceptance have begun to expand beyond human qualities to include more wholistic qualities (or God).

FROM THE UNIVERSAL WILL (Ego) TO THE DIVINE WILL

Fifth chakra: Seed mantra Ham. As we continue to evolve and mature, at the fifth chakra we begin to go beyond the Universal will and surrender to the Divine Will. Instead of thinking only of what is beneficial for the individual and the international community, we begin to think of what is beneficial for the creation, the whole, or the wholistic body or Self. It isn’t about just the body, senses, mind, and Soul, but we also begin to think about the harmony of God. We surrender to the Holy Stream, the Aum. We become inclusive. “Going beyond” means being more open and inclusive. At the fifth chakra we have an awareness, interest in, and activity at all five chakras. We have the willingness to surrender to dharma, or the purpose of our Soul, the purpose of our incarnation, the purpose for which God created the Soul. We have the willingness to accept that we are no longer just an individual unique identity, but rather are a manifestation or Divine expression of God. This begins to take place at the fifth chakra, where this connectedness to the whole begins to manifest as our consciousness. We begin to become aware of the will of God.

Sixth chakra: Seed mantra is a short OM.  Still evolving, we become all inclusive at the Christ/Krishna Consciousness. Now we are identifying with the Word. Once we begin to be all-inclusive, we are in union with God. The Word was from God, of God, and is God. Once we begin to identify with the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, we are moving beyond even the universal ego into the Divine Will, the Divine inclination, or the Divine impulse. From this level, we continue to surrender from the Om into the absolute God Consciousness and immerse into God the Absolute. When we do this, we have completed our journey back home. Then we come back out into manifestation, all the way to the Physical, and then go all the way back to the formless, like Divine waves, Shiva and Shakti and Shakti and Shiva ever in union.

Seventh Chakra: Seed mantra is a long OM. However, we do these Oms more quietly and peacefully until we can surrender into peace, into the God Consciousness. The mantra is the stillness or quietness itself. This is the “Be ye still and know that I am God.” The Om mantra is the Word, is from God, of God, and is God.  As we are vibrating this out, quieter and quieter, we become the alpha and omega.  Then all we have to do is surrender into the absolute God Consciousness to experience this eternal part of our nature, this eternal part of God. When we come back out again, we try to be aware of the vibration and the qualities at each of the levels of creation or chakras. We also try to continue to be aware of all qualities of our Wholistic nature during our activities.

We do the chakra meditations with the intention of becoming aware of our Wholistic nature. We aren’t trying to just become aware of a vibration within us that we call chakras. We are trying to be more inclusive, to unfold into who we already are because we are all created in the image of God. A baby doesn’t have to grow up to adulthood to become human; even in its infancy it is already a human. The baby already has the potential to grow into a child, a teenager, a young adult, and a mature person. The potential is there, and it just takes time and awareness to continue growing and evolving. We are created in the image of God, and chakra meditations allow us to become aware of our Divine nature. Unlike the child that needs years to grow, we only need awareness of our nature to grow spiritually.