Archives for June 2014

We must have a willingness to learn and expand our conscious awareness

When we have this, we will find a joy in living. We start by acknowledging that the greatest religion is the religion of Love. It is to have the open heart, to experience and feel love with everything we encounter. In order to do this, we must have an open mind. An open mind means that we have to be willing to look beyond our self, beyond our ideas and judgments of other people who are not the same as our self. An open mind means we have a willingness to experience and appreciate another person regardless of where they are, or what their interests are. It doesn’t matter where they are in their evolutionary development, they are created in the image of God, and have been created with a unique Soul that the Divine Will can be expressed through. Whether they have yet matured into that Divine expression is not the issue. They still have that unique vibration. You can look at a child and see its human qualities. You can see that the child will grow and mature, and that the qualities will continue to develop. In the same way, we can see the unique vibration in others. However, we have to look for it, and we can do this when we are willing to go beyond our small ego.

We begin to study life, people, and God. We study God unmanifested in our meditation time. We quiet down the mind, our ideas and beliefs of how we think life should be, how God should be, and even how we think meditation should be. We just gently focus and concentrate on the mantra, which is a Divine vibration. Then we need to be open to whatever experience we have. When we leave meditation, we use the mind/Causal to appreciate and see the harmony of what is universal… “Let Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” We look for that during our active time, which includes everything in the creation. It includes our alpha rest, so we work towards having 24-hour consciousness.

Coming out of meditation, we use the senses/Astral to enjoy the beauty and delight. We enjoy the senses, the Om Sundaram. We work towards this even in our dreams. We become aware of our dreams, and then we can turn the creation of our dreams of illusion and fantasy into awareness of the Divine creation. Instead of creating our own tiny dream-plays, we use our Astral abilities to be aware of the subtler realms of existence, or God’s cosmic play, maybe even work through some of our karma.

Coming out of meditation, we use the Physical for our study, for our awareness, and for our delight. When we are in nature, we appreciate the quietness of nature. When we are in the city, we study the beauty and diversity of humanity, and look for that which is universal. We look to live within the heart, and look to see the face of God each moment of the day as we are living with more and more Satyam Consciousness.

If we want to continue to learn, grow, and study life, then we need to study our self, and study others around us. It is easy to look for the qualities that are universal. The universal qualities are easy to see when we are willing to look for them within our self and in others. A simple rule is that what we see in others, is also a quality we have within our self, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to even recognize it. If we didn’t already have the quality, we wouldn’t have any relation points to it, and couldn’t see it in others. What we see in others, the good and bad, the beautiful and the ugly, are qualities we already have within us. We look for the universal, and then focus on what is uplifting and inspirational. We overlook the limited or uninspiring qualities.

Choice and Free Will are moment-to-moment things

We choose what we focus on. We choose what we are aware of or experience. We must realize that these choices are our Free Will, and occur with every thought and feeling. Every thought and feeling is a result of what we are choosing to be consciously aware of.

I’ve had mystical experiences throughout my life, and I have had worldly experiences throughout my life. There were times of dichotomy. I would be seeing and experiencing the material world with the senses, body, and mind. Then I would have an experience with my higher nature, with the Holy Ones, or God, and I get a different reality. There was a dichotomy between the higher and lower nature, which I could not bridge. I could have tremendous devotion to try to get to my higher Divine nature, and experience that. I could have discernment and discrimination with my lower nature to minimize the pain, but still felt I had a dichotomy, until I got the meditation techniques. The meditation techniques were the bridge that helped me integrate “Let Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” The Sacred sciences of meditation allowed me to begin to see that Shiva and Shakti are ever in union rather than two opposite ends of the pole.

Swami Rama once said that we are already gods, but we must strive to become human beings. The process of integration is what Swami Rama was referring to when he said that most devotees are trying to have the experience of their God-like nature, to realize that they are like God, but they must accept that they are already infinite and eternal, and must also learn how to be human. They must learn how to let their Divine nature come through to be expressed while here as human beings. To do this, we must first and foremost be aware of our Divine nature. We must feel and experience that nature of Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram.

Most people will have the experience of falling in love. They will experience the infatuation, love, and intoxication when they meet someone. That love that they feel will bubble over at times, and in reality is bubbling over from their nature. They will be temporarily in love with life. We need to learn how to take our Divine nature of Om Satyam and bring it into our human encounters. We need both the inhalation and the exhalation. I found it easy to experience the mystical, though I didn’t always understand it. In my youth, devotion seemingly brought the experiences. When I matured and had a greater understanding, I was able to see that the stillness, calling out in devotion, and all my practices before I arrived on earth had developed this devotion. My mystical experiences were the result of work in the heavens, or my past.

As my understanding grew, I understood that the mystics prepare for their incarnation. They prepare in the heavens before they incarnate, and then when they incarnate, there will be a harvest of that preparation. We can work to become aware of this…of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. The first time I saw Sri Chitrabhanu, he asked, “Who are you?” I worked on it. The first time I saw Swami Rama, he asked, “Where are you from?” and I worked on that also. I worked on: Who was I, and where was I from, what was my past history, what was my Wholistic nature? As long as I was working on “who am I” wholistically and what was my past tradition, then I was working on a larger vision of my Self, and was not working on my lower ego. In college I worked on the universalness of all of humanity. I tried to understand and see what was universal and similar in all people that I encountered. I studied people, and it was truly a delightful time of learning. I wasn’t caught up in what I wanted or needed for my own ego. As long as I was studying, learning, and growing, there was a joy and inclusiveness to life. Everyone has the same universal qualities, just in different arrangements.