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.
