Om Shakti Ram Rama Shiva Om
Rejoicing in God completely, rejoicing in life completely!
This should be the theme of our life. We should work towards a lifestyle that revolves around rejoicing in God completely.
And if we are going to make our life revolve around God, we will need to have a wholistic understanding or definition of God. When we study the Holy Ones or the Realized Souls, they have said that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was from God, of God, and is God. Therefore, the Om, the Aum, is the voice of God, the first Word. “In the beginning was the Word.” This is the first inclination or impulse of God that permeates everything manifested. Therefore, to start with, the working definition of God is the sum total of everything unmanifested and manifested. And our purpose in life is to rejoice in life (God) completely.
If we study both our Self and God, we will realize that there are seven levels to this vibratory nature of God. Starting with God the Absolute that is beyond all form, then comes the Word or the Om, which is the first form, then comes the Holy Spirit, then the Soul, then the Causal, then the Astral, and then the Physical. When we study our Self, we will realize there are seven chakras. These are the junctions or energy centers in the cerebral-spinal system where the ida, pingala, and sushumna meet. Each energy center corresponds to a vibratory level of creation: Seventh center or crown center, the formless; the Sixth center, the Christ/Krishna Consciousness; the Fifth center, the Holy Stream or the Aum; the Fourth center, the Soul; the Third center, the mind or the Causal body; the Second center, the senses or the Astral body; and finally the First center, the Physical body or Physical creation. If we are going to rejoice in God completely, we must realize and experience our Self at all seven chakras, all seven levels of creation.
We do the chakra meditations to first become aware of the chakras within our cerebral-spinal system. We then strive to become aware of the seven levels of God. With the chakra meditation, we begin to make the conscious willful effort to realize our Wholistic Self, and we begin to live more wholistically. Each individual chakra corresponds to an aspect of Divinity of the large body of God, or our Wholistic Self.
We must come to realize/experience our Wholistic Self, and begin to live within our whole Self. When we do, we will then realize that these seven levels of creation, or the seven chakras, are in three basic groups. In ancient scriptures, they talk about the triune nature of God. The triune nature of God is the Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram nature. An expression of this nature is the inclination or Divine Will of God. God the Absolute, that always has been, is now, and forever shall be, is a pure state of consciousness, which is complete.
When the Word, Om, begins to manifest out, it becomes the Divine impulse of God. Then we encounter the Mayac sheath and the idea of separateness, or the cosmic dance, and we have the higher and lower ego. The Divine impulse has a triune nature, the Divine Will, a Universal will, and an Individual will. This is a reflection of the triune nature, and is seen in the idea of separateness. The Individual will (ego) is like the nature of humanity. The Universal will (ego) is like the heart of humanity where the saints and sages live in order to serve humanity. The Divine Will is like the nature of the Soul, a oneness with God, and vibrating the Divine Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram Consciousness. These are three distinct vibrations of the Divine impulse. The Shiva–to–Shakti vibration is the Divine impulse, Divine inclination, or the Will of God (all are names for the same thing). We gain understanding of the triune nature of God by Self-analysis or Self-study in meditation. When we study our self, humanity, and God, we will realize that the chakras, and their qualities that we live, are a reflection of our evolutionary maturity as a human being, and as a Soul.
