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Sunday 27 July, 2008
By  hakotiankar kotiankar   11:24 | 4/Nov/2007 |  2 Comment(s)
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Living Our Life Is A Unique Path To Enlightenment!

Living Our Life Is A Unique Path To Enlightenment!

How we have come to this conclusion? We followed this argument or this line of thinking:- {“Life in the body starts with the desire of the soul to experience itself as a whole ( the seed for the birth of the manifested universe). Life of the body ends when the means that was used by the soul no longer supports the reason for utilizing it. Thus it drops the body and exits from any of the ten gates of our body.

Ultimately it is the consciousness that makes us aware of everything that is focused by the mind in all the 3 planes of existences (physical/ mental and spiritual), and memory enables it to recognize the similarity between the observed and experience stored. As the consciousness is a part of the supreme consciousness, it can never satisfy the desire and experience the feeling of oneness with the whole having the feeling of separation (EGO), even after millions and millions of births as every possible physical/ mental and spiritual existence.

The soul or consciousness will never give up as long as this desire is kept alive by craving for it (reason for repeated births). And as there is no limit for the possibilities of different forms this unquenchable quest will continue forever. (This confirms the understanding that there will never seize to be, the entire creation, however partial destruction can take place due to human follies, this has taken place innumerable times in the past.) {Source mythological stories called puranas}.

When the feeling of separation is removed completely, as soon as we do that try to find out who is experiencing ? }

            Meditation and deep conscious sleep are the only two ways of doing this as learnt by us from the wisdom of our elders, this can also be acquired by us by means of direct transmition, reading their works or through teachers who have acquired this knowledge and wisdom. Two main deliberate acts are the starting point, one retracting the mind from the normal flow to connect itself to the sense organs, the other detaching the mind from all the thoughts that rise in the mind. To arrive at deep conscious sleep requires one to be able to enter the deep sleep state from dream state consciously, to do this as a regular habit of meditation, a perfectly healthy body and strong determination is the utmost necessity. All the mental activity except the involuntary function that is controlled by the brain is stilled. Do breathing exercise. When even flow is established in both nostrils retract the attention of the mind from the sense organs and guide it towards the internal chakras. Stop identifying with the all the other thoughts. As soon as this is established we are in the present, Physically and Mentally. The feeling is similar to floating in between say water or air. Feel relaxed and familiarizes our self’s in this state for as long as possible. The longer we can stay here the perfection becomes greater. Now deliberately focus, single pointedly on the base of the spine, and feel the consciousness rising up inside the central channel. As we reach each center we will be at that sphere of awareness in the time NOW. To stay here start to identify with any thought or feeling that is available at that awareness. As soon as we do this the horizontal time at the awareness starts. THUS WE EXPERIENCE THE EVENT IN THAT PLANE.

            If we get thoughts of past instances of our life then understand we are not in the present but slipped back into the past (memory domain).

This activity will make us aware that everything in this universe is only an appearance perceived by our mind through senses, only as we have defined the words and attached meaning to them. This is because Everything is changing dynamically, our interest in the things that are non-permanent are gradually overcome(just as our attachment to child hood wants ,desires, and playthings are no longer craved for as we become older.) Mind starts to seek the other things in the universe, jumping from one topic to the other; slowly all the things here are exhausted and mind turns silent and inwards.

Thus experiencing anything starts as a flow of energy that is started with the information brought to it by the senses, that signal which is focused is the dominant flow established in the mind, all the other 5 powers of the mind (Icha, Kriya, Budhi, Jana, and Ananda) try to confirm this by establishing a feedback, as soon as this is done we experience the suggestion, all this is carried out in such a short time that we feel it instantly.

Desire is satisfied when similarity or oneness of feelings (energy)  is achieved in the five powers of the mind that generates consciousness (flow of energy in a specific way creating resonance or uniqueness {differentiation from the surrounding}) on any specific thing. We become aware when this is recognized, actualized ((feeling it, transmutation in the interaction of the five powers of the mind). The memory aids this by comparing it with accepted information and knowledge of each sense organ defined by us through our experiences in life. The only way we can understand this in the subtle level is through the path of purification, perfection, and gaining maturity. The importance is given more in the mental plain as a comparator of our body, mind, and soul. This is because the external and internal universes are dynamically changing every second and we always need a datum or standard to compare any other thing.

During specific incidences of our life the interest towards spirituality may be intense as the environment for it becomes favorable. Nature has many ways of guiding the aspirant by series of joy, sorrow, and difficulties to engrave the lessons in our memory, these are not meant for the aspirant alone but all the community they live in. All of us are actually following this unique path unconsciously; most of us may have used the autobiography of great men, saints & sages, notable successful persons as a guide which confirms this. The memory is accumulated as BELIEFS observed in the world, When we experience these with our senses they are confirmed and we develop TRUST towards them. Interacting with these makes us comfortable and develops a FAITH in these information’s converting them to knowledge.

Purification  perfection and maturity of mind

Many of the acts performed in living our life are actually purification of body, mind, and spirit. Say concentrated thinking of one topic, to solve everyday life’s situations (type of meditation technique), recycling the air during breathing (is a technique of pranayama), recycling the food we eat ( is a yogic deed of cleaning the internals), sharing the bounties of Mother Nature with our loved ones and other living beings (is the art of sanathana dharma). Specific daily acts of fire offerings that recycle the ingredients into the atmosphere as vapor help redistribute the concentrated substances back to nature there by removing the root of pollution. (Pollution is concentrated matter of specific substance in a localized area creating an imbalance in the vicinity.). We humans concentrate earths substances for our daily use and throw these out when their use to us no longer exists in very concentrated form creating pollution. We do this unconsciously in our acts of thoughts and speech creating disharmonious relation with our fellow men. Our breathing is one of the automatic way spiritual paths of japa (recitation of mantra(“SO” “HAM,”)) this path generates a potential of energy due to accumulation of energy caused by repeating the same word, sound, or sentence a specific number of times. The soul performs this by expanding and contracting mechanisium and makes all the muscles of the body involved with this act to do the same, the result of this is air is sucked into the lungs and expelled out. The heart beat is another non stopping continuous japa (recitation on mantra ( “LAB” “DUB”), if you listen minutely all sounds that are sequential and continuous are mantras performed by the soul in the body using the same technique. (Mantras we mean single or multiple letter alphabets or sounds), These are vibrations of specific wave length, amplitude, and frequencies  that have capacity to alter the surrounding energy to generate a specified pattern to change them. This is one way of purification of the mind body and soul is performed. The deliberately created cycles of this japa forms a habitual pattern. These are responsible for giving the unique characteristics that we live with.

Mind is not located in any specific location of the body, it instantaneously moves to that location or level of awareness that is focused or our consciousness is tuned to. It appears to be in the brain just because that is the position of the active memory and the final point of all information brought to the body by the sense organs. Mind cannot be distinguished as it does not have any unique characteristics of color, smell, taste, touch, and sound (as these are the only things that we can perceive) thus it can only be experienced . It is not attached to anything inside the body or outside it. It is the energy field that transforms itself into the object / subject and confirms its state via feedback from the senses both subtle and gross. The method it adopts is, it generates a flow or current of  energy as heat /light/Sound that is sensed by the sense organs creating a closed loop of feedback. It can also be said to be the reflecting medium for all the information brought to it the senses, mirror for the images and light, or a echo for the sound, or a pattern generator for the senses of taste smell and touch. Light heat and sound are different states of energy, sound is the lowest frequency of energy, heat is created by friction between energies, this gives sensation of temperature (feeling of difference of hotness), light is the higher state of this as its characteristics reaches higher levels. Pure energy is the highest state it can exist. Taste smell and touch are bioelectric impulses. Purification of mind is coming to a conclusion that the perception of  the universe as we see it is not permanent as it is dynamically changing and thus it cannot be the ultimate or permanent. This is the beginning of maturity; this gains further ground with detachment, the feeling of letting go! This is possible only if we can disconnect ourselves from the love of pleasure of senses; alternately think of everything as one and the same, this is possible only by considering all events as love for the love or love of love.

 We define spiritual progress as, development in the state of the individual’s understanding with relation the self. Here self is addressed to the spirit enveloped by the ego or our consciousness. Holding on to our understanding (acquired from the reading books that contain wisdom, influence of family and friends, teachers in school, religious leaders and our own life experience), rejecting all others that is beyond our knowledge and grasping is the draw back, the common reason we are left out in the sense of understanding the self. If we accept this fact then there is only one thing left to do in the present life. Most of the things we generally interact are those that have definite shape, this is the purified form of sound; clear perception of these is what gives them this status. Giving them words and attaching meaning to them is the development of language we use to communicating with others. Co-relating this information with all the relevant thing stored in our memory gives rise to knowledge as we understand the similarity and differences with them. Practice of which gives rise to wisdom.

LET LIFE UNFOLD AS IT WILL AND EXPERIENCE IT WITH OUT BECOMING ATTACHED TO THE RESULTS OF EVRY INICDENT. This way our next life will be such that, environment for enlightenment will be conducive to lead to higher levels, this is required because knowledge is one of the best ways to reach the ultimate reality of the supreme and stay there in perpetual union with him/her in a meditative bliss of joy. And letting go of even all the acquired knowledge of the present birth opens the stage for the pure knowledge of the cosmic memory establish.

THUS ! Living one’s life as it unfolds is a unique path to experience spiritual enlightenment the normal way, the only thing is that the time taken may be as long as the end of the universe.

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