What If Enlightenment Is Only Half The Journey

We all know how much emphasis is placed on enlightenment, and rightfully so. Evolution is our number one purpose. But what if enlightenment is just half the journey. 

As a soul before we ever come to earth to play the role of a human we are full, complete and whole. Why step down to a place that can be a struggle? If expansion, growth and evolution are chief principles of universal law then maybe the new frontier is the expansion of light into a lower dimension, a lower vibrational realm, for the purpose of, the creation of heaven on earth. 

So, instead of gaining enlightenment with the intention of leaving earth behind, our journey is to continue to raise the environmental vibration and create a utopia here on earth. A place we would be happy to revisit. 

Think about it. We would be considerably more engaged in our health, wealth, knowledge and relationships. Manifestation, would be a major part of our focus. The learning of the siddhis would make more sense. I remember Maharishi saying, “Once we gain liberation (Moksha) we move on to Mastery”. Liberation, in this context, rests as a passive application of Moksha. Thereby, making Mastery the proactive component of Moksha. 

Earth is a place of contrast which makes it easy to know what we don’t want or what we want less of. This awareness is the seed for us having a desire. That which is more inline with what we do want. This will launch us into action to acquire what we want. Our default mode is to effort our way there. However, there is another way. 

Acting from the deep quietness of Self we can let a thought/desire arise that perfectly identifies precisely what we want in its subtle wholeness. We would then be in the home of all knowledge, the field of all possibilities, the state of Ritumbara Pagya. A place where each item of creation is in a perfect blueprint state and is already manifest in a myriad of dimensions, simultaneously. It is like holograms of the same item stacked one within the other with slight variations due to changes governing each of these dimensions.  However, our job as manifestors is simply to match our vibration with the item desired and Nature does the rest. In this way we can witness our co-creations. 

Let’s practice with our own health. 

Rest deeply in your own silence. Now, bring in the feeling of your body. Initially just feel your body’s vibration and simply rest with this feeling. You will feel subtle corrections taking place by this act of attention alone. Then wish for perfect health. Stay present and you will witness the tiny devas joyfully working to make your body healthier. If you can’t see them or feel them then imagine them and soon they will magically materialize. Don’t forget the joyfulness, that’s where the magic is. 

Love. Love. Love. 

Akashic Records Part One

I took Akashic Records Training starting in October of 2024 with Candice Rasa. The first opening of the Akashic Record was done after viewing a video on it by ourselves.

I found my awareness in the form of an orb somehow floating and approaching the Records through the cosmos. First thing I saw was two very tall guardians on either side of tall metal looking doors. My relative smallness as an orb simply floated in to the grand hall of knowledge. It was a huge room filled with light causing my consciousness to expand. The records themselves were not books for me but rather rectangular holographic tablets perhaps 6 inches wide by 13 inches long and about 2-3 inches deep. These tablets were self illuminated with a golden white light. 

Imbedded within the tablets was ancient writing perhaps in Aramaic or Hebrew lettering. These tablets were in little individual cubbies and filled the walls of this grand hall. Somehow the walls could be close or farther away based on my mental needs. Sometimes the walls and tablets could be seen as both close and far away simultaneously. Right from the start I could sense there were at least two avenues to access more knowledge. One direction would be through the tablets via their imbedded letters and the other way was by following the light source itself. Both those ways were to become themes for separate journeys. This was after all my first visit to this phenomenal place.

Beyond Patanjali

In Hinduism, functioning in the world is fundamentally the interplay between the three gunas, tamas, rajas and sattva. Tamas is dullness or ignorance. Rajas is passion, goal driven action. Sattva is goodness, refinement or inspiration. Our behavior is a domination of one of these gunas but the other gunas are never far behind.

Sattva is what is at the basis of religion or norms of proper behavior. An attempt to be more Godly. Behavioral training until we achieve a state where we are “good” spontaneously, Atman.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras span the gap between sattva and atman. The apex of Patanjali’s knowledge rests in chapter 3, The Powers. There Patanjali brings Dharana, (focus) Dhyana, (meditation) and Samadhi, (transcendence) into one exercise he calls, Samyama.

Let’s take a step back. Before we launch onto samyama, we must first get familiar with the field of the transcendence, samadhi. This happens via meditation. Once we go deep into meditation we come to a layer of awareness which we can term as pure awareness. Awareness without any objects of focus. Awareness alone. Usually experienced as a bright field of light with nothing else. There is a sense of peace, contentment or bliss, in this state. If you get nothing but this state out of your spiritual exploits consider yourself blessed. Resting in this state is a phenomenal achievement. Evidently, however, there is more.

Patanjali sought to explore this field of samadhi. He located two layers of samadhi. One that was pure and not involved in the phenomenal world, a seedless samadhi. The other was, as Patanjali put it, a samadhi with seed.

The samadhi with seed seems to have many names, storehouse of all impressions, field of all possibilities, ritam bhara pragya, a layer of truth, etc. Through samyama we request traits, qualities or aspects such as friendliness, compassion or love and allow them to fall into samadhi and in a moment that quality is mentally manifest in our awareness. In my case I end up wearing the quality as a cloak. We bring that particular quality out of the field of all possibilities and imbue it onto our self. But it is not our self. It’s an item of clothing so to speak, that we choose, as it were, to portray our self as … Its a costume. An outfit. A persona we wish to display. Patanjali has brought us this level of interaction with samadhi. However, this field of samadhi with seed has more for us.

It’s also a seat of knowledge. Endless knowledge. Akashic records knowledge. Once we become intimately familiar with this layer of samadhi with seed we can actually ask this glorious domain questions. This state of awareness is filled with an endless array of information/knowledge. It is overwhelming. So, before you go in, you want to have an intention of what specifically you want to know. In this way you can follow one thread and not a whole ball of yarn. You can unravel that one thread and know everything about it. Why it is? How it is? How that tendency started? What contributed to its altered nature? What needs to happen to unravel the damage or injury? 

And if we go deep enough we may even get a glimpse of the blueprint of that particular trait. That particular trait in a state of perfection. Restoring a trait of our personality to its original state is huge. This is real shadow work. True healing. This is the fourth state of the highest use of the Light. The transcendence. God.

Let's recap. First we find a way to have direct experience of the lively transcendence. Samadhi with seed. The field of all possibilities.

Then we call on that field to manifest a quality or trait. Example: friendliness, compassion or unconditional love. When our request is fulfilled we wear that trait like clothes. Allowing it to influence our self. All the while knowing that the cloak is not our self but rather an influential garment, a tool to help us refine our persona in a specific manner.

Then we use the knowledge aspect of the light/transcendence and ask it questions, specific questions. Thereby establishing and interactive dialogue between the light and our self. At this stage we may notice our self go between being an object and a subject. This is good. It shows maturity of awareness. These states are not static. They are both object and subject simultaneously. This is a rich experience capturing wholeness of experience by playing the knowledge from both the prospective of the object, the receiver and the subject, the conceiver, simultaneously. This is the goal of karma. The experience of being the actor and the one acted upon. This is a more refined method of accomplishing the role of karma. Designed to provide the wholeness of experience by experiencing the thing both objectively and subjectively.

Lastly, we use the light, this transcendental state to unravel itself. Since, through deep communication in the knowledge stage of this process we now know the purpose of our experience, and can understand the pure intention of the experience, without the drama. Now, the harm or injury to the self can be healed. Healed in a complete way without using overlays of “good” traits like friendliness, compassion, unconditional love, etc.

Once, through the stage of knowledge, the understanding is crystal clear as to the purpose of our seeming missteps, there is no need to imbue the self with the vibration of goodness. The fire of knowledge consumes the reason for karma. The self is free. Free to live the intended state. Free to live the perfection of our own blueprint. This is liberation, Moksha.

First, direct experience of samadhi, the transcendence. Then, activation of the refined state of the qualities within the field of all possibilities. Then, interactive communication with the knowledge aspect of this field. Lastly, utilization of the true healing nature of the field which will yield perhaps, the fifth step, that of true freedom.

With, Love 

Four Fold Nature

In chapter 15 verses 16, 17 & 18 of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna reveals the four layers of Himself. He starts with Ksaras, the perishable self, the persona, our personal self/identity or the personage known as Krishna. Then, he speaks of Aksaras, the imperishable self, our soul, or Vishnu in the case of Krishna.

Lord Krishna then moves on to some lofty heights, in verse 17, as he reveals the 3rd aspect of His nature, Ishwara and/or Paramatma. This is what we reference as the over soul. A state of awareness that oversees our individual soul. In psychology our subconscious referenced as our shadow self in more contemporary spiritual terms. The layer of deep awareness that drives our deepest desires in many ways unknown to our conscious self.

Ishwara and Paramatma, from Lord Krishna’s explanation appear to be two sides of the same coin with Ishwara being the more precipitated, particle aspect of Paramatma, the wave nature of the two.

In verse 18, Lord Krishna unveils the fourth layer of His own nature, Purusottamah, the Supreme Purusha. The God-head nature of Lord Krishna.

I see these layers of self/Self as being operational within our own nature. We are a persona, within a soul, within an oversoul, within a godhead self. We, in the ultimate analysis, are the full package. Whatever Lord Krishna is, we are.

There is also a relationship between this four fold nature of self and our consciousness behaviors. Sattva, Atman, Moksha and Brahman. In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, chapter 3 verse 36 and again in verse 50 Patanjali makes a distinction between sattva and atman to start it off. Although Patanjali didn’t present a sutra that offers a distinction between atman and moksha (liberation) he does devote the fourth and final chapter to Liberation. Perhaps a fifth chapter could have been cognized on the subject of Brahman.

If we are translating these states of awareness to sutras they may be something like this. Distinction between sattva and atma. Then distinction between atma and moksha. And finally distinction between moksha and brahm. With such a practice we would enliven the four fold nature of consciousness regularly.

Happy consciousness research my friends. ❤️❤️❤️

Kundalini – Pure Consciousness – Veda

This is a recent personal experience. Sometimes I go into Self to explore. This is one of those episodes. 

I started with the junction point, the transition point between one thought and another, between one syllable and another, between sleeping and waking, between the absolute and the relative, between my consciousness and god’s. Our lives are full of junction points. They are everywhere we turn. I find it possible to simply rest at will within those gaps and experience either a blend of both realities as a combination or neither reality as in pure nothingness. So, in this one occasion I did just that. I peered into the gap independent of two items. Just the gap alone. Here’s where the journey took my awareness. 

The gap itself was experienced as an inner light in the form of a staff initially running the length of my spine but extending beyond my body limits. Going deep into the ground on one end and high into the sky on the other. Energy flowed up fast. I focused more on that energy. It seemed to have a mind of its own, sometimes coming as a wave or pulse, delivering a more intense dose then a lighter dose but always flowing. I notice that through thought alone I could constrict the vessel/channel causing the energy to flow more forcefully and intensely or relax the channel to slow down the flow. I chose to constrict the channel and see what would happen.  

The energy became very intense, and my body started to bounce in place, I was sitting in a chair, so I lifted my feet off the floor and let my body continue to bounce. In my internal observation of the channel, I detected no blockage to the flow, and I could experience each of the chakras being feed from this energy flow. At some point the heart chakra started to transform and grow into a clean bluish white light generating a super stillness with overtones of a light feeling of love with a strong feeling of peace. My awareness was attracted to this space which had grown to perhaps 5 feet in diameter extending beyond my body’s limits. I didn’t want to leave this reality. Felt like I could stay there forever. After a long time, I explored again.  

Deep inside this peaceful brilliance was the faint tracings of a structure. Initially it came on as geometrical in nature but with a sense of liveliness like subtle waves in some way we could probably call it, scared geometry. The actual lines of structure were like ribbons moving to create a spiral structure. Within the ribbons was some kind of messaging and the whole thing was very colorful particularly red and gold. The flowing colorful structure was around my body but also spiraled into my body’s core, yet somehow enlivening every cell. It was/is the perfect me. My individual blueprint. I could/can put awareness on it and it comes to life, enriching my spiritual form which in turn enriches my physical form.  

Although, I was experiencing these fine details of this structure which I’m calling my individual vedic self, I was also aware of the pure consciousness in my expanded heart chakra that gave rise to this experience and the flow of kundalini which gave rise to the love/peace in my heart. Nothing was left out. Its like being able to let one’s awareness enjoy each individual instrument in an orchestra without losing the symphony. Beauty in every part as well as the whole. Full appreciation. 

Peace. Peace. Peace.  

Being All That Isn’t

Unity Consciousness is being all that is. However, know that there is a state of awareness that is, all that is not.

Recently I had an experience where I was in a very deep ground state where I was able to see all my past lives. They all were me but also not me at all. Who I am is a thread, as it were, running through all those lives. Each life was colorful, engaging and purposeful. But in another way had little, to no meaning, at all.

Who we really are is an awareness beyond these lives. Even beyond our soul. A presence that was never born or created. An awareness that has always been. Simply resting in Its own Self, forever complete, truly peaceful and absolutely fully content. Perhaps, that peace that passeth all understanding?

The lives I lived were so far away from my uncreated Self that they barely were of interest. Yet, they were there in the distance. Stacked, one on top of the other, each being a holographic layer. To be seen into or to be seen through, as I wished. All of this is being experienced and managed by our soul that is also a layer of Self lesser than our uncreated Self.

The entirety of the material world and even the celestial world, could not touch Me. I am the be all and end all. Anything other than this from this vantage point was/is a distraction. And that distraction is the definition of sin. The taking of awareness away from Its true Self. A simple definition.

Pure Consciousness is what/who we really are. This uncreated Self.

Embrace this and let the rest of our environment and experience fall where it may. Do this and you will never be lost.

With love to all that is and all that is not ❤️❤️❤️

Psychology of Consciousness (Part 3)

I want to make a few things perfectly clear. First, full Oneness can only be had by the extinction of devotion. Devotion is a beautiful habit/addiction that reinforces separation. I don’t say this so you, the reader, actively work to get rid of devotion but rather so you will not be surprised when devotion starts to fade away, naturally. It’s inevitable. If you really miss it, you can bring it back but only as a secondary reality, because as a primary reality full oneness can not happen.

Once, you realize your guru or god isn’t separate from you, you may still seek guidance from time to time to help you convey teaching knowledge to others. Its like the adult child consulting with their parents on parenting techniques. So of course there’s a respect and admiration for the teacher/guru but not so much that one falls into a parent-child relationship again.

Secondly, Oneness is not the end of the road. Its simply the unification of the world of things. We are getting into deep waters now.

As I mentioned in Part 2, Lord Krishna states in chapter 13 v 12 that the highest brahman (consciousness) is Not This. Not That. So where is oneness in Para Brahman? Its gone. Because it doesn’t exist in the highest brahman. A state of absolutely No attributes. Now that’s the end of the road. Hahaha.

So how do we live or function?

Sidebar: That Nothingness can either be perceived as all light or all darkness. Subject for another discussion.

Back to how do we function.

Once, you embrace Nothingness, for a while you will be in a state of not caring because frankly, what’s the point.

You have lost your guru and your god. Everything around you is now known to be an illusion. So it really doesn’t exist. And you are now resting in a state devoid of attributes it can feel like rock bottom so why engage in anything?

By the way, although it sounds like a state of depression but in some weird way you feel a quiet contentment. Completeness. Done. Finished. This state offers its own deep satisfaction.

Gradually, you realize, you still have a body. You still have others depending on you, from a day to day perspective. You still need to eat. Haha. So you participate.

At first reluctantly, because there is a flavor of ‘why bother’ still lively in your awareness. Never the less, you participate. Of course, its a strange participation you are somewhat engaged but as time goes on you integrate. Some quicker than others.

It's like someone having a particular regional accent to their speech then they move to another region. Many people quickly adapt and pick up the new regional accent and some people never do. In that same way the "integration" after such a dramatic awakening can take a while depending on one's ease in shedding attachments.

Summary: In our consciousness development we find ourselves moving past devotion to make room for full oneness. The destruction of separation. The joining of worshipper and worshiped.

We then realize that oneness in the final analysis is really Not This. Not That. Full negation of everything. An awareness devoid of attributes. Para Brahman.

After some time, we notice we are still physically alive and must respect this plain of existence because we are in a state of saying Yes to everything, illusion or not. That’s actually the living of Brahman. Wholeness. Totality. This state is the infamous “integration” many speak of. Where we come full circle. Right back to being an ordinary citizen. Fully assimilated into our day to day but somehow very different.

Know this my friends, no matter how ordinary you look or feel, you will always radiate a subtle but beautiful light that the angels, gods, and gurus eternally rejoice.

With so much Love to All …

❤️❤️❤️

Psychology of Consciousness (Part 2)

Let’s continue on with our discussion.

After this realization of oneness and it is a realization, because we suddenly become aware that this new understanding has always been there. Psychologically, we feel both found and lost. We hear a lot about the “found” part of being awake so let’s discuss the “lost” part.

Where has my god gone, is a common expression in this new state. We may experience a strong sense of Nothingness, even loneliness. No guru. No god. No reference points of any kind. Psychologically, you’re a mess.

If you choose to say to yourself I am now everything then that works for a while. However, at some point you also wake up from that because in the final analysis Everything-ness is realized as being an illusion of stuff you have ignorantly given value to. So what’s left? Basically, nothingness (haha).

In chapter 13 v 12 of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna states, that the highest (para) brahman is (na sat) not existence, nor (na asat) non-existence. This is an understanding of the highest state of awareness from the prospective of negation. Not this. Not that. It really bends the psychology. This is the “lost” I spoke of earlier. It’s really hard to live in such a state, that's why the enlightened usually don’t accept it.

Wow, here you have been gifted the ultimate state of awareness and somehow you say “no” to it?!

Yep, I see it in so many truly enlightened souls.

So what’s happening?

Even in enlightenment many of us are pulled back by habits and environment. All our lives we have lived by our own private world of nature and nurture. Those habits go deep and when faced with this new state of huge nothingness with no real reference points it’s not uncommon to step back from it. We step back into a place of psychological safety. Safety in religion or politics are common landing zones. Yeah, I know that's weird especially the religion choice. You have experienced being god how can you now allow yourself to listen to an interpretation of god but it happens.

I personally find it comical to witness. The seeing of a highly enlightened soul trying to make religion or politics fit their new realization. However, I can understand the reason. In the world around us there is very little that supports this grand state of nothingness. And if you are a person of action with strong conviction it’s tough to find a place of safety in nothingness. So you end up putting that beautiful enlightenment to use on a lesser plain or cause. In some ways it's like fighting an addiction. An addiction to ignorance.

Those that find a way to cope use surrender as their tool. Relax into the uncertainty and witness the happenings. You end up becoming very ordinary. With basically no attachment to any one thing. It’s all fine wherever you go. Sure you have options and preferences but usually you aren’t really attached to them. When life around you changes you change too. No big deal. I like to say I’m fully engaged and fully not engaged, simultaneously. Sounds impossible but it’s not.

Self as Crystalline

Yet Another Cosmic Playground.

Self can be experienced in many different ways. It can be in the form of subtle consciousness where you feel yourself to be everything. Found in all objects equally. A Unity Consciousness experience. Or it can be more individualized as an experience of pure consciousness extending from the body for several feet/meters in all directions. The experience of Atman. It can also be experienced as a spiral of lively awareness, with color and song, not only encircling the body but also acting as the inner workings of the spirit body within the physical body. The experience of Veda.

However, on this particular occasion I’d like to discuss the Self as a more solid structure. Many have experienced Self as more of a crystalline structure, gem-like in its nature. This crystalline structure lends itself, when going in the direction of a more solid form, to mathematics, the sacred geometry, as it were. This opens the door to elements of the yantra, powerful geometric patterns often used for meditation.

This crystalline based experience is also referenced in the 8th word of the first verse of the RK Veda as Ratna, meaning hidden treasure or gems. If you feel into Self with a sense of crystalline energy you can experience this unique phenomenon. Self as crystalline, mathematics, yantra, gems. When I do this exercise, I experience these gems sitting in a milky substance a liquid consciousness a type of soma. Feeling into this realm one seamlessly slides into the next and last word of the first verse of RK Veda, Dhatamam (the Giver). The Giver of Ratna. I’ve come to know this as the direct experience of Divine Mother.

Divine Mother in this matter can be experienced as a subtle anthropomorphic being or more truly as final source layer of energy in all its majesty, that being a more abstract experience. A celestial layered cake where each layer can be tasted either individually or as a whole depending on where the experiencer is in their current state of consciousness. Are you resting in individuality or universality? Or perhaps between both thereby taking the experience to the max by experiencing both simultaneously. Feel into That. ❤️

Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita (Part 3)

The Bhagavad Gita is a 2 hour conversation between Vishnu, in the personage of Lord Krishna, and a great, highly intelligent, deeply sensitive, archer named Arjuna. Arjuna poses excellent questions of Lord Krishna about what he is about to do in the heat of battle against many of his respected teachers and relatives. This conversation takes place in the middle of this battlefield prior to war.

In this discussion Lord Krishna, driven by Arjuna’s profound questions, delivers a gigantic tranche of high knowledge about enlightenment that sages are still writing commentary about today. Over the roughly 5,000 years since that monumental event, commentary on the Bhagavad Gita has become a standard of consciousness development for those who have attempted commentary on the text.

No book has ever been written before or since containing the depth and breathe of this level of knowledge. Mainly, because no one has a better understanding of enlightenment that has chosen to speak on the subject beyond Lord Vishnu. If one really wants to know all there is to know about enlightenment they will find themselves humbly at the threshold of this study, no matter what their level of consciousness experience.

I write this to shine a spotlight on this work. A work that's designed to remind us of the value in undertaking the search for our truest nature both as individuals and as a civilization.

In my opinion, for the true seeker of knowledge, the study of the Bhagavad Gita, the words of Lord Krishna, is the pinnacle of knowledge.

In the previous two blogs I identified 3 iconic sections of the Gita that I feel denotes 3 very distinct evolutions in consciousness development. Each of these states are in the field of enlightenment. So, even the mastery of the 1st level of awareness is a great achievement. It would be easy for a seeker to uncover the wisdom in chapter 2 v 45 and experience, Liberation. Yes, with a capital “L”.  Being without the 3 gunas ... possessed of the Self (atmavan), resting in Atma is indeed a great attainment. The only reason I am writing more is because the knowledge that Lord Krishna reveals, doesn’t end there and internally I am compelled to honor the knowledge for some reason. The knowledge and the speaker of the knowledge, demand to be heard. As such, I find myself unfolding this cognition.

The instructions in chapter 2 v 45 takes the seeker from living life driven by the small self, an ego based reality, to living life driven by big Self, a divine based reality. For most of us that is phenomenal. However, there are layers to this reality. Initially, it’s felt as almost a bubble of awareness extending around us for maybe 10 to 20 feet in diameter but over time that bubble is sometimes known to be considerably larger with a depth of endless unfoldments within it. A strange thing happens. You begin to know your divine nature as very large but the rest of the world outside of Self is separate from your internal reality. However, one day that outside world becomes known to your infinite expanded Self as “another” infinite expanded Self. Both these infinities then look at each other and literally fall in love.

Some have described this as the divine worshipper meeting the divine worshipped, God for short. Haha. This is such a beautiful time. Your glorious grand Self finds someone or something that really knows It’s own nature, completely. It’s the best that a relationship can be. It’s the highest of relationships. But then the relationship ends. It ends in both infinities merging into one magnificent infinity. The relationship is no more.

When waking up to this some say, “Where did my God go?” We realize that the very essence of our Atma, our Self, is identical to the very essence of the Self of God. No difference. No separation. Perfect Oneness. Self has now grown to encompass everything. This state of awareness is expressed in chapter 6 v 32 of the Gita. “He who sees evenness everywhere by comparison (analogous to) their own Self... Is thought to be the highest yogi.”

In the commentary to the Bhagavad Gita by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi he speaks clearly about this transformation of consciousness. He states, “... the link of worship, of adoration and devotion, finds fulfillment in its own extinction, leaving worshipper and worshipped, together in perfect oneness...”

This is clearly a state beyond devotion. When experienced, one alternates between one’s own individualized Self and the Self of God, being unsure who is observing and performing at any given moment.

What could be greater than this? Many sages have ended it here. However, it seems consciousness isn’t finished developing. One more major discovery remains.

I have personally named this awareness the pinnacle of “white enlightenment” or “white transcendence” as opposed to “dark enlightenment” or dark transcendence”. One is the epitome of Everything - All Light - White Transcendence. The other is the epitome of Nothing-ness - No Light - Dark Transcendence. I found support for this experience in the words of Lord Krishna in chapter 13 v 12, “It is the beginningless (anadimat) highest (param) brahman, that it is said (ucyate) to be not (na) existence (sat) nor (na) non-existence (asat).”

So, the highest brahman is not existence nor non-existence. I love this. We are now looking at consciousness from the standpoint of negation. Not this. Not that. As such, providing knowledge by way of no limits.

Many have described the ultimate state by what Its not, leaving Its description as un-named. Like, the Un-created, Un-changed, Un-bounded, Attribute-less, In-finite, Im-perishable.

This opens the door to the realm of Nothing-ness as the basis or highest state, this dark transcendence phenomenon. A state absent of Everything. Even Maharishi had touched on this awareness terming it the “Fullness of Emptiness” as opposed to the “Fullness of Fullness”. He related this to the first two letters of the first verse of the first Veda, RK Veda. The first letter is “A” (Ah) meaning Full Open. The second letter is “K” (Ka) meaning Full Close. Full Open the Fullness of Fullness. Full Close the Fullness of Emptiness.

So from two impeccable sources, the words of Lord Krishna chapter 13 v 12 “not existence nor non-existence” and the first two letters of RK Veda, “A” and “K”, we see evidence of the Fullness of Fullness and the the Fullness of Emptiness.

To finish this exposition I’d like to turn back to the Bhagavad Gita chapter 13 v 18 where Lord Krishna states, “Thus the field (ksetram), knowledge and the object of knowledge have been briefly described. My devotee (madbhaktas) understanding this arrive into My state of being.”

This is so very beautiful. In this statement Lord Krishna is both describing a process of achievement and compassionately extending an invitation to be joined, somehow blending devotion and oneness. No more need be said. Simply rest in the experience. May the influence of these divine waves of knowledge penetrate deeply into your core. 

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Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita (Part 2)

Those 3 examples of the Gita, mentioned in the previous blog, really denote steps of enlightenment.

Chapter 2 v 45 is really about Cosmic Consciousness. The state of awareness where one becomes acutely conscious of the silent witness, aspect of our selves that is always there resting behind our thinking and actions that quietly observes everything we do. We become so keen to that state that we simply rest there and notice how our thoughts and actions carry on there functions, automatically. That which was silently in the background, is now in the foreground as our primary state of awareness. 

Chapter 6 v 32 is Unity Consciousness or the Unity of God Consciousness as Maharishi terms it. A state of consciousness that allows the individual Self to realize that ultimately its nature is identical to that of God. As such, the worshipper has risen to the level of the worshipped. One’s psychology is found initially to alternate between identifying with one’s supreme state of Self and God. Over time that alternation matures and that state grows into a simultaneous state where these realities live in perfect oneness, thus the term Unity Consciousness. 

Chapter 13 v 12 is about para brahman - Brahman without attributes - the highest Brahman. Much high level commentary on "param brahman is neither existence nor non-existence" have said it’s “neither” because it’s both. I say, not so. If that were the case we'd be right back to UC which was expressed in chapter 6 v 32. 

Chapter 13 v 12 is clearly a step up. Its approach is from a level of negation. Not this. Not that. Its the removal of any form of identification not of small self but of Big Self, universal Self. That's a whole different zip code. This is not a UC level of experience. 

This level of negation speaks to the very heart of identity. It’s beyond Self. Even the word Self denotes ego, identity. Yeah, its Big Self a great state of awareness but it’s still a form of identity. As such, there is still a sense of attachment. Lord Krishna is bringing Arjuna to the ultimate non-attachment - Param Brahman. Brahman without anything else. Not even Self. 

This is total renunciation. An absence of attachment. A field of awareness that contains zero influence's. Lord Krishna has allowed the psychology of Arjuna to be devoid of everything. He now will simply and directly do his duty, his dharma. His skills are free to be expressed at their highest level. Lord Krishna, the charioteer, will deliver Arjuna, the archer, to where they will be most effective and the action will happen, automatically, with perfection. Such, a beautiful metaphor for life in this glorious state of awareness. 

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New Heart Technique

I was exposed to a new heart technique last night. A long time friend and enlightened soul called me. He was telling me about a technique he got from Jan Esmann, an enlightened Danish author, who I mention in my book as a Shakti Master. The technique goes something like this. 

Sitting in a settled state perhaps after some moments of meditation, allow love to radiate out from the heart. At the same time allow love from your expanded universe to flow in to your heart. Both of these flows are to be experienced simultaneously. 

At first it was difficult to conceptualize until I mentally particalized love. Love, now in these tiny little lively particles, could now be experienced as flowing from the heart and the outer universal love to the heart simultaneously. I positioned awareness in my heart so the experience maintained a personal flavor. Then I simply rested there and enjoyed the show. 

The two opposing flows served to tickle the heart as the bliss grew. Of course, I’ve experienced heart bliss before but this was a more detailed and richer feeling of love and the love was more lively. 

Give it a try. Perhaps with a friend.

Enlightenment Dark?

Your new enlightenment - after the honeymoon. Usually what one finds is, it's hard to be part of the old world or habits after your awakening. It’s kind of an issue of honesty. Yet... What about those responsibilities? Internal beauty. Yet... External confusion. Am I being honest to myself? Or do I need to take care of the others? Maybe now that I’m enlightened I really don’t need to be on the planet anymore? Now that's really dark but it happens.

Lots to think about and that’s the problem. Thinking.

The new world you are now a part of is huge and plays by a different set of rules. One being life is now non-linear. You will have to find a way to be comfortable with uncertainty. You are living in the Now, the Moment. Planning now takes a backseat to the Moment. Planning is based in something of a future nature usually based on something in the past. Past and future don’t disappear, they just aren’t dominant anymore. Again, honesty prevails. The honesty of the Moment.

As you open to your new found infinite nature, options are endless. How do you digest that? You don’t. You can’t. Our nervous systems don’t have the bandwidth. 

Here’s where the issues arise for the newly minted enlightened and even the soon to be enlightened. 

Due to old habits we attempt to fit our new reality into our old life. Sometimes there’s a match here and there but for the most part it’s a mismatch. 

Honestly, the most comfortable solution is just "Letting Go". Allow yourself to be a faithful servant to divinity, the giver of the grace which you now realize is your true nature, that beautiful infinity that’s allowed you to know God. Just live baby. Just live.