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 

Frequency Domains

There are layers to consciousness that can actually be quantified by frequencies.

For the past month or two I’ve been exploring those domains. Most of us have been passing through those domains on our way to the transcendence. But if we slow down the process those domains can be individually experienced.

Gurus have agreed that there are 12 layers or domains to the spirit world but I have identified 14. I’m writing this blog in order to provide some detail so you, the consciousness researcher, may more easily find these domains and experience any of them by choice. Let’s get start.

Those of you reading this will likely be between levels 7-10. With the highest of us being at 10.1 to 10.8. Domain 11 are folks like Jesus and/or Maharishi, around 11.2 to 11.4 with Elohim and Yahweh at 11.5 to 11.8 and Guru Dev at 11.8 or 11.9. Frequency levels in the 12’s would be reserved for the higher gods and goddesses like Mahalakshmi or Lord Vishnu. These deities live primarily in the highest realms of creation. I thought I was at the end of this frequency universe with the twelves but not so.

Shiva was found in the thirteens along with other realities mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna chapter 15 verses 17-18. Named paramatma, ishvarah, and purushottama in that order. Each of which are firmly established in thirteenth domain/frequency layer.

Brahman seems to be the one and only inhabitant of frequency 14.

Frequency 13 has a beautiful stillness to It, especially purusottamah. A super deep stillness. Zero activity.

For me Brahman is not always totally accessible but being at the high end of purusottamah is usually enough to feel the radiance of Brahman which is far too glorious for words, so I won't even attempt to describe.

I’m writing this for the very few who have felt these domains within their own deep consciousness dives but aren’t sure how to get there or hold that lofty space or measure it against other experiences.

Firstly, know that they are real, and accessible. Secondly, the powers that be will help you to experience them. I’ve found level 14 to not always be fully available to me but I’ve been in the vicinity countless times.

So how to get there?

Simply climb into your meditation and after you find yourself comfortable and settled ask, "please allow me to experience level 10". This is a good starting place. Within the realm of the highest consciousness people on earth. Nice start.

Then, ask, please allow me to experience level 11. In almost nothing flat 11 will open to you. Stay alert, you will notice a difference between 10 and 11. If you don’t believe it, ask to go back to level 10 and notice the frequency change.

Stay at 11 for sometime then ask for level 12. Most of you will notice some kind of disorientation. Once disorientation starts don’t go any further. In fact take it down a notch. You can play with incremental increases or decreases. Such as, if you find 12 to be too much ask for 11.8 or 11.6 until you find your comfort zone.

Feel free to experiment like asking for level 11.0 then simply think mentally 11.1, now 11.2 and so on and notice those incremental changes in frequency awareness. This is a gentler approach and more soothing.

Another important aspect to this frequency elevation technique is how much you give yourself to it while doing this technique. Meaning if you are in some way watching the technique and its effects, you are not wholly in the experience but rather an observer to the process. The closer Self gets into the process the more the benefit and subsequent transformation will be. This is, in a way, your creation. As such, it will take stepping into your creation to fully experience all its nuances.

Initially once or twice a week will be enough. Don’t overdo it and don’t press yourself to experience the higher frequency domains. Too much of even a good thing can be harmful. Safety first.

Enjoy ❤️❤️❤️

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. ❤️

Patanjali and Chapter 4 Verse 25 of Bhagavad Gita

In the yoga sutras Patanjali delineates three sutras in particular, dharana (focus), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (transcendence). Together Patanjali terms them as samyama, a method for invoking knowledge of the object of focus, to know the very essence of the object.

Example: by lending focus (dharana) to say, the quality of friendliness we may travel into finer layers (dhyana) of friendliness until we transcend (samadhi) friendliness.

The internal experience of such an act would be to know the object so completely that we adopt the essence of that object, in this case the quality of friendliness.

Another thing is happening during this exercise. We are going beyond the object and experiencing samadhi. However, the experience of samadhi is flavored by the entryway in which we came. Its samadhi but it tastes like some version of friendliness.

So outwardly, we immerse ourselves in friendliness and in someway take on that quality of friendliness. But inwardly, we transcend with the flavor of the object, in this case friendliness.

At this fine layer of awareness the object, friendliness, looks and feels like a colored mist, for me its light green. This mist is actually the veil of maya, illusion, flavored as friendliness. Know that this is the view from the material world.

From the world of the transcendent, Patanjali terms it, savichara, samadhi with seed as opposed to samadhi without seed, nirvichara. Perspective does matter.

A term that encompasses both may better be, ritam bhara prajna, intelligence filled with truth. In this layer of awareness we know the object in its true and perfect form. The blueprint form, its vedic form as such it can be understood as both/neither simultaneously as subtle material or nothingness. If you’re in an upbeat place its glorious beyond glory. If you’re not, its zero, nothingness. If you’re feeling harmonious its both glorious and zero. If you’re feeling non-harmonious its neither or total negation. As maturation of consciousness development sets in, your awareness will grow beyond alteration of the options, into simultaneity of the options. It’s no wonder many enlightened people are looked at as nuts. :) In many cases you become a party 🎉 of one. :)

Let’s get back to this element of the experience of subtler layers. Frankly, it’s much easier to follow.

So as we experience finer states of the object we transcend samadhi with seed, savichara, and go into samadhi without seed, nirvichara. This is a state of atma or brahman. In knowing this we come to realize that following any object to its purest state will deliver us to brahman. And by doing this exercise with object after object one can stitch together brahman, as it were. This is the essence of the Brahma Sutras.

What this also is, is the discovery of a path to brahman consciousness. In chapter 4 v 25 it states, "Some yogis perform yagyas (sacrifice) to the gods. Others offer sacrifice to the fire of Brahman". The offering of sacrifice to the "fire of Brahman" uses the god as an avenue to Brahman. By doing the yagya like this both the god is satisfied as well as Brahman. The main reason there is worship to any god is so we may select a relative perfect form/vehicle in which to travel to Brahman. This is the main purpose of a mantra.

Note, that in the same way we use a sutra to experience finer levels of the object and arrive at samadhi with a specific flavor by using a mantra or name of a god or goddess we will also find samadhi to be flavored with the essence of that mantra/god.

As one moves forward in their own consciousness development at some point this phenomenon is naturally recognized and we find ourselves using the mantra less because its not pure enough. We innately desire to experience brahman without the flavor of something else so we drop the training wheels. At this stage of our consciousness development we can arrive at brahman without aids, without seeds, solely by itself/ourself. We recognize in ourselves that we are brahman and everything we perceive is brahman and brahman alone is.

Mantra meditations and Patanjali sutra exercises have served to deliver us to the goal. As such we lose the appetite for them. We respect their royal standing and honorably bow to them but we move past them to pure direct experience of brahman without these filters, or flavors.

Do we now enter brahman with some other kind of filter? Yes, but that filter now is our own nature. Brahman has become personalized. Its our Brahman. We own It. It owns us. Looking at this from either way it ends up being the same. Lending value to the concept of "sameness". An appropriate description. Sameness in all directions.

Healing 1

Last week I had an email exchange with a seasoned spiritual healer I’ve known for a long time. She’s very effective in her craft and intellectually brilliant as well.

In this exchange she brought up seeing disease as a “misinterpretation of wholeness” which I love. That seemed to inspire me to go deep into this field of disease and its antithesis healing. The following is my reply to her email. I left it in its original form since I doubt I can say it any better.

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This is such a great exchange. Love your vision of disease being a misinterpretation of wholeness. How absolutely beautifully expressed. And the visual you provide of that layer of misinterpretation being as a film or vail covering true wholeness. Yes that is illusionary, it’s the source of maya in a large scale. My initial sense is that this has a relationship with free will.

The whole misinterpretation thing came from an endless series of innocent choices none of which seemed too “off” in the moment but collectively was responsible for creating a false reality. A slow brainwashing resulting in a new fake perception which over time has solidified into a belief system. With each step being harder to remember the truth of what we are.

I never thought of this. Thank you for helping to deliver this capsule of knowledge.

Changing the subject. This morning I followed this component of perfect health from veda to the body’s veda. This large rotating cylinder of veda has a way of spiraling down/into the body’s veda containing everything “big” veda has. This is why we have the ability to cognize totality, wholeness, veda because in the final analysis there is no difference in its purest form between the two. I’m talking now of this reality in its purest state.

I drilled deeper. Between the syllables or reverberations of veda within those gaps are endless avenues in veda where pure absolute nothingness, consciousness, leaks in. This is how absolute and relative coexist. This nice exchange between the two.

Drilling deeper. The perfect place to be is resting between these two domains. The relative in its highest glory as veda and the absolute in its state of becoming. A place that is neither absolute nor relative or both absolute and relative.

Take a moment to feel this. Notice how exulting this is.

By the way, when we feel deeply into something we actually use the sense of touch. Touch experienced on this real fine level is heart and deeper is love. This is the value of bringing the senses into the experience.

Back to this place between nothingness and finest veda. This feels like the very seed of perfect health viewed from a physical perspective. Resting here all systems are in perfect operation. This is where the magic happens. Ultimate healing for the purposes of this discussion.

I’m having trouble writing more. Just being overtaken by this exultation. I have more to say but I’m giving in to this strong internal sense.

Thank you.

P.S. I’m back. Haha. Yes this point between these two greatnesses. By resting here one might say we are creating a relationship between body and ...

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Since this discussion was with regard to healing I framed the knowledge as such. However, this point between absolute or transcendental consciousness and the finest relative or veda has application beyond physical healing. Even if we think of things in a simple way such as body, mind and spirit this junction point has application. Its most definitely not confined to healing.

So, for the sake of this article, let’s see if there is a way to convert knowledge into action. Specifically, a healing technique.

Rest in your own quiet-ness. From here gently imagine the experience of a rotating spiral of multi colored light gradually rotating in a clockwise direction, if you were looking from above (you should be sitting up). Now simply let this gradual rotating be all you are. Nice colors and a pleasant vibe perhaps even subtle unknown ancient sounds. Let the senses be filled with this state.

Now, let your attention, in the form of a bright light, perhaps an inch or two in diameter, go up and down this internal spiral which is a subtle state of You.

Rest in this exulted state for a few minutes. With your light of attention moving effortlessly, internal within your spiral from your bottom to just above the top of your head. Let this be an easy undulation like the movement of a pendulum on a large grandfather clock.

Blessings ❤️❤️❤️

Wave Function (part 3)

We’ve discussed the particle nature of the wave function and the amplitude and frequency of it as well. Now, let’s focus on the undulation of the wave function. 

Many have experienced within meditation a sense  of a rhythmic movement and undulation. Actually, a seemingly endless undulation. So what is that?

There’s a layer of experience in meditation that’s not quite full silence it’s the stirring of that silent, nothingness state. This is the foundation of creation just before full fledged creation. It’s not quite at the level of the full excitation of creation. It’s simply the seemingly lazy awakening of creation. It’s experienced as a sleepy stir and slow undulation of the silence. 

This undulation has been symbolized as a slow moving serpent. Shesha, the seven headed serpent on which Vishnu reposes. Vasuki, nagaraja (royal serpent) that is draped around the neck of Shiva. The serpent found in the garden of eden. 

Let’s take a closer look at this experience of the undulating movement of consciousness. 

Consciousness can be spoken of as a noun or a verb, let’s discuss it as a verb. In this reference consciousness is the act of being conscious, aware, awake to its Self. If we have an action then there is a subject (the actor) and an object (that being acted upon). 

If consciousness is the action then the actor must be existence. Is-ness is at the basis of am-ness. 

Existence is the true Self. It simply is. It is pure singularity. The one, the only. In this pure state it seeks no apparatus for knowing (knowledge) it Self. However, for whatever reason, if there needs to be one, there’s a desire for Perfect Self to know Self. This inspires an action. The act of being conscious. The birth of consciousness. The beginning of Duality. Because how can something look at itself without the creation of another self. This is the creation of duality. True original sin. The undulating “serpent” in the garden of eden offering fruit from the tree of knowledge. Knowledge of good and evil. The birth of duality. 

If knowledge is structured in consciousness then consciousness is structured in existence. 

I’ve casted consciousness in a bad light because from the perspective of singularity, duality is not a good thing. It’s the disruption of Oneness. However, from the standpoint of Wholeness it must be accepted because wholeness says Yes to everything. From the position of multiplicity the verb consciousness is revered as a major stepping stone on the path to singularity. Truth is different in different states of consciousness (the noun). 

Back to the components of our sentence, subject (existence), verb (consciousness), and object (self). And now the sentence. Self knows Self for Self. There’s the 3 in 1 the ancients speak of. (Sorry couldn’t help myself had to play with this).

The experience of undulating consciousness is a good thing, for in the end Shiva is friends with the  nagaraja Vasuki as Vishnu is friends with his bed the nagaraja Shesha. As in our experience where undulating consciousness comes from the stirrings of silence. 

Happy meditations ❤️❤️❤️

Beyond Witnessing Part I

Witnessing happens when we identify with the big Self and watch our five senses, thinking, emotions, small self (ego) function amongst the phenomenal world. We sit back as it were playing the part of the observer. The observer to everything. As the silent witness we stand unattached to our actions. We allow our senses, mind, feelings to interact with the world. Initially, the separation is a big gap. You find your small self interacting in the world yet the infinite-you is uninvolved. The Real-you is resting in its own contentment unaffected by the goings and comings of the actions of the small self.

There is both joy and discomfort in this state of consciousness. The big Self is fulfilled and content but the subtle currents of the small self feels a sense of guilt due to a sense of responsibility. Responsibility for our charges. Without a plan, direction, intent - how will things get done? However, the attraction to the big Self is so satisfying and feels so right that in the end it wins out. The small self gradually sees success in this new mode of operation. Things get done, people we are responsible for get handled, we continue to make a living all without a formal plan, somehow almost by itself. This gives us confidence to let go even more.

After sometime of functioning like this the gap between the big Self and the small self starts to close and we slowly begin to recognize a change. We start to appreciate the phenomenal world and the value of our involvement in that world. And through this subtle bond of acceptance and harmony, love begins to blossom. This love becomes so strong that the heart begins to override the head's sense of separation to deliver us to Unity, rendering us Whole. It’s such a blissful state that everywhere we look we see heaven in all its golden essence. This golden vision echoes back our love to fill our hearts again and again in lovely waves of bliss to the point where our hearts can only open. The love pangs are almost unbearable.

There’s more but this moment is too full to not rest here for a while and allow ourselves to be washed over by it. Just fall back and enjoy. ❤️❤️❤️

Brahman Consciousness (BC) vs Unity Consciousness (UC)

UC is unification of the world of attributes from the gross material to the rarified celestial. I like to call it the World of Everything. Or just plain Everything for short. :)

Beyond Everything is Nothing. Even samadhi, according to Maharishi Patanjali, has two aspects, savikalpa - samadhi with attributes and nirvikalpa - samadhi without attributes.

Nothing isn’t spoken of much, I mean like what can you say about Nothing. :) So, Everything gets all the attention. But let’s shine some light on Nothingness.

Nothingness can be spoken of as Shiva. Many call Shiva the destroyer but he’s really the lack of Everything-ness. A state of no identity of No Self. He is Transcendence with a capital “T”. This can be termed as ‘destroyer’ if we are strongly attached to Everything-ness. And if you experience Nothingness completely it’s pretty scary in the beginning when you realize you really have nothing to hang on to. You are absolutely alone. That experience will shake you to the core and will never be forgotten.

From the standpoint of Everything, Nothingness seems like a destroyer. However, from the standpoint of Nothingness it’s simply a counter balance to Everything-ness. Here in lies the case for Nothingness to have equal billing with Everything. Now unification here unveils a more mature comprehension of consciousness development a state of early Brahman Consciousness.

Words used to describe BC are totality, wholeness, evenness. This comes from the inclusion of Nothingness with Everything and its being appreciated as, of equal value, seen everywhere in everything without separation. One within the other, literally impossible to separate.

In the first few verses of chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna discusses renunciation of action, Samkhya (Nothingness) and the union of action, Yoga (Everything) as one. At the end of chapter 5 verse 5 Krishna ends with, “... He who sees Samkhya and Yoga to be one, verily he sees”.

Is Transcending really the goal of meditation?

Initially transcending is the goal of meditation but after some time something else happens.

When we first start to meditate our only exposure has been the material world. Spiritually, pure consciousness or the transcendence is new, even surprising. Where has this layer of life been for all these years?

As we continue our exploration into consciousness experience of the transcendence becomes routine. We even start to notice that reality while in activity. We may notice it while driving, washing dishes, doing routine chores or while eating.

However, in the early stages of our development we will notice that there is our material world and the world of the transcendence. They are two separate realities. As awareness alternates between one reality and the other we begin to sense yet another world between the material and the spiritual. We naturally slow down the process of alternately experiencing one or the other to see if we can experience a place or a point where one actually converts to the other. Lo and behold there is a point/place where that happens.

First time that’s experienced it’s a psychological and physiological shock. To me it was electric like being hit with a mini lightning bolt. It actually took me several times in several meditations before I could hold the energy. This is the proverbial ‘lamp at the door’ experience. Although initially it feels like the 'lightening bolt at the core'. This is the door between the relative world and the absolute world. Resting in that vibrant light is the real goal of meditation.

While in a state of activity this is the one pointedness of the moment. The point of resolute intellect spoken of in the Bhagavad Gita.

In consciousness it’s the opening to the akashic records, the storehouse of impressions, ritam bhara pragya, layer of truth (satyam), the gap, god.

Something to strive for. Enjoy.

Cycling of Consciousness

Cycling of Consciousness is the precursor to something else.

Many awake folks experience new awakenings regularly. What I’ve noticed is each of these cycles have the same pattern.

Initially, there’s a grand overview like I am everything. Then, there is a second experience like, I am nothing. Finally, I am everything and nothing simultaneously and therefore whole again.

This really is the rediscovery of knowing yourself to be complete, whole or brahmam, using vedic terminology.

It sounds simple and benign, After the fact. But when you’re going through the experience it can be traumatic. Finding yourself to be either everything or nothing is okay but when both are experienced as your whole self and you are alternating between them you soon find yourself in limbo. Lost in no-man's land asking, “Which one is it? Which am I?” It’s psychologically painful.

The in-between state, many times is experienced as, “the dark night of the soul”.

It takes the alternation of awareness to mature to a simultaneous awareness to get relief. Once one is able to grow past the seeming duality to arrive at singularity the cycle is complete. We find ourselves to be whole again.

Within the growth of Brahman Consciousness, there is the development of the Brahma Sutras. This “cycling” of consciousness is the living day-to-day version of the Brahma Sutras. The actual stitching together of Brahman Consciousness. The putting together of wholeness, endlessly.

“Curving back on my own nature, I create, again and again”. Bhagavad Gita ch 9 v 8.

Play Ground of Enlightenment

Spiral of consciousness, Infinite Self, 3 Infinities, Atma, Brahm, Sat Chitt Ananda, Shakti, Kundalini, Grace, The Gap, Ritam Bhara Pragniam, Samadhi, Self vs No Self, Jiva vs Atma, Chakras, Fire of knowledge, Fire of Brahman,Being What Is, The Devatas,Unbounded Bliss, Bubbling Bliss, Emptiness, Field of subtle perception, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omnipotent, One pointedness, Multiplicity, Knowledge of the nature of an object to include other beings, etc, etc, etc.

Every one of these realms is complete, full, whole... Is a study or playground unto itself, with endless possibilities. Each holds a foundation for its own discipline, could easily be the basis for a belief system, a religion. But in reality it’s simply another face of the Infinite, endlessly complex and surprisingly simple and even nonexistent, all phases experienced simultaneously in a continuum of finely layered evolutions. Overwhelmingly beautiful resting in its own nature. Beauty beyond description. Painfully exquisite. (Pause to experience)

For the enlightened these realities are revolving play grounds experienced either with eyes closed or open, accessible all the time.

What I find interesting in the entertainment of these experiences is the sense of feeling the limits of our nervous systems. One knows internally that the experience can be richer because it’s all rooted in infinity so there is no limit to each reality. The limit rests in the vehicle’s ability to experience those specific infinities. Experience has limits. Infinity does not.

Self vs No Self

There is a stage of consciousness development that renders us as everything. The self has grown to the level of Self. A grand Self. A super Self. A Self that allows us to say, "I am Everything and Everything is Me."

But in this search for more, which seems ridiculous, like how can there be more, when one is Everything, nevertheless, ones own nature still feels there is “more” so, yes, the search does continue. And, what is found?

An experience beyond identity. An experience that transcends the Self. Where one is left without identity. A state of "No Self." Emptiness in its purest sense. The state of the Uncreated. Is-ness alone. Pure Existence. That which has no beginning, middle or end. That, that has always been.

At this point in our consciousness development we are left resting in our greatest doubt. We find ourselves asking, “Which is it? What am I? Self or No Self? The answer comes, sometimes not right away. Some souls end up pondering this for quite some time. In some ways it’s never resolved. The answer to, “Am I Self or No Self?” Is, Yes.

If you know my writing, you know I’m fond of these dichotomies, reason being, that is the experience. The entertaining of two opposing realities lived as one. This structure of psychology is nonlinear but true to the actual experience. The coexistence of Self (Everything) with No Self (Nothing) on equal footing. This is an absolute reality. The struggle between them is the ultimate dark night of the soul.

In the venue of academics it’s strange enough to ponder this but when taken into the realm of understanding of one own psychology, it’s impossible but somehow absolutely real.

Give it a moment to sink in.

Perception

Looking into the object we initially see difference. However as we continue to gaze into the field of objects we start to see a homogenous nature. The world of difference started to play a secondary role. Initially the difference is still there but we have a knowingness that it’s not all that’s there. We sense and can almost see the even presence of consciousness virtually everywhere. Vision is transparent as it were. 

Over time that consciousness becomes lively and even vibrant and seems to generate its own self effulgent light. Over time that light becomes richer and even golden. Over time that light gives way to a strange vision one of nothingness. We actually transcend vision and see the true nature of the object.

What happens psychologically is initially we see our own consciousness in the object and feel like we are seeing our own Self in the object but over time the visual evolution begins to be reflected in our own consciousness. The object’s nothingness causes us to find our own nothingness. This gives rise to the state of No-Self. Its a loss of identity. The “sat” part of sat chit ananda. 

Going from small self to big Self is an internal development. Going from big Self to No-Self is initially an external development through the mechanics of perception that ultimately reflects back on our own consciousness. 

Self and No-Self together simultaneously equals Brahman, Wholeness of life. 

Falling in love, again???

Seems like I’m falling in love with everyone and everyone is falling in love with me, perpetually. What’s happening? 

As we rise in consciousness of course our heart begins to blossom. We see and talk with others and begin to appreciate them on a more subtle level. They can see and feel that appreciation as well. Often this subtle feeling is misunderstood as personal love, but it’s not. It’s simply a deep appreciation of bliss the ananda part of sat chit ananda, experienced with someone. 

What adds to the confusion is many times lower chakras are enliven, I discuss this dynamic in my book under ‘Gut Enlightenment’. Suffices to say, this is not a personal love affair. It is beautiful and truly enjoyable but probably not really “falling in love”.

Overtime one recognizes it and gets used to it and gradually takes the wedding planner off of speed dial. However, although you become comfy with the experience the person on the other end of this relationship is usually, clueless and it’s so difficult to explain without some level of heartbreak. Every silver lining has its cloud. 

Love y’all - kind of? :)

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.