Soul Consciousness – Do I walk or fly in my spiritual path?
Theoretically it is explained
that Soul is a point of energy located at the centre of forehead –
hypothalamus. According to Psychology - Canon-Bard Theory of emotions - there
is a point of consciousness at the hypothalamus from where all the emotions and
signals of the whole body movements are controlled. In spiritual practice, it
is said to consider yourself as a soul and remember the Supreme Soul, the God
(the Father/Leader/Guide of all the human souls) to make our soul pure - free
from karmic accounts. And karmic accounts are nothing but the thought that we
think and later become actions. The more we become pure (free from thoughts),
more virtues emerge within, making us virtuous (happy and divine) in nature.
It is by being in soul conscious
or being aware of our true nature, we can naturally remember God. The more we
remember God, we become God-like in nature. God-like means satchitanand, one
who is free from false identities, conscious of self and always blissful in nature.
Even though God has the greatest responsibility of sustaining and keeping all
souls of the world happy, peaceful and loving all the time, still, if all souls of the world suffer, God never cries
or become sad but He has mercy for all and fulfill His responsibility without
coming under stress or tension but always remaining blissful.
Ultimately, to remain peaceful,
happy, blissful and to settle our karmic accounts, we have to remain soul
conscious all the time. How it is possible in practical? Based on our learning or the information given to us, we feel we have to renounce the world and
relatives to experience soul consciousness. But in reality, to experience our
true nature, we have to just know how to remain detached from our mind when we
want and remain attached to the mind when it is required. Renounce the world,
then their thoughts, then experience awareness of soul is one way. The other
way is to detach from your mind and naturally you remain your self. The people,
world and things, you don’t put effort to move away from them individually.
You-soul saves lot of energy by not focusing on people, person and things
individually. What Gurus and Scriptures say is also true but it is like
reaching the destination by different routes but the easiest and simplest path
is always available to the ones who make effort to understand. It is like how
we want to travel, by walk or bus or train or sea or flight. We all know
travelling to a destination (walking a spiritual path) is a great effort but we
also know if we take a flight (with understanding), there is no effort in
travelling.
Many type of spiritual actions
what we are involved, unconsciously detach the mind from our self to give a
glimpse of our self. We can find, the experiences (qualities of self) make us
detach from the thoughts/mind. By doing devotion, we surrender everything to
God and keep our mind free from thoughts. By doing Kriyas, we focus on what we
do, being remain in the present/by being aware of breath, we keep our mind free
from the thoughts of past or future. By having love for God, we experience the
blissful nature of God and keep our mind free from thoughts. By doing spiritual
service, we accumulate blessings or good vibrations or good karma to combat
with our own mind of negative thoughts/karmas. And those who cannot detach the
mind by themselves happily can be made to experience the nature of self by
great pain or sorrow, the very example is the patients who are psychotic (eg. Schizophrenia)
in nature. The illness / mental disorder is nothing but a defence mechanism
they use themselves to detach from the mind due to the sorrow/repeated thoughts
that they cannot bear. People who smoke or drink use to detach their mind by
intoxicants which ultimately ruin them both physically and mentally.
It is said you control your mind
and you control the world but in reality you cannot control anything in this
world, but you can only allow someone or something to remain as it is/they are,
including the mind. The truth is, we never take control of our mind but we take
control of our own self and all other (mind and its thoughts) loses their power
on their own. Where you, the Soul focus on, there the energy flows and when you
don’t focus on your mind, instead you focus on your own self, mind loses its
power. It is said Soul experiences sorrow, pain, sadness but it is also
instructed to experience everything being a detached observer. Really speaking
Soul can do both. If it wants, it can experience the pain and sorrow as per the
theory and laws of association. And if it wants, it can remain a detached
observer like God, always experiencing bliss irrespective of whatever happens
to His most Beloved Children. It is like sugar, which does not lose its
sweetness even if it is thrown in mud or broken into pieces.
Victor Frankl’s (who has a record
of 100% prevention of suicides in schools of Vienna and is also an expert in counseling
to prevent suicides) Existential therapy
of Humanistic psychology gives importance to meaning in life (which sustained
him in spite of the tortures of Nazi concentration camps) like love for wife or
children or responsibility to carry-out some actions in life to overcome the
difficulties of life. But those who are single and who does not have much
responsibility to care for, even they can find a meaning in life by feeling
lightness, love and being loved by their own nature and selfless love of God,
by realizing the true nature of Self. So, What is natural nature, how we can
experience our true self so that I, the soul never focus on something which
takes away all my energy.
The True nature of Self can be realized
by giving time for self. Nowadays that is the most demanding part of life. We
have been taught from childhood days to live an active life, happy life,
serviceable life, fruitful life, more income generating life, luxurious life,
life of social respect and achievement but we were not taught that all this happiness,
service, luxury, achievement are to be focused on realization of the self, our
true nature. Because once we realize and maintain the awareness of true nature
of self, then we become God-like, in the sense that, we can overcome all
situations of life by experiencing a blissful detached, easy going, loving
sweet nature. But this can be attained only by understanding and
experiencing it by our own self not by someone else, that’s where the trouble
stays. To understand and experience, we need to give time for our own self, in
other words we need time to do/think nothing and keep quiet.
At least to understand and
experience our true nature, initially, we have to give time for ourselves doing
nothing. In fact doing nothing is only for the world, but for our inner self,
we are going to be more alert, more active and do more churning, being in
solitude. Without this we cannot understand our true nature of self. Once we
understand and experience the sweetness, the lightness, the unlimited-ness, the
true nature of self, then we don’t need more solitude, we can remain in solitude
anywhere at any place with any noisy surrounding or with any number of crowds.
How to practice doing nothing,
thinking nothing to become self-aware?
1. Spend
time (at least one hour) in solitude during early morning hours 4 am or 5 am or
2 am when we wake from the middle of deep sleep/rest or any time you wake up.
2. When
you don’t have to do anything, sit and stare the wall, or image or any
non-moving object
3. Staring
is not focusing, but seeing with lot of relaxation(of body and mind), so that
after looking at an object or wall for some time, your mind will not have
anything more to think, it will become blank, becoming just an observer, not
thinking anymore about anything.
4. When
you become an observer, you can understand that you have detached from your
mind.
5. You
can feel the silence, blankness but you know you are observing. Many a times we
experience this observer stage when we get tired of thinking. Although it is
more powerful stage, sometimes, it seems to be boring.
6. But
the true nature is sat-chit-anand. Being an observer, we have experienced sat
(true nature), chit (awareness) but anand (bliss) not yet.
7. When
we continue with the detached observer (free from attachment of mind), then we
experience the lightness, sweetness, along with the stage of observer. Now it
is complete sat-chit-anand.
8. This
true nature of self (satchitanand) once we experience it being a detached
observer, then it becomes easy to stick to this awareness by doing all actions
throughout the day. And you feel the lightness, happiness, time to time attach
and detach of self from mind will keep the satchitanand flowing continuously,
this will make us naturally remember the True God, the Father, enabling us to
settle our karmic accounts (waves) of thoughts then and there, as and when it
appears (and disappears) as waves in the ocean of mind.
9. Although
the clouds of thoughts/tension/sadness appear in front of the Sun (self)
continuously, internally you will not lose the light (awareness) of Sun at any
point of time.
Many a times, it is said to see
others as soul, in fact looking others as souls is only a thought, of course a
positive thought which will not take us into more expansion of thoughts. But as
we stabilize more in our spiritual awareness (detaching ourselves from our mind
whenever we don’t use our mind), we never see/imagine others as soul but we
focus more on our inner self awareness and although we see others by mind,
their image never imprinted on our self. I (mind) look but I (self) don’t look
at others because I am aware of my own self not focusing on my mind. It also
happens like this: I(mind) hear but I (self) don’t hear, because I (self) remain
detached to the mind.
Hence, the real soul conscious is
to become aware of our true nature even if our karmic accounts (thoughts) are
not settled. We learn to live with our karma(mind) but not influenced by it. I
use my mind whenever required and other times, I know it exists but I focus on
my own awareness of sat-chit-anand making me live an independent life not
depending upon external person or situation to influence me although my mind
gets influenced by them.
And this is real Raja Yoga, I
become the master of mind and all the senses that was controlled by the mind.
And I remain indifferent to mind - all people, objects and situations that
appear as waves in the ocean of mind. And if this is experienced by all of us,
then we can also make others to experience the same, liberating everyone from
the thoughts of suffering, pain and ultimately save them from depression,
anxiety and suicidal tendencies.
Also can read: http://www.soulchemy.org/research/psychologyandspirituality/
Great
ReplyDelete18.4.16 Blessing:
ReplyDeleteMay you be a true server who achieves success in service through renunciation and tapasya.
The main tools for success in service are renunciation and tapasya. Renunciation means to have renounced even the thoughts in your mind. If you have to renounce something because of the circumstances, because of the code of conduct or under some compulsion, that is not renunciation. However, you have to become a renunciate even of your thoughts while being an embodiment of knowledge. To be a tapaswi means to be constantly absorbed in love for the Father and to remain merged in the Ocean of Knowledge, Love, Bliss, Happiness and Peace. Only such souls who are renunciates and tapaswis are the true servers who achieve success in service.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeletehttp://bkdrluhar.com/00-Murli/00-English/Htm-Eng/23.04.16-E.htm
ReplyDeleteChildren are sitting on the pilgrimage of remembrance. This is also called conducted meditation or sitting in silence. You aren't just sitting in silence, you are also doing something. You are stable in your original religion, but you are also on a pilgrimage. The Father who teaches you this pilgrimage also takes you back home with Him.
Those sitting in other spiritual gatherings would be remembering their guru. The guru would come and give a lecture. That is all the path of devotion. This is the pilgrimage of remembrance through which sins are absolved. You sit in remembrance to have the rust removed. The Father's direction is: The rust will be removed by having remembrance of Me because I alone am the Purifier. It isn't that I come because of someone's remembrance. My coming is fixed in the drama; it is when the impure world has to change and become the pure world. He comes and once again carries out through Brahma establishment of the original, eternal deity religion that has disappeared.
The Father says: I explain to you the essence of all the Vedas and scriptures. When you children sit here in the morning you have to sit in remembrance. Otherwise, storms of Maya come and your intellects are diverted to your business etc. All of those complications are external. A spider creates such a big web. It then swallows it by itself. There are so many complications of the body - paternal uncle, maternal uncle, gurus, etc. So many webs are all visible. Together with the body, all of those have to be swallowed. You just have to become a bodiless soul alone. When a person sheds his body he forgets everything. When you die (alive), the world is dead for you.
A wife remembers her husband because she is told: Your husband is your god. That is why she removes her intellect from her father and diverts it to her husband. That One is the Husband of all husbands. He is the Bridegroom. All of you are brides and you worship the one God.
Some write to Baba: When I sit in my chair, I sit down for remembrance. Therefore, when an officer comes, he sees that, while sitting, you have disappeared, that is, you have become bodiless. Some people's eyes remain open and other people's eyes close. Some sit like this and they don't see anything, as though they are completely lost. It happens like this in some cases. Baba just pulls the string and he sits in pleasure.
It is just that you have forgotten your Father, your religion (dharma) and your karma. If you considered yourselves to be of the deity religion, you wouldn't eat dirty things.
At the end we will become completely pure. The rust will continue to be removed and you will become satopradhan, numberwise, according to the effort you make. You can see that the impure world is to be destroyed. Nowadays, people say that God has definitely come somewhere, but that He is incognito. This is truly the time for destruction. Only the Father is the Liberator and the Guide who will take everyone back home. Everyone will die like a swarm of mosquitoes.
Those who say that they stay in remembrance all the time should have very happy and sparkling faces. Such children should have supersensuous joy. Their intellects wouldn't wander anywhere. They would be feeling happy, their intellects would say: Let me stay in remembrance of the one Beloved so that the rust is removed. This habit would then be instilled. You become ever healthy and ever wealthy through the pilgrimage of remembrance. You must also remember the cycle.
http://www.bkdrluhar.com/00-Murli/00-English/Htm-Eng/24.04.16-E.htm
ReplyDeleteAll of you have passed the first stage of knowing. You have also passed the second stage of accepting. The third stage is to accept and to move along accordingly. It means to become an embodiment of it. To what degree do you think you have passed in this? If you have become the form of that, is it possible for you to forget your form? Although it is wrong to consider yourself to be a body, you are unable to forget that, even though you want to, because you have become that form. You cannot forget it even if you try to. You do forget, do you not?
Is it only in knowledge, in terms of acceptance or is it in terms of your being an embodiment of it? Do you constantly spin the discus of self-realisation? Or, does looking at others make you forget to look at yourself? Even to look at your own body is like looking at others. You yourself are a soul, your body is external. Your body is matter; it is external. To be matter conscious is to be influenced by matter, which means you spin the discus of looking at others. Since even looking at your own body is the same as looking at others, how can looking at the bodies of others be called spinning the discus of self- realisation? Wasteful thoughts and old sanskars are also connected to body consciousness. The sanskars of soul consciousness, the sanskars of you souls are the sanskars of the Father. You know the sanskars of the Father: He is constantly the World Benefactor, the Merciful One who uplifts souls and the Bestower of Blessings. Have you become the natural form of these sanskars? In order to make these sanskars yours, you would have to move along easily according to those in your thoughts, words and deeds. Sanskars are such that they make you, the soul, automatically move along according to them. Consider your sanskars to be the automatic key, on the basis of which you continue to move along.
Let your nature become like that of the Father: a constant bestower of blessings, one who constantly uplifts others and one who is constantly merciful. Would you then have to labour?
Constantly keep this awareness: This is my dharma. No matter what happens, whether through people, nature or situations, you must remain constantly stable in your dharma. The slogan you have is: “No matter what happens, even if I have to die, I will not relinquish my religion”. Remain constantly aware of this slogan and your promise.
You have been told that the Father’s sanskars have to be your sanskars. It would then be that you are doing everything in name and that the Father is Karavanhar (the One who works through others.) The praise of Karankaravanhar that is remembered is the practical experience of this time.
Do not go into the expansion of “Why?” or “What?” Put a full-stop to all questions such as “Why is this like this?” or “How will this happen?” etc. Now, become like a lighthouse and spread this speciality in all directions.
Blessing:
May you be an image that grants blessings and become a special, beloved deity of everyone through the greatness of your speciality of contentment.
Only those who are content with themselves and others can become special, beloved deities and one of the eight deities. The biggest virtue, donation, speciality and greatness is contentment. A contented soul is loved by God, by people and by the self. Such contented souls are well known in their forms of those who grant blessings. Now, in the final period, service will take place more through an image that grants blessings than through the form of a great bestower.