A Different Story
The air feels good to me. The night air so cool after the heat of the
day. I am wandering down the stairs. It is mid-Autumn. The leaves are still turning.
It rains, and then stops for the most part. Everyone is speaking of "El Nino."
I dreamt that the foundation of my house was complete and fresh and
expansive. I feel this is so. The foundations have been laid. I am clear. The
night sky is totally blue sparkling with stars. The fishing boat going out in the evening air is struck by no less a
fair wind. Inside me I feel the keys dance beneath my fingertips. The state has
taken me.
The Ego and the Intellect and the Soul
In the land of Vrindavin, which is deep, and impenetrable, lives Rhadah
and Krishna.
If I can paraphrase: Kartik is
the time of purification in the fall, where one fasts from everything eating
only adzuki beans and brown rice. These "tapas" is a form of austerity to take
one away from the senses.
The soul is the eternal Greening of
the Kingdom of Vrindavin where in lives
Radha & Krishna in their many forms. There is a spiritual reality outside
the body where the soul has a foothold when prayers are said and practices done, where the mind is
kept on God where the inner worlds and life force are in alignment.
Here we are to start a new life through an understanding of the senses which preceive our world.
This is what was said in the book The Force: “We must understand the
body and not think that we can neglect this process of self awareness opening
to self realization.”
It is not that we are God, but rather we are fragment of the infinite
ocean that is limitless potentiality. If we channel this awareness through the
super conductivity of the human form then we become a third dimensional sensor
for God. But we are only the tiniest fraction of God. Even so the essence of
creator is within us.
When we take heightened awareness into the fourth, fifth up to the
seventh dimensional ray then the other inherent qualities of perception and
realizations and phenomenon come into being within this short experience we
call "life."
I am a person who experiences things in order to believe. This is a
fairly dense way to go and is perhaps the way of the world, as most know it.
But the experience in and out of the body becomes subtle and knowable through such practices as chanting, breath work and fasting and cleansing. By accessing
the inner-awareness we become multi-dimensional beings created by our creator
to enlighten naturally through the modalities of the body.
Some people call our bodies our donkey or our motel, but the body is in
fact an incredible creation that is at the heart of the mystery of existence.
We have one capability that gives us more responsibility than other forms on
this Earth. We have the ability to reason and use intelligence. So far we have
gone in the direction of mass material density. Our very survival depends on
the use of this intelligence to shift the conscious awareness of all people on
this Planet, or we will simply perish.
This first thing is to know how the body works and where all the parts
of the body are. A great majority of people are completely ignorant of their
bodies and so become victims circumstances dictated by unaware thoughts and deeds called Karma. Stepping into the
reality that we are Creator means that we have to know our vessel. We get to
create a container and context for life.
The nature of the mind is it accepts and rejects. It says, " I
want this and I don't want that." It decides who is a friend and who is an
enemy. Mastery involves introspection
and contemplation on what is of true value. This takes intelligence and this,
coming from a soul perspective, changes everything. In order to do this we must
first understand the mind.
In the Gita the horses are the runaway senses, the reins are the mind
that directs the senses, and the driver is the intelligence and the passenger
the soul and the chariot the body. The
passenger should direct the driver. The soul should direct the intelligence,
which hold onto the mind, which are the reins. (Chariots chases after the
senses.)
Arjuna is the driver and Krishna is the super soul as the passenger.
Two armies: the whole conflict is that Arjuna has to fight against friends and
family. He tried to avoid the battle but he couldn't avoid it. He said “ I don't
want to fight" and Krishna's telling him that it's his duty and he can't
avoid the battle. "It's already happened, you are just a player. Do your
duty (worldly duties) but keep your mind on Him (Krishna)."
He's a very saintly pious man but he would just as soon avoid this
battle than to fight it. So there is
this conflict in the world and we would avoid it. But it is our duty to fight
the good fight and to go into battle with control over our thoughts and senses
and to direct our mind with intelligence and live our life in devotion to God.
Then we lead the true life when we are in the world but not of it.
People are out after power. They take tantra classes for sexual power.
They seduce and manipulate for self-gratification but this, in time, eludes
them. It is never enough. One woman is not as powerful a feeling as drowning
your senses in an ever-revolving plethora of the many. After a while the soul
is blackened and hurting. Cruelty sets in because the senses become dulled.
That is why celibacy is so good because it heightens our awareness of devotion
and service to others without using them for our own pleasure, which is
fleeting at best.
Perhaps the warring parties are really something within ourselves that
keeps us dulled to the truth that we are one and the same. We all have these 32
body parts none of which we can really point to and say ' this is me.
Where is the self? We live and die the same. All the rest is just the
story of who we think we are, when in fact we are nothing in and of ourselves.
The warring factions are positions taken by the mind, which is called ego. We
become ' egotistical' and think that every feeling and emotion is real and
worth taking a stand for.
The only thing worth taking a stand for is the unified field of
consciousness: God. We cannot define God
from our personal ego but we can begin to know ourselves and our bodies and our
minds and from there, the mind demands and intelligence inquires, and
intelligence needs to be under the service of the soul. We call this dropping
from head to heart.
The plain in the great opening battle of the Bhagavad-Gita is the great
plain of exploitation, which lives in the realm of the senses. True energy and
power come from the soul, not from domination and manipulation of others for
self-gratification. The Divine plain is the higher realm where everything is
permanent. We are used by the higher
world in the form of service to God or humanity as a whole.
To have mastership of the Earth is slavery. In life we have the
controllers versus the servants. We have the exploiting tendency, pleasure and
the renunciation tendency both of which are traps. These are call external
covers: extremes of pleasure or denial of pleasure. We keep the inner flow of
Life Force or the Vishta - the flow of divine love, or "Prem," by giving up
the external covers and die to live.
How do you do this? By faith, association, devotion and letting go of
those habits which build a wall between yourself and realization of the higher
truth of your existence. Awaken to
divine love, which is within you and permeates the entirity of existence.
We begin in the body and in the realm of the senses and begin to
understand them. Then we rein in our desires and cover them with the will,
opening to the love of the heart that expresses in truth the light of
consciousness that comes from above: Charkas one through seven all relate to this
science of energy that is called “self-realization,” an amazing system that no
man could have even conceived of, beyond description and fully encoded in the
body.
