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Peace of Mind by Vywumus Channelled through Natalie Glasson-
12th June 2015- Sacred School of OmNa Peace of mind is an aspect of ascension
which many strive to achieve wishing to bring stillness and quietness to their thought forms with a presence
of peace emanating from their mental bodies. Peace of mind is a state of being which indicates a greater connection
and resonance with the Creator due to the mind’s inability, when in this state, to be distracted or confused. To many existing upon the Earth experiencing
peace and stillness within their minds is a luxury which seems unobtainable and imaginary, yet such a state within your
mental body is already present within your being and simply requires your focus and acceptance. Everything that you
desire, whether of the physical or spiritual plane, is already obtained by you and is present within your being. The fact that you desire something,
whatever it may be, is because it is already present, in truth you do not desire or wish to experience that which is not
already present within you. While all that is the Creator is within your being, your soul emanates specific aspects of the Creator
guiding your purpose and ensuring your experiences, this means that often without realising your desires are aligned to
the energies already within you and have a specific purpose of further supporting you in recognising that which is within your being. With this
in mind a desire for peace, especially within your mental body, mind and thought processes symbolises that peace is already a powerful
quality present and active within your being waiting to be expressed and explored. With the knowledge that peace is a powerful source of
the Creator present within your being there is a need to acknowledge your beliefs concerning peace. For example, if you, as
many do, have a desire for a peaceful mind, then you also have a belief that your mind is not a peaceful space
and that peace of mind is out of your reach or unobtainable for you, otherwise you would simply recognise that you are already
peace. When
a person on the Earth demonstrates a talent which is seemingly natural and perfect needing very little development,
this is a manifestation of
the person’s ability to recognise and accept an aspect of themselves unconditionally, resonating fully with this aspect of their soul. They already
believe and experience the talent as obtainable and limitlessly available to them. When a person has a desire to execute a talent
and yet it seems they do not possess the natural skills to do so, this symbolises that the skills and abilities are already
within their soul, however the person is not willing to believe in and accept this aspect of themselves. To do so
would allow a deeper resonance with their soul and a fuller expression of their purpose upon the Earth. In order to access peace of mind there
is first a requirement to recognise everything that distracts you from seeing, sensing and acknowledging your inner powerful
and strong peace vibrations. Maybe you do not believe yourself to be deserving of peace, or an aspect of yourself enjoys
distractions and dramas played out in your mind. I encourage you to recognise the beliefs you hold about your
mind and thoughts connected to your wish to be more peaceful. If peace of mind is your divine birth right and the natural
aspect of your being, then everything else is a false illusion which you are choosing to hold onto. As I stated earlier peace of mind can seem
like a luxury, however there is simply a need for you to be aligned to peace, the feeling of being deserving and that it is your
natural existence, otherwise you will always reject peace even when it is a powerful presence within your being. Peace of mind is often mistaken to mean
that you exist without thoughts and are able to navigate through your physical reality without thinking. Sometimes people interpret
peace of mind to be only thinking positively and banishing all negative thoughts from your consciousness, awareness and
creations. It is my understanding that peace of mind is a mind which experiences contentment, thus because of the experience
of contentment a greater resonance with the Creator is experienced and more fully accepted. You may wish to ask yourself and contemplate
what would you need to do or achieve to experience contentment in your mind and thoughts? Contentment in your
mind means that you do not swing from extreme negative thoughts to extreme positive thoughts. It means your mind is a powerful
strong aspect of yourself which both fuels and protects the rest of your being. When you have a fearful thought it is most likely that your
entire body and emotions react in a fearful and disempowering way. Your mind is always linked and connected to all aspects
of your being; however your mind can be a source of protection which limits its influence on your body and emotions. This requires
some discipline within your mind which begins with processes such as positive thinking, noticing and
letting go of negative or disempowering thoughts, visualising that which you wish to experience and practicing the art
of meditation. All of these practices begin to encourage the mind to be powerful and a source of protection, limiting the influence of the undisciplined
habits of the mind upon the body and emotions. The mind begins to enter into a state where it is servicing the body and emotions
in ways which empower and awaken a deeper resonance with the Creator. One way to accept peace of mind is to alter your perspective
of your mind and thoughts, which will also simultaneously alter your perspective of yourself. How do you perceive your
mind? What identity have you given to your mind and therefore yourself? Does your mind hold the identity of fear,
chaos, stupidity, being mistaken, untrustworthy, weak, gullible or something else? Maybe there are several identities within your mind,
these are also ways you identify and describe yourself. Often you believe the beliefs and reasoning of your thoughts to
be true even when they are born from illusion. In order to free yourself from illusions and identities of illusions
there is a need to recognise your mind with the truth of your heart and soul. With recognition of
the perspective your thoughts hold about your mind then you can allow yourself to realise that the true expression and identity
of your mind is peace and contentment. The only way to obtain this is to realise peace is already within you. By recognising the vibration of peace within your heart
from your soul you allow yourself to resonate with your soul’s peace which is to familiarise yourself with and
to embody peace. With
recognition you can then project your soul’s vibration of peace into your mind. Your mind is already
a space and state of peace,
your focus upon projecting peace into your mind encouraging you to recognise your mind as the vibration of
peace. With
practice and focus a beautiful manifestation will occur, you will awaken similar to a well or source within
your mind a space
of peace. This may feel like a manifestation or opening within your mind influencing your thoughts while
creating experiences
of contentment. Truthfully this source of peace has always been present you are simply allowing yourself
to receive and accept its presence.
Your mind will feel content because your mind is no longer impacting unnecessarily upon your body and emotions,
manipulating you to its passing thoughts. You will feel more content because the thoughts created whether perceived as
negative or positive simply pass through, with a disciplined habit of only accepting thoughts of empowerment, thus manifesting and distributing
these as fuel throughout your being. Your entire being will feel content and peaceful encouraging you to feel as
if you have peace of mind. It is time to view yourself and your mind as peaceful, accepting and acknowledging yourself as peaceful.
When you accept yourself in this way you attune your frequency to the vibrations of the Creator already
present within your being thus allowing you to be inspired by divine consciousness, wisdom and inspiration resulting in
enlightenment which is often recognised by many as having peace of mind. Peace of mind is yours to obtain whenever you wish to
accept it as an aspect within your being which is eternally present. With peace and contentment, Vywamus Higher Aspect of Sanat Kumara
Mother's
Mini-Message #10 - Evil is Pretending You Don't See Evil
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Mother's Mini-Message
#10
Evil is Pretending You
Don't See Evil
Tonight we will speak briefly about a topic that has become taboo to even mention, as if
the mere mention carried some mysterious and prophetic power. Father and I are here to debunk this unfounded myth.
We will now name this topic, and then we will briefly speak our piece on the matter. Once it is addressed, we will be
able to proceed in the coming messages at the speed of light into the next phase of your de-programming and Ascension.
The topic of tonight's abbreviated message is EVIL.
Evil
is the absence of LOVE. It is the basest level of consciousness. It is the level of consciousness that is found
in parasites who eat their host and then each other. It is the form of consciousness that states, "If I can't have it
my way, no one can have it at all." It is a maniacal commitment to Lose-lose scenarios. It is unbridled selfishness.
Evil
is simplistic, dressed up in tacky clothes to try to pull off something it can never achieve. It is all about domination,
control, imitation-creation, and monotonous schemes of hoarding and war.
Evil is to plan and carry out the extreme
suffering of as many as possible. Evil is not a quality that exists above the 4th dimension, because it is a highly
delusional and therefore temporary experience. Evil is always fleeting, self-serving and insane.
It is an intentional
assault against Father and me, and it is a purposeful onslaught against Cosmic Law. Father and I are here to say now
- evil will no longer be tolerated.
We are already dealing with most of you in private, and this is our final curtain
call for you to drop the fantasies and the roles of pretending you are important or in power simply because you demonstrate
cruelty.
Imbedded in the programming you are each inundated with is some form of the belief that evil is power,
and that it makes you powerful to feel it. This is the lowest form of experiencing emotion, and has nothing to do with
the coming Golden Age and the destiny of Earth and all upon her.
E-V-I-L is an anagram for L-I-V-E. Because
every one of you has a soul, you carry the living spark of your Father and me. Therefore, you always know when you are
indulging in evil thoughts, emotions and deeds. You are capable of ending this charade forever, in any moment.
Many
of you have literally fallen in lust with evil. When you decide to release this gluttony, for superficial and self-gratifying
addictions, then you will lay them down and turn to the sunlight once again. It is this simple. It is up to you.
We encourage you to end your own suffering by choosing now.
For those of you who are imagining that this does not apply
to you, we will be clear. Evil is an unchecked flair of anger, evil is a nasty comment, designed to hurt or shame another,
evil is a jealous plot to diminish something that belongs to another. Evil is self-indulgence, evil is blind expectations,
evil is the attitude, "I didn't mean to, therefore I did nothing wrong."
Evil is pretending you don't see evil.
The next step in your Ascension may not be completed until, with maturity and care, you look honestly into the
face of evil and recognize it for what it is.
Be brave, dear and cherished children. All of your efforts
are seen, and matter.
We are here with you, in love.
Mother
Transcribed by Christine Burk and Kathryn
E. May, June 12, 2015
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#5315 Is Happiness Absence of Ego, Is It?, June 13, 2015 God
said: I hear you crying out to Me: “God, You are
God. I am in Your company. I am embraced by You. I feel Your love. It soaks into me. Your love overflows and changes me. You
rescued me, God. You have saved me time and time again from my ego. It isn’t that You destroy ego. You simply set my
attention on another track. Ego is obviated. I am oblivious of it. Ego? Who? What? I forget about ego for a while. Maybe this
is what happiness is – absence of ego. “My world isn’t quite so centered around me any longer, and
yet, and yet, most of my thoughts are about how I feel and what is going on in my life. Whom will I see today? What will I
write? To whom will I write? Who will answer? Who will answer my heart? “I am preoccupied with thoughts, as if
I need more thoughts in my head, and, therefore, more thoughts to forget yet thoughts rise to the surface whether I want them
or not. Recurring thoughts take over. They swallow me up. Are they my thoughts or not? I am not sure. I am not sure whose
thoughts run around in my head. I don’t want to claim all of them. Is my mind mine anyways, or is my mind something
I found somewhere and picked up thoughtlessly?
“I yearn for the day when I am so full of Being that there
is no room for squandered thoughts. I would not be blank. I would be enriched, yet wouldn’t have to eat. I will love
and be nourished by love and reach the heights of travel with You, God. “You say that You exist within me. I know
you are somewhere within me, yet I can only stutter when it comes to thinking that You are the essence of me, although there
are moments when I feel You and I are One, and I almost believe it. “Meanwhile, I feel that You are more like
a casual visitor Who drops in every once in a while. You pull up a chair, and all I have to do is to look at You. “Is
every conversation a conversation with myself? Am I the speaker and the listener combined as Oneness? This can’t be
Oneness because Oneness is scintillating. Is all that goes on in life a projection of myself? Am I witness to myself? I witness
myself zooming here or there. I see myself wandering in a desert, and I see myself shivering in Siberia, and I see myself
in an oasis, and still I don’t know who I am and what I am doing here, or if I am here, or what here is or what is going
on in that vague place called here. “You say there is no beginning or ending to me, that I always was, that I
always am while I don’t really know if I am or if I am not. I relate to Hamlet. Not so much To be or not to be. More
like: Am I or am I not? Who am I and where am I, and for what purpose am I? Perhaps my purpose is to find that I don’t
even exist. I may be consumed by existence, yet am I solely a reverberation of You, God? “I am no more than a
wave in the breeze. A hand waves, and what does that mean when the next moment the hand stops waving? Where did that wave
in the breeze go? Does that wave in the breeze still exist somewhere? “I wonder if my search for existence comes
down to a search for non-existence. Not death, but to never have existed as this personality ever. “You have said
that this whole existence on Earth in a body is fiction. Is it, God, is this whole revelation on Earth, all this that is so
important and vital to Your children, is it, is it really after all is said and done only a story?” Yes. |
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14 June Posted: 13 Jun 2015 02:08 AM PDT The Nature of Surrender In atma nivedana (self-surrender) the devotee
offers everything to God, including his body, mind and soul. He keeps nothing for himself. He has no personal, independent
existence. He has become part and parcel of God. God takes care of him and God treats him as Himself. Grief and sorrow, pleasure
and pain, the devotee treats these as gifts sent by God and does not attach himself to them. He considers himself a puppet,
as an instrument in the hands of God. He does not feel egoistic, for he has no ego - his
ego has gone over to God. This devotee does not feel it is his duty to look after his wife, children etc., for he himself has no independent
existence apart from God. God will take care of all, for He knows how to lead the world in the right path. He has no sensual
craving, for he has no body; it has been offered to God. He only feels the presence of God and nothing else. He has no enemies
or friends, for he has given himself up to God who has no enemies or friends. He has no anxiety, for he has attained everything
by attaining the grace of God. He does not even have the thought of salvation - he merely wants God and nothing but God. This devotee is satisfied
with the love of God, for by that there is nothing that is not attained. What is there to attain when God has sent his grace
upon the devotee? The devotee does not want to become sugar but to taste the sugar - there is pleasure in tasting sugar but
not in becoming sugar itself. So the devotee feels that there is supreme joy more in loving God than in becoming God. "I am
Thine", says this devotee, knowing that God will take complete care of him. Mira abandoned everything.
She renounced her kingdom, husband, relatives, friends and property. She remembered Lord Krishna all day and all night. She
shed tears of love (prema). She sang His name with devotion. She gave up eating food and her body became emaciated. Her mind
was ever absorbed in Lord Krishna. Only then did Lord Krishna shower His grace upon her.  | Raja Yoga, Message 28 Posted: 12 Jun 2015 10:00 PM PDT The section ‘Psychic Obstacles’ now continues...----------------------------------------------------------------- Perfected
beings, gods and others surrounded Uddalaka. Divine nymphs flocked to him in great numbers. He was offered a heavenly kingdom.
Uddalaka totally declined to accept anything. The ladies tried to entice him by their wily charms. They told him: "Please
take your seat in the celestial car. It will take you to heaven. Here are the springs that confer immortality. Here are celestial
nymphs to serve you. Here is the wish-fulfilling jewel. Your rare austerity has brought all these for thee." Uddalaka, the
brave, resisted all temptations and shone in effulgence. (If one gets a glimpse of Brahman for a second even, he will not
long for sensual objects.) After six months he awoke from his samadhi. He would spend, at one sitting, days, months and even
years in deep samadhi, and then would wake up. If you practise regular meditation and concentration
you are bound to get some psychic powers. You should not use these powers for base and selfish purposes, for gaining some
material end or other. You will then face a downfall. You will be punished by Mother Nature. Action
and reaction are equal and opposite. Every wrong action is bound to cause a reaction. I again and again seriously warn you.
Beware! Power, sex, money and erudition act as powerful intoxicants. The possessor does not know exactly what he is doing.
His intellect becomes turbid and his understanding gets clouded. You will not be tempted by these powers if you are established
in the practice of yama or self-restraint. When you are lying in your bed, sometimes a big light
will pass along your forehead. As soon as you try to behold the light by meditating in the sitting posture, it may disappear.
You may ask: "How is it that I failed to catch the light by exertion, whereas it comes by itself when I am lying down without
any effort?" The reason is that you lose the concentration as soon as you sit for meditation due to the entry of rajas with
the idea: 'I am doing'. When you experience bliss in meditation some peculiar sensation will disturb
you, and with this disturbance the sublime bliss will disappear. During meditation sattva increases, but rajas is ever trying
to overcome sattva. You feel the peculiar sensation of a disturbance on account of the entry of rajas. The thought of work
that you will have to do may also cause a disturbing sensation. Forget all works and say to the mind: "I have nothing more
to do, I have done everything." When sattva increases through enquiry, vigorous sadhana and greater dispassion, this disturbance
will vanish and you will experience deep meditation. The bliss also will last for a long time. Even
though you have conquered sleep and distraction by repeated practice, dispassion and contemplation on God, yet the mind will
not enter into a state of perfect balance or serenity. It will be in an intermediate stage. The mind is still not freed from
attachment, which is the seed of all its activity in the direction of external objects. There is still lurking passion or
hidden desires. You will have to restrain the mind again and again by enquiry, and do rigorous meditation. Finally, you must
rest yourself in asamprajnata or seedless samadhi (nirbija samadhi). Rasavada is super-sensual bliss that
comes from lower savikalpa samadhi. The seeker who has experienced this imagines that he has reached the final destination
and gives up his sadhana. Just as man digs the earth very deep to find out the most precious hidden treasure and gems, just
as a man is not satisfied with the petty things he has found just beneath the surface of the ground, so also the seeker should
continue his sadhana till he gets the unconditioned state, or highest goal of life. He should never be satisfied with lower
experiences. He should compare his experiences with the highest experiences of sages that are described in the Upanishads
and find out whether they exactly tally with them or not. He should exert till he reaches the seventh jnana stage, till he
becomes a full-blown jnani. He should struggle till he gets the inner feeling of 'I have obtained all desires, I have done
everything, I know and have attained everything. There is nothing more to be known, nothing more to be obtained.' This
obstacle prevents the seeker from enjoying the highest nirvikalpa bliss. Right thought, discrimination, prayer, pranayama,
further earnestness and struggle in meditation will remove the above obstacle. Sometimes the mind remains
quiet for a short time. You will find neither attraction (raga) nor repulsion (dvesha) in the mind. It occurs in the waking
state. The aspirant mistakes this for samadhi. This is a neutral state of the mind. This is an obstacle in the path of God-realisation.
He should overcome this state of mind by careful introspection and vigorous meditation. A seeker through experience and acute
acumen can find out exactly the nature of the various states of the mind. He should adopt effective methods to control these
states. Mere study of books will not help him very much, but experience and practice will do him much real good. There
is also a state of stupefaction arising from fear or wonder. It is akin to the previous state. This is also another obstacle
on the path. When you experience some wonderful astounding news the mind gets stunned for some time. This is stabdha avastha.
There is no perfect awareness. The mind remains like a log of wood in a state of inertia. It becomes unfit for active meditation.
When these states prevail there is heaviness of body and lack of cheerfulness. The mind also becomes dull for the time being.
The student can find out these states by these symptoms. An intelligent seeker who practises meditation daily can easily find
out the different states into which the mind passes. A beginner finds meditation dry in the beginning, but an advanced student
who has an intelligent and comprehensive understanding of the nature of the mind and its operations and the laws of the mental
plane, will find meditation very interesting. The more he meditates the more he gains control of the mind. He can understand
the nature of the thought waves and the different mental states. He can control them. He will actually feel that he is gaining
inner spiritual strength and that he cannot be easily swayed by the mind now. You must be on the alert.
You must be vigilant and circumspect. You will have to get over these impediments step by step. You
will have to cross the void also. What appears to you as a void when all the vrittis have perished is not really a void. This
is the unmanifest, the invisible. Cross this void also. It will try to overpower you. You have nothing to see and nothing
to hear. You are left alone now, there is none to cheer you. You will have to depend on yourself. Presence of mind is needed
now at this critical juncture. Draw courage and strength from within. O my dear aspirants! I send you the
thought-currents of peace from the peaceful atmosphere of the sacred Himalayas, the abode of sages. God is the embodiment
of peace. Scriptures emphatically declare: ''This Self is peace.'' Desire is the greatest enemy of peace.
It causes distractions of various sorts. There is no peace for him who has no concentration, and there can be no happiness
for the unpeaceful. In the supreme peace all pains, sorrows, miseries and tribulations will vanish for ever. Children
of Immortality! Plod on. Push on. Do not look backward. Forget the past. Forget the body and world, but forget not the centre,
forget not the source. A glorious brilliant future is awaiting you. Purify. Serve. Love. Give. Live in OM. Feel always and
everywhere the indwelling, all-pervading Presence. Realise the Self. Rest in the magnanimous ocean of peace, in the stupendous
sea of stillness. Drink the nectar of immortality. May the indwelling Presence be your centre, ideal and goal. May joy, bliss,
immortality, peace, glory and splendour abide with you for ever! I have placed before you in detail all
the obstacles that stand in the way of realisation of God and have suggested various effective methods to remove these obstacles.
Stand up now like an undaunted spiritual soldier in the spiritual battlefield. Become a spiritual hero of great intrepidity
and unique chivalry. Get over the obstacles fearlessly one by one and manifest divine glory, splendour, purity and sanctity.
Wait patiently with a calm and serene mind for results. Do not be hasty, rash and impetuous. Allow proper time for regeneration
and renovation. Do not despair. Wear the coat-of-arms of dispassion, wield the shield of discrimination and hold the banner
of faith. March boldly and cheerfully. Stop not till you drink the elixir of immortality to your heart's content, stop not
till you enter the immortal realms of eternal sunshine, undecaying beauty, unfading ecstasy, supreme bliss, infinite joy,
unalloyed felicity and unbroken peace. This is your goal, your final destination. You can take eternal rest now. This is your
highest aim and purpose of life. Rest now in everlasting peace, friends! Cheer yourselves. Share this rare bliss with your
brothers. Elevate them. This noble and stupendous selfless work is awaiting you now in the grand plan. Fulfil the divine Will
and become a Buddha of undecaying fame. Salutations unto you all! When a bee finds that its feet are stuck
in the honey, it slowly licks them several times and then flies away with joy. Even so, extricate yourself from the mind's
sticking and clinging to this body owing to attraction and attachment, through dispassion and meditation. Fly away with joy
from this cage of flesh and bone to the source, Brahman or the Self. No more words. Enough of discussions
and heated debates. Retire into a solitary room. Close your eyes. Have deep, silent meditation. Feel His presence. Repeat
His name OM with fervour, joy and love. Fill your heart with love. Destroy the ideas, fancies and desires, whims and thoughts
when they arise on the surface of the mind. Withdraw the wandering mind and fix it upon the Lord. Now the meditation will
become deep and intense. Do not open your eyes. Do not stir from your seat. Merge in Him. Dive deep
into the innermost recesses of the heart. Plunge into the shining Atman within. Drink the nectar of immortality. Enjoy the
silence now. I shall leave you there alone. EXPERIENCES IN MEDITATION During
deep meditation you will forget the external world first and then the body. You will enjoy a sort of higher type of indescribable
peace, but it will take a long time to get real spiritual experiences, to merge the mind in your chosen object of meditation
or to get over body-consciousness completely. Be patient. Persevere. You will succeed. During deep meditation
you will have no idea of time. You will not hear any sounds. You will have no idea of environment. You will forget your name
and all sorts of relationship with others. You will enjoy peace and bliss. In the beginning you
will remain in the state of bliss for some time. Then you will come down. By constant practice of incessant meditation you
can continue to remain in that exalted state for ever. Later on the body idea completely vanishes. You will have no consciousness
of your body. You will have equanimity of mind. There will be stoppage of up-going and down-going sensations. The consciousness
of egoism will also gradually vanish. You will experience inexplicable joy and indescribable happiness. Gradually, reasoning
and reflection also will cease. You will rest in samadhi. Physical Sensations The
feeling of rising up during meditation is a sign that indicates that you are going above body-consciousness. You will feel
a peculiar ananda (bliss) also when you experience this feeling. In the beginning this feeling of rising up will last for
a minute only. After a minute you will feel that you have come back to normal consciousness again. In dream
you will feel that you are trying to come out of your body. You will feel great pressure at the end of the spine. During
meditation you will get into rapture or ecstasy. This is of five kinds — the lesser thrill, momentary rapture, flooding
rapture, transporting rapture and all-pervading rapture. The lesser thrill will raise the hairs of the body (like goose-flesh).
The momentary rapture is like the production of lightning, moment by moment. Like waves breaking on the sea-shore, the flooding
rapture descends rapidly over the body and breaks. Transporting rapture is strong and lifts the body up to the extent of launching
it into the air. When the all-pervading rapture arises, the whole body is completely surcharged and blown like a full bladder. When
you meditate with closed eyes you will see in your body two luminous strings in which are placed luminous lotuses at intervals;
and the strings pass through the image of your chosen deity seated in one of these lotuses in the region of the heart. Continue
your meditation. You will feel that your anus and a spot in the top of the head are connected by these strings. You will experience
a great upward pull on the anus and the lower end of the spine. Sometimes you will feel great tingling sensation at the lower
end of the spine. You will feel as though some great change in your system will happen soon. You may feel that you will lose
your physical consciousness. Be not afraid. Be bold and courageous. You will have rare spiritual experiences, you will have
cosmic vision. Do not open your eyes now. You will come back to normal consciousness. Keep steady and wait for further experience. It
does not matter much whether you return to body consciousness or not. All our attempts are mainly directed towards getting
over this body-consciousness and being one with the higher spiritual consciousness. However, we are used to certain limitations.
When these limitations suddenly drop away we feel that there is no definite base left to stand upon. That is the reason why
we are afraid when we go above body-consciousness. It is a novel experience. Courage is needed. Courage is an indispensable
requisite. The scriptures say: ''This Atman can hardly be attained by weak (timid) persons.'' All sorts of forces have to
be encountered on the way. A dacoit or an anarchist can easily realise God because he is fearless. Only a push in the right
direction is necessary for him. Feeling of Separation One
day, after a course of sadhana for a long time, you will feel that you have separated yourself from the body. You will have
immense joy mixed with fear — joy in the possession of a new, light astral body and fear owing to the entry in a foreign,
unknown plane. At the very outset the new consciousness is very rudimentary in the new plane, just as in the case of a pup
with newly opened eyes on the eighth or tenth day on the physical plane. You will only feel that you have a light airy body
and will perceive a rotating, vibratory, limited astral atmosphere with illumination of golden lights, objects, beings, etc.
You may feel that you are rotating or floating in the air and consequently there will be the fear of falling. You will never
fall; but the new experience of subtlety generates novel feelings and sensations in the beginning. How you leave the body
remains unknown at the outset. Sometimes you will feel an invisible help (possibly from the ishta devata)
when you are actually pushed from the physical body into the new plane. That invisible power assists in your separation from
the body and going above body-consciousness. You will have to mark carefully all these operations. You will be suddenly startled
when you have completely separated and when you enter into the new plane, sometimes with a blue-coloured sphere all around,
sometimes with partial illumination mixed with darkness, while at other times with extremely brilliant golden yellow diffused
illumination. The new joy is inexpressible and indescribable. You will have to actually feel and experience it yourself. You
will be unaware of how you left the body, but you will be fully conscious of your returning. You will feel as if you gently
glide on a very, very smooth surface; as if you enter smoothly and gently through a small hole or fine tube with an airy,
light body. You will have an airy, ethereal feeling. Just as air enters through the crevices of a window, you will enter with
the new astral body into the physical body. I think I have expressed the idea lucidly. When you have returned
you can markedly differentiate the life in the gross and subtle planes. There is an intense craving to regain the new consciousness
and to remain in that state always. You are not able to stay for a period longer than three, five or ten minutes in the new
region. Further, you can hardly leave the body at will through simple willing, in the beginning. By chance, through effort,
you may be able to separate from the body once in a month in the course of sadhana. If you plod on with patience, perseverance
and firmness, you will be able to leave the body at will and stay for a longer time in the new plane with the new subtle body.
You will be quite safe from identification with the body. You have made conquest of the false identification with the body
only if you can leave the body at will and only if you are able to stay in the new region for two or three hours. Your position
is quite secure then and not otherwise. The vow of silence, solitude and living alone are necessary to achieve this end. After
continuous hard practice you will be able to separate yourself from the body very frequently. A habit is established. As soon
as you silence the thoughts and calm the mind, the mental habit of slipping from the physical body supervenes automatically.
There is no difficulty then. The mind enters the new groove and appears on a new stage or platform. Astral
Journey Simply by mere willing you can travel to any place you like with the astral body (astral travel,
astral journey) and there materialise by drawing the necessary materials either from the ego or the universal store-house.
The process is very simple to occultists and yogis who know the rationale, the detailed technique of the various operations,
albeit it seems extraordinary to poor mundane creatures with diverse emotions, passions and attachments. Thought-reading and
thought-transference also can be quite easily performed by those who can function with the astral body. Concentrated mental
rays can penetrate opaque walls, just as X-rays pass through bones. You first separate yourself from the
body, then you identify yourself with the mind and then you function on the mental plane with this fine body, just as you
do on this earth plane. Through concentration you rise above body-consciousness; through meditation you rise above mind; and
finally, through samadhi, you become one with Brahman. These are the three important, internal means in the achievement of
final beatitude. Visions The beings and objects with whom you are
in touch during the early period of meditation belong to the astral world. They are similar to human beings minus the physical
overcoat. They have desires, cravings, love, hatred, etc., just as human beings have. They have a fine body. They can move
about freely. They have powers of materialisation, dematerialisation, multiplying and clairvoyant vision of an inferior order.
The lustrous forms are higher devatas of mental or higher planes, who come down to give you darshan and encourage you. Various
powers manifest in lustrous forms. Adore them. Worship them. Do mental puja as soon as they give you darshan. Angels are beings
of mental or higher planes. They also appear before your mind's eye. When you get these experiences, when
you behold these visions, you will feel a peculiar, indescribable bliss. Do not get false contentment. Do not stop your sadhana
and meditation, thinking that you have attained the highest realisation. Do not attach much importance to these visions. You
have attained only the first degree of concentration. The highest goal or realisation is the profound silence or supreme peace
wherein all thoughts cease and you become identical with the supreme Self. Occasionally during meditation
you may behold a dazzling light with abrupt motion. You may behold a head of marvellous form, of the colour of a flame, red
as fire, and very awful to look at. It has three wings of marvellous length and breadth, white as a dazzling cloud. At times
they beat terribly, and again will be still. The head never utters a word, but remains altogether still. Sometimes
you will see an infinite blue sky, an ethereal space. You will see yourself in the blue space as a black dot. Your form will
appear in the centre of the light sometimes. Sometimes, you will notice highly vibratory, rotating particles in the light.
You will see physical forms, children, men and women, sages with beards, perfected souls (siddhas) and lustrous forms also.
Perfected souls and sages, etc., appear to encourage you. You will find a huge collection of devatas and celestial ladies
with various musical instruments in their hands. You will see beautiful flower gardens, fine palatial buildings, rivers, mountains,
golden temples — sceneries so lovely and picturesque as cannot be adequately described. Visions
are either subjective or objective, your own mental reactions or realities of finer planes of matter. The universe consists
of planes of matter of various grades of density. Rhythmical vibrations of subtle elements in various degrees give rise to
the formation of various planes. Each plane has its beings and things. Visions may be of these things or beings or they may
be purely imaginary. They may be a crystallization of your own intense thinking. You must discriminate in yoga practices.
Reason and common-sense must be used throughout. Don't waste your time in looking at these visions. This
is only a curiosity. These are all encouragements to convince you of the existence of super-physical, metaphysical realities
and the solid existence of Brahman. Drive out these pictures. They are all obstacles in the way. Fix yourself on the goal.
Advance. Proceed seriously and energetically. If you are timid you cannot march further. Draw power and courage from the Atman
within, the inexhaustible source. You will come across very good spirits also. They will help you a lot on your onward march. Aspirants
are eager to get spiritual experiences soon. When they get a flash of illumination they are afraid. They are awfully alarmed
when they go above the body consciousness. They entertain a passing wonder whether they will come back again, or not. Why
should they be afraid at all? Vision of God You will sometimes see
a vast golden bright light all around. Within the light you will see your ishta devata (chosen deity — e.g. Rama, Krishna,
Vishnu, Siva, Jesus, etc.) in front. Sometimes you will see yourself within the light. You may see your chosen
deity as big as a mountain shining like the sun. You may see the figure while eating, drinking or working. When you enjoy
the bliss of this vision you will experience no taste of food while eating. You will hear the continuous ringing of the veena.
You will see the blazing light of the sun. Sometimes you will feel the presence of your deity near
you. The image will begin to appear as living when you practise regular meditation. When you advance in meditation
you can see your deity in physical form. Lord Vishnu will give you darshan with four hands, Lord Krishna will appear before
you with flute in His hands, Rama with bow and arrow and Lord Siva with trident and drum. While meditating with closed eyes
on the image placed in your heart you will find that the image is becoming more and more luminous. Even with open eyes you
will see a bright sun or moon and lights of different colours. Sometimes the Lord will come before you
in the form of a beggar or a sick man with dirty rags. He may appear before you in the form of a coolie. You must have the
keen sense to detect Him. Your hair will stand on end when you meet Him. He appears in your dreams. Lord Ganesha comes in
the form of an elephant in dreams. Devi appears in the form of a girl in your dreams. Lights in Meditation Various kinds of lights manifest during meditation owing to concentration. In the beginning a bright white light
the size of a pin's point will appear in the forehead in the space between the two eyebrows, which corresponds approximately
to the ajna chakra of the astral body. When the eyes are closed you will notice different coloured lights — white, yellow,
red, smokey, blue, green, mixed — flashes like lightning, like fire, burning charcoal, fire-flies, moon, sun and stars.
These lights appear in the mental space. These are all subtle elemental lights. Each subtle element has its own specific colour.
The subtle element for earth has a yellow-coloured light; water has a white-coloured light; fire has a red-coloured light;
wind has a smokey light; space has a blue light. Yellow and white lights are very commonly seen. Red and blue lights are rarely
noticeable. Frequently, there is a combination of white and yellow lights. In the beginning small
balls of white light float about before the mind's eye. When you first observe this, be assured that the mind is becoming
more steady and that you are progressing in concentration. After some months the size of the light will increase and you will
see a full blaze of white light, bigger than the sun. In the beginning these lights are not steady. They come and disappear
immediately. They flash out from above the forehead and from the sides. They cause peculiar sensations of extreme joy and
happiness and there is an intense desire for a vision of these lights. When you have a steady and systematic practice of two
to three hours in the morning and two to three hours at night these lights will appear more frequently and remain steady for
a long time. As soon as you retire for sleep, just as you are drowsy and going to transcend the physical
consciousness, these lights manifest themselves without any exertion on your part. Also in the morning before you get up in
the transitional stage — half sleep, half awake — you will get these lights by themselves, without effort. The vision of the lights
is a great encouragement in sadhana. It impels you to stick steadily to meditation. It gives you strong faith also in super-physical
matters. The appearance of the lights denotes that you are transcending the physical consciousness. You are in a semi-conscious
state when the lights appear. You are between two planes. You must not shake the body when these lights manifest. You must
be perfectly steady in the posture. You must breathe very very slowly. For those who concentrate on the space between the
eyebrows, the light appears there, while for others who concentrate on the top of the head, the sahasrara chakra, the light
manifests on the top of the head. The light is so powerful and dazzling sometimes that you have to withdraw yourself from
looking at it and break the meditation. Some people become afraid and do not know what to do, how to proceed further. By constant
practice the mind engaged in concentration will become used to it and the fear will vanish. Go on with the practice. Some
people concentrate on the heart, some on the space between the eyebrows and some on the top of the head. It is a question
of personal taste. It is easy to control the mind by concentrating on the former. If you are used to fixing it there, stick
to it always. Don't make frequent changes. Steadiness is very necessary. -------------------------------------------------------- ‘Lights
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