World's wisdom teaching found in sacred texts, when misunderstood in the inferior terms of the waking mind's pride, and completely invisible to itself its impulse that rejoices in tearing down thousands of years of contemplative conclusions in service to personal interests, ambition, and gain, is a proud anti-evolutionary force.
Those of us whose moral duty is to perform the Will of the one Spirit, obey the inner call of our vocation. . .We have an obligation to affirm that, 'the experience of oneness in the mystical vision which shows that the triumph of one soul is the triumph of all', is a most precious thing *Gopi Krishna's Q*
It is not our job to change minds. We remind folks that observer-dependent Reality is disclosed by Yogic sciences and demonstrate that this Knowledge must be grounded in experience. . .That, our Depth data is very much verifiable by those who are qualified, and *remind* that genuine encounters with the Divine are transformative. . .
This is why, when someone tells me/us our 'contemplative conclusions are produced by innate human mental schemas projected onto experience rather than objective truth,' I see with crystal clear clarity, what they say has nothing to do with me/us.
We Sing
Beyond the framework of Logic, the vanity of its wisdom
Destroys itself in an empty space of Knowing. . .
Divine, immortal and spiritualized consciousness that's
Grounded in the Will and Power of the Supreme Being,
Acts freely through God-realized Soul *through human body*
Giving meaning to seemingly meaningless life. . .
Establishing a 'heaven on earth' for the benefit of all beings
Without 'what's in it for me', agenda.
Sri Aurobindo's explanation of 'true spirituality' makes sense to those of us who experience in every cell of our being the descent of Divine Beloved's Presence and its Transformative Influence/Power.
The following excerpt is from: Letters on Yoga:
It is a beautiful characater that you describe in your letter, a perfect type of the sattvic man, a fine and harmonised ethical nature supported and vivified by a fine and developed psychic being. But still, although it may be regarded as an excellent preparation for the spiritual life, it cannot by itself be called spirituality - unless indeed we reduce the meaning of the word to the connotation ordinarily given to reduce the meaning of the word to the connotation ordinarily given to it in the West where mental ideation, ethical striving, a flowering of fine character, altruism, self-sacrifice, self-denile, philantropy, service to manor are considered the height of spiritual aspiration or spiritual attainment. Obviously if that is to be the last word of earthly achievement, there is no need for anything farther; the close and vivid discovery of the soul and self, the straining towards that which is behind life and above mind, the passion for the Eternal or the Infinite, the hunger for a freedom and wideness of consciousness and existence not limited by the narrow moulds of intellect, character, and the past Life - aims of humanity, the thirst for union with the Divine or for the pure bliss and beauty of spiritual existence not tied down to mental and vital values must be dismissed as a superfluous dream for which there is neither place nor necessity here.
Yet these things have been not only dreamed of and hungered after but reached and tasted by beings born in a mortal and human body. Spirituality lies there; its essence consists in a bursting of the human mental, moral, aesthetic, vital moulds in order to reach beyond them and enter into a consciousness of which these are the very stuff, to which these experiences are native. Anything less than that, than a striving after it or at least a partial realisation of it is not spirituality.
The spiritual man is one who has realised something of it even if only in one aspect out of many; one who is striving after it is the spiritual seeker. All else however magnificently intellectual, ethical, aesthetically beautiful and harmonious, vitally splendid, great and forceful or physically perfect is a valuable achievement on the way, but not yet that, for one has not passed the Rubicon of mind into a new empire owing to the nature of the past evolution of consciousness and of spirituality itself, there has been much confusion on this point and there is still more today because of the present domination of the Western ideal.
On one side or another mental idealism, ethical development, altruistic charcter and action, religious piety and fervour, occult powers, feats of ascetic endurance have been put forward as the essence of spirituality or the test or proof of achievement or the signposts of the journey to spiritual perfection. It is ignored that any of these things may be there and yet there need not be any spiritual life behind it, any rebirth into a new consciousness or any remoulding of either the inner or the outer consciousness no longer in a higher or richer power of mind and life and body only, the instruments, but in the direct light and force of the hitherto veild user of the instrument, the now revealed and directly active soul, self, spirit or of the Divine or Eternal whose representatives or aspects they are.
This confusion meets us at every point and in all sorts of forms whose common error is to ignore the essence and core of the matter. The Western intellect presnts us with the strivings of the mind, life, emotions, passions, moral will and tells us these are the real spiritual things, man's high aim and endevour. *skip*
To seek one's own inner spiritual growth, to draw back from the ordianry life in order to reach something beyond, to search after the Divine above humanity is mere egoism, not true spirituality, but an aberration, a misdirection of the will and life. All that might be admirable and true - as certainly all the things those eulogised have their place in the human evolution, if the premise on which it were founded were true - that the seeking for something behind, something beyond, something of which the evolution of mind, life and body was only a veil or a preparation is an illusion and chimera.
But if these things are real, if the seeking is a lasting and major drive in Nature, then all those objections and recommendations are futile. For this drive will fulfill itself, this hidden reality will draw and draw us till we achieve it. Those who feel its call, cannot do otherwise then to follow and strive, even if need be leave all else for it, hold all other greatness, splendour, nobility, beauty as cheaper minor things compared with the this other Light and Greatness and Beauty of which they have had the vision, the intimation, the formless attraction or else the passing touch or glimpse.
Ever since Mind itself reached a certain development, there has been at first dimly and gropingly, then more and more clearly and intimately this drive in man towards something behind and beyond Man, towards the discovery or expression of something hidden in his being and a world existence which is more real then his surface self even at its best, greater, fuller, truer, more divine. To arrive at that can come only by a change of consciousness, a new basis of consciousness which is not the lower instrumental consciousness of mind, life and body. *skip*
For a mind is a twilight preparing for light, an ignorance seeking after knowledge, a bondage to Nature groping after freedom and mastery over Nature. It is not on mind, on its self-modifying ignorance and bondage or even on its half-light, half-mastery, half-knowledge that the next step can base itself. It must base itself on soul consciousness, consciousness of the spirit and self - for so only can there can be the full light, the spontaneous mastery, the intimate and real knowledge.
May whatever goodness arises from comprehending the subtlety of meaning couched within the written word. . .may it be for the benefit of all beings.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Divine Self Disclosure is Self Validating
Salvaging Immortal Teaching from the hands of Ignorance in service to the Divine, is a tall order in a world where, no matter how absurd the assertions, 'public men' get undivided attention and support from their followers. There are plenty of 'public women' (as well) who perform the Pre/Trans fallacy move. . .Today I will focus on debunking (biologist) Rupert Sheldrake's assertion that the 'Divine/Great Luminous Sun' - in the Gayatri mantra - refers to this planet's star. He calls is "conscious sun". . .since even, "childern think the sun is conscious and that's why, they draw it with smiley face".
*Pre/Trans fallacy occurs when any genuinally transegoic structure or state, is identified with the same structures that are pre-egoic.
& I can't post direct links, but Google search will find the video about 'conscious sun', by title: Mysteries of consciousness Kastrup, McGilchrist, Hoffman, and Rupert Sheldrake.
Sheldrake repeated the same 'the sun is conscious' argument, in an interview titled: Philosophy and Psychadelics youtube.com/watch?v=JOX_b_Sf7Fk
Divine Revelations unveil themselves to the (Sri Aurobindo's quote from Savitri): 'Unseen eye that looks at the unseen, when Light with the golden ecstasy fills his brain'. Those of us whose spiritual eye is open, know precisely what Sri A means. We know that philosophical conundrums and unanswerable questions about the nature of ultimate Reality, give up their secrets at the highest developmental stages. The 'Hidden Treasure Texts' can't be touched by the surface mind and its intellect. . . this is why the secular culture is not amused with what we are 'allowed' to See-Feel-Know. . .
Not amused at all we say that naturalistic explanations are impossible where there is no naturalistic explanation.
The Revealer of the Living Light of Knowledge (one's fully ascended/God-realized Soul) has a moral duty to obey the inner call of one's Vocation, by bringing to the world's spirituality table the Correct Knowledge. One who KNOWS this, knows that for one on the threshhold of divinity, no law can be framed, and no guide can exist on the physical plane. . .At this stage-point one's life becomes the Altar, and the body-mind the Sacrifice through which Divine Light and its Power-Will-Bliss flows into world's hologram via subtle planes - for the benefit of all beings - and, in Ken Wilber's words:
"The great Consciousness looking out through the eyes of every sentient being and in identity with all of the Kosmos."
I unpack this topic (Altar-Sacrifice) in great detail in The River of Light Revisited, published in 2019.
I am happy to say that my spiritual peers' texts match my experiences of the Divine:
Aurobindo's words from Forward in the Translation of the Rig Veda, ring loud and true: "Confronted with the stately hymns of the ancient dawn, we are conscious of a blank incomprehension. And we leave them as prey to the ingenuity of the scholar who gropes for forced meanings amid obscurities and incongruities where the ancients (Rishis) bathed their souls in harmony and light."
Vivekananda's interpretaion of Gayatri (of same line Sheldrake quoted):
"We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may She enlighten our minds".
In Radhakrishna's words on same: "We meditate on the effulgent glory of the divine Light, may he inspire our understanding."
From Gayatri Text (excerpts)
"42. Well concealed, and attainable only by great effort, is that subtle Bindu (Sunya) which is the chief root of Liberation and which manifests the pure Nirvana-Kala with Ama-Kala. Here is the Deva who is known to all as Parama Shiva. He is the Brahma and the Atma of all beings. In Him are united both Rasa and Virasa and He is the Sun which destroys the darkness of nescience and delusion.
46. Here is the excellent (supreme) sixteenth Kala and the Moon. She is pure and resembles (in colour) the young Sun. She is as thin as the hundreth part of a fiber in the stalk of a lotus. She is lustrous and soft like ten million lightning flashes, and is dawn-turned. From Her, whose source is the Brahman, flows copiously the continous stream of nectar (or, She is the receptacle of the stream of excellent nectar which comes from the blissful union of Para and Parma.)
48. Within its middle space (i.e., middle of the Nirvana-kala) shines the Supreme and Primordial Nirvana-Shakti; She is lustrous like ten million suns, and like unto the ten-millionth part of the end of a hair. She contains within Her the constantly flowing streams of gladness, and is the life of all beings. She graciously carries the knowledge of Truth (Tattva) to the mind of the sages."
"The Devi who is Suddha-sattva pierces *passes through an obstruction* the three Lingas, and, having reached all the lotuses which are known as the Brahma-nadi lotuses, shines therein in the fullness of Her lustre. Thereafter in Her subtle state, lustrous like lightning and fine like the lotus fiber, She goes to the gleaming flame-like Shiva, the Supreme Bliss and all of a sudden produces the bliss of Liberation."
Christian Saint Hildergard of Bingen, described her experience of a 'blinding light of exceptional brilliance': "And it came to pass in the eleven hundred and forty-first years and seven months old, that the heavens were opened and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire brain. And it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming. . .and suddenly I understood the meaning of the expositions of the books, that is, to say of the psalter, the evangelist, and other catholic books of the Old and new Testament."
In addition, from: The Symbolism of the Stupa, authored by Adrian Snodgrass: "The Great Sun, which is the metaphysical Sun, is not to be confused with the physical sun of our everyday experience. *skip* "Whereas the light of the physical sun is partite, shining in the daytime, but not at night, the Sun of Wisdom shines brilliantly in all places and at all times and everywhere throughout the Dharma (eternal) World. The Great Sun cannot truly be likened to the physical sun except by analogy; the physical sun is subject to the limitations of causality, whereas the Great Sun is wholly trandscendent. Therefore, it is called the Great Sun, Mahavairocana. The Supreme Sun "after elevation to the zenith shall no more rise nor set, but stand single in the Center. Hence this text;
"There is has not set, nor did it ever rise, it neither rises nor sets; once and for all it stands in heaven for him who knows the doctrine of the Brahman." The perceptible Sun is merely the likness of the Supernal Sun; it moves, and by its motion reassures the rhythms of time; but the Imperishable Sun; it is stationary, fixed in the eternal Present, in the punctual and Principle Instant whence time evolves."
When this very much Real SUN *initially* revealed itself to me in all its eye-dazzling glory, I marvelled at its brightness. Each time that happened I marveled less and less. . . One day I woke up within its Bright Splendour feeling utterly exhausted - subjectively it felt like I was a slumped over ragdoll, and asked that my energy be restored. And when I woke up in this dimension I felt super-energized and filled with gratitude.
Throughout this blog, I chronicle a variety of encouters with the 'Granter of Divine Knowledge' - which, initially I named "Uncreated Sun", later, "Solar Heart". Solar Heart Initiation Revisited, blog - penned in April 2019 - describes what the intensity of this type of 'Descent of the Divine Sun', feels/was like. (I can't post direct links)
Gopi Krishna in his book titled: The Real Nature of Mystical Experience, elaborates: "It has to be remembered that in the mystical ecstasy the intellect remains active. There is no blunting of the rational faculty. This is repeatedly mentioned in the Upanishads. Reason has to be satisfied that the experience is not a delusion. This means that the union is real" & "The human eye cannot even bear the sight of this splendour. It would be struck blind even when millions of miles away. Our consciousness is an extremely dilute form of this splendour.." & "In the mystical ecstasy the very self is transfigured. It becomes the subject and the object both. The Titanic Presence that now dominates the scene is the whole universe and the Soul of the individual at the same time."
We don't want to minimize some of the real differences between world's mystical traditions, we want to show that the super-liminal Order of Reality unveils itself - in all its aspects and beyond aspects - to the God-Realized Soul, no matter the tradition/religion. In other words, every genuine Saint/Mystic/Yogi bears witness to the same 'unalterable truth':
Saint Augustine put it this way:
"If we both see that what you say its true, and we both see that what I say its true, then where do we see that? Not I in you, nor you in me, but both of us in that unalterable truth that is above minds."
In words of Allma Prabhu, (tenth c. dionisian bhakti yoga mystic) on same theme:
"Looking for your Light, I went out (in meditation): It was like a sudden dawn of a million millions suns, a ganglion of lightnings for my wonder. O Lord of the Caves if you are light, there can be no metaphor."
Sri Aurobindo was the first being that verified for me what the 'Vedic Sun' (really) signifies: "The Sun in the (this) Yoga is the symbol of the supermind, and the supermind is the first power of the Supreme which one meets across the border where the experience of spiritualised mind ceases and the unmodified divine Consciousness begins the domain of the supreme nature."
May whatever goodness arises from comprehending the subtlety of meaning couched within the written word. . .may it be for the benefit of all beings.
*Pre/Trans fallacy occurs when any genuinally transegoic structure or state, is identified with the same structures that are pre-egoic.
& I can't post direct links, but Google search will find the video about 'conscious sun', by title: Mysteries of consciousness Kastrup, McGilchrist, Hoffman, and Rupert Sheldrake.
Sheldrake repeated the same 'the sun is conscious' argument, in an interview titled: Philosophy and Psychadelics youtube.com/watch?v=JOX_b_Sf7Fk
Divine Revelations unveil themselves to the (Sri Aurobindo's quote from Savitri): 'Unseen eye that looks at the unseen, when Light with the golden ecstasy fills his brain'. Those of us whose spiritual eye is open, know precisely what Sri A means. We know that philosophical conundrums and unanswerable questions about the nature of ultimate Reality, give up their secrets at the highest developmental stages. The 'Hidden Treasure Texts' can't be touched by the surface mind and its intellect. . . this is why the secular culture is not amused with what we are 'allowed' to See-Feel-Know. . .
Not amused at all we say that naturalistic explanations are impossible where there is no naturalistic explanation.
The Revealer of the Living Light of Knowledge (one's fully ascended/God-realized Soul) has a moral duty to obey the inner call of one's Vocation, by bringing to the world's spirituality table the Correct Knowledge. One who KNOWS this, knows that for one on the threshhold of divinity, no law can be framed, and no guide can exist on the physical plane. . .At this stage-point one's life becomes the Altar, and the body-mind the Sacrifice through which Divine Light and its Power-Will-Bliss flows into world's hologram via subtle planes - for the benefit of all beings - and, in Ken Wilber's words:
"The great Consciousness looking out through the eyes of every sentient being and in identity with all of the Kosmos."
I unpack this topic (Altar-Sacrifice) in great detail in The River of Light Revisited, published in 2019.
I am happy to say that my spiritual peers' texts match my experiences of the Divine:
Aurobindo's words from Forward in the Translation of the Rig Veda, ring loud and true: "Confronted with the stately hymns of the ancient dawn, we are conscious of a blank incomprehension. And we leave them as prey to the ingenuity of the scholar who gropes for forced meanings amid obscurities and incongruities where the ancients (Rishis) bathed their souls in harmony and light."
Vivekananda's interpretaion of Gayatri (of same line Sheldrake quoted):
"We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may She enlighten our minds".
In Radhakrishna's words on same: "We meditate on the effulgent glory of the divine Light, may he inspire our understanding."
From Gayatri Text (excerpts)
"42. Well concealed, and attainable only by great effort, is that subtle Bindu (Sunya) which is the chief root of Liberation and which manifests the pure Nirvana-Kala with Ama-Kala. Here is the Deva who is known to all as Parama Shiva. He is the Brahma and the Atma of all beings. In Him are united both Rasa and Virasa and He is the Sun which destroys the darkness of nescience and delusion.
46. Here is the excellent (supreme) sixteenth Kala and the Moon. She is pure and resembles (in colour) the young Sun. She is as thin as the hundreth part of a fiber in the stalk of a lotus. She is lustrous and soft like ten million lightning flashes, and is dawn-turned. From Her, whose source is the Brahman, flows copiously the continous stream of nectar (or, She is the receptacle of the stream of excellent nectar which comes from the blissful union of Para and Parma.)
48. Within its middle space (i.e., middle of the Nirvana-kala) shines the Supreme and Primordial Nirvana-Shakti; She is lustrous like ten million suns, and like unto the ten-millionth part of the end of a hair. She contains within Her the constantly flowing streams of gladness, and is the life of all beings. She graciously carries the knowledge of Truth (Tattva) to the mind of the sages."
"The Devi who is Suddha-sattva pierces *passes through an obstruction* the three Lingas, and, having reached all the lotuses which are known as the Brahma-nadi lotuses, shines therein in the fullness of Her lustre. Thereafter in Her subtle state, lustrous like lightning and fine like the lotus fiber, She goes to the gleaming flame-like Shiva, the Supreme Bliss and all of a sudden produces the bliss of Liberation."
Christian Saint Hildergard of Bingen, described her experience of a 'blinding light of exceptional brilliance': "And it came to pass in the eleven hundred and forty-first years and seven months old, that the heavens were opened and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire brain. And it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming. . .and suddenly I understood the meaning of the expositions of the books, that is, to say of the psalter, the evangelist, and other catholic books of the Old and new Testament."
In addition, from: The Symbolism of the Stupa, authored by Adrian Snodgrass: "The Great Sun, which is the metaphysical Sun, is not to be confused with the physical sun of our everyday experience. *skip* "Whereas the light of the physical sun is partite, shining in the daytime, but not at night, the Sun of Wisdom shines brilliantly in all places and at all times and everywhere throughout the Dharma (eternal) World. The Great Sun cannot truly be likened to the physical sun except by analogy; the physical sun is subject to the limitations of causality, whereas the Great Sun is wholly trandscendent. Therefore, it is called the Great Sun, Mahavairocana. The Supreme Sun "after elevation to the zenith shall no more rise nor set, but stand single in the Center. Hence this text;
"There is has not set, nor did it ever rise, it neither rises nor sets; once and for all it stands in heaven for him who knows the doctrine of the Brahman." The perceptible Sun is merely the likness of the Supernal Sun; it moves, and by its motion reassures the rhythms of time; but the Imperishable Sun; it is stationary, fixed in the eternal Present, in the punctual and Principle Instant whence time evolves."
When this very much Real SUN *initially* revealed itself to me in all its eye-dazzling glory, I marvelled at its brightness. Each time that happened I marveled less and less. . . One day I woke up within its Bright Splendour feeling utterly exhausted - subjectively it felt like I was a slumped over ragdoll, and asked that my energy be restored. And when I woke up in this dimension I felt super-energized and filled with gratitude.
Throughout this blog, I chronicle a variety of encouters with the 'Granter of Divine Knowledge' - which, initially I named "Uncreated Sun", later, "Solar Heart". Solar Heart Initiation Revisited, blog - penned in April 2019 - describes what the intensity of this type of 'Descent of the Divine Sun', feels/was like. (I can't post direct links)
Gopi Krishna in his book titled: The Real Nature of Mystical Experience, elaborates: "It has to be remembered that in the mystical ecstasy the intellect remains active. There is no blunting of the rational faculty. This is repeatedly mentioned in the Upanishads. Reason has to be satisfied that the experience is not a delusion. This means that the union is real" & "The human eye cannot even bear the sight of this splendour. It would be struck blind even when millions of miles away. Our consciousness is an extremely dilute form of this splendour.." & "In the mystical ecstasy the very self is transfigured. It becomes the subject and the object both. The Titanic Presence that now dominates the scene is the whole universe and the Soul of the individual at the same time."
We don't want to minimize some of the real differences between world's mystical traditions, we want to show that the super-liminal Order of Reality unveils itself - in all its aspects and beyond aspects - to the God-Realized Soul, no matter the tradition/religion. In other words, every genuine Saint/Mystic/Yogi bears witness to the same 'unalterable truth':
Saint Augustine put it this way:
"If we both see that what you say its true, and we both see that what I say its true, then where do we see that? Not I in you, nor you in me, but both of us in that unalterable truth that is above minds."
In words of Allma Prabhu, (tenth c. dionisian bhakti yoga mystic) on same theme:
"Looking for your Light, I went out (in meditation): It was like a sudden dawn of a million millions suns, a ganglion of lightnings for my wonder. O Lord of the Caves if you are light, there can be no metaphor."
Sri Aurobindo was the first being that verified for me what the 'Vedic Sun' (really) signifies: "The Sun in the (this) Yoga is the symbol of the supermind, and the supermind is the first power of the Supreme which one meets across the border where the experience of spiritualised mind ceases and the unmodified divine Consciousness begins the domain of the supreme nature."
May whatever goodness arises from comprehending the subtlety of meaning couched within the written word. . .may it be for the benefit of all beings.
Monday, July 10, 2023
Logos Speaks - link
I have been busy scribbling on Facebook in Logos Speaks, and the *open to public* Integral Global group (mostly). I have more to say in this blog, but for now, *those who are interested* can check out what I'm going on about in Logos Speaks.
For a reason unknown to me I am not able to include direct links - but if curious:
www.facebook.com/groups/250894076688624
For a reason unknown to me I am not able to include direct links - but if curious:
www.facebook.com/groups/250894076688624
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Higher Faculties See & Hear For You
Encounters with the Sacred/Divne are not only real, but transformative, and I am still in the process of refining the subtlety of meaning of Soul level experiences *initiations/intuition/visions/divine siddhis, at the apex-point of one's eternal self-Soul's evolution into wholeness and transcendence*, again, with the help of someone who discovered within his innermost interiority the existence of 'two sources of intuition - one in the heart and one above the head'. . .Which I 'knew already', but it hasn't occur to me to unpack it in a more 'substantial' way by including Sri Aurobindo's unpacking of how/in what sense and circumstance, 'higher faculties see and hear for us'.
With permission from Mr Sandeep,from: auromere.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/how-to-develop-intuition/ - to show that Intuition at this Kosmic adress, has nothing to do with 'gut feeling'.
"According to Sri Aurobindo and Mother, there are two sources of intuition - one in the heart and one above the head. These sources of intuition correspond to the two centers of the Divine in us - the soul or psychic being within the heart, and the central Being above the head."
The central Being above the head? . . .Is the Knower of the Field/Reality in all planes of creation = the Supramental/Awakened state of Mind - which is neither male or female. Everyone who is 'called' can become God-realized by making supreme effort in that direction.
Not a 'gut feeling', because, "The Supramental is by its very nature a consciousness of truth, a consciousness always free from that ignorance that forms the foundation in our present natural or evolutionary existence, and from which nature tries to reach within us to self-knowledge and world-knowledge, to a right consciousness and the correct use of our existence in the universe.
For its true nature is knowledge: it does not need to aquire knowledge, but posesses it by nature; it does not go from ignorance to some imperfect light, but from truth, from right vision to deeper vision, from intuition to further intuition, from enlightenment to extreme, limitless fullness of light, from growing vastness to complte boundlessness, to actual Infinity. At its peek it posessess the divine omniscience and the divine omnipotence, and even in the unfolding process of its own highest heights over time, it must be essentially free from ignorance and error according to its true nature: it proceeds from truth and light and always moves in truth and light.
Just as his knowledge is always in truth, so is his Will; it does not foolishly deal with things and does not stumble on its way. In the Supramental, even the feelings and sensations do not give up any of their truth, do not make mystakes or missteps, do not deviate from the right and real, and can neither abuse beauty nor bliss nor, twist their divine straighteness. In the Supramental, even the senses cannot be seduced or brutalized ; it is this rudeness and cumbersomness that their imperfections here are, which leads to further truth, and its unfinished work is a step towards perfection.
*skip* Once the truth consciousness here has built its own natural foundation, the development of divine life will be growth in joy; a departure through the light into bliss, the Ananda."
-Excerpt from: The Life Divine
This is why when I say, 'Supramental Revelation is the Communication of the Divine from the source of its nature, we/I mean it literally. Beings at this stage-point SEE instantly the Significane of the Vision's 'message' or, "from above the head", bear witness to what the experience of the descent of Light/Force/Bliss, into every fiber of our being is/feels like - which posts like: The River of Light Revisited, 2019, Solar Heart Initiation Revisited 2019, On Rapture Musings 2009, Cosmic Synchronicity Confirmation 2013, - in plain language and great detail, describe the 'effectiveness' of the true action of a spiritual truth-consciousness *because* "the higher spiritual planes create their own formulations in the subliminal in the depths within us" (but) "to know them Supermind must descend into us". Sri Aurobindo's quotes.
Example from the 'above the head', category?
My blog titled Cosmic Synchronicity Confirmation, describes my encouter with and Initiation/Descent of Divine Light-Bliss-Power from, Kwan Yin. Brief description:
I was alone in bed when I sensed someone's presence behind me. I turned to look and beheld gazing at me tenderly beautiful Woman. . .I knew She was "ignored" and asked (telepathic communication): "What's your name?" "Kwan Yin, do you like me?", She said. . ."Oh yes" . . .Next instant I watched Her walk towards the foot of the bed in the room now filled-to-brim with spiraling White Light. . . and every fiber of my being (now) filled with Bliss unimaginable floated within Nirvana's Bliss-Light. I heard myself moan a little because the bliss factor was so intense. And when I woke up in this dimension, Bhakti tears sealed this Grace-bestowed 'deal'.
Again, Aurobindo affirmed for me this type of Initiation/Event originates *among countless others* "in a region of higher consciousness, which would seem to pertain more to a very high stage of realization, far beyond ordinary nonduality, rather than intuition in the ordinary sense of the term. To avoid this confusion, I sometimes refer to it Revelatory Absolute."
Example from the 'heart-source' category? Many years ago, my spiritual eye (open brow chakra) beheld two bright stars' spiraling down action . . . the closer they got to Earth plane, the brighter and larger their Form. . .In their now morphed Form, still in silver bright glory, in the shape of two very large old fashioned looking Ploughs, graced my front yard. AND, instantly I understood what my 'walking orders': 'you will work hard in the visible and invisible planes of existence'.
This is why when I say: 'I have a moral duty to obey the inner call of my Vocation', I mean it literally.
Sri Aurobindos' Yoga of Self-Perfection on Intuition resonates with me to a t:
" The intuitive mind dealing with the triple time movement has to see rightly in thought sense and vision three things, actualities, possibilities and imperatives. There is first a primary intuitive action developed which sees principly the stream of successive actualities in time, even as the ordinary mind, but with an immeditae directness of truth and spontaneous accuracy of which the ordinary mind is not capable. It sees them first by a perception, a thought action, a thought sense, a thought vision, which at once detects the forces at work on persons and things, the thoughts intentions, impulsions, energies, influences in and around them, those already formulated in them and these in process of formation, those too that are coming or about to come into or upon them from the environment or from the secret forces invisible to the normal mind, distinguishes by a rapid intuitive vision of actualities, but there are others that are less complete in their character. (skip) This kind of intuitive knowledge is not an entirely perfect instrument of time knowledge. *skip*
It is possible to however to develop a mind of lumnious inspiration which will be more at home among the greater potentialities. . . + This inspired mind will see things in the light of the world's larger potentialities and not the stream of actualitie as a selection and result from the mass of forecful possibilities. It will be liable, however, if it is not attended with a sufficient rvelatory knowledge of imperatives, to a hesitation or suspension of determining view as between various potential lines of movement away from the line of eventual actuality and following another not yet applicable sequence
The aid of imperative revelations from above will help diminish this limitation, but here again there will be difficulty of an inferior power dealing with the materials given to it from the treasury of a higher light and force.
But it is possible to develop too a mind of luminous revelation which taking into itself the two inferior movements sees what is determined behind the play of potentialities and actualities and observe these later as its means of develepoing its imperative decision. An intuitive mind thus constituted and aided by an active psychic consciousness may be in command of a very remarkable power of time kowledge. *skip
It is therefore in relation to the truth of supermind that its workings can be more effectively elucidated : for the mind of knowledge is only a projection and a last step in the ascent towards the supramental,."
intyoga.online.fr/ysp_25.htm
One of the most intriguing (for me) activated in the superconscious field of mind 'Soul powers' are called 'Pramakaya' and 'Vyapati', wich *again" Sri Aurobindo confirmed for me after many years of not having a clue others experienced and named long time ago. The following quote is from auromere blog: "The capricious sprak of intuition when briefly flashed during occurrences of synchronicity ripens in self-realized sages into highly refind powers (Siddhis) called Prakamaya and Vyapati. It is through Prakamaya that one gains knowledge of the "present states of mind, feeling, sensation, etc. of others, and with Vyapati, that we "communicate anything we have in our systems, thought, feeling, power, etc. to another."
Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute / the Divine in its Infinite Essence. . ."cannot be reached by the exclusive pursuit of a single line identity that is raised to its absolute; it must harmonise many aspects of the infinite. An Integral consciousness with a multi-form dynamic experience is essential for the complete transformation." - Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo's biographer, Satprem (1970: p.256), likewise describes the unusual states Aurobindo experienced in the course of his spiritual development but notes:
Sri Aurobindo was first to be baffled by his own experience and. . .it took him some years to understand exactly what had happened. We have described the. . .experience. . .as though the stages had been linked very carefully, each with its explanatory label. but the explanations came long afterwards, at that moment he had no guiding landmarks."
-Excerpt from: The Meditative Mind The Varieties of Meditative Experience, penned by Daniel Goleman.
I discovered Aurobindo's work many years after my Soul level experiences *Kundalini Shakti, style* started, and looked to saints for 'clues'.
2023-12-01 Today I'm excited to edit-include excerpts on 'supernormal powers' in the Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga - from book penned by Daniel Goleman, titled: The Meditative Mind The Varieties of Meditative Experience. "The combination dharana, dhyana, and samadhi is a state called samyama. This highly concentrated state holds the key to supernormal powers such as clairvoyance and telepathy. The Sutras have a lengthy section on how to applysamyama to gain various powers. *skip* As in the Visuddhimagga, the Sutras see these powers as subtle snares for the seeker. The yogi is urged to give up these seductive traps as last temptation for the ego. *skip* It is samadhi that is taught as the heart of yoga; Vivekananda (1970) says, "Samadhi is Yoga proper; that is the highest means." *skip*
Nirvikalpa is the deepest samadhi; in it, mind is at its stillest. *skip* In this, says one commentator, "an avalanche of indescribable bliss sweeps away all relative ideas of pain and blame. . .All doubts and misgivings are quelled forever; the oscillations of mind are stopped; the momentum of past actions is exhausted." But one limit of nirvikalpa samadhi is that it can be enjoyed only while the yogi remains still, absorbed in deep meditation.
The final step in ashtanga yoga is extending the deep stillness of samadhi into the yogi's waking state. When samadhi spreads throughout the other states so that no activity or inner stirring can dislodge its hold on the yogi's mind, this marks him as jivan-mukti, a liberated man."
I agree with all of that, and think the reason my 'supernormal powers' are intact still *even though I got plugged to Final Samadhi*, is because all of these different 'powers' feel utterly 'normal'. I never aspired to be 'spiritual', either, but it happened 'naturally' because I was born with unbroken continuity of awareness. My eternal self-Soul was ready to fulfill her 'ancient plan' in this lifetime and it felt utterly 'natural' for me to plead: "Your Will not mine be done!"
Anyone at this stage-point will know what the experiences *felt in every fiber of one's being* of what 'godlike release' is/feels like. Aurobindo's words confirm this for me
"One-pointed to the immaculate Delight
Questing for God as for a splendid prey
He mounted burning like a cone of fire.
To few is given that godlike release."
-Savitri, Book 1.
I am fulfilling the Kosmic purpose by asserting that, when the meeting of Soul and Divine Beloved is genuine, it is impossible to get sucked into a vortex of deception and inflation, not possible to get lost in the intermediate zone.
With permission from Mr Sandeep,from: auromere.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/how-to-develop-intuition/ - to show that Intuition at this Kosmic adress, has nothing to do with 'gut feeling'.
"According to Sri Aurobindo and Mother, there are two sources of intuition - one in the heart and one above the head. These sources of intuition correspond to the two centers of the Divine in us - the soul or psychic being within the heart, and the central Being above the head."
The central Being above the head? . . .Is the Knower of the Field/Reality in all planes of creation = the Supramental/Awakened state of Mind - which is neither male or female. Everyone who is 'called' can become God-realized by making supreme effort in that direction.
Not a 'gut feeling', because, "The Supramental is by its very nature a consciousness of truth, a consciousness always free from that ignorance that forms the foundation in our present natural or evolutionary existence, and from which nature tries to reach within us to self-knowledge and world-knowledge, to a right consciousness and the correct use of our existence in the universe.
For its true nature is knowledge: it does not need to aquire knowledge, but posesses it by nature; it does not go from ignorance to some imperfect light, but from truth, from right vision to deeper vision, from intuition to further intuition, from enlightenment to extreme, limitless fullness of light, from growing vastness to complte boundlessness, to actual Infinity. At its peek it posessess the divine omniscience and the divine omnipotence, and even in the unfolding process of its own highest heights over time, it must be essentially free from ignorance and error according to its true nature: it proceeds from truth and light and always moves in truth and light.
Just as his knowledge is always in truth, so is his Will; it does not foolishly deal with things and does not stumble on its way. In the Supramental, even the feelings and sensations do not give up any of their truth, do not make mystakes or missteps, do not deviate from the right and real, and can neither abuse beauty nor bliss nor, twist their divine straighteness. In the Supramental, even the senses cannot be seduced or brutalized ; it is this rudeness and cumbersomness that their imperfections here are, which leads to further truth, and its unfinished work is a step towards perfection.
*skip* Once the truth consciousness here has built its own natural foundation, the development of divine life will be growth in joy; a departure through the light into bliss, the Ananda."
-Excerpt from: The Life Divine
This is why when I say, 'Supramental Revelation is the Communication of the Divine from the source of its nature, we/I mean it literally. Beings at this stage-point SEE instantly the Significane of the Vision's 'message' or, "from above the head", bear witness to what the experience of the descent of Light/Force/Bliss, into every fiber of our being is/feels like - which posts like: The River of Light Revisited, 2019, Solar Heart Initiation Revisited 2019, On Rapture Musings 2009, Cosmic Synchronicity Confirmation 2013, - in plain language and great detail, describe the 'effectiveness' of the true action of a spiritual truth-consciousness *because* "the higher spiritual planes create their own formulations in the subliminal in the depths within us" (but) "to know them Supermind must descend into us". Sri Aurobindo's quotes.
Example from the 'above the head', category?
My blog titled Cosmic Synchronicity Confirmation, describes my encouter with and Initiation/Descent of Divine Light-Bliss-Power from, Kwan Yin. Brief description:
I was alone in bed when I sensed someone's presence behind me. I turned to look and beheld gazing at me tenderly beautiful Woman. . .I knew She was "ignored" and asked (telepathic communication): "What's your name?" "Kwan Yin, do you like me?", She said. . ."Oh yes" . . .Next instant I watched Her walk towards the foot of the bed in the room now filled-to-brim with spiraling White Light. . . and every fiber of my being (now) filled with Bliss unimaginable floated within Nirvana's Bliss-Light. I heard myself moan a little because the bliss factor was so intense. And when I woke up in this dimension, Bhakti tears sealed this Grace-bestowed 'deal'.
Again, Aurobindo affirmed for me this type of Initiation/Event originates *among countless others* "in a region of higher consciousness, which would seem to pertain more to a very high stage of realization, far beyond ordinary nonduality, rather than intuition in the ordinary sense of the term. To avoid this confusion, I sometimes refer to it Revelatory Absolute."
Example from the 'heart-source' category? Many years ago, my spiritual eye (open brow chakra) beheld two bright stars' spiraling down action . . . the closer they got to Earth plane, the brighter and larger their Form. . .In their now morphed Form, still in silver bright glory, in the shape of two very large old fashioned looking Ploughs, graced my front yard. AND, instantly I understood what my 'walking orders': 'you will work hard in the visible and invisible planes of existence'.
This is why when I say: 'I have a moral duty to obey the inner call of my Vocation', I mean it literally.
Sri Aurobindos' Yoga of Self-Perfection on Intuition resonates with me to a t:
" The intuitive mind dealing with the triple time movement has to see rightly in thought sense and vision three things, actualities, possibilities and imperatives. There is first a primary intuitive action developed which sees principly the stream of successive actualities in time, even as the ordinary mind, but with an immeditae directness of truth and spontaneous accuracy of which the ordinary mind is not capable. It sees them first by a perception, a thought action, a thought sense, a thought vision, which at once detects the forces at work on persons and things, the thoughts intentions, impulsions, energies, influences in and around them, those already formulated in them and these in process of formation, those too that are coming or about to come into or upon them from the environment or from the secret forces invisible to the normal mind, distinguishes by a rapid intuitive vision of actualities, but there are others that are less complete in their character. (skip) This kind of intuitive knowledge is not an entirely perfect instrument of time knowledge. *skip*
It is possible to however to develop a mind of lumnious inspiration which will be more at home among the greater potentialities. . . + This inspired mind will see things in the light of the world's larger potentialities and not the stream of actualitie as a selection and result from the mass of forecful possibilities. It will be liable, however, if it is not attended with a sufficient rvelatory knowledge of imperatives, to a hesitation or suspension of determining view as between various potential lines of movement away from the line of eventual actuality and following another not yet applicable sequence
The aid of imperative revelations from above will help diminish this limitation, but here again there will be difficulty of an inferior power dealing with the materials given to it from the treasury of a higher light and force.
But it is possible to develop too a mind of luminous revelation which taking into itself the two inferior movements sees what is determined behind the play of potentialities and actualities and observe these later as its means of develepoing its imperative decision. An intuitive mind thus constituted and aided by an active psychic consciousness may be in command of a very remarkable power of time kowledge. *skip
It is therefore in relation to the truth of supermind that its workings can be more effectively elucidated : for the mind of knowledge is only a projection and a last step in the ascent towards the supramental,."
intyoga.online.fr/ysp_25.htm
One of the most intriguing (for me) activated in the superconscious field of mind 'Soul powers' are called 'Pramakaya' and 'Vyapati', wich *again" Sri Aurobindo confirmed for me after many years of not having a clue others experienced and named long time ago. The following quote is from auromere blog: "The capricious sprak of intuition when briefly flashed during occurrences of synchronicity ripens in self-realized sages into highly refind powers (Siddhis) called Prakamaya and Vyapati. It is through Prakamaya that one gains knowledge of the "present states of mind, feeling, sensation, etc. of others, and with Vyapati, that we "communicate anything we have in our systems, thought, feeling, power, etc. to another."
Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute / the Divine in its Infinite Essence. . ."cannot be reached by the exclusive pursuit of a single line identity that is raised to its absolute; it must harmonise many aspects of the infinite. An Integral consciousness with a multi-form dynamic experience is essential for the complete transformation." - Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo's biographer, Satprem (1970: p.256), likewise describes the unusual states Aurobindo experienced in the course of his spiritual development but notes:
Sri Aurobindo was first to be baffled by his own experience and. . .it took him some years to understand exactly what had happened. We have described the. . .experience. . .as though the stages had been linked very carefully, each with its explanatory label. but the explanations came long afterwards, at that moment he had no guiding landmarks."
-Excerpt from: The Meditative Mind The Varieties of Meditative Experience, penned by Daniel Goleman.
I discovered Aurobindo's work many years after my Soul level experiences *Kundalini Shakti, style* started, and looked to saints for 'clues'.
2023-12-01 Today I'm excited to edit-include excerpts on 'supernormal powers' in the Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga - from book penned by Daniel Goleman, titled: The Meditative Mind The Varieties of Meditative Experience. "The combination dharana, dhyana, and samadhi is a state called samyama. This highly concentrated state holds the key to supernormal powers such as clairvoyance and telepathy. The Sutras have a lengthy section on how to applysamyama to gain various powers. *skip* As in the Visuddhimagga, the Sutras see these powers as subtle snares for the seeker. The yogi is urged to give up these seductive traps as last temptation for the ego. *skip* It is samadhi that is taught as the heart of yoga; Vivekananda (1970) says, "Samadhi is Yoga proper; that is the highest means." *skip*
Nirvikalpa is the deepest samadhi; in it, mind is at its stillest. *skip* In this, says one commentator, "an avalanche of indescribable bliss sweeps away all relative ideas of pain and blame. . .All doubts and misgivings are quelled forever; the oscillations of mind are stopped; the momentum of past actions is exhausted." But one limit of nirvikalpa samadhi is that it can be enjoyed only while the yogi remains still, absorbed in deep meditation.
The final step in ashtanga yoga is extending the deep stillness of samadhi into the yogi's waking state. When samadhi spreads throughout the other states so that no activity or inner stirring can dislodge its hold on the yogi's mind, this marks him as jivan-mukti, a liberated man."
I agree with all of that, and think the reason my 'supernormal powers' are intact still *even though I got plugged to Final Samadhi*, is because all of these different 'powers' feel utterly 'normal'. I never aspired to be 'spiritual', either, but it happened 'naturally' because I was born with unbroken continuity of awareness. My eternal self-Soul was ready to fulfill her 'ancient plan' in this lifetime and it felt utterly 'natural' for me to plead: "Your Will not mine be done!"
Anyone at this stage-point will know what the experiences *felt in every fiber of one's being* of what 'godlike release' is/feels like. Aurobindo's words confirm this for me
"One-pointed to the immaculate Delight
Questing for God as for a splendid prey
He mounted burning like a cone of fire.
To few is given that godlike release."
-Savitri, Book 1.
I am fulfilling the Kosmic purpose by asserting that, when the meeting of Soul and Divine Beloved is genuine, it is impossible to get sucked into a vortex of deception and inflation, not possible to get lost in the intermediate zone.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Spirit Speaks
Oh dear, I didn't expect my second blog entry scribbled in Spirit Speaks (2009), titled Spirit Speaks *poem* would park itself at top of page (2023), after edit-expansion. I dare say it was a struggle to get going, yet filled with uncanny determination to disclose what introduced itself to the awareness of my non-biological Soul. . .so aware my writing skills are lame. . .painfuly aware of the burden of a duty to obey the inner call of my vocation. . . to bear witness to what 'genuine mysticism', is. Immensely grateful for encouragment by brilliant writers to keep going even when going got though. Not yet curious about Sri Aurobindo's work when I began writing here, as I was convinced his work is beyond my comprehension - because I read some call him "giant of consciousness" - but that changed when I got curious what the fuss was about, and to my great surprise discovered *once my brain got used to his terminologies* that 'I already know this, because this happened to me'!
One of those for-me-encouraging writers, was Ken Wilber - author of many books on human development and consciousness. The following passages are from One Taste:
"...all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout from the heart--perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance'perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example - but autheticity always and absolutely carries a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake that spiritual tree, and shine those headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Alas, if you fail to do so you are betraing your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset yourself. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
& "I don't mean to be harsh here, and we must honor all lesser engagements. Nonetheless, you must have noticed that the word "soul" is now the hottest item in book sales - but all "soul" really means, in most these books, is simply ego in drag. "Soul" has come to denote, in this feeding frenzy of translative grasping, not that which is timeless in you but that which most loudly trashes around in time, and thus "care of the soul" incomprehensively means nothing much more than focusing intensely on your ardently separate self. Likewise, "spiritual" is on everybody's lips, but usually all it really means is any intense egoic feeling, just as "heart" has come to mean any sincere sentiment of the self-contraction."
YES! I see it today - see the kind of silliness that passes for spiritual "Enlightenment", and cringe.
*My blog's avatar name 'theofilia' is made up, because I wanted to write incognito to keep cyber bullies off my back*
* In 2009 March 3, felt like scribbling Spirit Speaks - now in its expaned form begins with few quotes penned by a modern day Christian mystic, Bernadette Roberts*
"What the "no-self" event reveals is that union with God is not the end but the beginning of our life with God. The end of the journey comes many years after union."
"With years of selfless giving, the self is literally eroded away as God consumes more and more of the human being. Now, "beautiful, holy and strong." & "What remains now is the mystery of Resurrection, of Christ and the Trinity."
"Maturity, possible only through the grace of God. The Self, the mature human in a state of union with God, also falls away."
- Bernadette Roberts
I agree that Soul level Enlightenment/Liberation grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence, 'comes many years after union'.
In this blog, I will attempt to describe to the best of my ability what happened *to me* on this path without a map. It includes descriptions of many types of mystical experiences in the subtle domain as well as Soul level Initiations, before one attains the Supreme Liberation, or the Final Samadhi.
Will begin by saying: My child-self was quite psychic already, already capable of being fully awake in dream states, already felt stirrings welling up within me compelling me to 'act' on them': Like the time I drew a large circle and standing in its middle gazing intently upon sky's star-studded canopy, feeling in every fiber of being a sense of incredible 'immensity', and a sense of deep yearning to know something my child's mind-heart/the evolving soul personality had no access to. . .didn't know then, that I was born with unbroken continuity of awareness and in due time, in this incarnation, my eternal self-Soul will fulfil her 'ancient plan' by Grace-bestowed descends of Divine Peace, the descent of Force or Power, the descent of Light, the descend of Ananda/Divine Bliss. Sri Aurobindo confirmed for this for me: "One feels the Force only when when one is conscious of contact with it."
In 94' I wrote Spirit Speaks, not yet written from the fully embodied level.
We are Earth, Fire, Water and Air
We are many names and faces
Many loves and hatreds.
We are beggars, we are royal
We are Serpent the knowledge giver (Kundalini Shakti)
We are blind, we are wise
We are dark and light
We are . . .
Contorted past
Land heaving
Waters churning
Sky watchful
Sublime beauty revealed
Spirit manifest
Exalted, mysterious
Forever more blessed be!
Is it you and me?
One of those for-me-encouraging writers, was Ken Wilber - author of many books on human development and consciousness. The following passages are from One Taste:
"...all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout from the heart--perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance'perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example - but autheticity always and absolutely carries a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake that spiritual tree, and shine those headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Alas, if you fail to do so you are betraing your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset yourself. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
& "I don't mean to be harsh here, and we must honor all lesser engagements. Nonetheless, you must have noticed that the word "soul" is now the hottest item in book sales - but all "soul" really means, in most these books, is simply ego in drag. "Soul" has come to denote, in this feeding frenzy of translative grasping, not that which is timeless in you but that which most loudly trashes around in time, and thus "care of the soul" incomprehensively means nothing much more than focusing intensely on your ardently separate self. Likewise, "spiritual" is on everybody's lips, but usually all it really means is any intense egoic feeling, just as "heart" has come to mean any sincere sentiment of the self-contraction."
YES! I see it today - see the kind of silliness that passes for spiritual "Enlightenment", and cringe.
*My blog's avatar name 'theofilia' is made up, because I wanted to write incognito to keep cyber bullies off my back*
* In 2009 March 3, felt like scribbling Spirit Speaks - now in its expaned form begins with few quotes penned by a modern day Christian mystic, Bernadette Roberts*
"What the "no-self" event reveals is that union with God is not the end but the beginning of our life with God. The end of the journey comes many years after union."
"With years of selfless giving, the self is literally eroded away as God consumes more and more of the human being. Now, "beautiful, holy and strong." & "What remains now is the mystery of Resurrection, of Christ and the Trinity."
"Maturity, possible only through the grace of God. The Self, the mature human in a state of union with God, also falls away."
- Bernadette Roberts
I agree that Soul level Enlightenment/Liberation grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence, 'comes many years after union'.
In this blog, I will attempt to describe to the best of my ability what happened *to me* on this path without a map. It includes descriptions of many types of mystical experiences in the subtle domain as well as Soul level Initiations, before one attains the Supreme Liberation, or the Final Samadhi.
Will begin by saying: My child-self was quite psychic already, already capable of being fully awake in dream states, already felt stirrings welling up within me compelling me to 'act' on them': Like the time I drew a large circle and standing in its middle gazing intently upon sky's star-studded canopy, feeling in every fiber of being a sense of incredible 'immensity', and a sense of deep yearning to know something my child's mind-heart/the evolving soul personality had no access to. . .didn't know then, that I was born with unbroken continuity of awareness and in due time, in this incarnation, my eternal self-Soul will fulfil her 'ancient plan' by Grace-bestowed descends of Divine Peace, the descent of Force or Power, the descent of Light, the descend of Ananda/Divine Bliss. Sri Aurobindo confirmed for this for me: "One feels the Force only when when one is conscious of contact with it."
In 94' I wrote Spirit Speaks, not yet written from the fully embodied level.
We are Earth, Fire, Water and Air
We are many names and faces
Many loves and hatreds.
We are beggars, we are royal
We are Serpent the knowledge giver (Kundalini Shakti)
We are blind, we are wise
We are dark and light
We are . . .
Contorted past
Land heaving
Waters churning
Sky watchful
Sublime beauty revealed
Spirit manifest
Exalted, mysterious
Forever more blessed be!
Is it you and me?
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Finally!
Finally got around to edit^expand^tweak
now 'good enough'
The Way of the Supramental Yoga, scribbled in 2021
&
Finally, got around to tweak/edit-improve
Immortans Tread Earth With Mortal Feet
& while at it changed the title to:
Bridging the Gap.
now 'good enough'
The Way of the Supramental Yoga, scribbled in 2021
&
Finally, got around to tweak/edit-improve
Immortans Tread Earth With Mortal Feet
& while at it changed the title to:
Bridging the Gap.
Monday, January 16, 2023
Blaming My Ways on Karma 2.0
Master science, or Yogic Supramental science and its Depth data's evolutionary significance *couched within the written word*, flies under the 'reasoning' mind's radar. This is perfectly 'normal' for the earlier developmental stages and the reason I say, 'what I share is not everyone's cup of tea, so please ignore it'. What is 'not normal', is its insistence *by someone who doesn't know me, doesn't know my history, doesn't know/can't see what forces animate me* that, unless I 'go out into the world and ground the love in helping others', what I bear witness to *my contribution to the evolution of consciousness* is meaningless. . .Will such mind ever see that it is forcing upon me that which I have outgrown and back off?
Not as long its 'humility code' doesn't come on line.
What is it that I have 'outgrown', then?
My *free of charge* service to the world that arose spontaneously and powerfully within my interiority many years ago. Now the question arises: So even if the pride-mind sees a list of some of my 'grounding love' contributions, will it conclude, 'I don't believe her'? *in order to keep itself 'safe' from seeing its Ignorance?
I care not one iota. . . because I know who I am, I know that Depth's data viewed through a prism already familiar to it, doesn't 'supposed' to see value in what I share.
1. I worked 'for the environment' with other like-mind folks * planted trees, educated others, etc. *
2. Wrote tear-stained Letters to the Editor (which read more like 'essays'), opening mind-hearts to our species blindness resulting in harming ourselves, ignoring the needs of the developing countries and its horrific stats of children dying by the thousands from lack of basic needs, offering solutions. One of those letters our co-worker showed to my husband, with big grin teasing: "your wife wrote this". . .and then my husband said "yes". This guy knew me and I bet, if asked why he was surprised I wrote it, he would say what most people saw. . .a soft spoken sort with wild hair, slim figure and sunny disposition, (even) capable of confronting a violent bully who knocked co-worker/Joan's teeth out, *and 'paying' for it by losing our respect and job-loss* but writing something he found inspiring, was another thing.
May as well include a brief description of what transpired when I found out what happened to Joan - and how the 'surprising' aspect of my persoality trait I was born with which doesn't need anyone's permission to come out in all its fierce indignation glory*, inspired others to show the bully his violent act will not be tolerated.
Joan got her teeth broken because she was transitioning to becoming a lipstic and pink t-shirt wearing, woman. . .
After I told him/bully what he needed to hear and challanged to do same to me - he shook his head 'no' - the men in his department decided to show him they felt the same outrage I felt and proceeded to *creatively express it* in a shape of two large banners, one of which hung above the entrance door, the other above the punch clock. The banners included some of the words I hissed at him, as well demand he quits.
The boss thanked me "for what you did". I wrote this story in, The Green Eye Monster? *one of my early years posts*.
3. Donating money to a relgious humanitarian organization to help build a well in Africa.
4. 'Donating' time/energy to help school teachers.
5. Donating blood.
The stage I work from 'spiritualy', Sri Aurobindo expressed beautifully:
"But you are surely mistaken in thinking that we work spiritually for the relief of the poor. I have never done that. My work is not to intervene in social matters within the frame of the present humanity but to bring down a higher spiritual light and power of a higher character which will make a radical change in the earth-consciousness." + "It is true that I want the supramental not for myself but for the earth and souls born on the earth, and certainly therefore I cannot object of anybody to want the supramental. But there are the conditions. He must want the Divine Will first and the soul's surrender and the spiritual realisation (through works, bhakti, knowledge, self-perfection) on the way."
Quotes from, Complete Works.
Sri Yukteswar asserted, and I agree that: "The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole world by his subtle vibrations and the less he himself is affected by it."
I wrote: The Liberated Soul / Conscious Partner of the Divine Beloved, becomes a perfect instrument through which the Divine Force-Power baptizes the visible and invisible domains of creation without uttering a single word.
The River Of Light Revisited, unpacks this 'Baptizing' topic in great detail.
* I wrote: Happily Blaming My Ways on Karma, in May 2020 - this post reads like 'part 2', hence same title.
Not as long its 'humility code' doesn't come on line.
What is it that I have 'outgrown', then?
My *free of charge* service to the world that arose spontaneously and powerfully within my interiority many years ago. Now the question arises: So even if the pride-mind sees a list of some of my 'grounding love' contributions, will it conclude, 'I don't believe her'? *in order to keep itself 'safe' from seeing its Ignorance?
I care not one iota. . . because I know who I am, I know that Depth's data viewed through a prism already familiar to it, doesn't 'supposed' to see value in what I share.
1. I worked 'for the environment' with other like-mind folks * planted trees, educated others, etc. *
2. Wrote tear-stained Letters to the Editor (which read more like 'essays'), opening mind-hearts to our species blindness resulting in harming ourselves, ignoring the needs of the developing countries and its horrific stats of children dying by the thousands from lack of basic needs, offering solutions. One of those letters our co-worker showed to my husband, with big grin teasing: "your wife wrote this". . .and then my husband said "yes". This guy knew me and I bet, if asked why he was surprised I wrote it, he would say what most people saw. . .a soft spoken sort with wild hair, slim figure and sunny disposition, (even) capable of confronting a violent bully who knocked co-worker/Joan's teeth out, *and 'paying' for it by losing our respect and job-loss* but writing something he found inspiring, was another thing.
May as well include a brief description of what transpired when I found out what happened to Joan - and how the 'surprising' aspect of my persoality trait I was born with which doesn't need anyone's permission to come out in all its fierce indignation glory*, inspired others to show the bully his violent act will not be tolerated.
Joan got her teeth broken because she was transitioning to becoming a lipstic and pink t-shirt wearing, woman. . .
After I told him/bully what he needed to hear and challanged to do same to me - he shook his head 'no' - the men in his department decided to show him they felt the same outrage I felt and proceeded to *creatively express it* in a shape of two large banners, one of which hung above the entrance door, the other above the punch clock. The banners included some of the words I hissed at him, as well demand he quits.
The boss thanked me "for what you did". I wrote this story in, The Green Eye Monster? *one of my early years posts*.
3. Donating money to a relgious humanitarian organization to help build a well in Africa.
4. 'Donating' time/energy to help school teachers.
5. Donating blood.
The stage I work from 'spiritualy', Sri Aurobindo expressed beautifully:
"But you are surely mistaken in thinking that we work spiritually for the relief of the poor. I have never done that. My work is not to intervene in social matters within the frame of the present humanity but to bring down a higher spiritual light and power of a higher character which will make a radical change in the earth-consciousness." + "It is true that I want the supramental not for myself but for the earth and souls born on the earth, and certainly therefore I cannot object of anybody to want the supramental. But there are the conditions. He must want the Divine Will first and the soul's surrender and the spiritual realisation (through works, bhakti, knowledge, self-perfection) on the way."
Quotes from, Complete Works.
Sri Yukteswar asserted, and I agree that: "The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole world by his subtle vibrations and the less he himself is affected by it."
I wrote: The Liberated Soul / Conscious Partner of the Divine Beloved, becomes a perfect instrument through which the Divine Force-Power baptizes the visible and invisible domains of creation without uttering a single word.
The River Of Light Revisited, unpacks this 'Baptizing' topic in great detail.
* I wrote: Happily Blaming My Ways on Karma, in May 2020 - this post reads like 'part 2', hence same title.
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