Man, the World and Supreme Consciousness..

Eastern scriptures say that the whole history of man is determined, when he is in the womb of the mother. The length of life for which he has to live, the experiences through which he has to pass and the relationship in society which are to decide his experience, are written in invisible characters by the mystery of the cosmos even before the child comes out of the womb, because every child is a child of the universe.

It is not born to one person, one individual called the mother. Every event is a cosmic event; every child is a child of the whole cosmos. It belongs to the universe. Everything belongs to the universe. Nobody possesses anything here. One cannot be an object of possession. From the perspective of Oneness each one is for everyone and everyone for each.

From an empirical perspective, the thought that everything is hanging on everything else, is very difficult to grasp.

According to Patanjali, every psychic activity is a hindrance to the practice of yoga. Yoga is not a psychic operation, not a mental activity. It is not thinking. It is a way of being in a larger dimension.

When we enter into yoga, we expand our concept of existence. We do not merely think of something outside us, we think ‘ being ‘ in the various degrees of expression We are individuals, but at the same time we are also a sort of being, an I am. I am not this or that, I am.

The rise of yoga consciousness is from this present level of being to the next higher state of being; it includes the environment and the experience of the individual’s perceptions. It is inclusion of the experience into ones being, oneness, wholeness, samadhi,

samyama.

The yogi sees the environment as a being-ness. It exists and is inseparable from him; nevertheless, all phenomenons are nothing but an appearance.

When we see the environment as standing outside ourselves, we feel separate, at times in conflict with it, because of the unknown way in which the environment operates.

This fear vanishes when the environment becomes part of our existence.

Yoga is the art of union with every content consciousness. That which consciousness accepts as an existing something, is its content.

All that which ordinarily stands outside ourselves, has to be absorbed into our being in deep meditation

Our underlying desire in life is nothing else but desire for union.

Ultimate Reality

What is truth? It is that which ultimately exists. In the phenomenal world everything passes, it is transient, and moves. Everything that has form must die. That which parishes demonstrates its unreality. Everything moves, everything is a flow of energy, a force.

What is birth, what is death, what is all this drama of the universe?

Are these questions pointing to something else?

Perhaps the answer lies with being. What is being? It is that which has to be distinguished from becoming? The world we see, what we experience, the body in which we are caught up, this invisible life is becoming, because it is a movement. It becomes, it never is. We also become every moment. Even our human individuality is becoming.

Becoming is the response of the universe to the call of that which is pure being, that which we call eternal, that which we consider Infinite, that which is beyond perception of space and time.

Why should we do anything at all, if everything is passing, dying and nothing exists.

The answer arises from within our own selves. We will find the teacher not in books, not in scriptures, but in ourselves. The God within us; the secret is within us. Immortality is within us. But the within ness is a mystery which eludes our understanding. We are empirically brain washed. We think of the body, relate to the body when we think, that something is within or without. If the body were not, there would be no such idea. But, can we think of pure consciousness, which we seem to be?

The conclusion we arrive at is by self- analysis.

The 3 stages, waking, dream and dreamless sleep reveal to us that we do exist even when the body and the mind are not aware. In dreamless sleep, there is a subtle suggestion independent of mind and body, ‘I exist, I was, I am.’

Consciousness is an invisible something. Consciousness is being, being is consciousness.

The restraint of the senses and the restraint of the mind is the restraint of those conditioning factors which compel us to feel that we are bodies, individuals, human beings.

We can come to the conclusion, that the final reality of being is Being Consciousness, Say Chit Ananda, - Ever Existing Conscious Bliss. 

We have to accept, that logical assertions should become part of our feeling and experience. Mere intellectual analysis does not suffice.

Logic alone is not enough to guide our life; logic must be combined with the deeper feelings that lie within us. We should not feel some things and understand another thing, otherwise we will be like being convinced against our own will.

Yogananda wrote: ‘A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still.’ He does not change.

Most of our thinking is of surface information, which is of the empirical realm of the senses. But, there is a trans-empirical being in us which is subliminal and is not merely what we sense. This has to be brought to the surface of consciousness and not only what is unconscious or sub conscious, but what is spiritual, the Self, the Soul.

Through the practice of yoga, we enter into a larger interrelatedness of our being, so that when we think in yoga, we think in a way the whole cosmos thinks. We then experience cosmic consciousness.

Namaste