Consciousnesss

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Catalyzing the Connection Economy - a presentation that's nearly a decade old, yet relevant today

Yoga Philosophy explained in civilization evolutionary design practices

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Baba Muktananda’s Essential Teachings

  Portion of Baba’s talk in 1976:

Since early this morning you have been celebrating my birthday with great pomp, and all I can say is, I welcome you all with all my heart. On behalf of my birthday my wish to you is to have this awareness: "The Supreme Truth lies within me."  There exists only the pure and clean Self.  This awareness should increase in you. If not for others then at least for yourself. If you are embarrassed to think well of yourself, then what can I say?  Beautiful as you are and good as you are, why don't you think well of yourself?  

The scriptures say that the first thing you should do is make your outlook good, you should make your attitude clean and clear, and you should see with the eye of knowledge.  If you do this you will see nothing but supreme Brahman, supreme consciousness, and you will see God's flame within everyone, you will see everyone as the image of God.  You won't see people as merely human; you won't see negative things. 

The scriptures also say the world is as you see it (drishti shrishti).  So you should have a good outlook.  Your life is conditioned by your outlook.  And your fate after death is determined also by your outlook.  So the essence of it is that there is no created universe separate from you: it is your own creation.  The world is created according to your outlook.  The world is the play of consciousness and nothing but the play of consciousness. It is the abode of God's dance. And it is said that God has created this play and this dance. In the play different people put on different roles, some become friends, some enemies, they put on make-up and that lasts only for an hour or two. That is not reality. Reality is only the Self. Reality is consciousness. It is consciousness which has become a man and woman and performs its play. We all come from that one place and we will all go back to that one place.  

You can meditate and find the Supreme Lord right within your own heart free of charge.  And you can enjoy that bliss tax-free.  But, if the mind is deranged, the Self doesn't shine through. The Self is completely pure, it cannot be reached by the mind.  You can also observe that if the mind is bad for awhile, in the next moment it is good.  It is always changing. That's why you should not give any attention to the mind. You should remember your Self. And remember that the Supreme Truth is right within you.  Give up your notion of duality.  Have this awareness: the Supreme Truth lies within me. You can open your heart and see this truth. This is the truth: You should open your heart and see what lies within.  It resides within everyone.  It blazes in everyone's heart.

Sadgurunath Maharaj ki Jai!

You are the soul of the universe, we all are.

 

“You have to acquire that state in which you realize the entire universe to have become your body. The beasts, the birds, the mountains, the trees are your own self. The flooding rivers are like the circulation of blood in your arteries; the sun and the moon are like your eyes. It is your own heart that is throbbing in the thorax of all. Efface the idea that you are something separate or different from others. Only one conscious power is working throughout the universe. The power, force, energy, nature, or call it God or Brahman, is all-pervading and interpenetrating.”

“You have to realize this universal unity. As a matter of fact, you are really one with it. Rama repeats it again and again so that you may grasp the truth thoroughly and practice it in your daily life. Without this there is no success or realization of Self or God. It is this realization of spiritual unity with all which is the ultimate aim of the true religion. We have to achieve this realization by all possible means.

If you purify your heart by doing away with malice, jealousy, hatred, spite, rivalry, etc., and practice to love all like your own Self, forget and forgive those whom you consider your enemies, opponents, fault-finders and adversaries, you can attain this highest stage of realizing your oneness with all.“

Swami Rama Tirth

Ode to our being, of light!

 ODE TO OUR BEING OF LIGHT

TO the Being from which we are FROM 

A realm of light, beyond all form, yet includes all forms, as itself. Ourselves.

We are emanations of our own selves, our soul, our essential nature. The soul is the soil of our expression, all pervasive awareness emerging as a form. The intelligence of nature, as the higher self, the soul of all has become each and every one of us, ourselves.

Whatever I was before I was born, is still me. Me. 

As I am aware of the connection to all of us who share this experience, I see we, and when I perceive something, I am in relationship with it, so I must be a part of we, and then what has become we is also a part of me.

Two aspects of being, one reality, manifest and unmanifest.

I can not unsee the realm of light which contains all of the contrasts of dark and light, images and experiences, all within a whole, as if I am dreaming your dreams, and you mine, through the one we are emanations of.

I love you, is what we say, yet there is this recognition in saying that, that we are connected in love.

Lao Tzu ~ The Highest Teachings ~Taoism