Charan Das says:
“How in this messy world is it possible to interfere in the contemplation of the Lord? Here the mind is now a slave of all senses, and the soul is no more than a servant, who obeys the orders of her lord, the Mind”
We have been staying in this creation since the creation of the world and we have completely lost the memory of our divine home with the father. We have come to consider ourselves as finite and perishable beings. As long as we cling to the notion that we are body and mind, as opposed to the soul, we will never be able to return to the father, who is the creator of all of us, even if he is standing indoors at this very moment.
Christ draws the conclusion that we do not realize how much we suffer a loss by being deprived of this inner light.
As long as we are entangled in the world of the Mind and the Maya (illusion) and we run servilely after the sensual pleasures, we will never be able to realize the Lord. The soul, separated from the divine Ocean, also bears all the qualities of the Lord, though in a miniature form. In short, the soul is also SAT-CHIT-ANANDA. When we come to realize the soul inside, we have reached the state called self-realization, that is to say that we have come to know who we are, in reality. We find that we are not the physical body, the astral body, the causal body or the universal mind, but we are the soul that has separated from the father. After having realized this (which must be experienced and not intellectualized), the soul must continue until the last step: the realization of God. The drop, long separated from the ocean, melts into the ocean of God and becomes God. Duality ceases and there is unity and cessation of the most subtle illusion. This state is beyond any description, and even the Saints are lost to describe it to us.
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Swami Ji Maharaj says:
“From one step to the next, the soul sees strange things that cannot be described in human language. Each region and everything is beyond words.
What Beauty and glory! How can I describe them?
There is nothing here to convey the idea. There is nothing here.
I’m powerless.
“In Happiness, everything Is Love”
Swami Ji exclaims:
Love plays the supreme role.
Everything is love. “
This may be what Saint Paul meant when he said: “But as it is written, the eye has not seen or heard, nor has entered the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”
And how is this marvel accomplished? The answer here is just as simple: we have to reverse the process. Just as we are entangled in mind and senses, in the same spirit, we must learn to bring our attention to its place of origin, the center of the eye, and to force it to place itself inside, diverting it thus from the pleasures and attractions of the World.
This process is called MEDITATION. This implies a daily practice under the direction of a perfect and living master, so that the attention is slowly drawn to stalling to the inner eye.
It is to be expected that few people are interested in a tedious daily discipline that uses concentration and meditation. But this is the only real way we can worship the father. All other methods are external and limited. Only those marked for spiritual progress will respond to the inner teachings.
St. Paul says: “According to what is written, God gave them the spirit to sleep, eyes they should not see and ears that they should not hear. Until today “, St. Paul tells us that it is only by the spirit that someone can know the father:
“But the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are folly to him; He cannot know them either, for they are spiritually discerned.
In the Gospel of St. John, Christ gives us a magnificent example of how to worship the father, that is, he tells us the mystical secret of meditation:
“But the time comes and is now where the real workers will worship the father in spirit and in truth, for the father seeks those who adore him. God is a spirit: and those who adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth. “
Christ explains that those who truly love the father realize that he is a pure spiritual entity. As such, it is not possible to have access to it unless the worshipper can enter the area of pure spirituality.
Christ tells us that the father is anxious to have such worshippers, for it is the only form of devotion acceptable to the Lord. Naturally a special technology is to be acquired and appropriate instructions given. Moreover, progress must be supervised by the one who made the journey to the Lord. That’s why we need a living adept. In order to see this light inside and blend into the bliss of the higher consciousness, we must remove our attention from the body and place it on the upper centers, starting with the center of the eye, which is the lowest point for which Nou S can remove the attention of the whole body. Since the eye Center is the normal seat of our consciousness when we are awake, it would be foolish to meditate on a center (or a chakra lower than this point, as this would have the effect of reducing our attention in closer association with the Physical rather than raising it higher.
The effect of meditating on the lower centers is to bind us firmly to this physical creation, even if we acquire some supernatural powers.
When we have succeeded in bringing the scattered rays of attention to the centre of the eye, we will then be able to penetrate the astral regions. Gradually, we will enter even higher regions in the company of our spiritual master, coming at least to the region of the universal spirit. At the top of this inner region, the mind will detach itself from its association with the soul, and the soul is finally free to realize its divine inheritance.