The soul is seen shining in the glow of twelve of our Suns and realizes its true nature. This is self-realization, because it is only by eliminating the envelope of the body and the spirit that we can realize that we are, in reality, the soul.
It is not an easy process. For centuries and centuries, we have been committed to this physical creation. Detaching from this process is not an easy process, and if it is accomplished too quickly, we risk injuring ourselves.
Our mind is accustomed to follow its own path and to continue the delights of the world.
This gives no pleasure at the beginning of meditation, and we often find ourselves fighting the mind with the back against the wall.
The mind will stop resisting only when it has tasted the inner delights (i.e. he’ll find a higher form of pleasure), but for most of us a good part of meditation is a precondition for such an experience. The mind conceives meditation as a kind of “suicide” and does not realise that it is being asked to leave this world, but to remain in a much more satisfying world. The mind would prefer to indulge in the pleasure of this world rather than placing its faith in a higher form of consciousness.
If we analyze this point of view, we will see that we are already familiar with three levels, so why not accept the fact that there could be more than three? We know
Dream awake, and sleep without a dream. Everybody has known each of these states. When we experience a sleep without dreams, we have no memory of the state, so the provisional state is lost to us.
And if we ask ourselves, we can only remember that we were asleep and then woke up.
It is the lowest state with which we are familiar, because it is empty of remembrance.
At the next higher level of dreamy sleep, we discover that we can experience all the pleasures of waking up. We can take meals, do long trips, meet and chat with people and even have complete love affairs with their bodily responses.
When we wake up, we realize that it was “just a dream”, although at the time we dreamed, we thought it quite real, it was only when we woke up that we realized that it was a lower level of reality-and that the The waking state is much higher than the dream.
But our poor mind hesitates to accept the possibility that there might be something greater than
The waking state.
He feels that this state of “wakes up” is the highest state of consciousness.
The Saints, on the other hand, advise us that everything “Awaken” We can go further and further and penetrate regions of light inside if we go beyond the entrance to the center of the view. They say that when we have experienced this experience, we will realize that our daily state of consciousness is a dream compared to the reality that awaits us inside. Then the spirit will delight in meditation and easily abandon the coarse attractions of this world.
All this is very logical (as the Saints must use it on our plan), for if one does not give the spirit an experience that satisfies his desires more fully, he will never give up his attachment to this world. That is why meditation is the only way out of the maze of this creation.
It is through meditation that we will become aware of these higher regions. That is why all the Saints proclaimed that the Kingdom of God was in the meditation technique and under the direction of a perfectly executed master. It is through contemplation of the world that we become mundane and remain in creation. Likewise, it is by the inner contemplation of the higher reality that we will eventually leave this creation. Contemplation of the world makes us perishable, while the contemplation of the divine makes us immortal. With our attention so firmly rooted in physical creation, the Saints do not care to underline the beauty of this world. We already love this world as it is and we hardly need our attention to be drawn to its beauty. Therefore, the Saints prefer to divert us from our morbid fascination for périsible by discussing this ugliest side of life. In doing so, they make us see the illusory nature of the world and convince us little by little of abandoning our social pursuits. Then, when we seek their aid, they put us on the path, give us practical instructions on how to leave this world and serve our constant spiritual preceptors. They put us in touch with the inner mind so that we could listen to the words of St. Paul:
: “All those who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God.”
This “spirit ” of God, with whom we come into contact through meditation, will be the next topic of discussion.