Intent

 

All of creation that we perceive around us – is a matter of ‘intent’. Consciousness’s default intent is to manifest into billions of forms. The story doesn’t end there however. The forms that get manifested aren’t static at all – they also interact with each other and they change their set of properties too. They disengage in a particular stage of their lives and maybe transform into something else or dissolve into consciousness again. In what way do they interact externally and internally at any particular stage of their lives? By their own set of imaginations – or the way in which the universal phenomenon of space-force-matter is expressed. It is so fundamental a property – that consciousness vibrates to “reappear” as space-time (or as force and matter – all interrelated). All exists as pure vibrations – one may realize the consciousness behind all external forms or one may get entangled in the forms themselves. “We” are also “forms” manifested from that singular consciousness that expresses itself as “mind” (force) and “body” (matter). This means that we keep changing irrespective of any kind of an external trigger, since it is the property of consciousness that has been manifested through “us”. So, why insist on control and what is to be controlled anyway?

Speaking in terms of our mind, we have inherited a property of perceiving these external forms and choosing intent of responding to these forms. What is the manner in which we wish to interact with existence? What do forms tell us? Are they really threatening or do they express love? So any form, by itself, doesn’t’ have any absolute static meaning – we induce meaning to a given form, since that is the way we are interconnected. So, as an extension, we have the ability to imagine anything and with this imagination, we see the entire universe and the infinitesimal world. Signals from consciousness are manifested as “changing forms” and we perceive these forms based on our defined intent. Through the action of perception, we choose to act and send our signals back to consciousness. In short, we operate as a medium or a plug or a conduit in the overall fabric of consciousness.

The above may seem abstract, but this state of experience is achievable. Of all the intents that we can imagine and act; “Love/ nourishment/ sharing” is the biggest intent that requires our nurturing and our commitment. By being involved in this intent, we send these signals to cosmos and we start to receive everything in that form itself. Can we see this statement in detail?...

Thought is a vibration and our choice to remain engaged with the world of manifestation. Thought comprises as feelings and intellect – these are the ways we engage with the world. It is required from us, to expand our perception and conception (imagination) to realize consciousness through the visible forms. This is done through meditation (mindfulness/ detachment/ disengagement and to see the vibrations without labeling anything about it). It should also continue in what we decide to do and act (duty/ non attachment/ universal values/ people/ commitment/ sharing/ community/ oneness and so on). By thinking and acting, we exercise that intent and it slowly takes us towards consciousness.

A snake bites us and can kill us or in the very least paralyze us. Should we be angry or sad that it has done so? For what? I read in one of the articles by Swami Vivekananda, that a Yogi is a person who can “see” that the snake biting him is a kind of a signal coming from consciousness, so why should he reject it or oppose it? It was a kind of a vibration. He getting paralyzed and again recovering from that event, was also a given – an act of consciousness. So, in this case, is the snake and the Yogi as entities, different? Secondly, the ability of the Yogi to “see” consciousness through the snake indicates his understanding of phenomenon and his infinite love (expansion of the mind).