Four questions
What is the language of creation? One can write about this in many ways probably by addressing the following questions:
First question is - what are the signals one perceives and responds to?
Second question – why is it difficult to change the signals?
Third question - Why can’t we understand the Truth, if it is so fundamental?
Fourth Question – What is concentration?
All things that are seen as forms and perceived as nature are imagination – they exist as part of creation. Manifestation is a dimension of creation, which contains consciousness, force and matter. These three words are different states of the same thing. The property of consciousness is to vibrate within itself. This vibration is felt as force and that force causes matter to form and perceive other matters. The transformation is at a physical level and psychological level. All of this universe can be understood as a play of space to force to matter AND consciousness to mind to body (these two phenomena are not separate). Therefore, for humans, the forms of the Universe and how they get perceived depend on the nature of the mind we create within ourselves. In other words, whatever reality exists depends on our imagination. One can feel consciousness or mind or body – it is up to us to what we choose to believe.
Belief is by choice and also by compulsion. This means that belief can be changed by intellect and is informed by many other forces present elsewhere. Creation, the moment it manifests as space-time, is perceived primarily as force and matter and therefore we perceive life in these terms. The flow of our perception is majorly driven outward to our senses and actually what we perceive is nothing but consciousness perceiving itself as many other forms. Primarily, these are the signals we catch – senses or the mind. And we understand only that language whose signals we catch!
So it is challenging to converse with a person who is at a different wavelength than yours as both of you are speaking and seeing different realities! SO the question is to realize that the realities were only apparent and they have the same source. Same source means knowing that the different identities were false and difference does not exist in the first place. This means to dissolve our limited boundaries.
The second challenge is to train the mind to see the Reality or the Truth of Oneness. Mind is a force that is connected with all other forces of various scales from micro to macro. Any change that we set out to do, has an effect on the overall web of forces – and this needs to be tackled. The overall web of forces draws our attention outwards and we respond. So we are compelled to react to situations and express anger, sadness, joy etc. What is this web of forces? This is something we need to “see” but not react to it. This means to see subconscious forces and cosmic forces. As we see forces at more subtle layers, we also catch those forces in other forms (or the entire Universe). As we keep going further into more subtle layers, we reach the conscious layer that doesn’t have any force and that is the manner in which we see consciousness everywhere. Breadth is related to our thoughts. The quality of breadth defines the quality of our thoughts and this can be seen as a mechanism to reach consciousness.
In life, Truth is understood by the Artist, the Doer and the Philosopher in any century, any time and under any circumstances. Livelihood of the person should mean that – search or the discovery of the Truth and not just salary or GDP or survival. Everyone survives, what’s the big deal? The big deal is to realize Godliness in ourselves, all the time!
That brings us to the idea of seed or concentration. We keep sending signals to cosmos – as vibrations. We may say or do whatever we think or feel or act, but the core of us correspondingly sends signals and that is the way reality gets shaped for us. From that respect, everyone behaves as a magnet. If concentration is a special condition of sending signals, we are then indicating that the quality of signals should be such that we realize God.
So the effort is on us and not the external environment. If seen from this perspective, we will realize the contents of our memory and why and how we shaped our thoughts and memories from birth in particular ways. No one told us to remember specific slices of time or incidents or feelings associated with them, but we nevertheless did and build our assumptions and inferences accordingly. We can only become aware of what we keep doing and take steps to modify signals.
This also means that everyone is faced with potentials and limitations of their own making. Everyone is compelled to respond in peculiar ways without actually knowing complete meaning of those responses. Everyone keeps taking things personally, although there was no need of responding in that manner. Everyone, despite knowing this inherent tendency, needs to work at improving this response and see things in a detached manner. Everyone should therefore be given a chance to work out their own journey. Therefore, patience is required. Forgiveness is required. Love is required. Compassion is required. And remembrance of God is required.