Fox and Lion

 

Things continue to happen, in terms of existence of some kind, momentum, force, situations, people, events, pain and pleasure. All these imply perception of existence when vibrating as a human being. This is understood retrospectively only if we realize the spiritual dimension in us that is eternal, motionless and beyond space and time. That exists, so everything else does – as an illusion or a state of existence or a fact of motion or incidental or apparent manifestation or space-time-causation.

We are definitely spiritual, there is no two opinion about it…except that most of us haven’t woken up to the idea or the experience of the same. I became a fox (human being) and then a lion chases me (a situation) or did I create the fox and the lion?!! This is the inquiry. Is this real or is this a dream? I take on certain characteristics of a fox from consciousness and then I attract all other kinds of motions (such as a lion). I get trapped as a fox and I live as a fox. I eat, prey and defend myself – all these from the characteristics that I have taken through consciousness. The story is no different for the lion or the tree or the elephant or the ocean or the Sun. All these represent specific points of space-time and they remain dependent on each other – all transforming and merging and evolving into one another. The entire cosmos is a unit of motion with no start and no end in sight. So to suppress it or to defend it or to embrace it – all remain limited responses.

The key is to break the motion that we identify with. There are suggested ways to do so. The basis of all these ways is the same – crush the ego. One can do it through unconditional love or unconditional intellect or unconditional work or unconditional self analysis. The key attitude is “unconditional” – not related to any space or time (or beyond the laws of Nature/ compulsion/ force).

Hari Om.

subtraction

 

I start my day, as far as possible, by writing something – I pray to God that this habit should continue till the end irrespective of the situation.

One can talk of consciousness from various angles – through concept, experience, work, mind, writing, art…just about anything. This means that all kinds of displays/ expressions/ forms are coming from the same source. The “difference” of forms of expressions is only apparent (relative to what you think you are). This also means in a reverse way, that any start point, any situation, any form of expression has the ability to connect one to the source! There is, then, really no difference between forms of expressions (manifestation) and the Source that we say as consciousness! The difference is just apparent! The difference is caused by our body and mind (a form of vibration/ oscillation/ perception). It is obvious to many that different people indicate different attitudes to life and therefore voice different opinions on subject matters. What is not so obvious that any form of existence - be that a cat or a dog or Sun or human being or a blade of grass is also apparent or relative! Relative to “my” perception existing as a human being. And when one talks of existence, actually what does one mean? Does it only mean some kind of body, mind and so on? Existence essentially means vibrations in consciousness that takes or expresses itself as some force and matter. The moment there is vibration, there is a scope for a force and matter to exist and there is perception (clinging/ attachment) and the entire universe of manifestation appears as true. This sense of attachment to vibrations is strong in all and hence no one seems to leave one’s “position” of vibrations or perceptions! This keeps the universe kicking with life! There is difference and there is craze for control and there is an inborn feeling of insecurity - all contributing into the clinging of life and all such constructs of high and low or dark and light or fat and thin or rich and poor or sophisticated and simple etc stem from this perception of difference/ force/ binary.

There is only consciousness – all manifestation is just apparent! Consciousness covers Itself by force and matter or by mind and body and a motion is set. The motion is just a camouflage to the state of motionless/ stillness. As long as we identify with this manifested motion or laws of Nature, we will not even acknowledge and see consciousness! Consciousness is beyond motion (so beyond any point of space and time, so cannot be grasped or thought over or touched or felt or smelt or tasted or heard or caught or squeezed or expanded or inflated or compressed or acted upon or anything for that matter!). In saying the above sentence, there still remains an assumption of difference between consciousness and “me” (as manifested phenomenon) and hence these words or thoughts get articulated.

The realization is that there is NO difference in anything. Subtract or extract the difference of Name and Form and what exists is Consciousness. While subtracting, it is indicated that “we” subtract “ourselves” from the equation too (subtract the body and mind and whatever vibrations it generates) and what remains is Consciousness!

Hari Om!

The instrument

 

Change. Fluidity. Vibration. Oscillation – these are the hallmarks of consciousness. I am consciousness, so I will change, vibrate and remain fluid as an expression of consciousness – all phenomena tend to be so. Consciousness is a unit. Consciousness is motionless and beyond manifestation of space and time. Vibration in consciousness gets projected as space-time phenomenon out of which, all things are seen as Name and Form (perception). There is change by this tendency. I change, my thoughts change, my body changes. I perceive good and evil, I perceive the impacts of changing forces. I perceive physical and mental motion. Both space and time are fluid. A space is perceived in billion ways by billion manifestations of forms at the same time. The same form perceives the same space in billion ways as time changes. Time changes, physical motion changes, perception changes. The condensation is all about oscillation or vibration. This creates the phenomenon that we say as the world. The world appears true since we continue to respond to Laws of Nature. I don’t understand change, so I fear since I want to control change. This can’t happen. The need for control comes from desire (incompleteness/ insecurity) and the craze for control fuels more desire and one gets trapped in the set momentum. Let us understand that we represent a “force” of vibration and what we do defines the Nature of vibration. One needs perception or needs to see or feel the force and not the physical form, only then there is some hope of dealing with force.

Radio can be seen as an example of vibration. Each station of radio catches certain vibrations or signals. Only then we are able to receive and hear what is getting broadcasted through that station. There is a certain event that happens at a particular space and time, it gets converted into another form of energy (waves), it gets received by radio and gets reconverted into sound waves, which we hear. Depending on frequency of that station, certain signals are “caught” and expressed.

Similar is the case with any phenomenon. A phenomenon (such as a human being) represents a station or a frequency that catches same signals. I remain human because of the fact that I keep perceiving existence from this frequency. Whatever human means, is what I tend to do and I see and interact likewise with the Universe based on this perception. The Universe appears to me from the perspective (frequency/ vibration) as a human being. Suppose there are waves of consciousness – I however catch a particular nature of signals that define my way of looking at manifestation. An ant will do it in a different way and so will the Sun or the Moon. Each form is a signal that perceives consciousness in different ways. Although consciousness as an absolute reality is One, is “appears” different based on one’s frequency of form of perception. This is what a human being is acutely aware of – that of perception or of change or of relativity or of motion.

To go to consciousness is to be detached from the radio or our specific vibration/ motion/ perception. So our body and mind are only instruments of perception – of receiving and responding. The perception makes the whole existence very real, as we know it. Change the instrument, the reality changes. Have no instrument, then there is no reality but only Potential!

Desire

 

There is no dilemma at all. Whatever we think, we reinforce. The greatest of miracles of existence is the nature of thought leading to perception of situation for us and the situation itself. So the external reality can be shaped and perceived with respect to the internal reality. It is obvious that external signals when perceived create internal mind – ripples. However, the mind itself can also create its own ripples irrespective of any external stimuli.

As is said preciously, situation is what we perceive or mentally construct. This construction is dependent on the phenomenon of space-force-matter (as a human being). The construction of situation is inevitable, since we have chosen to identify with motion (that creates fear or attachment or memory). There is no “we” here – it is just motion of a particular kind or a state of vibration that one refers to as a human being that creates a universe for this state of existence. I exist as a human being, so I see the universe the way it is – a bundle of force, matter at various scales having differing attributes that I perceive with different names and forms. I perceive these elements as different and interconnected since that is what my nature of perception is. And then I fight or try in vain to control these things.

The philosophical fact behind this is that the more one perceives oneself as an island, the more is the velocity of thoughts, more is the aggression, more is the ego and more is the urge to control and more is the identification with thought or the senses. because all desires essentially mean responding to change. Change and our identification with it mean fear and insecurity thus this urge to control. In any manifestation the twin forces of life (expansion) and death (contraction) exist. Existence is a contradiction of sorts and it keeps changing – are we supposed to be a slave for this changing scenario? Rather existence is perceived because there is apparent difference or motion or vibration or fluidity or contradiction. That is the nature of existence (manifestation).

Desire cannot be quenched by fulfilling desire. Finding out variables to control cause and effect is a vicious cycle. What are we accomplishing with more perfection, more production, more speed and more control? Nothing. If the change exceeds beyond a point of even perceiving the stable character of self, then we are in deep trouble since we may find living completely irrelevant! A little bit of contradiction, some quantity of difference, some change, some stability, some motion is required for existence to be felt. Are we making ourselves irrelevant by speeding up motion? The genie in the bottle is a symbolic representation of instant fulfillment of desire - it doesn’t satisfy anything! Similarly the modern gynie in the form of AI does not satisfy anything! How can we even expect any external form of nourishment to nourish the want of our soul? The soul is eternal and we are making the mistake of feeding the soul with tendencies that are of “motion” – which is a mismatch! What tendency one feeds oneself with, so does one become. If one wants to experience soul, then those are the signals of perception one needs to generate. The mistake is to consider motion (mind and body so real that the memory of “soul” is lost).

It is said that this attitude can be corrected by slowing down. This means either to slow each wave of the mind (change), to not cling to any known variable (since variable is mind itself), to expand the mind beyond body and include everything, to expand to such an extent and perceive such scales of phenomena that do not seem to change, to work + love + think for the “sake” of these dimensions and NOT for any situation. So one can perceive a state of blissfulness even in the midst of an apparent motion. Motion is “apparent” and NOT real. The mistake is to consider “One” as appearing as “many”. All things that are seen or heard or touched or perceived are reflecting that stable “One”. This also dissolves the universe for us and the little ‘I’ (or the mind-body) becomes irrelevant (but herein the state is of transcendence and not rejection).

Outwardly the quality of rejection and transcendence may seem the same but they are poles apart. Rejection is highly negative and an intellectual pursuit alone. Transcendence involves a compassionate approach and a complete utilization of dimension of human being.

 

Kaleidoscope

There is no manifestation, not even me, without consciousness and vibration. Vibration or motion creates space, force and matter. We give these forces and matters “different” names and forms not thinking even for a second that all this creation depends on us! I am there existing as a state of motion or a phenomenon and therefore I perceive all other related phenomena. What I perceive essentially is consciousness “in motion” within which, I too exist as motion. So the difference in all is only relative to one another and this difference creates cause and effects and at our level – desires and fear and insecurity to control and so forth. It is the same consciousness as “one”. What is “difference” - it creates a relative states of existences (somewhat like high/low; dark/light or tall/short or fat/thin or planet/ant or you/me or fast/slow). In relation to what you are at a given point of space and time, you “perceive” everything else. This perception again creates a “response” within us and we are propelled further into imagining our existence – so we are living and playing a dream. As far as humans are concerned, perception is created through a force of desire/vibration/ tendency/compulsion/fear/memory – all nothing but “vibration” of consciousness. This is connected by our tendency to think (contract and expand) and related to bodily processes and mind stuff and also, breath. Control any one point (or decode it) and what one will become is a blissful state of motionless. Not one point is real whatsoever. We keep perceiving points, variables, situations, people, events because that is what it is. We think of catching one point, but it slips (as it is the nature of motion that our mind constitutes). Point is imaginary, so is the idea of control or of sequencing or of connecting or of planning or of feelings and intellect. In other words, any point is a construct and one can go and debate about its existence, authenticity and its relevance or characteristics. What will be achieved by doing a debate? Nothing! And it is not required!

The whole point of existence that it is a state of consciousness – it is one whole UNIT of existence that appears to a particular form (human being) as “many”. It is a “state”. The see-saw effect and whether this is true or not or which comes first and what comes next – all have limitations of explanations. The riddle of motion cannot be solved ”logically” (or it cannot be solved by motion itself). Motion can be seen as an illusion only if a state of motionless is realized. In such a state of realization, motion has no validity and neither any of the imaginations.

We have miles to go to reach this state. We keep fuming on others, having regrets and guilt and become angry and what not….and this whole running around for what?

Are you ready to penetrate the truth and become the truth? Choice is yours.