Concentration

 

291221: Shree

Bliss is unconditional – not dependent on space or time. Another word for Bliss is One; Existence; Non motion; Absolute Truth and so on. This state exists and it is just there – to use the word “existence” also does not complete the picture.

Typically we think that existence is something where things are felt and they become visible for us. Things appear only when they vibrate into thoughts and body. Thus our perception of existence depends on the phenomenon of motion or vibration. This phenomenon creates “many” and these are interdependent and keep changing. We change too and hence that seems to affect us. All thoughts; all motion create a feeling of impermanence and we cling to this idea and hence expect control. Permanence or impermanence is not what I am. I am not the motion. I am only consciousness that is infinite; at rest; ever blissful; unconditional; source of all there is. Motion is only apparent; is deceptive; illusionary.

The journey to realize and become this state of tranquility, therefore, has to be something that starts from the world of motion and takes one beyond. As a unit of existence, the same source called consciousness “appears” as motion (as a world of billion forces and forms) depending on what kind of “vibrations” create us or define us. Vibrations lead to thoughts and then to body and the body in return sends signals through senses that are sieved by these vibrations and this cycle continues.

The approach is to change the vibrations that are the cause of motion. Our mechanism is the mind and body to start this process. Mind makes things real. The identity of our body (senses) depends on if the mind attaches itself to the senses. Thus, the start point is not to let these signals reach the mind. Once having done this, what remains are vibrations around which the mind pays attention. This step itself takes a lot of time. When the mind feels vibrations (as its property) it no longer catches the signals of senses or the body; thus its perception of the world has changed. Finally when it also silences the vibrations, it becomes consciousness. When it becomes consciousness, no aspect of motion remains and the entire world has vanished for it. What remains is consciousness.

One can hence see here that consciousness is the only absolute, infinite, One, non motion, Truth. Whether It has changed into motion or motion was only an apparent creation is a question that cannot be (and need not be) solved. This medium has a property of “Maya” that makes things appear as causes and effects - if believed to be so. Else there is no cause and effect anywhere.

On a day to day basis, we find ourselves desperately trying to “fix” situations and even our own character. We question “why” for everything and become defensive many times and expect things to happen in certain ways. All this is noise – coming from our attachment to the body. Fixing is not the solution here. Fixing is not required as it is important to feel that there isn’t any problem in the manner in which one exists and situations are perceived. All is just incidental. The absolute truth appears or makes us as a “wave” in the ocean or the “cloud” in the sky and no matter what situations come and go, no matter what happens to people and you, no matter what is stored in the future – one is always the Sky which never has changed.

This is to be realized. This thought needs to sink in. This thought needs to change the nature of vibrations to make us unconditional in intellect, love and action. Another word for this process is concentration.

Hari Om.