Nutrients

 

Good Morning Shree.

Every second of our existence is based on self talk – countless vibrations that are generated and that lead to a thought. People may say something as a sign of expression but that rarely says something about their internal world and very rarely does the listener gets unaffected by what is said by others. This means that depending on the state of my mind, I perceive words. I perceive the words in a way that speaks of comparisons, compulsions, urges, guilt, anger, dilemma, contradictions, hope, and empathy within me. Regardless of what is said or not said by anyone and regardless of my reply or no reply and regardless of what I do or do not do the impact of this self talk persists. This is the frequency with which we keep vibrating and even if I see a space or think of time or see people or situations, I tend to repeat these tendencies again and again till they become so deep rooted that I am unable to control them fully.

So the point is why do I generate these vibrations and this self talk? Is this necessary to be generated? There is no answer to this other than understanding what vibrations are, how they get generated and what gets expressed as perceptions.

This has got to do with imagination or our perception of motion – as a state of existence. This tells us or makes us believe that we have an ego, we have a mind and body, we should survive and we are different and therefore we expect control over situations. Situations finally, mean internally imagined or created vibrations and as long as they exist, some form of ego, some imagination, some expectation of control, some perception of change will continue to exist. By stitching these vibrations together, we arrive at a thought and a feeling of mind and body and our perceptions of different forms. We therefore perceive everything in terms of these vibrations. Our motion is what forms our perception and our identification with mind and body. So the Universe is not real – it is a fabricated world created by a phenomenon called “vibrations”.

If the vibrations dissolved, we would become something else. We would perceive a state of non motion, a state of Oneness, a state of bliss, a state of consciousness.

Ethics and morality and the four paths of union with God are suggested to realize that vibrations are not “we” and that there exists only consciousness – the motion is only an apparent creation or an apparent phenomenon. The four paths assist to dissolve the vibrations. Give everything, including your identification of your character (whatever it may be in terms of anger or dilemma or anything) back to God. We are only a wave and that too, only apparently so. We need not expect anything, need not control anything, need not work for anything, need not define a purpose for anything, need not believe in motion.

Maya is a union of consciousness and motion. Whether one exists or the other cannot be said with certainty. Maya is a property that results into a perception of Oneness or of many.

Thus do not get distracted by motion. We are always One. We are beyond change and we are spirits.

It is important to practice this thought because transformation within the self happens slowly. In what ways and how and when is something that is a mystery. Just as millions of impressions of motions that have been reinforced probably in millions of birth make us believe existence of motion (or life and death), we would be required to change this internal mechanism by additionally spending perhaps equal amount of time to reach God.

An additional point can be stated symbolically. Mind is anchored somewhere (or at some place). This place offers it nutrients by which the mind grows and makes situations. In other words, the nutrients create imagination. The place is either of motion or consciousness. The nutrients that motion gives is “vibrations” that makes the mind imagine its birth and perception of universe and it gets entangled in it. The nutrients that consciousness gives are detachment, non motion, dissolution, bliss. By feeding these nutrients to the mind, it becomes consciousness. Of course we should understand that every nutrient given to the mind changes or transforms it instantly towards motion or consciousness. Or, the nutrient itself has a property of manifestation and consciousness.

Hari Om.