Perception

 

271221: Shree

Perception is existence – perception of anything or any state of mind. I think that “Maya” is a property of this perception – that it can either perceive consciousness or motion and hence whatever it perceives, it clings to it; it loves it; it makes that state real. This is called focusing on a particular state to make it real. Currently we all tend to focus only on motion and hence we have become motion (many, clinging, change, fear, memories, forms, fluidity, mind-body, vibrations and so on) - all these are notions or constructs or imaginations which are a part of motion. We are conditional; we expect things; may get pleasure or pain in return; we keep running; we think we are born and we will die; we cling to anything that the mind and body tells us; we have ego. Whatever we imagine because of this state of existence, we make it real.

This ego is to forget our nature of consciousness and to consider our existence of “wave” in the ocean or the “cloud” in the sky as real. Anything of space and time is subjected to change and hence our attachment to motion will not only change us but also present to us changing facets of motion. Motion results from vibrations – appearing something as consciousness and something as a particle and causing forces and forms that move and change. The problem is to check change and to believe that our identity depends on change. If you get entangled in more dimensions of change with greater frequency and faster pace then life is bound to get miserable for you.

Why does this happen? It happens probably because we just keep accepting signals from senses or body and get affected by those. Signals and perceptions that arise from these signals – are constructs. We take them as real, so they become real to us and we respond. So the lesson to learn is to dissolve these signals that the senses receive. This means to turn your attention inside and explore the inner world of vibrations that become subtle and subtle till a state of non motion is realized – this is the experience of consciousness.

This means that as one becomes consciousness, the vibrations no longer are present, and if they aren’t then anything that depends on them also vanish – i.e. there is no manifestation or any situation or people or circumstances or any constructs. This is our absolute nature.

Hari Om.