Path

 

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in what way things align is to be seen as magic.  knowing or becoming God is about alignment and dissolution of ego. One keeps reading about God, feeling His presence, doing something in action, concentrating, breathing and all these actions or dimensions of vibrations finally align to reveal God. At times, what is seen intellectually may appear differently in feelings and may be hard to comprehend in action - meaning all dimensions may not be necessarily aligned and that is ok. Alignment will happen and for that, trusting the capacity and ability to align is necessary no matter how far fetched that idea may appear on day one and no matter how worthless one may feel about oneself. We are not sure when and how this alignment takes place and this is actually necessary for us. This will lead to the search and search does not mean one is incomplete or is faltering. The search is evolution of the soul and is required. In the process how things turn out and what they mean to us is magic. Things, situations, people, me, you are all God. God exists eternally and hence all these manifestations or vibrations are present and which make us perceive manifestation. our presence and perception is coming because of presence of God and since He is eternal, all things happen by His presence (or will or intent - whatever word one likes to put it). Again, slow or fast or one or many is to be observed and internalized in terms of what that means for feeling God's presence.

God is the truth and not anything else. This takes time to realize but is a necessary truth. All movements lead one to non movement. We are born in manifestation and hence that is the path to lead us to consciousness. Forms are real but they are only vibrations coming from the medium of consciousness, so they can very well be dissolved or transcended. Belief in this phenomenon of transcendence is important and that effort needs to take root within us. Things will follow eventually because what takes root, becomes a tree that bears fruit.

So one may hear words differently, one may have an idea of God differently and so on, but in any case it is still a valid start point to discover God. Wherever one is - is a valid start point and speaks of existence. The start point moves or changes but at no point of time does the presence of God diminish which results in our perception and what we are actually. So there is no need to keep comparing and feeling frustrated by anything. All is in "you" and the movement that one sets out to do is always around the centre of God, hence the movement is only relative and is not an indication of our worth as motion. Self worth is divine and all aspects of motion. All tendencies are coming from Him so they are required to be felt as messages coming from God.

Personally taking anything is not required. People may say anything and events may happen in any way they have to, people may die and they are born, they may exhibit tendencies, just as i do - so what does that mean at an individual level of existence? Nothing. The fact is God only is. All else is only incidental and that is a blessing in disguise. We are actually blessed to have a Father/ Mother like God.

Hari Om.

Movement and Existence

 

280222: Shree: Movement and existence

Idea is the will of God - an opportunity to focus on a dimension of existence and make it a reality through forces, forms and situations. A human being is an idea (or a vibration that manifests as mind and body). this idea or vibration exists in consciousness and any such idea or vibration can lead to billion different forms or perceptions or tendencies or attitudes (human being). So looking at a human being means to look at the manifested idea. When someone refers to an idea, it means that it has a potential to manifest - or the creation of any thought/ imagination/ idea is bringing it to a state of manifestation (from vibration to a form). If one has an idea, it can become a form later on. So existence starts with idea or vibration and proceeds to force and then to form. This also means that first - we ourselves represent "ideas" or vibrations" and secondly, we also express the potential of creation and dissolution of ideas or states of existences. Our mind forgets nothing and can remember or create any state of existence or transform into anything - since it is an expression or receiver of God's potential. What I think, i become. I am already in a state of becoming (either as motion or as consciousness).

Charles Correa talks about his fascination of trains and the manner in which "movement" is planned, sequenced leading to spatial experiences and then comprehending a complete picture at the end of the journey - all done in his childhood while playing on train toys conceptualized as a game by Hornby. The same journey can be felt in a different way if the sequence gets changed. This is again seen as a generator of idea in some of his major projects in British Council in India; IUCAA; Gandhi Ashram; Bharat Bhavan Bhopal; Vidhan Sabha Bhopal; National Museum of Handicrafts New Delhi.

So the movement is a generator of experiences. Movement is physical, psychological and spiritual. Spiritually, the movement of thoughts and sequences makes different realities. Not only this movement creates forms it also create realities of perceptions. Consciousness is the same, but movement within It creates different human beings. Moving from point A to point B means to move physically, sense changes in environment and situations and comprehend cyclic pattern of events and our overall connect with cosmos. This can create "idea diagrams" or ideogram indicating movement, experience, psychological experience, feelings, environment, seasons, geography, history, changes and constancy (cosmos). So the perception of movement is a representation of state of existence. When we talk of architecture, it should indicate above ideas since movement is an integral part of experiencing architecture. Thus how one moves in architecture creates an existential reality for the person. It is a different matter that architecture is not required to create existence - it is already created by thought and even if there is no thought, then there is still a state of consciousness. So existence already is present as a reality; architecture modifies this experience of existence.

So existence has always been about movement caused by vibrations. yet existence is unconditional and does not depend on vibrations or making of forces and forms. Existence only is and against whose backdrop, one perceives movement.

This non movement, being unconditional, being purposeless, desireless and so on means being sacred.

Hari Om.

I don't know

 

270222: Shree: I don’t know.

Mind has the ability to become focused on one spot or to disperse on several spots. Focus or concentration leads to transcendence and dissolving vibrations and mind itself and to become consciousness. Thus, consciousness is always there – as a state of existence – it is only that we do not concentrate on one spot and hence it does not come into existence. So what do we concentrate on at present? We concentrate on motion – dispersing mind on several spots, being conditional, treating situations and change as something real and to be responded to, treating all events true and continuously anxious and worried about changing scenario or projecting past or future as realities to be addressed and entertaining anger, turmoil, guilt, and other emotions. These things we make it “real” and they come into existence. So existence is that, which we make it “real”. One can also go on to say that there are “states” of reality from vibrations to forces to visible manifestation (or manifestation may itself mean vibrations to forces to forms) or from invisible to visible or from One to Many or from bliss to turmoil or from permanence to change.

So mind makes things “real”(and by “things”, we mean from consciousness to forms). I see an object right now or a person or a situation is an indication of the state of my existence. I think these things change and hence I depend on this change and I get frightened or stressed or worried. What role do “we” have here anyway? Who are “we” and what are “we”? Many things at present need to be delinked. I link words by others to my self worth; I link words by others to demands or secondary guilt or secondary frustration or compulsion of response; I link relationship and its health to my incompleteness of avoiding disaster and so on, I link time to survival, I link forms to many such perceptions, I perceive and that affects me.

The point is I exist regardless of anything and that does not require any justification. We make the mistake of attaching existence with mind and body (vibrations) and hence if they change, we get disturbed expecting them to remain the same – which in itself is impossible. Then we become conditional and we expect things to go our way – which they may not. We thinking anything or doing anything or existing in anyway may or may not guarantee a blissful state. Guarantee of permanence itself is a false expectation. Yet we do the same and that is what is attachment or the tendency or effect of vibration on us.

I think we need to accept that manifestation means to be incomplete and that is all to it. This means that incompleteness is its very nature (coming from vibrations) and hence that will propel all kinds of thoughts within us and result in creating a reality for us. Despite all this incompleteness, we still are eternal and require no justification to exist. Can you visualize this feeling of existence that requires or expects no answers or conditions or evaluations? To visualize and become such a state means to become God. My being here or not being here is immaterial and should not (or need not) define a purpose or intent or lay any conditions on anything. I simply am and that itself is a complete fact of existence. I am. Tomorrow what will happen and can I control it or the past was in a particular way to make me in this state and certain events turned out in this manner and certain people have these tendencies and I think (only) in this manner and so on…..is it required to think and lay our evaluation of self based on these imaginations?

Accept that I am. Who am I? I don’t know. What am I? I don’t know. What will become of me? I don’t know. Why am I in this manner? I don’t know. Why is the current situation in this manner? I don’t know. What was I in previous lives? I don’t know. What will happen tomorrow? I don’t know. Why isn’t there any response from people? I don’t know. What have I done to piss him off? I don’t know. Why is there so much hardship? I don’t know. Why does he not listen? I don’t know. Why do I keep engaging these thoughts? I don’t know. Why am I compelled to respond? I don’t know. I literally do not know anything about the nature of existence and believe it or not – it is still ok!! For, consciousness is the only Reality that creates all constructs and manifestations and even me or you. Everything is essentially divine and hence everything will be ok.

Hari Om.

 

Place for introspection

 

 

250222: Shree Place for introspection

I think the entire idea behind introspecting is keep sensing one's existence which is perceived as fluid, changing and having many dimensions of forms, forces and consciousness. This sensing is a continuous process and motion may inform this perception. It is perfectly ok to feel bewildered, have confusions, serious doubts, attachments, compulsions, urges of performances, expectations and so on - these are vibrations - one of them being reflected as "human being". This entire scope of perception forms the basis of philosophical pursuit and discovering who we are or what does one call this situation of existence?

We think that everything is a "given" and situations are real and we need to deal with them - although this is not the case. To be born as a human being is one way of perceiving existence and although vibrations may mean illusion, they are still real enough to work with them to lead one to consciousness, where there is nothing or no movement or no motion or an unconditional existence. We think, so we have become motion or the medium has the property of creating us in terms of vibrations, mind and body – all mean the same. These form our perception to such an extent that we do not know what is consciousness and we cling to the feeling of attachment or ego or defence. Clinging is a reality for us at present and hence we run or bark or bite or do obnoxious things. And then we add on other layers of security and situations and relationships and defend whatever we do, thinking that we must control whatever we perceive as variables.

In this existence of many, it is not required to take something very personally but consider it only as incidental dimension of being a human being. Things do not happen because of me or that I am required to give any cure. "I" am a construct as a wave or a cloud and nothing more than that and exist in a medium called consciousness.  This medium is not going to go anywhere at all and that should make us feel peaceful. What I say or what you say and what i do and what you do is only incidental aspect of existence and attachment or clinging and that does not define or conclude God in any way. The potential of God is limitless and hence His projection is also unlimited as me or you as Divinity. One may keep talking or writing or running or doing work or express any intent – all these are facets of discovering ourselves and so be it. We have the seed of Divinity but we have lost it, so we become disturbed by changes. In the process, some may harp or bark at one another, some may run and others may not. Some may prefer to hoard money whereas others may just renounce everything; some may keep judging and others may not. We still carry this impression of being incomplete and this is also ok to start with. Any "form" or manifestation or motion that is perceived will keep us in a state of motion or vibrations and make us see "many" that keep changing. The environment of today appears "fragmented" but it is perceived in comparison to how we have been brought up and what we may have read before and that does not mean which is right or wrong at all. Environment may be fast or slow but that too does not mean anything with respect to an appropriate way of existence. Whatever the environment and our way of perceiving it - is very unique to us and hence all books or people or situations are "ideas" for us to work with. They are real as long as they are heard uniquely by us. Our existence itself makes the motion "alive" and "unique" for us and hence all universal or transcendental messages are required to be decoded afresh by us and we need to work our way to it.

Intent of people may be one thing, my intent of hearing will be another and the intent of action and what comes out of it is third and how people receive it is again different. All this is ok.  So everything is in a state of comparison, separated and in binary. This is existence. This may be an illusion, but is a reality for us "to work with" and take us to transcendence. The world cannot give us answers to the feeling of incompleteness - the answer does not lie there. But the world is only a means to an end - which is God. Or the world is another aspect of God.

In short, our existence is divine, unconditional and eternal - either as motion (and forms) or as consciousness and transcendence. Since everything as apparent creation comes from consciousness, it is regarded as the primary state of existence. There is no why to any of this or any definite start point. The start point is only “we” as a start point - going from one thought to another and then to dissolve it altogether to become consciousness. Thought may be immaterial from philosophical point of view, but to realize its illusionary dimension, we are required to take it “on the face of it”. By concentrating at one point, by being calm, by silencing the mind, by the inward pull, by self instructions, by remembering, by being fully unconditional – one hopes to become God.

God is to “fill” every aspect of our dimension from thought to feelings to action – only then It has said to occupy our entire being and we have seen the Soul. We need to make Its presence “alive”. I am bound to read something or say something differently from the rest. All concepts of past or future or situation or people may of course be different for me – which is incidental and inevitable (but not for any comparison of any kind) and need not define my self worth, which is transcendental and eternal. Transcendence for me may mean something different and may cause upheaval, present dilemmas and fear – all is still ok. The effort is of persistence. Why should one do this? There is again, no answer. But sooner or later, one takes this path. I have no answers for many things and I am at a loss to explain many things that happen in very different ways much to my annoyance. But all is still okay since behind everything, there exists God and by His presence, the world gets created and moves. This realization too may not figure when one gets annoyed or one feels miserable – but hold on! When powerful emotions subside, the idea of transcendence is sure to come back and that is when we forgive, forget and love….again. We can forgive anything and we can choose to forget and recall – it is an inherent property of existence.

So start with identifying what is it one does unconditionally? Probably that is the entry point to become God. Unconditional means there is no justification or evaluation for what one does and neither can anyone comment on what one does since the “thing of doing” goes beyond the laws of commenting.

 

Hari Om.

Trust

 

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Everyday (or every instant) a reminder that we are souls or spirits is a must. Don’t think of me or you or effort or situation or commitment or pain or pleasure or incompleteness or any aspect of motion. To become aware of a situation of existence means to believe our separation from consciousness and thus be subjected to change or the outward pull of perception and then expect something as fruits of labour and to have a purpose for actions. Of course writing requires certain start point and its effects on other aspects. In reality there is no start point in absolute sense and any start point may be analyzed to lead one to the Source. God is the only reality (non motion) and all other things are just vibrating to create forces and forms. We too, are a mixture of all these dimensions and we continue to concentrate on motion and hence we experience existence. The mind can focus on anything and bring that thing to existence. Therefore why a particular event occurs on a particular way and why a situation appears in particular way is beyond just logical reasoning. We imagine or we ourselves are imaginations or vibrations and have this seed of remembrance/focus and of forgetting. The world is immaterial in terms of its existence and character – all is a construct. So we are not answerable to the world and its happenings. Today we don’t know and tomorrow we don’t know the turn of events. This “not knowing” tendency may disturb our constructs but that is the point of realizing – that who are “we”? The medium f consciousness is such that its mere presence (as eternity) can generate vibrations (in our case - imagination or a thought) and that leads to a visible motion and forms. Thus, essentially ALL is just One Divine presence perceived as “many”. To have a purpose of intellect or feelings or actions bonds us to motion. The experience of incompleteness and to yearn for a perfect situation keeps us running. It s not age or health or money or relationships or time or space that creates a perfect situation – it is the feeling of divinity within us.

This feeling of divinity is present at every instant – we need to tap it. It is not seen by any of our abilities of perception – it is so subtle that the slightest of vibrations or thoughts can obscure its presence. So focus is required; acknowledgment and remembrance of Him is required; being unconditional is required; trust is required; love is required.

Trust, focus, love, unconditional approach have got nothing to do with existence of motion. In fact, they dissolve it. To be in motion means not to trust or become very purposeful in action. But God is beyond these realities. Hence to see God and to become like Him, means to absorb those properties of existence which are Godlike. It does not matter if we are in a particular manner since “particularness” is also an expression of universal truth. One may do all the planning and thinking BUT all is coming from God. In that case, we (as waves) do not have a separate purpose.

Hari Om.

Love

 

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Existence is love. Existence is unconditional. Our existence and perception of change is a given. The perception of medium of consciousness to appear as vibration then force and then matter is also a given (and to be accepted). Actually acceptance also means that I take a choice to accept something without a complaint, so there is yet an assumption of “I” and hence choice and hence an approach of acceptance. Well that is a good start. It should lead to not even being aware that we have accepted something – it should become a default mode of expression and becoming.

The default mode right now is of motion which I have constructed as an imagination and I perceive a reality. Reality has many dimensions – the forms that we see are just one end of the spectrum.  Behind those lie forces and behind those we have vibrations and even behind those there is just One Consciousness. सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रम्हासी I So has consciousness converted Itself into these dimensions or is it just an act of imagination that has made waves such as you and me? So it will be seen that Imagination, as again a property of the medium, results in formation of vibrations, forces and forms (or manifestation) and when we imagine, all these dimensions are deployed or come into existence, as it seems. So inherently, consciousness is all about Potential becoming manifestation. You can do  anything you wish, but it will lead you to God. Pour everything (and especially your ego) to God.

Thus manifestation (or the visible or the perceived) is also a form of consciousness and hence divine. Divine means to realize that there is only One. Expectation, evaluation, judgment is not needed (ego) and behind all the motion and change, there is a dimension of the absolute non motion. Things happen not because of the “many” but by the presence of One and this requires acknowledgement and love. My own identity or constructs or perception is because of His presence – independently I have no meaning or existence. I exist because of Him. He is the main trigger and the motive.  Our personal motives then do not mean anything in absolute terms. This relative ‘form’ of existence can be dissolved or can be taken to the Absolute dimension. I dissolve into Him is a great thing. I dissolve does not mean I vanish – but I become something else. So I exist as a matter of fact – where there is no beginning or end but only transformations. I exist and existence brings about all these dimensions of manifestation apparently. I exist unconditionally and I exist as Love. I exist and there is no challenging that aspect. I am eternal. One does not require education for this or money for this or stability for this or perfection for this or any of the constructs. In fact, the constructs of any kind need to be thrown out of the ‘window’ of imagination. I am and I am full of love. I am unconditional.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

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Sometimes a series of thoughts fill one’s mind. God is a concept and a realization that will generate a billion kinds of thoughts that deal with various dimensions of existence (body, mind and vibrations) and they may appear complementary, sometimes contradictory, sometimes may raise more questions, sometimes may reveal something, sometimes may expand one’s mind and at times may make one face one’s fear head on. Because there is no standard “answer” to what is God, we therefore experience interpretative stance (forever changing) till a moment of complete transformation occurs and all the voices going on for so long seem to fizzle out or mean one and the same. In short, the “movement” of thoughts vanishes and what remains is pure consciousness. What we considered so far as dilemma or complementary or contradictory thoughts – were one and the same and there doesn’t arise an urge in us to support one thought over the other since all thoughts were basically “steps” to lead to the grand narrative or all thoughts were also limited in another sense. This use of the terms of “or”, “either”, “and”, “perhaps”, “this or that”, this and that” is a part of the process of becoming consciousness - it may seem confusing to self and others but it is necessary process of undertaking. It also means that the realization or the mystery of existence is ingrained in inspiration and not just logic. I think I am separate, hence a stance or a position or a thought pattern is perceived within us, with which we see the entire world. Thoughts are magnets that create situations. One of the basic impacts of thoughts is a feeling of being incomplete (a construct/ perception) and which urges us to keep engaging or expecting a perfect situation and we fear change, or we cling or remain attached to ego and so on. The feeling of incompleteness is what is manifestation and this property is also present in us. As long as we feel incomplete, manifestation will also be perceived. Incompleteness or change or separation is the basic property of manifestation which is eternal and will not stop. By “property” I mean that it is not absolute, but exists in our minds (we have taken on that property; have made the property “come alive” in consciousness) and hence have created this world of movement and change.

Thus consciousness has the property of generating anything and dissolving it. The issue is that we forget that we are consciousness and we stick to an illusion of vibrations-mind-body. We think that I am real, this table is real, my father is real, that tree is real and so on. What is “reality” after all? That which is perceived as existence by the mind. The  “mind”, as we understand – is it “real”?  We think it is and hence whatever it perceives comes into existence.

What is expected is to realize that “incompleteness” as a current state of “mind” is inevitable but the answer to quench this feeling depends on the manner in which one looks at the vibrations. Vibrations are notional. All is notional. IF vibrations or movement dissolves, consciousness is realized – a sense of eternity is realized and transcending space and time is realized.

Behind everything is God. All intents, actions, relationships, situations are God’s making (a property of medium). We exist as waves, thinking ourselves as separate but we are the children of God and hence our ego or doing or clinging comes in the way of this realization.

So give up the world – they mean nothing. This is also done in many ways. One of them, as a manner of engagement with existence, is to become unconditional in thinking, feeling, and action. Forget that you are separate, you are mind or body and you are entitled for something and you should protect yourself or you are facing any misery and so on – ALL are constructs that the ego generates. Forget your separation. All is One and the One is always unconditional and eternal. I exist and that does not require any proof. Existence is not required to be evaluated or judged. The feeling of incompleteness is NOT an indication of my worth. I see, I do, I work, I think for God. In no other way the manifestation is required to indicate anything else.

On another note, architecture can be inspired from anything – any start point can create beautiful architecture and take one beyond. So we have this capacity to be inspired and make something “tangible”. Then this tangible element also may take us to transcendence. The consciousness does all this – the property to create movement and create forms and then take one beyond forms themselves. Forget asking question of space and time. Why things appear in a particular way and in a particular order and change at a particular rate is fine to accept. It is all God’s doing. Accept it as a chance to transcend and meet God.

Hari Om.

Inspiration

 

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Inspiration is in knowing that one exists and there is no precondition whatsoever to exist – this is a liberating feeling.

The feeling of eternalness is important – articulation maybe one way of explaining the nature of thoughts. That goes on to say that feeling and thoughts are not separate neither is the intellect nor the vibrations or consciousness. Each one affects the other and when something is indicated as existence, then it obviously means that it has a physical (form), psychological (mental/force), vibration (waves) and spiritual (consciousness) dimensions. “I” “see” a “wall” comes as a perception because of above nature of existence, else there is no me or the wall itself or an act of observation too. Because there is “I”, there is also a “wall” that is “perceived” by “me”. The sentence needs to be observed through the lens of vibrations and then these constructs would dissolve. Dissolving also means to entertain the realization of reality and non reality - or something that seems visible and the SAME thing being non visible!

TO generalize then, we are entertaining the realization that manifestation may exist or may not exist at the same time – it depends on the mind (or the nature of “existence”).  Thus, this should lead one to infer that

1.       The Source of all manifestations is non movement and eternal – which is what we are and hence there is only One.

2.       Above realization is in our hands and also not in our hands – one needs to keep persisting.

3.       I exist, so I have inherited a character and a form that is incidental and changeable. Hence I need not be governed and defined by constructs – they can be dissolved.

4.       Even if all motion ceases yet the One will remain. So we need to become unconditional and situation can be seen from the idea of transcending it.

5.       The work is at the level of vibrations – we need to reach there. One tiny change at that scale can change the entire perception and reality for us.

6.       Inspiration means to become aware of our eternal existence and become non judgmental. It is also about staying young at heart and become inspired by anything around you and express that inspiration in whatever form one knows. Inspiration has got nothing to do with technique and persistence and perspiration. One may not be able to talk or write or sing or dance or run or anything – but one can feel inspirational nevertheless.

7.       Divinity is unconditional and like magic. One thinks and one becomes. So anything can come out of consciousness and dissolve back to it.

8.       This also means that anything can be remembered at will and forgotten at will. No need to worry about what is remembered and what I have forgotten. All things are brought to existence by the power of the mind. We might as well believe that we do not remember past lives or future lives, but that too is because we do not know (as yet) how to harness that power. We can also come to know those lives as well.

9.       So remembrance and forgetting are also incidental and our purpose and ego is wrongly dependent on these dimensions. Today I remember mind and body, so I remember being conditional, so I experience pain. If I remember God and forget the mind and body, then I would have become God.

10.   Everything is a reality from consciousness to vibrations to mind to body. Thus consciousness is a “potential” to become anything. We represent that potential and hence we see change, we perceive change, we change and we can transcend and become consciousness. The seed is already implanted in us and one can go on to say that the seed and we are not different. The difference is only an illusion. Then where is the place of worry and fear? And why should we even create such dimensions in ourselves?

11.   If everything is divine and only the Self, then one lives only for oneself without any expectation or attachment. One is therefore (or should become) unconditional. I am not the cause or the effect of anything and neither the motion means anything in terms of a reality. One can either completely renounce manifestation or transcend it with immense love.  

12.   Logic therefore has limitations because it makes you cling and egoistic. Learn to let go off many things and trust the nature of existence. It will give you peace. Whatever one does, God knows it, sees it and He means well.

Hari Om.

Empty

 

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Empty. Only this idea should be remembered and endorsed and the remaining stuff should be simply forgotten. We remember a lot of unnecessary stuff about mind and body and survival – that is a problem. Then we create a boundary or our survival and we give it a reality of thought and form/ product. And then we define a purpose, we plan and we run for a perfect situation.

There is no answer why motion and consciousness exist. It has to be accepted and realized – that for the grandest of designs that we exist, there is only “play” but no purpose, since “purpose” is too shortsighted manner of perceiving existence. Purpose is derived on logic and this means to see the variables in the equation and then to connect A with B and to optimize these. This is tragic. Because as a phenomenon of existence, there are a billion more ways of realizing the nature of life – not just logic. The entire thing gravitates around survival and optimization and hence acceleration and hence use of logic/ intellect etc.

It should be evident by now, even looking at history that the answer for satisfaction does not lie in motion of any kind or by logical solution and that we may want money but that is no guarantee of peace of mind and removing fear. Yet we do the same mistake.

God is already there and requires no support for any ting – no support of vibration or force or form and hence no memory at all and hence no remembrance. God is already there….And no other phenomenon can happen because of this medium so everything (including all of us) is HIS undertaking. Irrespective of anything or any change or any kind of removal or subtraction or addition or any movement, He will remain.

I am incomplete – so what? I am a phenomenon and I change. It is a given. The apparentness is a given and I perceive existence based on this phenomenon. I am the wave and the wave will go one day. The ocean creates the wave. Things happen; they change; I change; there is life and death – so what? People say many things; they leave you alone; or they expect; you expect; they demand; you demand; there is pain; there is resistance – so what? You run; you get something; it slips away again; there is a wife; there are kids and there are no kids; there is youth and there is old age – so what? One says something and then you react – why? You plan something and something (else) happens – so what?

One says something (to you??)….Was it meant to you? Is the entire existence and motion and sequences and change meant to you? Are you required to do anything at all? Who is this you? Why is engagement required?

I am ok with not having answers to any of the above questions. I am ok with having questions. I am the question. In whatever way I think or I sequence out things and say this or that or think that something is a start point - things happen despite all of this. I am NOT the thing and neither the THING indicates anything about ‘me’. This is the problem of logic – to assume connections and respond and take things seriously and then to fight. Alternatively, I should know that any act of mind from any start point from any field of inquiry and any expression having any intent will lead me to God – everything is equally important and unconditional.

The way to see this, is to realize that I can be nothing and YET I can be blissful, complete, and eternal. I do not require any justification or evaluation or control or desperation or guilt or imagination to exist in a particular way. I only am. I exist and that is good. I love this existence, which is unconditional.

Hence, think, feel and act unconditionally. Everything is God Himself so whatever is seen or felt or spoken or done is Him. I am not doing anything – He is doing it. I am not generating any thoughts – He is. I am not generating any response – He is. This will be only felt if we give up ego or attachment to anything – starting with vibrations. Even if I empty myself of everything, I still remain.

Hari Om.

 

Shree

 

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To think sometimes is to doubt one’s intentions. Doubt is a strength at times for it makes us aware what is appropriate and whether are we only bodies or the mind or something more than that and hence our decisions are valid to what extent? People continue to argue or talk based on fear and ego. That is also a given. Change is also a given and it makes no sense to try and restrict any change or to construct an identity based on any dimension of vibrations. Change is not me and I do not restrict or alter any change. Things “happen”.

Survival or existence and to consider existence as “finite”. This creates a problem of its own. When I am saying these things, I am not complaining and neither am I expecting anything as a solution – I am just stating things as they are. We have not understood the meaning of existence completely. Existence has consciousness (as an eternal non changing aspect – from which everything else is seen) and an aspect of movement, imagination, intent, vibrations, forces and forms and perceptions. This of course changes. The issue is about how one accepts this situation. Fundamental in all this realization is the concept of “change”. Trust that God or consciousness is the basic unit of everything and everything else about movement and “me” is an apparent creation, which we hold on strongly to the same. We take vibrations, forces and forms and us as real and hence we differentiate and we fear. Fear is not different from attachment or expectation or pain or anger or construct or memory or identity or a manifestation of change. ANYTHING can be brought to existence. (मराठी मध्ये त्याला सिद्ध होणे अस म्हणतात). Mind, after all, is existence. If I imagine motion, then I make fear exist. If I become consciousness, then fear goes away. Thus, our existence as human beings, as thoughts, as bodies  - are brought alive (or made real) by our own intent or vibrations. This existence should be seen as a form of eternal dimension of consciousness. We think we change, or expect some permanence or should keep thriving something or create a perfect situation – all this indicates an imagination of existence. Whatever we do, we keep thinking and the cycle DOES NOT stop.

Cycle indicates a movement along any line or curve, which does not have a start or an end point but only a decision to turn left or right or go straight or peddle fast or slow or stop or go. The cycle is an imagination and so is the terrain on which the cycle moves. Does the cycle move or the terrain moves and does the “rider” on the cycle move? Interesting question. If one realizes that the rider DOES NOT move anywhere (and is permanent and has got nothing to do with the cycle or the terrain and the experiences it offers) then the cycle and the terrain can be dropped altogether as the rider is happy regardless of the cycle or the terrain. Why should the rider mistake his identity for the cycle or the terrain? This is the mistake “we” create. We think we exist so there ought to be some cause and effect and we ought to take control and run and expect some perfection and create an ideal peaceful situation and we have a mind and body – this is equivalent to keep riding the cycle on the terrain for searching something and hoping to expect that we become satisfied. ALL things currently are cyclic in nature. It is not a matter of the scale of our undertaking – whether it is too trifle or tiny or too huge and complex. The moment a thing is imagined, it takes on a momentum of its own and becomes cyclic. Who creates the momentum? We do. We, ourselves, are momentum going in rounds of birth and death. Whoever said that there is just one life of birth and death is fooling himself into believing that nonsense.

Thus “coming into motion” is existence for us currently. Philosophically it is referred as the “potential” of consciousness – this medium means that. This motion is seen or felt by our senses and they ask for more engagement. I cannot stop the momentum and I cannot expect that the problems will be solved. One thinks of a problem and the momentum has begun! One will notice that by doing anything and by taking a decision and completing an action, things will stay at rest – but they don’t! Because of what we are made of – as phenomenon. And this is to be accepted. My doing anything or not doing anything is immaterial to anything else! This should mean, in other terms, that everything is “unconditional” and not to be taken personally. For us, it means that I think, love and act unconditionally, because that is WHAT is being eternal.

Do it. One will realize that our thoughts, feelings and actions can become unconditional and they expand to everything to such an extent that all movements finally dissolve into consciousness. In other words, consciousness and movement were one and the same OR there was ONLY consciousness and all other things were just apparent. We make things “Real” because we restrict our thinking as mind and body. Do not restrict thinking and then it will dissolve, since the boundary itself has dissolved! There is no need to think, for thinking means separation of me from something else (cycle/ terrain/ rider). Become empty of thought or any purpose.

Let go off everything that seems to define your identity. No need to remember anything or your mind or skills or body or senses or money or security or change or words or education or optimization or time or shortage or commitment or focus or multitasking or anything – they are vain imaginations or only illusions to retard one’s existence. Everything is only God and He is the doer, not we. He is the only existence and we are only apparent. Trust this, live upto it. Feel it that intrinsically things are divine. And that is existence.

Hari Om.

 

 

Unconditional Existence

 

140222: Shree: Unconditional Existence

Unconditional existence - this asks no questions, no judgments, no evaluations, no purpose for itself. It rests in its own place and it can be either a form or non vibration state.

I exist as consciousness or as motion that can be perceived as vibrations, force and form. Either way, I exist and it need not be considered as a question of consciousness or motion - all means eternal existence. The feeling of many and fear and change and impermanence has come into "existence" because of my mind that concentrates on such a state of existence. This feeling will be replaced by complete blissful nature the moment I concentrate on consciousness.

So we are only referring to states of existences and this existence also exists because of the property of the medium called consciousness, which is devoid of any vibrations or conditions or movement or many or attachment or purpose or space or time or effects and so on. The motion is apparent existence (something of a "false" kind or a shadow or changing or fear inducing or purposive and so on) and by training it will be realized that this motion can also dissolve. So what we perceive is only a manufactured dream based on concept to a form.

Above things mean that i need not take the "burden" of existence - I am the Eternal God that can be consciousness (everything seen as consciousness) or as some form of manifestation (motion). So motion is ALSO God in some different form. This or that; One or Many - it is the SAME MEDIUM that I am. Despite this knowing, I am required to work my way to this realization. It may be vibrations or illusions, but it is yet real to me. For this, I need not feel bad or take any guilt. If all is God, I should trust Him and all things that get perceived, all intents that I have inherited; all perceptions and motions that I express are projected by His presence.

Anything can therefore be brought to existence (vibration - force - form). And not only a product, but ALL states of existence - from vibrations to intent to form are a "reality". God is as much real as is vibration, which is also as much real as is force/mind which is as much real as a product. Vapour, water and ice are one and the same thing, so whatever I am, whatever I perceive and whatever I see - is the projection of God from non motion to motion. It is not required to see the states as compartments, but all is just One medium. To say that any of these existences are immaterial is not correct. All states have their role to play and all states are steps to go towards becoming God. From this aspect, then past or future or present is only motion of some kind - it is real. If i worry about an imagined past or future, then I am making it "present" by feeling it as a hypothetical situation. As a word it may be hypothetical, but as an experience, I have constructed it and generated "worry".

So this finally defines "decision". Decision is a process of bringing something to "existence". You either engage with motion or renounce - both will generate a reality. A reality is existence. This is something that need not require any "escape" or refusal or judgment. This needs to be embraced. By embracing, then one becomes "calm" regardless of any change and any surprise and any unexpected event, because we come to know that we are "here to stay" and my doing anything or not doing anything isn't anything personal. All is about God and nothing else as any separate concept or expectation or responsibility or guilt or any kind of a hangover.

Thus the importance of unconditional approach becomes important.

Hari Om

 

 

What will happen to me?

 

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What will happen to me if I go on a philosophical path and will I renounce everything? I don’t know. And I need not worry about what happens ‘tomorrow’. All movements are God’s. If He is the creator then He knows best and I trust Him for the same. The trust is unconditional. He is the One. I am just incidental – His image and His Will. Wherever HE takes me I will go. Whatever He gives me, I accept. Whatever He says, I listen. All is Him. Time is Him. Change is Him. Forms are Him. Intents are Him. My imagination is Him. Not ‘me’ (the small i) but Him.

Forgetfulness is a gift. It helps one in realizing that logic has a boundary dependent on remembrance. God is about forgetting everything and forgetting the boundary. We are not vibrations and not what vibrations make us perceive and build our identities on.

In today’s times, things change, I will change, people change and situations change, careers change, relationships change – they represent movement or motion or space-time-causation phenomenon by consciousness. These do not mean anything for me or that I require to “do something” about it. I am not required to be stressed or worried or angry about anything (as feelings). Agreed that things will be perceived as many and they will change and we will be compelled to remain engaged or cling to our perception. Agreed. This is a state of affairs no doubt. But that does not mean that I consider myself a failure and non performer or cannot love myself or anything. Why should this logic be used? A motion appearing in a particular way and changing and our perceptions also changing have got nothing to do with self worth. Every moment will change and so will tomorrow and with what perspective I felt the past may not also stay constant. Things change, and situations and people change. I cannot dictate and govern what motion appears and neither am I required to. To be able to stay “still” amidst the apparent motion is important and we can do that if we realize the soul.

Hari Om.

Healing

 

120222: Shree: Healing

Concentration can happen through any medium of motion – either by being unconditional in actions or relationships or through thought or by intellect or feelings or by breadth or by sound. Every moment can be seen as a highly concentrated existence, wherein vibrations or mind is at just one point without the detraction of body or survival or comparisons or ego or pain or uncertainty or change. This is a training to be given to the mind so it develops its muscles. Else, by being pulled in distractions, it looses its energy and conviction to engage in action.

This means to know what is to be concentrated –what is worth concentrating on and what is not to be even considered. The power of vibrations (or existence) is such that anything can be conceived and constructed as a reality. Right now, we conceive motion (or distractions) and hence we feel reality in that manner - in terms of many forms and forces. Let the mind become still in any activity then it will perceive and feel the presence of transcendental quality (non motion, permanence, bliss, detachment, non pain, love, unconditional state and so on). It is not for any purpose that God is required to be felt – it is US – our true nature where distractions or vibrations just melt away and what is felt is consciousness. This is what we are and this is what exists eternally. Other things are mere fancies of the mind and some stories that it gets entangled in. It is very direct and logical as a result – there is no magic in this.

Knowing this behavior of mind will help, since we then understand that anything can be brought to existence and anything can be perceived. We may generate a demon or God for we can become either. Things are unreal in themselves in terms of mind and body. We give it some weight and we make it real and we run after it or away from it. What is the point of expressing anger or annoyance or ego or anything? Why do we do it and why should we even do it? Is it required? This is a question to the self, not for anybody else. There are not “many” to be entertained; there is just One. And that One is unconditional.

As we keep training our mind for this, we become calm, we forgive all mishaps, we give up expectations, we start to love things unconditionally, we realize that our true existence is unchanging and eternal, motion cannot scare you in any way since it was only an illusion that we ourselves had created and so on.

Subsequently, it is also about “healing” the mind.

Hari Om.

 

Creation

 

110222: Shree: Creation

Architecture follows anything – and so does any form of expression. The form of expression (be it architecture or food or clothing or colour or painting or music) can be inspired by any line of thought or intent. Hence intent can lead to any form of expression. Reversely, any form of expression can indicate or contain any intent or series of intents or values or inspirations depending on our own perception of state of mind. Thus expressions and analysis are rarely without intents. Behind all the visible forms one sees, there is always intent or an idea or a concept or a value or an experience.

Philosophically, the medium of consciousness has a property of manifesting “intent” (vibration) into a force and form. As human beings, we can be seen as only intents that have led to the creation of mind and body. And any human being can also be perceived as intent by another person. Thus the question is projected that what we “see” in front of us, is what we have constructed ourselves! We are the makers of reality because we exist as vibrations that contain intent.

This follows that all situations are self created. There isn’t any situation “out there” for which we ought to feel responsible or guilty or annoyed or base our responses. The moment we perceive any situation of space and time, we have already perceived and responded to the same imagination. In philosophical terms, this intent is harboring “motion” (change, fluidness, interconnectedness name and form or cause and effects). The importance of focusing on an idea or to become “still” is to perceive consciousness and not motion. If motion dissolves (which means the mind dissolves), then we perceive the medium “as It Is”.

With what thought did God create? The property of God is to be formless, characterless, still, blissful, unconditional having the inherent potential for creating “many” and motion. From this perspective, God is either motion OR non motion depending on how creation wants to perceive itself!

We talk of “design” and how intent leads to a form and we also talk of form as the expression of intent. Ever thought of considering ourselves as expressions of Design and container of seeds of Freedom? Consider the potential “we” have in case we realize the Source of creation?

Hari Om.

Being still

 

100222: Shree: Being still

लोक रडे असतात. हे पाहिजे, ते पाहिजे, हे जमत नाही आणि ते जमत नाही. All are feeble excuses to defend one’s perception and to constrain oneself. In our daily lives, we become distracted by change, by our change, by vibrations and by situations. What people say, what they do or think, what situations happen, what is one prompted to do by desires – are all desires. We vibrate and we have taken a form of existence and this makes us “crave” for enjoyment of mind and senses/ body. The craving is a disease.

The reverse training of the mind is important – प्रत्याहार. Renounce, controlling the desires, dissolving them, focusing, concentrating, making the mind still, meditating – all mean the same. The basis of any method of action or thought or feeling is of “concentrating” the mind at one point and dissolving the vibrations themselves. All thoughts of existence, change, insecurity, anxiety, fear, separation are an output of vibrations or a wavering mind. The mind wanders and hence these feelings get generated. Let the mind be still or focus at a point and what one experiences is bliss (or an unconditional feeling that depends on nothing for itself). Thus the training is to make the mind unconditional, so the situation does not affect it or does not draw it out or does not let it wander. In other words, a situation is perceived only if the mind keeps wandering and perceives thoughts based on space and time and other forms. The same situation seems to “dissolve” if the mind focuses at one point.

So is the situation real or unreal? It depends on the nature of mind. Or the mind creates or dissolves a situation. Dissolving means to become universal and blissful and unconditional. This is independent of life and death and hence consciousness is eternally present, complete, blissful, non conditional, non changeable, non motion. When one reaches consciousness, there is no inkling of any of these terms or concepts, but till that time, these concepts are a “measure” for us to become that Being.

Hari Om.

Fields of inquiry

 

100222: Shree: Fields of inquiry

People choose to get engaged in a variety of thought patterns - which shape our perception, response to environment and continue the cycle of births. Why I choose to get engaged in something cannot be answered completely although the tendency can be accepted. Phenomenon cannot be asked “why” as a pattern. To accept the phenomenon and to love unconditionally is the greatest of learning a human mind can do and attain to freedom subsequently. From being conditional, a state of non conditional being can be realized. Till that state is realized, we are consumed by questions of why and compulsions and cause-effects and bread. Vibrations will compel us to define a purpose and to respond to internal insecurity or change and all the imagination based on any purpose will entrap us in the same ongoing cycle of births. Unless we realize that God exists and our real nature is non motion, we will continue in this crazy expression of creating some noise.

Anyway, the point is that every kind of thought pattern is valid and is not necessary to give some output in the least amount of time. Philosophical thought (of renunciation) is also an output, except that it cannot be validated in the world of motion. That does not mean that people engaged in philosophy need to give up those ideas. Far from it. Of course, as one keeps realizing philosophical ideas, one is creating a situation for himself/herself that he/she needs to face, regardless of whatever consequence of those thought patterns may generate. In fact one is always becoming through some kind of engagement and one is always facing consequences. If one clings to those situations, one becomes “motion” if one dissolves motion then one becomes consciousness. Either way, it is a reality or mind is the creator of reality.

So we have philosophy as the potential to know one. Then we also have phenomenology where the subject matter is about internal world of imagination (or analysis of imagination) and this world is as real as any external “object”. If one asks what is to be achieved by this field, then again it may be a ridiculous question to be asked. I hate this question when people ask about relevance and purpose (as if the entire existence or our actions were based on the sole logic of output). Phenomenology is for those who wish to be engaged in a diverse range of emotions or thoughts.

Psychology is also a field wherein the workings of the human mind are seen and analyzed – again a huge world of thoughts and is as abstract and complex as much as any difficult engineering project.

History, culture, archaeology, environment and so on are the fields where patterns, transformations, generations, changes, global, interconnectedness, wholesomeness is perceived. It may be an opposite view of human centred dominance. Architecture is also supposed to be a field that lies at the intersection of geography, history and philosophy.  

We also have arts, music and sports that can transcend human constructs and reach the inner recesses of the mind of feelings and help us connect.

We all inherit these patterns. The inheritance is a gift and each person will look at existence in unique and complimentary ways to yours. The idea was never about comparison, but always about connections and transcendence, since all are actually coming from the same Source. Choose any path and any start point, but come to God and acknowledge His presence.

Hari Om.