080322: Shree: मनोधारणा

 080322: Shree: मनोधारणा

The above word indicates a state of “mind” or the state of existence. Existence is always a given – having no end or beginning, but only IS. What only IS, has to be complete, non changing and divine. The realization for us is to know this dimension of existence. Generally the perception (that develops from vibrations and then to mind and then to body) indicates a changing nature of existence and that induces fear and a feeling of impermanence within us. That also compels us to cling to notions of security, to senses and to manifested forms – all this is indicative of what we tend to focus on or how the mind keeps wavering from one thought to another – like those gigantic waves that are seen on the surface of the ocean. Manifestations are the waves that come and go and they indicate the calmness of the ocean beneath. The ocean remains regardless of any motive or purpose or intention (forever independent and calm), the waves are incidental. Any stir in the ocean’s body (in terms of disturbance, change) generates a current (or a force or a physical movement) leading to waves. This “disturbance” starts at a very subtle level of ocean’s depth and increases in intensity and frequency and surfaces to “form” a wave like structure surfacing “above”.

In our existence, disturbance starts at a level of subtle vibrations that later on make a force (or mind) and a form (body). At the most subtle or deepest level of existence (vibrations), these later on get felt as purpose or intentions or tendencies or momentum or movement to create force and form (or a tangible manifestation). What we feel are the waves and not the force or the vibrations and certainly not the eternal consciousness.

Thus, if one wants to make the existence of God real, then that person has to dive deep into the ocean where the situation at the bottom of ocean is different from the surface. This means to dwell within and to look within oneself and resist the outward pull or to regard the outward pull redundant. If this skill is accomplished, then all forms and forces disappear and what is felt is only the One – forever blissful, complete and unconditional.

Hari Om.