THOUGHTS ON ENLIGHTENMENT
We are pure souls, we are born into this Planet with all the perfect tools we need to expand our consciousness and live as the pure light that we are. When we enter the Planet in a human body we are immediately bombarded by the mind with thoughts, emotions, and sentiments. We are fascinated with the body and the mind, and we begin a grand love affair with the body and mind, we perceive ourselves as the body and the mind. We take pride in all that we have achieved through the body and the mind, and we attach ourselves to all these achievements, our possessions, our work, our education, our knowledge, our physical appearance, our abilities, our relationships, our family history, race, religion, culture, nation and the list goes on and on. If we stop to think about it deeply we realize that all these attachments created by the body and the mind are just a surface garment that we put on to live and communicate on this Planet.
The true being, resides in the heart as the watcher, as the one that makes the body and mind come alive, the one that is a silent witness of all things, the one who resides in the inner sacred space of the heart and sees all things and knows all things, this being is never born and this being can never die. This being is the cosmic traveler whose journey is beyond time and space. In order to experience this physical Planet this Grand Being of pure love and light, has allowed a tiny part of itself to descend into a physical body and mind, to watch, observe, gather knowledge of the physical experience, expand and grow and to move on. This being is full of wisdom, power and greater understanding of all things visible and invisible.
This experience as a human being is just a moment in Cosmic time,.... just a moment! And it will be wonderful and wise if one chooses to spend this moment in conscious connection with the Divine Presence of the inner being.
Enlightenment is making conscious connection with this inner being and living as compassion,.. as pure love. This compassion and love is neither emotional nor is it focused towards any one person or one thing, it is beyond relationships and is no longer addressed to anyone or anything in particular. It is an overflowing wellspring that flows in all directions and encompasses the whole Universe. It is in perfect tune with existence itself. When one seeks to live in oneness with the inner being one need not strive to be loving or kind or understanding, for all these virtues are the truth of who we really are. The physical and mental garment of achievements are just that, they are just garments worn for convenience of the physical experience, but to perceive ourselves as these garments and attach to them creates enormous discord in every aspect of life. It is like seeing the world through cloudy, broken glasses.
Attachment to the achievements of the body and mind and perceiving oneself as the body and mind is a dream. Enlightenment is the potential within every person to wake up from this dream. We have been given the potential to wake up at any moment. All methods of meditation, prayer, affirmations, yoga, visualizations etc. are tools that can create a situation that shakes us up and we wake up from this dream.
Enlightenment is not a goal that can be reached, it is a moment to moment process of greater understanding and conscious awareness of living in union with the Sacred Presence of the Inner Being. Enlightenment is a path that only you can create for yourself through your awareness. Meditations, prayers, and other spiritual practices are only pointers, but you are the traveler, there are no ready made paths. You have to travel alone following the light of your inner being. And this journey is sometimes painful for it involves peeling away of all attachments created through the body and mind, to reveal the inner pure being that is the grander YOU. Peeling away attachments does not mean separation or cutting off, it truly means experiencing a grander oneness with every person and every thing making the living experience more beautiful and joyous.
By awakening ourselves we awaken others just by our very presence, and the Planet responds with new life to the compassion that flows from our heart. We are the Bodhisattva, and the vow of the Bodhisattva goes like this " I seek my own enlightenment for the sake of all beings."
Let us choose to wake up to the truth of who we really are!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
© 2013 P. Rajkumar
We are pure souls, we are born into this Planet with all the perfect tools we need to expand our consciousness and live as the pure light that we are. When we enter the Planet in a human body we are immediately bombarded by the mind with thoughts, emotions, and sentiments. We are fascinated with the body and the mind, and we begin a grand love affair with the body and mind, we perceive ourselves as the body and the mind. We take pride in all that we have achieved through the body and the mind, and we attach ourselves to all these achievements, our possessions, our work, our education, our knowledge, our physical appearance, our abilities, our relationships, our family history, race, religion, culture, nation and the list goes on and on. If we stop to think about it deeply we realize that all these attachments created by the body and the mind are just a surface garment that we put on to live and communicate on this Planet.
The true being, resides in the heart as the watcher, as the one that makes the body and mind come alive, the one that is a silent witness of all things, the one who resides in the inner sacred space of the heart and sees all things and knows all things, this being is never born and this being can never die. This being is the cosmic traveler whose journey is beyond time and space. In order to experience this physical Planet this Grand Being of pure love and light, has allowed a tiny part of itself to descend into a physical body and mind, to watch, observe, gather knowledge of the physical experience, expand and grow and to move on. This being is full of wisdom, power and greater understanding of all things visible and invisible.
This experience as a human being is just a moment in Cosmic time,.... just a moment! And it will be wonderful and wise if one chooses to spend this moment in conscious connection with the Divine Presence of the inner being.
Enlightenment is making conscious connection with this inner being and living as compassion,.. as pure love. This compassion and love is neither emotional nor is it focused towards any one person or one thing, it is beyond relationships and is no longer addressed to anyone or anything in particular. It is an overflowing wellspring that flows in all directions and encompasses the whole Universe. It is in perfect tune with existence itself. When one seeks to live in oneness with the inner being one need not strive to be loving or kind or understanding, for all these virtues are the truth of who we really are. The physical and mental garment of achievements are just that, they are just garments worn for convenience of the physical experience, but to perceive ourselves as these garments and attach to them creates enormous discord in every aspect of life. It is like seeing the world through cloudy, broken glasses.
Attachment to the achievements of the body and mind and perceiving oneself as the body and mind is a dream. Enlightenment is the potential within every person to wake up from this dream. We have been given the potential to wake up at any moment. All methods of meditation, prayer, affirmations, yoga, visualizations etc. are tools that can create a situation that shakes us up and we wake up from this dream.
Enlightenment is not a goal that can be reached, it is a moment to moment process of greater understanding and conscious awareness of living in union with the Sacred Presence of the Inner Being. Enlightenment is a path that only you can create for yourself through your awareness. Meditations, prayers, and other spiritual practices are only pointers, but you are the traveler, there are no ready made paths. You have to travel alone following the light of your inner being. And this journey is sometimes painful for it involves peeling away of all attachments created through the body and mind, to reveal the inner pure being that is the grander YOU. Peeling away attachments does not mean separation or cutting off, it truly means experiencing a grander oneness with every person and every thing making the living experience more beautiful and joyous.
By awakening ourselves we awaken others just by our very presence, and the Planet responds with new life to the compassion that flows from our heart. We are the Bodhisattva, and the vow of the Bodhisattva goes like this " I seek my own enlightenment for the sake of all beings."
Let us choose to wake up to the truth of who we really are!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
© 2013 P. Rajkumar
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