We can do a mediation for up to 30 minutes where we sit still and simply watch our thoughts and impression without trying ti control them. This has been taught by Israel Regardie renowned western esotericist as well as the Saint Swami Vivekananda of the East. This initiatory practice is unlike others because you do not have to control anything other then body movement. Breath as normal, think as normal! but do not move even a scratch or a twitch. The body should be still the mind alert and watching the thoughts and emotions without trying to control them.
This practice will help the initiate become acquainted with the different aspects of the entity it resides in such as understanding the body, and the mind as the initiate watches the thoughts there becomes a separation. You will then be able to comprehend the part of you that is the body the part of you as the mind and the witness the being it self and be able to put them in separate categories.
The body will want to move the mind will bring up random thoughts whatever happens must be recorded in the magical journal directly after the practice. The initiate will realize Malkuth on the tree of life which is the bottom speroth. Malkuth is the body. The astral plane in yesod. We have to become awake in malkuth and this practice brings awareness to the body.
It is said in this age of kali yuga or in other words the winter of our conscious cycle. The best way to purification and illumination is to chant the holy names of God. We know that all things are cycles and that spring, summer,fall and winter also happen in ages of 24,000 years. In the Gold age or the summer age man and woman could meditate on the supreme lord and reach illumination. Now in the winter age we only live until 100 years, have many materialistic responsibilities and no way to practice accestisic, or to stay absorbed in meditation for long period of time. It is said that in this age the power of singing he glories of the lord, chanting his names, and dwelling on the pastimes of the lord are able to elevate the soul from its material hankering.
All true esoteric religious traditions know the fact that the soul has descended in or become dense and is now in the material nature. The material nature nullifies the power of the spirit and makes the soul interact through a mortal vessel. This mortal vessel the material body is how we interact here in the physical realm and we are subject to its laws. The body can get hurt it also can cause pain to others hence the crimes of this world. While the soul in incarnated in the material plane it us under the modes of the three gunas. We are either active, passive or neutral. We are either under passion, ignorance , or in the mode of goodness. As humans we have faults and sense hankerings. Perhaps we are above certain sense pleasure and desires but we are bitter and apathetic, perhaps we are in bigotry and feel full of pride. Nevertheless these are the symptoms of the material nature. The goal of any tradition is to link the individual soul with its source or place of causation. The best most efficient way in this age of winter and confusion is to chant the holy name of God, sing the praises and glories of the Solar christic intelligence. Weather you choose to use the name Christ, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu matters not, are all capable of producing the same results because they are all names that refer to the one and only supreme cause and intelligent eternal being.
As material entities our souls are subject to the law of time, the mantras or name of God such as alah alah, or yeshua, or hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare come from the transcendental realms of eternity. Sound is more subtle than the 4 elements, fire water, earth and air hence it is able to put them in a mental state and control them. The sound produce vibrations of love and supreme wisdom and allow the consciousness to rise above the material sense plaine.
Listening and reading the pastimes of the solar God heroes such as Jesus in the new testament as well as Krishna in the bhagavad gita are all ways to help elevate the mind into transcendental states of consciousness. They activate the right hemisphere of the brain which is the receptive feminine side. The conscious mind can use the sacred stories to help formulate an image and then the subconscious mind digest the symbols and you are givin the true meaning through revelation. Listening to the story of Jesus walking in water and stilling the storm, or Krishna directing arjuna on the battlefield produce transcendental thoughts in the brain and allow one experience the higher relaties and transcendental realms beyond the five senses.
If one puts aside time for chanting at least 1 hour a day and or chants with full devotion the holy names of the lord one can surely be purified of bad habits and sinful behavior that produces pain. We take our monkey mind and thoughts that we carry day to day and replace them with the mantra that develops concentration on the causal reality. When we say the name of the prime creator we are putting our energy and focus in respiration we begin to align tize our aurus with the positive vibrations of the names. The names gave power.. Rama, Krishna, Yeshua Christ, Allah, Om VIshnu, OM HAri, hallelujah aglah, yod he vav he, are all names referring to the supreme intelligent cause. When we speak the name or chant we areenvoking the power and intelligence of Christ into our voice and body.
When we do the mantra out loud we are producing physical effects, when we do the mantra internally without external voice and sound we are making effects on the astral body and mental body. The mantra is more powerful and cleansing when done inside our minds.
The essence is the the true self that connects into the physical material realm. The essence is innocent and is the spiritual seed or spark that descends from the causal realm. The essence is what notices when we get distracted. The essence is what we can hold to to annihilate thoughts. If we pay attention and get wrapped up in every little thought every little desire there will be no end to it. The essence is bottled up in what are called egos. Ouspensky the great mystic taught that the essence it trapped in egos which are multiplistic aspects of the physical creature that works mechanically. The egos are created through identification of the body and its programmed desires. The goal of man is to overcome these mechanical programs and unlock full control of the physical body and mind. Remember , you’re not the body or the mind, You’re the essence that uses the mind which controls the body.
We need to ascend to the the third level of consciousness and become what is called an airhead. This state of consciousness is above past and present thinking it simply exist in bliss. This is where the essence resides. IN the grreek esoteric school sman was separated into 4 states of consciousness. earth, water, air and fire.
We need not fret for yesterday or tomorrow for tomorrow will be taken care of when it is today. Abide in the essence and be free. The essence is outside of the three modes of consciousness. We are in waking state, then we go to the dream state, and finally the dreamless unconscious states. These are the three modes of consciousness. The essence, or the witness is the weather or observer. Once we identify with the witness that sustains our being we are no longer distracted or attracted to the material modes of nature.
We can effortlessly abide in the essence by practicing self remembering. We do this by watching our thoughts, feeling and reactions throughout the day in the waking state while remembering we are spirit and not the body. The waking state is the only state we can use the intellect to make decisions. Once we go to sleep we go to the the dream realm which is a reflection of the waking state. Usually we do not have full conscious discrimination in the dream world until we have fully awakened consciousness in the waking state. Every day when we wake up we can abide in the essence as long as possible. While we are doing our morning routine,going to work, or at home after work we can abide in the essence and watch ourselves. We have to watch the mechanical nature of the material realm. The body and mind do things but we the witness does not do anything.
Indian saints have said we are not the doer. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says that the soul or essence is not slain when the body is slain therefore the witness is always protected. In fact, the part of you that is you is not embodied, it is unmanifested and appears to be in the body. We are essentially bluetoothed wirelessly connected otot the body. When the essence projects into the body it feels the sense of I AM and starts going about activities. Sometimes our activities are of goodness, kind, non pleasure seeking but simply bestowing and receiving in goodness. We have our passionate mode that is full of desires, sensation seeking, passionate and full of emotions such as anger or pride this is rajas or our passionate mode. Finally we have tamas which is our ignorant state, of wrath, laziness, lethargic, daydreaming unaware mode of consciousness. The essence that is us and is the basis of our witness is not perturbed by the 3 modes of nature, waking, dreaming, and sleeping, but is simply aware and watching the happenings. The major problem in life is to identify with the body. We are the spirit souls, fractals of the prime creator. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita I am the witness. Krishna is the witness within us, our being is sustained by the supreme being which watched over all creation.
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