God Consciousness

                                                           

                            God Consciousness is the first of the higher states of consciousness. This is the state of consciousness between cosmic consciousness and the state of Enlightment. The perfect example of a saint who has transcended the state of God Consciousness would be Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The dawn of the sixth state of consciousness comes about when an aspirant is extremely attached to an external medium. The cause  of this attachment to an external medium is because the concerned aspirant is greatly deluded by the medium of attachment  and this delusion according to Mr. Roy Eugene Davis, a direct personal disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, happens because the intuitive powers of the spiritual seeker is greatly diminished. Mr. Roy Eugene Davis further clarifies that this is how  awakened beings become involved in the creation process and enact various roles on behalf of the most Supreme Godhead. Therefore, the very initial signs for the dawn of the sixth state of consciousness is one that of great delusion about an external medium and that of great and extreme attachment to the concerned object of delusion. The bodily chakra or the spiritual centre that becomes activated with the dawn of the sixth state of consciousness is the Agya chakra or the third eye. The third eye or the Agya chakra is such a powerful spiritual centre that its full activation can manifest anything you desire instantaneously.

                         “The sixth state spiritual traveller treads the earth gently.”

                                                                                                         -Ashwas Thapa

                       Both the animate and inanimate objects of attention on the planet are on par and there can be no lines of differences between them in reality. In realistic terms, both of their composition, makeup or structure is the “Same.” Both the living and non-living things are composed of electrons, atoms and molecules which can be understood as pure energy. This and that bundle of pure energy in other terms can be understood as pure consciousness or God. Therefore, each and every inanimate or non-living thing is in actuality not non-living but very much alive and vibrant animate things composed of the very same structure of electrons, atoms and molecules as the living beings and is that field of intelligence which in more realistic terms can be understood as pure consciousness or God. So the term non-living or an inanimate thing can only be limited and confined to a biological terminology and not within the only realistic field in the entire manifested Universe, the field of Spiritualism. In the sixth spiritual plane of God consciousness we begin to realise the gentle and living aspect of all non-living things on the planet. A rock is a rock to the naked eye but to the spiritual eye, a piece of rock is that Divine piece of  creation which has all the essence of Divinity in it as the fully awakened spirit of a spiritually elevated being. To understand this more simply, a spiritual traveller of God consciousness begins to comprehend a piece of rock like all living beings and this is the sole reason why a person established in Godhood begins to grasp the gentle and living aspect of all inanimate things. So the God consciousness being begins to love and respect even the non-living things and starts treating the inanimate things very very gently and very very tenderly. If a sixth state spiritual traveller even by chance grazes roughly past an inanimate rock he is careful enough to ask for forgiveness of the rock and even goes as far as gently caressing the inanimate rock for being careless in acting ungentlemanly towards it. Let me give you a few examples.

                        Sri Sathya Sai Baba had  established a custom of distributing tokens of love in the form of sarees, shawls, sweets, fruits, packets of Vibhuti etc to  His devotees on auspicious occasions. During one of these occasions sarees were distributed to His female devotees and some sarees were still remaining in one of the boxes after distribution.  One of His devotees was taken by complete surprise when the box containing the remaining sarees was completely wet, with even the sarees drenched completely by water. The devotee asked Baba why the sarees were wet when there was open sunshine, with no rainfall and with not even a single person soaking the sarees wet with water. Baba in turn replied that even sarees which is non-living have life and that the sarees were weeping because no one had cared to use them. Another example would be with the life of the triple Samadhite, Pilot Baba. Once, one of the leaders of a radical Non-Being movement had gone to pay the highly Enlightened Being, Pilot Baba, a visit who was then living a reclusive and ascetic life in a mountainous cave made up of huge structures of rock. As Pilot Baba welcomed the anti-God saint his body grazed terribly bad against the rock of the  cave and in consequence was wounded very badly with blood oozing out of the deeply cut wound.( Just notice the heights of awareness great Yogis have.) Pilot Baba in return folded His hands before the inanimate rock and asked for forgiveness of the rock for grazing roughly past it and hurting the rock instead. The Non-Being saint was taken by complete surprise because how can an anti-God ideologist who doesn’t believe in the existence of God believe in the  existence of God in an inanimate rock? The Non-Being saint is the chief Master of one of the Non-Being movements which conducts workshops and seminars on the eight-fold path of Buddha.

 “It was not the common light which all flesh can see, nor was it greater yet of the same kind, as if the light of the day were to grow brighter and brighter and flood all space. It was not like this, but different: altogether different from all such things.”

                                                                                                                         -St. Augustine 

                            In the God consciousness state, a Divine and unearthly light is seen infused into all objects of attention. It is an altogether different kind of light  seen pervading all objects around the sixth state spiritual traveller not seen by the ordinary human eye involved in the material world. Maharshi Mahesh Yogi says that everything  is seen as if composed of and pervaded by pure light. This is the kind of Divine light seen by the God aware man.

                             We may have read of cowboys waiting  for hours on end near a watering hole to shoot down a prey. Just imagine the patience of the cowboys of the 1800’s to wait that long to shoot down his most desired meal. This is exactly the kind of patience endowed into the psyche of the sixth state spiritual traveller. The spiritual aspirant who has reached God consciousness has the patience of a hunter and not even him who considers the God aware man his greatest foe can distract and run down his immense reservoir of  the God-gift of his hundred percent patience.

                   The God consciousness state is the spiritual plane of partial or complete God realisation.
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