To be cosmically
conscious implies to have one’s awareness restored to wholenesss. “What may be
a perfect example of a fifth state
spiritual traveller who has his awareness restored to wholeness?” The awareness
of the Self-Realised state is something like an assasin pumping lead into your
body and you still accept the whole assasination attempt on you wholeheartedly
knowing that it is because of God’s
Divine Will that the gunman is showering bullets into your physical
frame. There had been an incident in the life of Maharshi Mahesh Yogi in which
a female friend of the the world famous band, The Beatles, accused the yogi of
inciting the young woman to a sexual encounter. Not a word did the yogi say,
defending himself against the incident. This is an example of what the fully
restored awareness of the fifth spiritual plane all about. “And what are the
requirements to bring this superhuman state about?” The two primary requirements to bring this state about
would be alternating rest or meditation with wholehearted activity. Two
sessions of meditation a day is mandatory for a spiritual seeker. The other
requirement needed to bring the state of
Self-Awareness about would be wholehearted activity. Activity alone
would not fulfill the criteria for bringing the second superconscious state
about but activity done and carried out with your wholehearted interest is what
is extremely essential to be established in Self-realisation. The awareness
developed through the powers of meditation gets infused into the activity you
do with a wholehearted interest and gradually, by and by the awareness is
restored to wholeness once you are established in Self-Awareness. Especially, being
wholeheartedly active between the fourth and fifth state of consciousness is
very significant.
“Everything is
God’s Divine leela or play,” and this is what you realise when you become a Self-Realised
being. The fifth state spiritual traveller is always in a state of wholehearted
surrender to the Infinite Will of the most Supreme Godhead. To be in the
superhuman state of wholehearted surrender would mean to be established in the
field of profound humility or an egoless identity. To be insightfully humble
and egolessly established would mean to take in the Infinite Will with
total equanimity and in a state of complete
balance. To remain balanced adhering to the Divine laws of life and therefore
living a life of harmony would further imply not interfering with the Infinite
Will of the Cosmos. Not interfering with the Infinite Will of the entire
manifested Universe would further imply staying spiritually composed in the
state of non-resistance. To resist anything in your life once you are
Self-Realised would mean you interfering with the Infinite Will of the Cosmos
or the leela or play of the most Supreme Godhead. And not interfering and being
non-resistive to the Infinite Will of the most Supreme Godhead would also imply
being non-reactive to the Ultimate and Divine Will of the Divine Mother. These are some of the spiritual nature that the fifth law of the Self-Realised plane
instills into your consciousness the moment the Vishudhi Chakra becomes fully
awakened or once your awareness is fully restored to wholeness.
Even the
strongest influences in the external world is no longer threatening to the man
established in Self-Awareness. Changes in the external world whether they may
be in the form of tragedies, failure, downfalls, accidents, humiliation,
catastrophes, violence etc no longer affect the Self-Realised man. The
cosmically aware man is free from the close bonds that he shares in life.
Therefore, any misfortunes, accidents, deaths, tragedies that happen to the
close bonds that he shares in life does
not affect him in the least manner.
Since the cosmically aware man has achieved freedom from bondage, even the
death of his most loved father is taken by him in the true nature of spiritual
calm and divine composure.
Mr. Dipak
Chopra has to say that all of us, human beings, are nothing but recycled
earth,water and air or in other terms raw materials of the Universe. To tell
you the truth, there is no such relation as a father, mother, son, daughter,
kin or friends. Maya, illusion or the relation of parents, offsprings, kins and
friends that we share are shared to fulfill the Divine Mother’s requirements of
us, human beings, to complete the final evolutionary process which is a
spiritual evolution. To feel completely alone is the moment in the spiritual
journey for the gentle dawn to be free from attachments to externals. The
moment you are cosmically aware to feel that you are completely alone in this
world and therefore when you break free from attachments with your loved ones
is the time to realize that we were placed into so and so families, under the
guardianship of so and so parents to ultimately loosen ourself from the firm
grip of Maya or illusion, to get to realize our deepest Self, the cause for
which all of us are born.
The essence of spiritual life is not in being Self-Realised
or Enlightened but in living the state of no-desires. The cosmically aware man
achieves freedom from desires. You make use of the effortless effort of your
fully alive Soul or you release the notion of your desire into your
awareness, for adequate finances to
fulfill your minimum basic needs like food and clothing, for shelter and at the
most to acquire yourself a Maruti 800, a Maruti Alto, aTata Nano or a Mahindra
Reva electric vehicle and most probably nothing more than this because your
desireless state would never make you crave for a Porsche, a Victorian
bungalow, a private yacht or a personal jet. The more desireless you are the
more happier you are and the more desireful you are the more miserable you end
up becoming.
To become cosmically
aware would mean,
To unearth the most
overpowering love one has for in the world,
To capture the
greatest affection one feels for in the Cosmos,
And that priceless
love,
Is towards the only
permanent reality,
Who happens to be the
most Supreme Godhead.
-Ashwas Thapa
(This article is the
copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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