A transformation of human nature can only be achieved when the substance of the being is so steeped in the spiritual principle that all its movements are a spontaneous dynamism and a harmonised process of the Spirit. Sri Aurobindo. (italics and underline mine)
When any human being has reached the stage wherein experience has been
substantially exhausted as a source of vital value, when this pasture has
become a desert with only a few scattered bunches of grass in isolated
corners, and when, in addition the capacity for self-consciousness has
been highly developed, then the only remaining significant Path lies in
or through the Nirvanic Domain of Consciousness.....Merrell-Wolff.
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
When nothing seems to work, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
In meditation as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
"To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a yogi. Depend upon it that, rude and careless as I am, I would fain practice the yoga faithfully." The quest is less a search for bliss than an effort to satisfy a deep
yearning for freedom. Beneath the surface of life in the world-field, there is a feeling of
loneliness that is not dissipated by objective achievement or human companionship,
however great the range and penetration of sympathetic adjustment.
The true consciousness to be developed is, that you do the right thing not because it is your duty to do it, not because it is worthy to do it and it is expected of you to do it, but because your nature impels you to do it. The flower blooms spontaneously without any sense of duty, its nature is simply, to be beautiful. Human beings should also be like that, spontaneous and natural in their action and behaviour. When you do a good thing, you should not feel that you are doing something marvellous or that you are exercising or stretching your power. To do a thing because if is your nature to do so, is far superior than because it is your duty to do it. As blooms a flower in an unvisited place.
For all empirical knowledge is from its' very nature directed to external things, therefor turned away from the inner Soul and consequently, where it is a question of comprehending the latter, is actually an obstacle. To overcome this obstacle is the purpose of meditation.
But It was only after some time that I discovered that the real meaning
consisted in the changing of the polarization of desire. Ordinarily,
desire moves outward towards objects and objective achievements.
It is necessary that this desire should be given another polarization,
so that, instead of objects and achievements in the world-field being sought,
an eternal and all encompassing consciousness should be desired. He goes on to stress the point that the real aim of meditation is to
become free from the restrictive operations of the mind, which cannot but
operate within its' limitations. When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. (Intuit.)
In order to see the moon, you must reject the finger pointing to it.
There are plenty of 'manuals' on how to do Yoga;..... there's no manual for being thirsty.
And if you are thirsty enough, the river comes to you. ............if you are not thirsty, the river does not exist.
As the mind gradually becomes devoted to the atman, it frees itself
by degrees from craving for sense objects. Through constant devotion
to the atman, the mind's impurities dissolve away. Cease to find
fulfillment of your cravings in the objective world, and you will stop
dwelling on sense objects. Stop dwelling on sense objects, and your
cravings will be destroyed. When all craving has disappeared, that
is Liberation.
Therefor the practical discipline of the way of liberation is the progressive
disentanglement of ones' self from every identification. In the moment
when every last identification of the self with some object or concept
has ceased, in the state called 'nirvikalpa' or 'without conception', there
flashes forth from its' unknown depths, the state of consciousness which
is called Divine.
This Freedom depends on detachment from the object, but does not imply
that such detachment is the whole meaning of the Nirvanic Freedom.
It does imply that, while realization of the Nirvanic State is dependent
upon detachment from the object, it is not dependent upon non cognition
of the object. For simple cognition of the object does not necessitate
attachment to it. Thus realization of Nirvana is, in principle, compatible
with continued cognition of the world. I must conclude that if by 'mind' cognitive activity is meant, then
it is not true that the mind must be stilled in order to attain Recognition.
But it is true that the cognitive action must be within a matrix of a high
order of dispassion. The activity of the mind is in a peculiar sense a Thus the consciousness to be sought is the state of pure subjectivity
without an object. Fully to attain the Goal is to destroy the subject
as well as the object, and then there remains pure Consciousness-without-an
object, a state which is equally pure Consciousness-without-a-subject.
But so long as the movement is towards pure subjectivity, the Goal is unattainable. A truer understanding is reached by regarding the Nirvanic state as
that realized when the powers of experiencing and thinking are anesthetized,
without destroying self consciousness. It is a state wherein self-identity and the field of consciousness are
blended in one indissoluble whole. But the Goal is not a change of content, but divorcement from content.
Thus Recognition has nothing to do with anything that happens. I
am already That which I seek, and therefor, there is nothing to be sought.
By the very seeking I hide Myself from myself. Therefor abandon the
search and expect nothing. This was the end of the long search, I died,
and in the same instant was born again. Recognition actually is a spontaneous induction out of Spirit
Itself. Mans' personal effort merely removes barriers in his nature
that inhibits this spontaneous induction. At the present time, I am convinced that some original or creative discovery
is vitally important in effecting a self induced transformation of consciousness.
For I have found that ideas received from outer sources, even though in
convincing form, lack the power over consciousness possessed by an original
idea. By 'original' I do not mean an idea that has never been thought
before, but one which, for the individual, has been produced with a creative
effort from himself.....Merrell-Wolff.
Aim at the segregation of the subjective factor in consciousness.
To concentrate on the subjective moment. To have the emphasis placed
on the extraction of the subjective moment.....Merrell-Wolff.
In other words... place your attention... on your attention....you are your attention.
You have to be willing to step out of the pack and take risks, even jump completely out of your element if thats what it takes.
..........it is the moment you forget who you THINK you are..... and FEEL....... Who and What you really are.
Now, the 'plus' quality at first is almost indistinguishable from nothing,
or emptiness. It is like a breath that has just escaped, a momentary
gleam caught from the corner of the minds' eye that disappears when the
full focus of attention is turned upon it. It must be reached for
very gently, as one must act in seeking the confidence of a defenseless
and fearful creature of the wilds. One must reach out almost as though
not reaching at all. It must be assimilated very carefully or It
will disappear in the first stages.
it was not long before I realized I had gone too far to turn back.
I had realized enough to render forever barren the old pastures, and yet
not enough to know either peace or satisfaction. For some years I rested
in this period of indecision, without achieving much visible progress.
Yet meanwhile, as time rolled on, progressive exhaustion of the world desire
developed, while concomitantly there grew a greater willingness to abandon
all that had been reserved and so complete the experiment.
barrier to the Realization
of the Higher Consciousness, the primary reasons are two-fold: First,
the sheer activity, as such, produces an effect which we liken unto a great
noise that hides the subtle sound of the Voice of the Silence. In
the second place, mind action is a fruitful cause of egotism, and the latter
is the basis of the sense of separateness.
It is a search for Nothing!!
Keep your mind from dwelling on anything whatsoever, keep it forever
still, and utterly pure, and thereby awake. The mind should dwell
on non-dwelling, and there dwell.
Settled determination and steady pursuance! On and forever onward,..........we shall win at the last!!
The essence To see the divine as something external is to be We must recognize, that there comes a time, when thinking, like boiling
an egg....must come to a stop.
If the way that I have pointed out as leading to this result seems exceedingly
hard, it can nevertheless be found. It must indeed be hard, since
it is found so seldom. For if true freedom were readily available
and could be found without great effort, then how is it possible that it
should be neglected by almost everyone? For all things excellent
are as difficult as they are rare. Spinoza.
Su-cheh observes that neither abstraction nor quiescence are complete
unless unconscious. So long as they are maintained with effort there
can be neither absolute abstraction or perfect stillness.
God can only come to visit you, when you aren't there!
"Liberation is only for him who gives up everything for others, whereas
others who tax their brain day and night harping on 'my salvation', 'my
salvation', wander about with their true well-being ruined, both present and
prospective."
-Swami Vivekananda All activities that require a strong, positive, and incisive use of the mind, and all will-directed efforts, particularly if in directions that are more or less
distasteful, are highly helpful. Absolute unmixed attention is prayer.
The finger that points the way, belongs to the hand that will provide. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: " It might have been. " J.G.W.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson.
of the preparation is the building of the capacity to maintain
consciousness apart from all objects. This kind of Consciousness
is present all the time surrounding the functioning of the relative consciousness.
It can be isolated by Self-analysis while observing the phantasmagoria
of the appearing and disappearing of the objects in the stream of time.
It is THAT which remains unaltered through all change. When awareness
has learned to turn its focus upon this ever-present Matrix of Consciousness
so that Consciousness becomes its own object, the power to remain individually
conscious through the mutual cancellation has been achieved. Then
the time has come for the Transition from the embodied to the Radiant State.
There is nothing simpler than all this, and yet there is nothing more difficult.
The critical step hinges upon the isolation of the pure apperceptive moment
of consciousness itself.
outside of it; to become
it is to be most truly in beauty: since sight deals with the external,
there can here be no vision unless in the sense of identification with
the object. This is why in that other sphere, when we are deepest
in that knowledge by intellection, we are aware of none; we are expecting
some impression on sense, which has nothing to report since it has seen
nothing and never could in that order see anything. The unbelieving element
is sense; it is the other, the spirit, that sees; and if this too doubted,
it could not even credit its own existence, for it can never stand away
and with bodily eyes apprehend itself as a visible object.
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