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Recieved: 2001/02/22 10:56
Subject: [K-list] The Realization of the Self - Purification of the Mind and Sudden Enlightenment
From: Pieter Schoonheim Samara
On 2001/02/22 10:56, Pieter Schoonheim Samara posted thus to the K-list:
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As a result of the heart becoming pure (which is to say that the obscuring
of the sense of "I" by the idea that it has an identity with the images and
impressions appearing in the mind has become diminished), and the mind
becoming concentrated (which is to say, being drawn inward by the
accumulation of prana due to stillness), if one is told that their True Self
abides singly as the "I" of their "I" That Truth suddenly recollects Itself
in the Hrdayam.
In that moment, the "I" vanishes altogether and with it any sense of
identity or interest in the activities of the body, in the rising thoughts,
changing mental states, flows of prana through the body 's field.
One Is both near and far. No distinctions or concepts remain.
The activities of the body, including any thoughts, continue without a doer
or a thinker. Nor are the eyes being used to see, nor ears being used to
hear, as one Is the substratum of Conscious Awareness.
The Hrdayam radiates light through the Atma nadi and a flame rises from the
base of the spine through (and in) the sushumna and out the top of the head,
but this is occurring simultaneously without distinction or separation with
the total occurrence appearing in consciousness.
The focusing power of the mind to see and know objects is similar to the
light of the full moon seen in the blue sky after the sun has risen, having
no use in seeing.
With the sundering of the sense of "I" from the images appearing in the
mind, the sense of "I" also vanishes.
Neither is there a pulsation of the Heart (atma sphurana) felt through the
Atma nadi of "I" as "I, I, I, I, ...."
In physics there's the concept of a "zero point energy" or substratum at an
absolute zero temperature or at the vibratory point where all inertia
ceases, from where unlimited energy can be released.
It's like piercing the veil behind which is that in which the universe in
all its apparent dimensions appears.
This sudden experience, which may last for some time, may be followed by the
reoccurrence of the awareness of the body field, but now the pulsation of
the Atma nadi from the Hrdayam is felt, maybe for the first time of "I" as
"I, I, I, I, ...." - the atma sphurana.
There is an awakening a powerful force in the Hrdayam, like an inwardly
pulling gravitation, like the Steven Hawkins description of a Black Hole,
where simultaneously the body field is entirely outshined. Whatever
electromagnetic field of energies or radiations of centers one may have
experienced previously, they are sucked into the Hrdayam, while radiant live
light pierces through and between the atoms in the field in and around the
body.
At first there is a powerful and continued force of enquiry into the source
of this sensation in the Heart of "I, I, I, I..." where no thoughts are
allowed to emerge. Within the brain is an inward inclination of enquiry,
"inward bent" which produces a radiation of light around the brain area that
permeates the entire electromagnetic field.
Whatever you are looking it is dissolving, as though into light, before you,
as the notion of "you" and "I" "me" and "mine" are dissolved.
It's as though the idea of identity of an "I" to images and objects apearing
in the mind is being tested and resolved. Like having an anti-virus program
that deletes any images appearing before the "I" and any use of the sense of
or word "I" and "mine" in relation to thoughts and images.
Eventually, the sense of enquiry itself begins to dissolve and one abides as
the Singularity of the Heart. Only the pulsation of the "I" remains and the
mind - the field of the body and beyond is irradiant with the outshining
light of the all pervasive Self.
There are no conditions, or situations, or causes that have any influence to
perturb or elate. When any impression arises, there is the steady and
spontaneous recognition, if any at all of "uncaused, .... unconditioned,
no-time, no-space (space-like)..."
Whatever one's activities, whatever one's work, whatever one's practice,
whatever one's state, one remains abiding as the substratum, without
conditions...
The body field also goes through a relentless transformation. Before
"hearing" began to suck in the conscious field, the process of purification
would constitute the charging and illumination of the centers of the body
and electromagnetic field. In this process of purification, attention /
attachment to the rajasic (subtle) / tamasic (gross) mind/body impressions
by the satvic field of energy / consciousness gradually dissolves. The
Satvic / Spiritual or True Person emerges with the sense of their "I" (if a
rising thought at all, in the placidly prevailing stillness) as being a
field of consciousness some distance around and through the body.
With the emergence into consciousness of the awareness of the satvic
mind/field, the subject object differentiation (gunas attaching the selves
gunas) has passed, and as there is no longer the segregation of focus to a
dream by a dreamer. Dreams give way to remaining aware as the body goes to
sleep of the entire sleeping process ("nerve vacuum"), while in the waking
consciousness one remains aware of themselves as the field of oneness with
their surroundings as that field passes through the world. What was the
subconscious has now emerged into ones awareness within the field of
consciousness.
As the mind is still and no longer scanning the rajasic and tamasic
impressions, the dispersion of energy consciousness (prana) of the focusing
awareness accumulates instead within the field, such that there is a
progressive emerging of deeper and deeper layers of consciousness, including
eventually the awakening of the Kundalini that propels the awareness into
consciousness of the unconscious, such that gradually, the True Person or
Whole Person remains aware at these levels both asleep and awake.
It is with the emergence of the awareness of the Satvic mind/field of
consciousness that the possibilities of siddhis emerge. If they do
manifest, because the mind is so still and pure, full of compassion and
empathy, they manifest without the outgoing flow of attention of the "I"
sense, which remains balanced within the field.
If the thought "God" or a Saint or Savior happens to emerge as a thought
into still satvic field, the field is overwhelmed with a sense of beatitude
and related manifestations of purity.
Regardless of one's practice or purity, the sudden "hearing" of the Truth by
that which is True may happen at any time.
Before that "hearing" it is thought to be possible that the satvic mind,
which is like the full luminous moon in a cloudless night perfectly
reflecting the sun, may still be drawn to attention towards rajasic and
tamasic tendencies, due to many internal and external influences, such that
the purity may be lost.
But once "hearing" dawns in the consciousness, the force of recollection is
so relentless, that it is not possible for the process to be forestalled.
This entire process of "hearing"- "absorption" and "abiding" is the process
of Self-Realization, which Itself dissolves the satvic mind or subject "I"
as described above, with or without any spiritual practice, regardless of
the purity of the mind, and culminates in simple, all-pervasive being having
no definition, beyond all words, the substratum of Light, beyond darkness.
"Hearing" comes spontaneously, without cause, from the constant reading and
rereading of the lives and teachings of the Saints and Saviors seeking to
pierce through to the Truth within ourselves. Purification of the mind
comes through putting the Teachings of the Saints and Saviors into practice,
and engaging in some systematic well understood practices of the cohesion of
yogas, which emanate from the Truth, such that the heart and mind become
pure.
Without these 2 the processes spoken about become more and more conjecture
and discussion and less and less experience, more erratic.
The non-dual spiritual texts that are useful to the True Hearer to recollect
Itself, include "Faith Mind" by the Third Zen Patriarch, Ch 26 of the "Ribhu
Gita," the "Avadhut Gita" of Mahatma Dattatreya translated by Hari Prasad
Shastri , "Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge" by Arthur Osborn,
"Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi," "I AM THAT" by Nissagadatta Maharaj,
"Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa" by Evens-Wentz, the Gospels and Revelations in
the Bible (the key to understanding which is the Name of the Father in
Exodus 3:14) regarding the life of Christ, the "Ramayana," any stories and
shabads of the 10 Sikh Gurus and works by Shankaracharya others.
All these contain spiritual practices as a means to pierce through the veil,
and are of such a profound nature that simply the reading of the texts
amounts to a powerful practice in itself.
The matter of the cohesion of yoga practices and the understanding of the
purpose and intent and idea of yoga practices as derived from the Archetypal
Truth Itself, as a to bring about purity of the Heart and Mind, is another
discussion altogether.
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