Mountaintop Consciousness

As we head into a retreat here at the monastery, Rajanatha decided to head out and leave everyone with some reflections. It all started as he took shots of our new Genie cherry-picker boom truck, or as we like to call it: "The Iraivan Roof Cleaner." Follow along for a short story...

This machine goes up 50 feet. Wow, what could you see from 50 feet, what about 5,000? How can your mind view things from a higher perspective?

I stood inside the \"basket\" of the lift and started to think about mountaintop consciousness. What does that mean anyway? How could you use that in your daily life? I opened up Merging with Siva on my mac and found a lifetime of knowledge in a few clicks.

\"Instead of viewing life in its partial segments, like seeing just the side of the mountain, the aspirant raises his consciousness to a pinnacle from which an objective and comprehensive cognition of the entirety is the natural conclusion. Uninvolved in the seemingly fractured parts, he is able to look through it all and understand--as though he were looking into a box and seeing the inside, the outside, the top and the bottom, all at the same time.\"

\"Man is discovering new things within the sea and in outer space. All of these vast new discoveries are being registered within his subconscious mind. Only through his deep, intuitive, perceptive faculties, resident within the inner area of his mind, is he able to grasp these new findings, relate them to discoveries of the past and conditions of the present and hold a mountaintop overview of it all.\"

You are here to attain the highest possible states of consciousness. You are not here to react to the petty incidents that occur in the valley of the subconscious. You are here to learn to control the mind and live on the mountaintop.\"

The carrot of desire dangles right in front of our nose when we are in the instinctive- intellectual mind, and we are going after it, step at a time, step at a time, with our blinders on. We have to go in and in and in and reach an expanded state of awareness and gain that mountaintop consciousness where we perceive that there is no injustice in the world. There is not one wrong thing. All is in perfect order and rhythm in Siva\

s cosmic dance.\"'

\"Now, when the mystic wants to understand his series of experiences, he does not analyze himself. He doesn\

t go through the emotion of \"Why did this happen to me?\" \"What did I do to deserve that?\" \"What did this experience come to me for? I want to know the reason, and only when I know the reason can I go on.\" '

\"...This binds him to the in tellectual area of the mind. He lives his experiences in the consciousness of the eternity of the moment, and if an intuitive flash, a mountaintop consciousness, comes to him where he can see how he fit into the experiential pattern, he accepts it and he knows it\

s right, because it permeates him so dramatically, from the top of his head right through his entire body.\"'

\"The next time the same experiential pattern appears, we approach it from a mountaintop consciousness, because we have conquered those instinctive elements. Our intellect has been trained by family and friends, schoolteachers and business acquaintances. We have to build a new intellect, an intellect from the soul out into the intellectual mind, rather than from the instinctive area of the mind into the intellect, to be successful on the path of enlightenment.\"

OK, I feel good about that. I have alittle better understanding about Gurudeva\

s teaching and for the next few days Im going to reflect on seeing things from a higher perspective. Try it yourself for a few days as well, comment in the post and tell us what happened. Aloha'
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