San Marga and Our Sacred Gardens

Currently Mayuresh is here on the island with his family. While here, he as been serving in several of the monastic kulams. He recently took some photographs of Sanmarga and our Gardens for a project he is working on. Here are some of the images he captured. Om Namah Sivaya.

\"To the awakened mystic, there is only one mind. \"

There is no \"your mind\" and \"my mind,\" just one mind, finished, complete in all stages of manifestation.

Man\

s individual awareness flows through the mind as the traveler treads the globe. Just as the free citizen moves from city to city and country to country, awareness moves through the multitude of forms in the mind. '

Before we meditate, we view the cycles of our life and erroneously conclude that the mind changes, that it evolves.

We view joy one moment, and despair the next and, because we feel so different in these states, assume we have changed.

We grow up and look back on our childhood and again see the appearance of change.

Through meditation, however, we observe that we have not changed at all.

Awareness becomes our real identity, and it is pure and changeless. It was the same at seven years of age as it is today.

It is the same in happiness as it is in sadness. Pure awareness cannot change. It is simply aware.

Therefore, you are right now the totality of yourself.

You never were different, and you never will be.

You are perfect at this very moment.

Change is only a seeming concept created through false identification with the experiences we have in various areas of the one mind.

Everything in the world and everything in the mind is as it should be, in a perfect state of evolution.

Superconsciously, we can clearly see this through the eyes of our soul.

When looking at it through the instinctive-intellectual mind, we don\

t see this perfection.'

It is as if we have blinders on both sides of our eyes, like a donkey.

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.'

Should we acquire the ability to identify as the experiencer instead of the experience, the true and valid nature of awareness and its patterns of movement in the mind become evident.

We see the mind as a total manifestation, containing all of the past and future evolutions in the eternal now.

The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form.

It contains every vibration, from subtle to gross. Awareness is free to travel in the mind according to our knowledge, our discipline and our ability to detach from the objects of awareness and see ourselves as the experience of awareness itself.

This explains many of the so-called mysteries of life.

There are people with the ability to look back into the past and ahead to the future accurately and in detail.

That feat is understood clearly in the light of awareness traveling through the mind.

The entire mind exists right now--past and future included.

These psychically talented individuals have trained their awareness to flow into areas of the mind that are unavailable to the average person.

They go into the mind itself to view these phenomena.

Similarly, esp, mind-reading and other mystical wonders are illumined by the knowledge that there is only one mind, and all phases of it are open to the spiritually awakened person.

What we term states of mind are, therefore, areas of distinct vibration.

On the Earth we have continents, nations, regions, states and cities. Each is distinct and unique.

Denmark is different from Spain. Australia is different from China.

Paris is not at all like Honolulu.

So it is in the mind.

We have five states of mind--conscious, subconscious, sub of the subconscious, subsuperconscious and superconscious--and within each are hundreds and thousands of cities.

In the subconscious area, the traveler can encounter fear, hatred, love and good memories.

In the conscious-mind area he can experience business, human relationships and intellectual, social vibrations.

In the superconscious area, there are even more regions, and he comes into visions, light, sound, overwhelming joy and peace.

Om Namah Sivaya

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