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Wisdom's Path, Part Three

Author: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

Description: Superconsciousness is a very beautiful natural state to be in. It is a vast blue, pure, pale bluish white light—endless, endless inner space. It is just on the brink of the Absolute, just on the brink of the fullness of Self Realization. Six dimension Shum portraits. Occasionally in superconsciousness we can see and feel the body of the soul; the body of light. Acquiring knowledge through seeing and feeling, not thinking; this is the knowledge of the path to enlightenment. Merging with Siva Lessons 41, 42.

Transcription:
Good morning everyone. Today we are finishing "Merging with Siva" Chapter 6 entitled: "Wisdom's Path" drawn from the "1970 Master Course" and the last two lessons are a bit short so it's going to be a short talk this morning. Lesson 41 "Superconscious Signposts "When your awareness is in superconsciousness, you see yourself as pure life force flowing through people, through trees, through everything. I have seen myself, in a certain state of samadhi, as pure life force flowing through a jungle, through trees, through plants, through water, through air. That is superconsciousness. It is so permanent. It is so real. Nothing could touch it. Nothing could hurt it. In this state we see the external world as a dream, and things begin to look transparent to us. People begin to look transparent. This is superconsciousness. When we look at a physical object and we begin to see it scintillating in light as it begins to become transparent, this is superconsciousness. It is a very beautiful and natural state to be in. "Occasionally, in deep meditation we see the head filled with an intense light, and we know that that is the natural state of man. This is superconsciousness: when we can look at another person and know what he is thinking and how he is feeling and and know what he is thinking and how he is feeling and how his subconscious is programmed. While we are looking at him, all of a sudden he can be seen in a past life, or in the future, or in the eternity of the moment. You are so naturally, without striving, in the superconscious area of the mind. No technique can give you these experiences that you unfold into as you walk the path toward merger. You come right into them, and the experience is how you are. Occasionally, when you close your eyes in meditation, you may see the face of your guru or some divine being that possibly once lived on Earth, and now just the shell of his subtle body remains vibrating in the ethers. You see superconscious beings while in the superconscious area of the mind. Occasionally you clairaudiently hear voices singing, music playing, just as Beethoven heard his wonderful symphonies that he recorded like a scribe. It is the superconscious mind again, so near, so real, so vibrant. "And when you are in contemplation, so engrossed in the energies within you—within the physical body and the energy within that, and that within that—that you become totally engrossed in the peace of the central source of all energy, that too is superconsciousness. Being on the brink of Self Realization, having lost consciousness of the physical body and of being a mind, you are only conscious of a vast, bluish white light. You get into this through going into the clear white light and out through the other side of it. Then you come into pure consciousness. It is a vast blue, pale bluish white light—endless, endless inner space. It is just on the brink of the Absolute, just on the brink of the fullness of Self Realization. When you are in this beautiful, blissful state of pure consciousness, you are barely conscious that you are there, because to have a consciousness of being conscious, you have to be conscious of another thing. "These are some of the wonderful signposts on the path, all within your immediate grasp in this life, just as the ability to play the vina or the flute beautifully in this life is within your immediate grasp. It takes practice, following the rules and then more practice." So Gurudeva's talking about different aspects of the superconscious mind so we're going to look at some of those in the Shum Language. So the basic idea is when you go into the inner light in the head, if you look out you can see other beings. So that's called the sixth dimension. Sixth dimension: íngmuhlimni The rarefied area of the mind of color, sound and vibration as well as subtle forms and beings composed of these elements; temple Deities are sixth-dimensional beings; great beings who no longer need a physical body also reside in this dimension; this dimension relates to the kamshumalínga tyemavumna; to experience the monograms within this dimension, look out from between the eyes. Of course into the light, not into the physical world. So that's sixth dimension-íngmuhlimni. Then we get the seventh dimension which is staying within and going up which is basically what we try and do in Shum. We're not trying to count all the beings in the inner worlds we can see. Trying to go straight up. So the seventh dimension: ilimíngshum Clear, endless inner space; not clear white light, just clear space; above the vibratory rate of light and with no thing to be aware of, awareness becomes conscious of itself; awareness can expand into the endless inner space of this dimension or contract into being completely aware of itself—kaif;... (So that's something we might have thought about. Normally we think about kaif which is awareness contracting but it can also expand into endless inner space and they're both in the seventh dimension.)...this dimension relates to the kamshumalínga kamakadiisareh; to experience the collages within this dimension, look at the inner world through the top of the head. And then the inner light: bîsî nadanadi Bright sharp piercing actinic light in the sahasvhara. So those are some of the main points Gurudeva made in the "Merging with Siva" lesson stated in the Shum language. Some of the wording is almost the same so you can see totally consistent between "Merging with Siva" and the Shum language. Lesson 42 "Maturity of Being "Now we begin to see the vastness and yet the simplicity of the superconscious mind as awareness flows through it. Nothing is there for awareness to attach itself to. When aware of something other than itself, awareness is in its natural state in subsuperconsciousness. (Read that again. So in superconscious mind there is nothing "...for awareness to attach itself to. When aware of something other than itself..." then it's in subsuperconsciousness; it's come down.) Occasionally in superconsciousness we can feel and actually inwardly see the inner body, the body of the soul, and we can feel this body inside the physical body. This is the body of light. Then we know through feeling and seeing that this body has existed and will exist forever and ever and ever, and we enjoy moving within the energies of this inner body. As we feel them, we become so quiet, so centered, that awareness is aware of itself so intently that we are right on the brink of the Absolute, ready to dissolve, to merge, into That which is man’s heritage on Earth to realize, the maturity of his being, the Self God..." This is bringing up an important point. Gurudeva says: "Then we know through feeling and seeing." Not thinking. So one of the challenges in modern life is we're taught to think about everything. We understand something by thinking about it. Well that's necessary for certain types of knowledge. But this is knowledge not through thinking, knowledge through feeling and seeing. "...We grow up physically. We grow up emotionally. We acquire a lot of knowledge. We must acquire the best knowledge, the cream of all knowledge. This is the knowledge of the path to enlightenment. And then, as awareness soars within, we begin to experience the realms of superconsciousness, man’s natural state. Then we have our ultimate experience, awareness dissolving into itself, beyond superconsciousness itself. "After Self Realization, you are looking at the film, the movie of the actors and actresses, including yourself, previously seen as real, being more subsuperconsciously conscious of the light projected on the back of the film than of the pictures displayed, which were seen as real before this awakening." So we have a Shum word that relates: chaminif Seeing the mind, or consciousness, as one substance, some of it as being dense, some of it as being refined and some of it more solid; this is sometimes experienced after a prolonged im° kaif. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful day. [End of transcript.]