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How To Realize God, Part Three

Author: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

Description: Description: We must live in the eternal now to follow the path to enlightenment. Past and future are equally unreal and a hindrance to spiritual unfoldment. Eternity of the moment in Shum: bisi. To perform yoga one must have the grace of Lord Gaṇeśa and the grace of Lord Murugan. When we realize that we have come from Śiva, the way back to Śiva is clearly defined. A jñānī knows who he is and who you are. He knows Truth. He knows his way around within the inner workings of the mind. It is the jñānī, the enlightened being, who sees beyond duality and knows the oneness of all. He is the illumined one, filled with light, filled with love. He sees God everywhere, in all men. “Master Course Trilogy”, “Merging with Siva” Lessons 5-6.

Transcription:
Text of Talk: Good morning everyone. We are continuing with "Merging with Siva" Chapter One: "How to Realize God" from 1984. Lesson 5 "We must live in the now to follow the path to enlightenment. In the lower realms of the mind, where time and space seem very real, we are worried about the past or concerned about the future. These two intermingle and limit conscious awareness. Living in the past or the future obstructs us in this way: the past, by reliving old experiences—mainly the negative ones, for they are vividly remembered—clouds our vision of the future. Living in the future overactivates the intellect, the emotion and the desires. The future is little more than another form of mental fantasy. Past and future are equally unreal and a hindrance to spiritual un­fold­ment. A person functioning in the now is in control of his own mind. He is naturally happier, more successful. He is performing every task with his fullest attention, and the rewards are to be seen equally in the quality of his work and the radiance of his face. He cannot be bored with anything he does, however simple or mundane. Everything is interesting, challenging, fulfilling. A person living fully in the now is a content person." A commentary, of course we have the Shum word. bisi 1) Eternity of the moment felt in the middle of three days in the past and three in the future. 2) bisi means I am aware of the unreality of time and the eternity of the moment; 3) have you noticed that any concern you might carry always bears upon the past or the future? 4) to dissolve any concern, therefore, all one has to do is guide awareness to the present; (Sounds pretty simple). 5) living in the moment in the center of three days in the past and three days in the future is the spirit of bisi; 6) used as a greeting meaning, We meet in the eternity of the moment. (And then further commentary.) A good practice for strengthening living in the eternity of the moment is to only think about past and future when it relates to accomplishing something positive in the present. In other words, lots of times we think about past and future and nothing productive comes out of it. Try to minimize those unproductive thoughts. Text "To attain even the permission to perform yoga one must have the grace of Lord Gaṇeśa and the grace of Lord Murugan. Lord Murugan is the God of the kuṇḍa­linī, of the advanced yogic practices. Un­fold­ment all happens within the kuṇḍa­linī and the cha­kras within our subtle bodies. Once a profound relationship is developed with Lord Murugan, then, with the guru’s permission and guidance, true yoga may commence. Otherwise, no matter how long one sits in meditation, no matter how hard one tries, it is just sitting, it is just trying. There is no fire there, no śakti, no power, no change. It is the Gods who control the fire and at this stage help the devotee immensely, bringing him closer and closer to the supreme God, Śiva. Quite often the yogī in his deep internalized state may see in vision the feet or form of God Śiva before he blends into the mind of God Śiva, called Sat­chid­ānanda. It is God and Gods in form that help us to find the formless God." Commentary Here Gurudeva is explaining one aspect of our philosophy of monistic theism. We need the blessings of Lord Murugan, which is a theistic concept, to be able to experience our oneness with God Śiva, which is a monistic concept. Of course blending Theism and Monism. Lesson 6 "The Perspective Of the Knower "Most people have not realized that they are and were Śiva before they search for Śiva. They are confined to their own individual āṇava, their personal ego and ignorance. When we realize that we have come from Śiva, the way back to Śiva is clearly defined. That is half the battle, to realize we came from Śiva, live in Śiva and are returning to Śiva. Knowing only this much makes the path clear and impels us to return to Him, to our Source, to our Self. We only see opposites when our vision is limited, when we have not experienced totally. There is a point of view which resolves all contradictions and answers all questions. Yet to be experienced is yet to be understood. Once experienced and understood, the Quiet comes. "The only change that occurs is the awakening of the saha­srāra cha­kra and the perspective that a mind has which has undone itself, transcended itself in formless Being and Non-Being, and then returned to the experiences of form. The experiences are all still there, but never again are they binding. The fire or life energy, which rises in the normal person high enough to merely digest the food eaten, rises to the top of the enlightened man’s head, burns through a seal there, and his consciousness has gone with it. He is definitely different from an ordinary person. He died. He was reborn. He is able and capable of knowing many things without having to read books or listen to others speak their knowledge at him. His perceptions are correct, unclouded and clear. His thoughts manifest properly in all planes of consciousness—instinctive, intellectual and super­con­scious or spiritual. He lives now, fully present in all he does. "The internal difference that makes a soul a jñānī is that he knows who he is and who you are. He knows Truth, and he knows the lie. Another difference is that he knows his way around within the inner workings of the mind. He can travel here and there with his own 747, without extraneous external conveyances. He knows the goings-on in far-off places. He is consciously conscious of his own karma and dharma and that of others. For him there is no apartness, due to the attainment within the cha­kras previously described. His only gift to others, to the world, would be blessings, an outpouring of energy to all beings from the higher planes where he resides. It is the jñānī, the enlightened being, who sees beyond duality and knows the oneness of all. He is the illumined one, filled with light, filled with love. He sees God everywhere, in all men. He is the one who simply is and who sees no differences. That is his difference." Then commentary, we have a Shum word here. It is a bit challenging to pronounce. tye-nam-mi-vi-y-vi-na 1) Actinic energy released after Self realization; 2) after im'kaif, one enters a state of being actinic energy, force, flowing through all form; 3) one can flow as life through leaves, trees and people; 4) one is conscious of this as it happens (seeing and hearing what other forms of life see and hear) and has certain direction over it. So I included that to show how what Gurudeva has in "Merging with Siva", he's also put a lot of it into the Shum language. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful day. [End of transcript.]