The Golden Spiral
Chapter Fifteen
The Wonderful Art of Tantra
Is the Art of Healing called Tantra, Misconstrued or ‘Deluded’?
(An Eastern Perspective)
Pic: by Helene Barbara
The path of a Saint is a constant battle with the self, for there is no end to the world’s demands; in this world no one can be too good or too kind. The better one is, the better is asked of one, the kinder one is, the more kindness is expected from one and so it goes on through out life.
'When the spontaneous awakening happens'
The happiness a saintly soul finds, through all the continual sacrifices that he makes as he goes through his journeys, lies in the fact that his will is gradually becoming harmonized with the will of God or that God’s will and his will become one in time. And no one can imagine the happiness that comes except the souls who have experienced the feeling of resignation to all the ‘crosses” that one has to bear in life.
The moment you start to worship another, pray outside of yourself or seek help outside of yourself for anything, you are unfortunately separating from being in God consciousness yourself. This is a “gift” actually to learn and grow from each such experience and stand in the greater act of forgiveness for self and all that is.
The very act of observation dissolves partially or completely, the observed. Hence the act of observation also gets dissolved, we arrive at a situation called, “observer, observation, and observed" are all the same, depending on the power of intention of the observer... And finally consciousness cannot be observed by any other than itself or it remains un-observable or non-computable.
Consciousness is ever active, with an unlimited energy resource, engaged in the act of objectifying itself into many dimensions of existence. Once this act of manifestation happens, the act of perception starts and then the act of perception is finished. This leads to consciousness re-absorbing it's reflections unto its own inner most nature, which is undifferentiated. The ego is constantly trying to find an empirical evidence, outside of self, by establishing the duality between subject and the object.
The existence or non-existence of phenomena within the domain of the empirical cannot be established unless they rest within consciousness. In fact, the phenomena which rest within consciousness are apparent and the fact of their appearing is itself their one-ness with consciousness. This is because consciousness is nothing but the fact of appearing. If one were to say that they were separate from the light of that consciousness and that they appeared ‘blue’ it is being viewed separately by itself, unlike its very innate nature. (Doctrine of Vibrations, Mark Dychowski)
Pic: by John W Ker
While on the subject of consciousness, when the soul is awakened it is as if that person were to wake up in the middle of the night among thousands of people who were fast asleep. He/she is sitting or standing among them, looking at them, hearing about their miseries, sorrows, their conditions.
Hundreds of them moving about in their sleep, in their own dream, not awakened to his condition although he/she is near them. They maybe friends, acquaintances or relatives or even enemies or whatever relationship, they know little about this awakened soul, as each is absorbed in his/her own conundrums.
The awakened soul on the other hand, standing over them will listen to everyone, will see everyone, will recognize all that they are saying, thinking or feeling. But nobody will understand his language, as his thoughts or feelings can’t be explained to anyone he/she becomes lonely. This is because loneliness is perfection and an awakened soul is often a lonely soul. Imagine living in a world, where nobody speaks your language, but you understand others’ yet you can live in the world, for you know the language.
When I read the conversations with God (1994), all parts, I felt one thing coming back at me. “If I were to ever have a conversation with God, then there won’t be a dialogue, it shall be a monologue.”
The awakened person seems to be asleep to those who are asleep, and so the one who has become sober appears drunk to the entire world, for the condition of life is such that no one appears to be sober. It is this soberness which is called by many as Nirvana, Samaadhi, Liberation or Mukti. But if I were asked is it desirable for us to be sober? I shall reply, “No. What is desirable for us is to ‘know’ that soberness is and once that soberness is known, then take any wine you wish to taste or choose” – Hazrath Inayat Khan
The funniest part is I have never tasted any kind of beverage that has any alcohol in it.
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