Human body is a wonderful organism. Nature has evolved it
over thousands of years. Human body is an instrument for Sadhana. It is given
to us, to do Sadhana. With the help of Sadhana we grow in awareness and
understanding that leads to liberation. Liberation is our ultimate goal. For
which we are in this human body. Before the birth, in the astral dimension, we
realize the need for Sadhana. But Sadhana cannot be done without the Sadhan,
the body, the instrument of Sadhana. So we desire the body and the soul enters
the body. But once you are in the body you forget that you got your body for
doing the Sadhana. Under the effect of maya, you get caught up in mundane
routine because of which your valuable time is lost in this lifetime. Once you
understand this, without wasting your further time, you start doing your Sadhana.
The real Sadhana is to grow in awareness and understanding.
Your Sadhana of meditational practices will give you the
real experiences. Once you have the experience you understand the scriptures
better. So you start doing your Sadhana with your higher understanding. That
will lead you to higher awareness development. And as you continue doing your Sadhana
further, you will have more and more experiences of subtler and subtler
dimensions. With those experiences your soul is getting enriched. Along with
this enriching of the soul through various experiences, in subtler aspects of
awareness, we also need to grow in understanding which is experiential in
nature. With every experience you upgrade your understanding and then discard
the experience. Otherwise one can get stuck with the memory of that experience
and may not progress on the path. Through experiencing it is very important to
upgrade your understanding. With your higher understanding you can go to the
higher levels of awareness. And as you experience your higher levels of
awareness, you can upgrade your understanding to further higher levels. Through
this spiral of experiencing and understanding you grow in a real sense. This
kind of learning and growing leads to enlightenment.
When you explore your deepest level of meditations, in fully
alert and aware state, it leads to annihilation of ego, where all your thoughts
disappear. The drishya is no more. In the second stage the process of
witnessing also disappears. So the darshan is no more. But your witness
remains. As you grow in awareness and understanding through various rounds of
the experiences, in those higher levels of awareness even the witness
disappears and the awareness becomes aware of itself without any content. That
is called enlightenment. It is the total annihilation of ego, and with that no
more doer ship! No more attachments, no more expectations, the life energy
starts flowing freely in your body. It starts expressing in its natural manner.
It is spontaneous in nature! Through such a happening the life is fulfilled.
This is the process of Enlightenment.
With such a happening you start understanding and growing in
seven dimensional prosperity. You understand that body is a good vehicle, it is a good
instrument, and it needs to be taken care. With this understanding you start
enjoying good health.
The mind is the instrument of thinking. Through the practice
of meditation, you become the master of your mind. You develop the capacity to
switch off your mind. In that absolute thoughtless state, you realize your
eternal essence. Peace of mind becomes natural outcome of Enlightenment. With
this you are truly prosperous in the mental dimension with peace of mind.
As you grow in Awareness and Understanding you get control
over your emotions. You are not easily carried away by the emotions. You
develop the capacity to disassociate with your thoughts and emotions. And you
watch and witness your thoughts and emotions. By doing so, your thoughts and
emotions loosen the grip over your mind. And the entire negative emotions drop
off your system, the way a yellow leaf drops off on its own accord. As you grow
in Awareness and Understanding you start experiencing unconditional love which
is the natural by-product of your enlightened being. Unconditional love is the natural outcome of
flowering of consciousness. With this absolute positive state you become truly
prosperous in the emotional dimension of your being.
Through meditation, your mind becomes subtler and subtler.
But that is not enough for your enlightenment. If you are genuinely interested
in enlightenment, you must learn to grow in Awareness and Understanding. As you
grow more and more in Awareness and Understanding you learn to settle in
enlightened consciousness - Aham
Bramhashmi – I am the Brahman is
understood from deep within. Tatvamasi
– you are that, is also understood. I’m God, you are also God everybody around
is God. The divinity is ticking in each one of us, is understood. In that
higher understanding ‘I’ and ‘you’ are one. In that oneness, you start seeing
God in everyone. When you see God in everyone, all your relationship issues
disappear. You truly become prosperous in the dimension of relationships. Because
there is no other, it’s only you. The only one divine in so many bodies!
Enlightenment is the process of Self-Realization. The ego is
no-self or the pseudo-self. In the state of no thought and non-thinking, when your
Awareness takes a quantum jump and becomes aware of itself; the total
annihilation of the pseudo self happens and the true Self realizes itself. It is
the realization of Sat-chit-ananda
swaroopa – Truth – Consciousness - Bliss. That is the true nature of
everyone. With this Understanding you remain happy in your true nature without
any reason. Happiness is your nature; you don’t need any reason to be happy. It
is absolutely unconditional. Such a state of happiness is prosperity in the
true sense in spiritual dimension.
As long as the body is alive, the enlightened master remains
in the body absolutely unattached without any expectations, living life
normally, naturally, spontaneously allowing the life-energy to express in its
own way, enjoying the life to the fullest. It’s called Jivan-Mukta state,
life-energy in total freedom. Such a
Jivan Mukta state is amazingly prosperous state. If at all there is the need of
the body, existence conspires in thousand different ways to fulfill the needs
of such a Jivan-Mukta. But Jivan-Mukta does not need anything. Existence has
all the capacity to fulfill all the need of the body. Jivan Mukta stays rooted
in the total Understanding of life. As long as the body is there, the mission
continues. And there is only one mission, the mission of helping people grow,
helping people to get enlightened, help
people grow in Understanding and Awareness, helping realize people their true
self. That is the only mission, there is no other mission. All the resources
are available for such a Jivan Mukta.
Money is the form of energy. Money itself has no value. The
value comes from its buying power. It is a way to transact. It is the way for
energy exchange in the modern world. There is nothing good or bad about money,
it is like a nuclear energy - neither good nor bad. It is our intention and how
we use the nuclear energy defines whether it is good or bad. Someone who is
making bombs out of this atomic energy, killing people is the negative use of
that energy. Scientists making safe and secure nuclear reactors, to generate
pollution free electrical power at low cost, it’s definitely the better use of
the nuclear energy. Same way money is energy - neither good nor bad. Your
intention – for what purpose you are using you money, will define it. All the
resources available to the Jivan-Mukta are used for the well-being of the
humanity. When you start using your resources for helping others, for creating
harmony around, for helping people grow in Awareness and Understanding, for
helping people to walk the path of enlightenment… That is definitely a good use
of money. When you make good use of money, it multiplies. People who do Sadhana and develop in
Awareness and Understanding never feel insecure of resources. All the resources
belong to the mother earth. The ego develops the pseudo ownership. The fact
remains that everybody comes with empty hands and goes back from this world
empty hand. Whatever is here, will remain here only, you cannot take anything
from here. The only thing that comes with you is your karma, your Sadhana, your
own Awareness and Understanding, which is eternal in nature. So the real
investment is what you invest in yourself, for your own growth in Awareness and
Understanding. Invest on yourself. Invest
your time and talent and resources for developing your Awareness and Understanding
that is the ultimate investment you can do on yourself. Even death cannot take
away from you, your Awareness and Understanding.
Jivan-Mukta stays rooted in expanding Awareness state all the
time and goes beyond the illusion of time. Jivan-Mukta experiences past,
present and future in eternal now, that is the ultimate prosperity in the time
dimension. You are the divine incarnate in this very body.
You have all the powers to understand these pearls of wisdom. You have
all the powers to grow in Awareness and Understanding. Just change your
attitudes a little bit. Spare your time and talent to walk the path of
enlightenment and grow in the all the seven dimensions of prosperity.