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Pieter Schoonheim Samara <pietersa

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Saturday, January 27, 2001 7:38 AM

[NDS] Spiritual Practice

 

 

Is the purpose for spiritual practice to allocate one's time to be engaged

in something one feels is more uplifting or through which practice one will

achieve better mental and physical balance and higher states of

consciousness? Or is the purpose to realize one's Non-Dual Self, That which

is at the substratum of all experiences and in which all experiences are

felt to be real?

 

If the purpose is the latter, then coupled with all practices and

meditations one should remain aware of who experiences the practice, the

visions, the flows of energy, activities and stillness.

 

An enquiry should be maintained as to who sees and from where the seeing

arises, to recollect the seer (that part which is the source of seeing) in

all experiences.

 

In the Yoga Sutras of Patenjali, the third aphorism is "The purpose of yoga

is to isolate the seer." The Seer is the Atman, one's own True Self, devoid

of the images that appear in the field of consciousness. The Seer is the "I

AM" that is mentioned as the Name or First Name of God in all Religions,

which abides singly as Self, as That Consciousness (beyond time and space)

that Lights each of us and the entire Universe in all its dimensions and

planes throughout all time.

 

As one practices various spiritual disciplines: sets of kriyas, postures,

pranayamas, meditations, mudras, or practices of non-judgement, forgiveness,

prayers, chants, sitting in stillness - the organs and glands and nerves

(nadis) and psychic centers begin to purify and build up a charge, such that

the mind comes into a single balance, and electromagnetic stillness, where

there is a complete harmony devoid of any imbalance in all action and

reaction. In this balance, there is a linkage sensed in the core of one's

being between the individual and the Universal, wherein one's True Being is

discovered to always have been in the Universal.

 

This Universal Consciousness, one's True Self, is the Light that we see by.

Therefore, in all practices there should be an awareness as to where the

Light one sees by originates.

 

This Seer, one's True Self, is that part of every thought and experience,

where one says and has the impression of "I am ... this and that." and "This

and that image and experience and object of attention are mine."

 

When one is able to always enquire as to the source of this "I" - the seer

in every practice, the Seer, or that "I" which is at the substratum of all

that is seen, similar to the self illuminated screen on which a film or

slide appears, or the pure diamond which takes on the color of the images it

is places against, begins to manifest a churning in all the nerves, which

begins to dissolve the notion and idea now prevalent in the mind that the

sense of "I" is related to the images appearing in the mind and related

sensations in the body. One begins to abide as, what one might call, one's

Diamond Body, and as the sense of "I" is distilled from the mind, the

body/mind dissolve in all-pervasive radiance of Self.

 

At that time all the images in the mind, including the psychic centers and

attention to all experiences seem to fade into brightness, similar to the

light illuminating a picture on a screen is increased resulting in the

picture brightening to white. The sense of "I" in relation to images

dissolves and one abides in the Singularity of one's own True Self.

 

When one recognizes that the purpose of the practice is to isolate the seer,

and one first begins to enquire into that part that sees, i.e., the subject

"I" versus the object of focus of attention, there may be the idea, as one

extrapolates back, that it is someplace in the middle of the head. But it

turns out that it is in the same location as where we point to when we say

"I", which is to say, in the right side of the chest in the synod or

pacemaker of the heart. When this Center (not a chakra or psychic center),

the Hrdayam, is felt, it begins to pulsate "I" as "I" in a nerve between the

Hrdayam and Sahasrara (brain). This pulsation of the Self dissolves the

idea that the images impressions and experiences in the mind and body are

related to the Self.

 

There is an inversion in Consciousness, where, before there was an outer

focus of attention, the outer including all inner experiences, after

attention itself has been relinquished, and one abides as single simple Self

pervading and prevailing over everything. What one was seeking through

spiritual practice has found the seeker, and the seeker discoveries that It

is their own True Self.

 

In reality, the one calling themselves the seeker, engaging in various

spiritual practices, cannot find the Self, but by always enquiring into the

subject "I" - the part that sees, a link is established such that as the

body begins to come into electromagnetic stillness, which balances and

polarizes the body in the heart, the True Heart suddenly reveals Itself as

always awake, and there is a sudden recollection of one's True Self. One

becomes the essence of the (Sikh) Mool Mantra and abides singly as That.

 

The mantra of anyone realizing their Self might be:

Blesses am I

In freedom and I

I am the infinite

in my soul

I can find no beginning

no end

All is my Self

All is my Self