The "I" becomes pervasive, and the mind is discovered to have always been unnecessary to see and know

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Dear Don,

I'm surprised that 10.5 months later the answer to your question is finally forthcoming.

As long as there is the idea of a separate object or plane, it is the

outgoing mind. At some point a Singularity forms in the Heart and

dissolves attention to any images whatsoever.

It's not really a matter of the images / planes dissolving, but more a

matter of the awareness of the sense of "I" in the Consciousness, in

which the images appear, dissolving.

The causal, subtle and gross body bind the sense of "I" awareness in

the conscious field, but at a certain point, the "I" abides in

Itself, and withdraws the impression of distinctions, differentiation

and separations.

In order for this to happen, the awareness of "I" has to somehow be

brought to shift from the impression of "I am the body" to "I am a

consciousness." When this sense of oneself as Being and Light begins

to pervade the body, the encoded images and impressions begin to fade,

like turning up the light in a projector behind the images of a movie

flashing on a screen. A balancing takes place and you no longer

react automatically to world through the interpretations and

projections of the encoded impressions. You experience the world in

an intuitive light that is prior to thought, and the reactions become

harmonious, balanced and clear without stress.

This new awareness of oneself as a consciousness also makes it

possible to begin to "hear" the Truth of the archetypal Saviors and

the Saints that "I am Consciousness Itself." - non-dual,

unconditioned, uncaused, space-like. This "hearing" is the beginning

of real transformation, as for the first time you have a sense of 1/

recognizing that there is a Truth and 2/ recollecting the Truth as

being your Self. The sense of "I" pulses in and between the Heart

and the brain as "I as I," and you abide transfixed, without

conditions. As the sense of "I" is withdrawn from the causal, subtle

and gross body/mind, the awareness delinks, the "I" becomes pervasive,

and the mind is discovered to have always been unnecessary to see and

know, because you abide in the Truth of your single Self - That alone

which Is.

In answer to your question, there are now other short articles on the subject of Consciousness,

in http://www.kundalini-satashakti.com/ArticlesOnKundaliniYogaAndNonDualismByPieter.html,

such as http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/Transformation.doc and

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/Body%20of%20Light%20and%20Sound.doc.

There are a number of spiritual texts that discuss the same issue in

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/SravanaSacredBooksandGitasonNonDualism.html,

in particular

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/THEHEARTOFTHERIBHUGITA.doc.

Pieter

__________Message:

1 Sun, 06 May 2001 11:40:18 -0400 Don Salmon

Consciousness beyond "mind"Hi Pieter:I just came across

this on your website:

Excerpt from the Self Maya and the Heart:In the West, we have taken

Descartes' idea to its fullest extent, as the basis for all

scientific study, intellectual thought, even religious belief, where

everything is considered and examined as being "apart". We take

"dualism" as being obvious. Even analysis of the mind is done by

considering the thought content, the emotions, the behavior, each to

be categorized,codified, classified and so on. In fact, the inner

mind to the Western mind is still what the non-dualist calls the out

going mind. Even the Western Mystics and New Age spiritualists are

categorizing planes and stages and levels of consciousness, which to

the non-dualist are all experiences of the out going mind, having no

relation to the Reality they try to convey. In their Reality, all

this perceived world of inner thoughts, feelings and impressions and

outer sensory experiences is only "Maya", a mirage, non-existent,

like a reflection in a diamond. The diamond represents the ever

present rock solid reality, unchanging, while the images, however

real they may feel, because of their superimposition on the jewel are

only that, images.

Q: Could you explain what you mean when you say that planes of

consciousness are all experiences of the outgoing mind? My

understanding of the Vedic tradition (as interpreted by Sri

Aurobindo) is that the vijnana and ananda planes, just to name two,

are far beyond any form of mental consciousness.Thanks,Don