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sense of "I" is withdrawn from the causal, subtle and gross body/mind, the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

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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.

 

 

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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

 

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