More thoughts on leaving the body

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Namaste

 

More thoughts from Swami from the Devi Mandi book: "Before Becoming

This", page 200, relating to leaving the body and consciousness, and

self realization

 

"Samskaras are tendencies, attitudes, a propensity to manifest in a

certain way. That is what we call ourselves. .... These samskaras

manifest in the new container, the new body.

Awareness does not cease to exist when we leave the body.

Consciousness is the capacity for recognition. The greatest analogy

we can use is a mirror. No matter where I hold a mirror, it reflects

a reflection. In fact, when most people look at a mirror they see the

reflection. Very few look in the mirror and see the mirror. The

mirror is consciousness; the reflection is the nature or the attitude

of consciousness which is being reflected. In the same way, awareness

is the capacity to reflect and recognize. For example, if you put

elements into a test tube, you will find that 2 atoms of hydrogen will

always seek out one atom of oxygen and they make H 2 O, water. There

is consciousness in the atoms.

 

....Consciousness, a pure mirror that is unemcumbered by thoughts, is

the closest thing to the divine mirror, divine consciousness. So if we

can erase all selfishness from our thoughts, then our consciousness

individuality will reflect the universality just as the supreme

consciousness does. Then our thoughts won't bind us to ego.

 

Thoughts can either take us towards the ego, or toward consciousness.

If thoughts identify with the world, they enhance ego. If they take

us toward God, they diminish the ego. So, the objective of all our

sadhana and all our practices is to cultivate the tendency to think

without selfishness, to think about God.

 

Thoughts are like a cloud that hides consciousness. When they are

devoid of selfishness, they are more transparant. Consciousness

cannot be seen until the thoughts contain only Godliness, whereupon

they become totally transparent and allow us to preceive the one, pure

consciousness.

 

Jai Maa Jai Swami

 

love

 

vishweshwar

 

To make our thoughts more selfless, we can do puja, yoga, pranayama,

singing about God. All the practices we do are designed to make us

think more about God and less about the world. We just think about

loving God, not about all the rewards we'll get when we have attained

the goal.