You have put things together beautifully, Jagbir!

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Dear Jagbir and All,

 

You have put things together beautifully. It is clear to read and explains

things really well. The " Silence on Self " is the absolute answer to all

difficult questions, and it is so true! i have read through the Editor's Choice

and there is an excerpt in one of the articles, where the author gives one of

the clearest descriptions of spiritual awareness that i've ever read, which i'd

like to share. What is very encouraging also, is that he says that this

spiritual awareness is in everyone, even though they don't know it as yet! Which

is also why, i feel these articles are so important, to awaken people to their

spiritual awareness!

 

The excerpt is appended.

 

regards to all,

 

violet

 

 

" Deeper than this, in every single one of us though unbeknownst to most of us,

is the level that Thomas Keating describes as our " spiritual awareness. "

" Awareness " might be too mental a word to describe it, however; the sensation is

much more visceral, more like that tug I experienced as a child in Quaker

meeting, drawing me down into my depths. You might picture it as a kind of

interior compass whose magnetic north is always fixed on God. It's there; it's

as much a part of what holds you in life as your breathing or your heartbeat.

And its purpose, just like a compass, is for orientation. The problem is that

most of us are not in touch with our spiritual awareness (or at least, not

deeply and consistently enough in touch with it), let alone having any idea of

what it's there for or how to use it. It comes upon us only rarely, sometimes in

a moment of overpowering emotion, such as suddenly being moved to tears by

watching a sunset or receiving the Eucharist. That " nostalgia for the divine "

sweeps over us and we are left trembling before the presence of a Mystery almost

more vivid and beautiful than we can bear. But ordinary life does not encourage

such moments, and the impression fades, to be revisited only in our dreams, the

usual repository of our spiritual awareness.

 

But spiritual awareness is actually a way of perceiving, just as ordinary

awareness is a way of perceiving. And as with ordinary awareness, there is a

sense of identity or selfhood generated through this mode of perception. The big

difference between them is that whereas ordinary awareness perceives through

self-reflexive consciousness, which splits the world into subject and object;

spiritual awareness perceives through an intuitive grasp of the whole and an

innate sense of belonging. It's something like sounding the note G on the piano

and instantly hearing the D and the B that surround it and make it a chord. And

since spiritual awareness is perception based on harmony, the sense of selfhood

arising out of it is not plagued by that sense of isolation and anxiety that

dominates life at the ordinary level of awareness. "

 

http://www.adishakti.org/_/silence_is_gods_first_language.htm

 

 

 

, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

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> >

> > The homepage of www.adishakti.org is now full of links that explains

> > and expands crucial aspects of Shri Mataji's advent and message. By

> > just reading this single page seekers will know exactly what is

> > taking place on Earth. Otherwise this quote will continue to make

> > little sense to the vast majority of humanity:

> >

> > " When will of man and will of God are one, the resurrection is a

> > fact. "

> >

> > Thank you Violet for all the great work you have done over the years

> > to enlighten humanity about the Comforter, and make sure that the

> > Savior's resurrection was not in vain. i also appreciate all other

> > contributions that continue to strenghten our faith and resolve to

> > get out this Great Message. Let's continue to work in Silence.

> >

> > regards to all,

> >

> >

> > jagbir

> >

>

> http://adishakti.org/_/this_new_mode_of_being_and_consciousness.htm

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