Tranformative Advaita

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Advaita's potent transformative thrust lies in provoking acceptance of reality.

Acceptance lays the foundation for  surrender. And conscious surrender flowers

into awakening when the time is right.

When the understanding arises that surrender is the door to freedom, advaita has

potent transformative value; it lends rational support for acceptance and

surrender.

Understanding the transformative essence of advaita is enough to provide

intellectual support for the deep acceptance of reality that culminates in

surrender.

 

The indivisible reality of unified consciousness is at the core of  all

enlightened experience. Consciousness is all there is. You are  already part of

the One.

 

The universe has a beginning and is not self-created. The source of existence is

conscious intelligence that has the capacity to design, create and sustain the

universe. Existence is innately intelligent, a manifestation of divine

consciousness. The source of the universe is God.

 

Humans are made of and by that One, and the egos that appear to separate us from

the One are also a manifestation of consciousness, a creation of God.

 

Your ego is an aspect of divine consciousness driven by a program for separation

and dualistic thinking; it is created to give your soul depth by ensuring

suffering, which provides the essential contrast to enlightenment.

 

Genuine awakening is not just a matter of remembering. When your ego finally

lets go and your individual soul merges with universal Being, it is for the

first time. You cannot remember what you have not previously known.

Just believing or thinking about all of this does not help much. Real freedom

comes not by thinking but by transcending all thought.

Awakening requires the total transformation of all your individual systems. 

 

The two fundamental keys to transformation are acceptance and awareness.

Acceptance is an attitude that can be cultivated; it leads to surrender.

Awareness expands by practising meditation: silently witnessing all inner and

outer experience.

 

Growing in conscious surrender is more arduous and infinitely more satisfying

than the booby prize of intellectual understanding with its concomitant dark

shadow of suffering. It is a far greater blessing to be a conscious lover of

reality who lives in surrender to life-as-God. 

 

Love

Swami Anand