Fw: Merging with Siva Lesson 17

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Harsha List,

The following is a re-post of lesson #17 of Satguru Sivaya

Subramuniyaswami's 'Merging with Siva'. Enjoy!

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Marcus

 

 

Merging with Siva Lesson 17

 

 

 

Wednesday

 

Lesson 17

 

On the Path Of Unfoldment

 

Meditate on man being like a lotus flower. He comes through the mud,

his instinctive mind, and he's aware of the things of the instinctive

mind: hate and greed and love and passion, and jealousy and, sorrow,

and happiness and joy and excitement. He comes into the intellectual

mind. He becomes aware of ancient history and predictions about the

future, politics, all sorts of systems, all sorts of organizations,

institutions and opinions of other people. And this consumes and

overshadows the soul, life after life after life, just as the desires

and cravings of the instinctive mind overshadows the soul life after life

after life after life. But all this time, the body of the soul is growing

up. It's getting stronger. It's absorbing the reactions of each lifetime,

drawing more energies from the central source of energy to build and

absorb these reactions; and this is food for the soul. Then Finally,

awareness comes into its bud state. It says, "Here I am, a bud, and

I'm out of the mud, and I'm out of the water.'' We'll look at the mud

as being the instinct, we'll look at the water as being the intellect

and we'll look at the air as superconsciousness. "Now I want to unfold,

and be of service to mankind and everyone else who is unfolding, I see

them all down in the mud, caught in the mud like I was at one time. I

want to help them out of the mud. Then I see hundreds of people caught in

the intellect. They're all in the water. They think they're a stem, but

I know I'm a bud. Then begins the process on the path of enlightenment

for this bud unfolding and awareness expanding. First it becomes aware

of the inner processes of the body and how breath controls thought. Then

it becomes aware of the inner processes of the mind, how light moves

through the body, how the mind of light begins to work, and it goes on

unfolding and unfolding and unfolding through the ages.

 

 

 

If we look at the past as a catalog and the future as a planning book,

and now as the only reality of time, we have dodged the past and we have

dodged the future, because we have brought them both into the eternity

of the moment. The mystic on the path of unfoldment doesn't allow his

awareness to go into the past and flow though all the yesterdays and

relive in his mind what formerly happened to him physically. The mystic

does doesn't go into the future and live emotionally experiences that

may or may not happen to him. The mystic remains in the present, right

now--using the catalog of the experiences of the past and a planning book

for his future. This makes him wise, for intellect when it is correctly

used at the right time is wisdom.

 

 

 

Holding the eternity of the moment feeling and the feeling of the being

within that has never changed, finally you don't even say it's a being

within. That in itself is duality. You just identify it as you, an

immortal being who's lived for thousands of years, which never changes

except it unfolds more, and it lives now. The past and the future are

only intellectual concepts that we live with and have been developed by

man himself in that particular area of the mind.