Merging with Siva Lesson 78

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Lesson 78

 

Many Things To Deal With

 

Desperate states of mind are disturbing many people these days. They are

caught in emotional turmoil and entanglement, scarcely knowing how to

get themselves out of it, or even fully realizing what state they are

in. This condition, which often deteriorates as the years go by until

nervous difficulties and mental illnesses set in, can be alleviated by

the simple practice of meditation. Those who are content to live in a

mesh of mental conflict, which is not only conscious but subconscious,

will never get around to meditation or even the preliminary step:

concentration. But a person who is wise enough to struggle with his own

mind to try to gain the mastery of his mind will learn the vital practice

of meditation. Just a few moments each morning or evening enables him to

cut the entangled conditions that creep into the conscious mind during

the day. The consistent practice of meditation allows him to live in

higher states of consciousness, with increasing awareness and perception

as the years go by.

 

 

 

There are surprises, many of them, for the beginning meditator, as well

as for those who are advanced--unexpected consequences that are often more

than either bargained for, because on the road to enlightenment every part

of one's nature has to be faced and reconciled. This can be difficult if

the experiences of life have been unseemly, or relatively easy if the

experiences have been mostly comfortable. What is it that meditation

arouses to be dealt with? It is the reactions to life's happenings,

recorded in the subconscious mind, both the memory of each experience and

the emotion connected to it. Buried away, normally, waiting to burst forth

in the next birth or the one to follow it, these vsanas, or deep-seated

impressions, often come forward at the most unexpected moments after

serious meditation is begun. It is the shakti power of meditation that

releases them. There can be no repressed secrets, no memories too woeful

to confront for the serious meditator. These experiences can be scary if

one is "in denial'' about certain embarrassing or disturbing happenings.

 

 

 

When this upheaval occurs for you, and it will, combat the paper dragon

with the deep, inner knowing that the energy of the body has its source

in God, the light of the mind that makes thought pictures recognizable

also has its source in God, and nothing can or has happened that is not

of one's own creation in a past life or in this. Thus armed with Vedic

wisdom, we are invincible to the emotions connected with the memory of

formerly locked-away experiences. When they come rolling out, patiently

write down the emotional impressions of hurt feelings and injustices of

years gone by and burn the paper in an open fireplace. Seeing the fire

consume the exposed vsanas, the garbage of yesterday, is in itself a

great release.

 

 

Much Light

M