The Heart of the Soul…

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By Dr. Jessie Mercay
posted by Ganesh

The Heart of the Soul: Mystics and scientists agree about the heart of all matter – The God Particle – Higgs boson by Dr. Jessie Mercay

“While I was beseeching Our Lord today… I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.” — St. Teresa of Avila

This description of the soul by St. Teresa of Avila, found in the book “Interior Castles” is extremely similar to the description of the Cosmic Soul and the individuated cosmic soul (Atman) described by Brahmarishi Mayan thousands of years ago. Mayan called this “microabode”. Or smallest abode of consciousness in living beings. He diagrammed the Atman and Cosmic Being through the Vaastu Purusha Mandala with its’ divisions of 8×8 grid (Cosmic or unmanifest level) and 9×9 grid (manifest level). The book “Fabric of the Universe” by Dr. Jessie Mercay describes this in detail. available at aumscience.com bookstore.

Understanding that the Soul is not just a vague idea of some aspect of our self opens the door to direct experience. This direct experience then becomes the doorway to the Infinite Being we all seek. Our aware connection with our own Atman (Soul) changes our life, our goals, our wishes, and our sense of well being. Mystics from all faiths agree that this form called Soul exists literally in the heart of all beings. Certain and specific meditation in a specific environment opens access to this Inner Being. Once that access is there a change in thinking occurs. Thoughts cease to flow from the mind of the brain and one begins to operate on a subtle level where thought arises directly from the mind of the heart. Thought becomes very faint or even imperceptible and one begins to operate from Divine motive rather than individual motive.

At the very least this is a relief because one is not hampered or stressed due to constant thinking. If one has more conscious thoughts, they are direct and pure emanations of the divine. No, it is not as if God is talking to you. That is simply a reflection of duality an not a reflection of oneness. It is more like you are living Gods’ thoughts. That is, this Unity with the Divine through the Atmic experience is a living experience of “let thy will be done.” Let thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven becomes a living reality in that one acts through divine will rather than individual will/personality. Ones true nature is then out-pictured rather than ones personality nature. There is a caveat regarding ones own nature but it is too much to cover here.

Brahmarishi Mayan developed his Vaastu Shastras to create environments that vibrate with an ambiance that promotes ones spiritual well being. These environments cause a specific vibration that causes the human vibration (via the thread of consciousness in the Atman) to become enlivened and in resonance with the Cosmic qualities of spiritual bliss. This enhances ones connection with the heart of the soul – Atman.

Now, to give a little relief to those who are more scientifically minded I will put this in different terms: Brahmarishi Mayan (and apparently St. Therese of Avilla and others) cognized within their selves that there is a field that all material forms arise from called the Quantum Field. This field is one of infinite potential and is the field within which all the material world exists. Physicists say that this Field is infinitely vast and contains the gross material world and minute particles of light and sound – these are also described by Brahmarishi Mayan (about 10,000 BCE).

When these particles become orderly they pulse or vibrate causing specific qualities of energy based upon their wave form. These qualities of energy emerge and become individuated and make up the entire material world.

The juncture of time when the sperm and egg unite begins the life of an individuated being. This act of creation has at its’ root the ignition of these light and sound particles. There is a point at which there is an energy transference from unmanifest Quantum Field to material form. At this point or location there is a light/sound particle some call Atman and that particle multiplies itself and creates flesh around it that we call the physical organ – heart. This initial particle that out pictures the heart and other organs including the entire body, is in fact a tiny particle that can ultimately be identified by physicists. This particle may already be identified at the atom smashing research done at CERN where the so called “God particle” has been discovered. Mayan says this form he saw is indeed as St. Therese described. Mayan also said that this particle goes from a cuboidal shape to a polygonal shape (shown as octagon), and then to a round shape as it becomes fully manifest. (This sequence is demonstrated by the well known image called lingam, which begins with a square bottom, octogonal mid- secetion and circular top). In the picture below from National Geographic, the process of atom smashing reveals this “God particle” (also called Higgs boson) born of immense light and formed into a round form. This coincides with what Mayan described. Researchers in particle physics say that this particle is at the “heart of all matter.”

Finally, we can access this “God particle” within the cave of our heart as described by the mystics and yogis. In accessing this, thoughts cease and we are overcome by a peace beyond all understanding. Living in a Vaastu home or having a small vaastu garbha (building) in your yard increases your opportunity to experience your own “God particle”, your source, and gain this profound well being.

Source: Dr. Jessie Mercay, http://www.aumscience.com, http://www.vastu2vaastu.com

Perception – Part 4

Compensatory Advantage in Sense Perception

In some persons, the sense of hearing is more developed than the sense of sight. Judges have acute hearing. Commanders-in-chief have acute sight. The profession itself forces them to develop the particular sense. Blind people have acute sense of hearing. If one Sense is defective, nature compensates by developing more another Sense. One of my friends knows of a blind man who can feel the nature of the color by mere touch.

Speech is even the sight of the Soul. Speech means here sound, the object of the sense of hearing. When this sense is enlightened, reflection is produced in the mind. By the mind effort to obtain external thing is made; for by the mind one sees, one hears. When one, at a time at night in the dark, cannot distinguish where sound arises (be it the neighing of horses or the braying of donkeys or the barking of dogs), he resorts there whence speech proceeds.

Super-sensory Perception

It is the mind that really sees, tastes, smells, hears and feels. When you begin to think of the picture of GOD with closed eyes, it is through the mind’s eye that you see the picture. An occultist can dispense with his physical, fleshy eyes and can see directly with his mind. A devotee, being one with GOD, sees directly with the eye of seed-body. A Self Realized person sees with the eye of Knowledge of Soul.

How Soul Perceives

In the mind, will and sight are separate. In pure subconscious mind, will and seeing are one; will and sight are combined and no longer, as in the case of mind, separated from each other. Soul does not need fourfold mind (mind, intellect, ego and subconscious mind) to sense, think and reason. Soul does not need eyes to see. He is self-luminous. He gives light to everything. He imparts light to fourfold mind. He gives light and power to the Senses. He is a mass of knowledge. He knows everything through Self-knowledge. He sees within Himself through Self-knowledge the whole universe as His own.

How to Perceive Soul

Soul is not an object. It is to be felt by direct spiritual cognition. Knowledge of Soul (Existence or Truth Absolute) comes through feeling and meditation (spiritual experience, direct perception) wherein the seer, sight and seen merge into the one existence like the bubble in the ocean.

Learning on Perception ends with this part. Hope it thrown some light on our current perception of the world! 🙂

Reference

Mind – Its Mysteries and Control by Sri Swami Sivananda

Universal Consciousness

Creation of world is an imagination of the mind. This delusion of the world is enacted by the mind and the mind alone. Mind is the world. The mind manifests itself as the external world. This universe is nothing but a mode of the mind, self-evolved from Brahman (Soul Consciousness), the cause of the universe. All the universes which appear only through Mind are no other than its modes. The mind is subjectively consciousness and objectively it is this universe. Hence, this all-pervading world is nothing but consciousness itself!

Final Purpose of Our Life – Moksha/Nirvana?

Moksha is the liberation of the living being (soul) after complete exhaustion or elimination of all karmas. A liberated soul regains totally its original attributes of perfect knowledge, vision, power, and bliss. It reaches the higher dimensions and remains there forever in its blissful and unconditional existence. It never returns again into the cycles of birth, life, and death. This state of the soul is the liberated or perfect state, and this is called “Nirvana.”

It’s our final purpose of being in this world. We can attain Moksha/Nirvana only when we are born as human. We are blessed to be born as human being!

Jain Philosophy

What are the Sources of Knowledge?

Knowledge is power if we know. But do we know the different sources of knowledge? As we are exploring about mind, its good to know about these different sources of knowledge.

Inspiration, revelation, insight, intuition, ecstasy, divine sight and eternal bliss are the seven planes of knowledge. There are four sources of knowledge, viz., instinct, reason, intuition and super-intuition or Atma-Jnana (Self Realization).

Instinct

When an ant crawls in your right arm, the left arm automatically moves towards the right arm to drive away the ant. The mind does not reason there. When you see a scorpion in front of your leg, you withdraw your leg automatically. This is termed instinctive or automatic movement. As you cross a street, how instinctively you move your body to save yourself from the cars!

Instinct is found in animals and birds. In birds, the ego does not interfere with the free divine flow and divine play. Hence the work done by them through their instincts is more perfect than that done by human beings. Have you not noticed the excellent work done by birds in their building of wonderful nests?

Reason

Reason is higher than instinct and is found only in human beings. It collects facts, generalizes, reasons out from cause to effect, from effect to cause, from premises to conclusions, from propositions to proofs. It concludes, decides and comes to judgment. It takes you safely to the door of intuition and leaves you there.

Belief, reasoning, knowledge and faith are the four important psychic processes. First you have belief in a doctor. You go to him for diagnosis and treatment. He makes a thorough examination and then prescribes certain medicines. You take them. You reason out: Such and such is the disease. The doctor has given me Iron and Iodide. Iron will improve my blood. The Iodide will stimulate the lymphatics and absorb the exudation and growth in the liver. So I should take it. Then the disease is cured, by a course of these drugs, in a month. Then you get knowledge of and perfect faith in the efficacy of the medicine and the proficiency of the doctor. Then you recommend to your friends this doctor and his drugs.

Intuition

Intuition is spiritual experience. Intuition is the immediate knowledge of the Absolute, obtained through the eye of wisdom, as opposed to the knowledge of the external objects derived through the exercise of the senses and the intellect. There is direct perception of truth or immediate knowledge. You know things by a flash. Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it. Intellect takes a man to the door of intuition and returns back. Spiritual flashes and glimpses of truth come through intuition. Inspiration, revelation, spiritual insight come through intuition.

The mind and the senses require time and space to function, but the Reality which is beyond this temporal, spatial and causal order of things, can only be grasped and apprehended by intuition. Intuition is beyond relativity.

Self Realization

Self-realization (Atma-Jnana) means knowledge of the self or soul. The reason the term ‘realization’ is used instead of ‘knowledge’ is that jnana refers to knowledge of self based on experience, not mere intellectual knowledge.” Atma-Jnana, literally “knowledge of the soul or supreme spirit”. Atma-Jnana is above intuition. It is the highest form of Knowledge. It is the only Reality.

Reference

Mind – Its mysteries and control by Sri Swami Sivananda
http://www.adishakti.org/self-realization.htm
http://www.omkarananda-ashram.net/intuitive.html

Who Am I?

We often ask that question in our youth. Overtime, many of us begin to really enjoy the quest of “finding ourselves”, so much so we never stop looking…is there something to that?

Perhaps some of us are consistently looking outward to find ourselves in an attempt to never look within.

We are all nothing but a human Soul in the Universe.

The person who plays a pivotal role in the family is often called ‘Soul of the family’. Nothing can happen without the permission of the ‘head of the family’. So is the case with the soul in our body. When the ‘head’ of the family departs the family mourns and feels the extreme vacuum. Similarly, when the soul leaves the body, it cannot think, speak, see, move, eat, digest, grow…. or live. The soul governs and directs our being. The concept of soul can be easily understood with a simple definition. In a room there is a fan, an electric heater, a refrigerator and a bulb, all fitted and connected to the switchboard. However, without electricity these gadgets cannot work Similarly, without the soul, the body is a corpse. Moreover, the electricity cannot be seen except through the lit bulbs or through moving fans etc. Similarly, the soul being consciousness, identified with super-consciousness, exquisitely subtle, cannot be seen but experienced and realized. This power in an individual is the human soul or Jivatma. When it is universal consciousness or Supreme Soul, it is called Paramatman. However, it should be clearly understood that for electricity which lights up a zero power bulb or 1000 watt halogen bulb, the source of energy is the same; only the consumption and performance differ. Likewise individual and cosmic souls are inseparable entities.

The difference between the animate and inanimate is the consciousness or chaitanya. The five sense organs are the soul’s agents or windows to obtain knowledge and to gauge the subtle aspect of any given thing. For example, to see, we have eyes but who sees is the soul. For hearing, we have ears but it is the soul that hears. This journey from gross to subtle with consciousness is the play of the soul. If this consciousness departs from the body it becomes a corpse. This is the relation between the soul and the body. The soul is the pivotal hinge whereupon the body functions with consciousness or chaitanya.

What is the nature of soul?

The Bhagavat Gita says: “Arjuna! Ishwara resides in the heart of the all creatures, causing them to revolve according to their karma by His illusive power.” The human body is made of perishable elements and therefore impermanent in nature, but the power that dwells within is imperishable; is eternal. It is to be remembered that the real self is part of that super-soul that is never born nor dies and is eternal. The body after death return “unto dust” and the soul meets the cosmic soul or Paramatman. Merger of the pure individual soul with the cosmic soul is the sole aim of human life. The body is ours but we are not the body. We are an inseparable part of the supreme. Just as a grain of sand is sand or a drop of water is water, likewise part of Paramatman is Jivatma. We are eternal. Yet, the body has four states and remains perishable. Childhood, youth and old age are seen as states of our body but not the state of our soul. Moreover there is a fourth state called death. The Souls is simply the seer for whom there is no fear of death! The soul is eternal truth that is immortal and imperishable. The soul is pure and sacred. The soul is embodiment of all knowledge.

What is Karmic philosophy?

Karmic philosophy declares that actions punctuated with raga dwesha (likes and dislikes), delusions, jealousy, ego etc are the binding agents whereas selfless actions break the bondage and pave the path for liberation from the karmic field of birth and rebirth. The biggest cause of karmic bondage is maya (illusion) which is play of the mind.

Mind attached to the world is the sole cause of bondage and the same mind when attached or devoted to the supreme reality becomes the source of emancipation. Moksha (salvation) is nothing but getting rid of ignorance: “I am my body; I am sense organs or indriyium; I am Brahman; I am poor; I am a scholar; I am intelligent; these are my enemies/friends….” These ‘reality labels’ need to be removed. Furthermore, if we try to ignore the ego: “I have done/achieved this” etc then we can realize the ‘pure self’ of Jivatma… When the bondage of ignorance is unknotted the soul appears in its purest original form. This is moksha!

If the soul is immortal and pure then why do we behave aberrant?

This can be explained through a story: Four intellectuals of Mathura decided set out for Prayag by boat. They boarded the boat as evening caved in and were in a great hurry to reach Prayag. They rowed all night taking turns with the oars. At daybreak they thought they had reached their destination. Someone on the banks of the river shouted a greeting, “Jai Radhey, Jai Radhey!” then asked, “Why are you people perspiring so much?” The intellectuals answered, “We have been rowing all night in order to reach Prayag at daybreak.” The person on the banks of the river said, “But this is not Prayag! This is Mathura! You have not untied the anchor!” This anchor rope is nothing but ignorance (Deha-abhiman). It keeps us tightly tied to the world and hence we remain devoid of divinity and divine behaviour which results in aberrant deeds.

Our soul is ever free of bondage but our body as ‘doer’ invites the bondage. Due to our ignorance, our karmic aspects remain worldly and we are unable to break the cycle of birth and re-birth.

When we are free of ignorance and we establish our real being our soul form, the tendency to do wrong deeds vanishes. Samskaras(subtle impressions) are reduced to ashes.

Once a person realizes his divine nature he serves all, seeing divinity in all. This is Parabhakti – pinnacle of knowledge — when a person sees the lord in all. He becomes an embodiment of love and service.

If individuals carry the same soul then why are some wicked and some good?

Soul is like energy, like electricity which, when made to pass through a filament lights the lamp. Similarly, Soul energy flows through an individual’s accumulated samskaras thus producing different manifestations and results. However, the energy, meaning the Soul, does not get altered at all.

A guru asks his student, “Bring 1000 pots and fill them with water. See the moon’s reflection in all the pots. In muddy water, it is not clear, it is also not clear in rippling water, but it’s clear in clean, still water. So is Soul in different beings.

If there is one Soul in all, then when a person dies why do I not die as well?

Break one pot, the reflection of the moon disappears but it is visible in the remaining pots. When an electric bulb breaks it does not mean that the flow of power ceases, Similarly, with the death of a body, the Soul remains.

Our individual Soul is the immortal and spiritual body of light that animates life and reincarnates again and again until all necessary karmas are created and resolved and its essential unity with God is fully realized. Our Soul is God’s emanation creation, the source of all our higher function, including knowledge creation, the source of all our higher functions, including knowledge, will and love. Our Soul is neither male or female. It is that which never dies, even when its four outer sheaths change form and perish as they naturally do.

What is maya (delusion)?

At the karmic level one suffers from all kinds of delusions or maya and one is unable to distinguish between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’. A story goes that once a daughter of a king lost a valuable necklace at the bottom of a pond. When they tried to retrieve it only mud came out. Every one was perplexed. A saint standing amidst the crowd of onlookers intervened. He explained that the necklace, lifted by a bird, was actually hanging on the branch of a tree and what they were seeing was its reflection in the waters of the pond! Similarly our bodies are merely shadows of the real blissful eternal happiness – which one can achieve by realizing that he is soul and not the body. All pervading existence in the form of Soul dwells in the bodies of all beings.

How does one awaken divinity?

Through constant remembrance. When a devotee believes that Paramatman (Supreme soul) is the sole doer, the controller and director of his life and that he is simply an instrument in his hands, he spiritualities all his impulses and this makes all his actions divine. Karma yoga is the way for a householder to meet the Supreme Being. It means non attachment with karma i.e. not craving for the fruits of a deed. The objective of a karma yogi should be like a cobra which has become poison-less or a roasted seed that cannot sprout. And, attachment to the Paramatman, is the key to success for any karma yogi.

How to attain liberation?

One must have a craving for liberation as a drowning man swims to save his life.

He must consider the world as an act/play and a place for serving humanity.

He must be of the firm conviction that everything belongs to the Supreme.

He must rise above duality and attachments to worldly pleasures.

He must dispel ignorance or false knowledge.

He must be in constant remembrance of the divine.

He must develop fervent love for the divine and all beings.

He must understand that there is only one Doer and one Cosmic Mind and he must surrender or merge his mind with the Cosmic Mind.

Maharishi Vyas concludes that I and mine (restless, unstable mind) is the cause of bondage while Thou and Thine (steady, calm mind) is the solitary means of attaining liberation. When the mind stops agitating and wandering, it ceases to exist, then the soul manifests.

I hope this might have answered your questions.

Reference

http://www.ibiblio.org/gautam/art_0007.htm

One GOD, One Religion of Humanity

Soul

A living being cannot exist without consuming the body of another life. Even the single sensed lives are living by consuming the decayed body of another life. Living beings are classified as one to six senses, but they are not equal. There are variations amongst them. These variations are identified through their physic. The variations amongst the living beings from the first to sixth sense reveal their inequality (discrimination). The single sensed tree and the five sensed animal and the six sensed man are not equal.

In the development of Dravidian religions there are explications about soul and God. Dravidians are the cultured, religious people who are well-developed in their reasoning ability and who have spiritual thoughts and religions. Offshoots of the development of Dravidian thoughts are the Ahimsa principle, Vegetarianism, the noble thought such as ‘Every country is my country and all are my kith and kin’ and the principle of rendering good for evil and the spiritual ideologies. Hence, Jainism, Buddhism and the Six-fold religion are developed as the offshoots of the Dravidian thinking and culture. Ahimsa, non-killing and showing love towards others have become the foundational doctrines of the religions mentioned above.

Man alone is unique amongst the creatures and he is the crown of all creation. Hence, in the book of Genesis in the Bible, it is explicated that man was not created like other creatures, but was created in the image of God Himself with soul.

All living beings except human beings are classified into five groups as having one to five senses, but man alone is isolated from all other living beings because of his soul which is the root cause for sixth sense, that is his thinking ability and power of discernment of holy and evil.

This human soul is connected with God, the Universal Soul since it was created in the image of God, the Universal Soul. The man with soul can overcome the natural law. He brings down the whole animal world into his dominion, and sixth sense is the root cause for his supremacy and soul is the root cause for the sixth sense.

Since man has soul and power of discernment which is superior to the natural instinct, he is able to empower the nature that includes the living beings which have one to five senses. There is inequality in nature i.e., amongst the living beings which have one to five senses there is inequality. But, there is no inequality amongst human beings since they have soul which has no inequality.

It is explained that, the inequality amongst the living beings that have one to five senses are reflected through their physical structure. But, the variation in the physical appearance of human beings are not because of the soul, but because of their environment.

According to their circumstances men are white or black in color or with height and weight and variations are seen in their physical level. These differences are owing to their environment and food habits and not because of soul.

In the snake species, there are many classes according to their color, length and weight. These classes can be grouped into one species. If it is considered that the human beings are like the snake species in which there are so many classes, it would be a wrong conception.

For an example, Python and Cobra belong to different classes though they come under snake species and they can not be united together, and they can not jointly bring forth the young ones, since they are totally two different classes in one snake species.

Human Vs Universal Soul

Human Souls: They take human bodies and experience birth, life and death.
Universal Soul: Never comes into the cycle of birth and death.

Human Souls: They are subject to change and the dualities of pleasure and pain, growth and decay, happiness and sorrow.
Universal Soul: Changeless. The One beyond the above dualities.

Human Souls: They remember and then forget their original pure nature.
Universal Soul: God is always the ocean of knowledge; he does not come in the cycle of remembering and forgetting.

Human Souls: They are seekers of peace and happiness.
Universal Soul: God is the One whom everyone seeks (longs for). He is the bestow-er (giver) of peace and happiness to everyone.

Human Souls: They have physical bodies.
Universal Soul: God’s form is incorporeal (point of spiritual energy).

Human Souls: They cannot liberate humanity.
Universal Soul: God is the up-lifter of all.

Human Souls: They become impure through body-consciousness.
Universal Soul: God is the purifier.

Human Souls: They are caught up by the present, have distorted (misunderstood) knowledge of the past (since they come in the process of birth and rebirth) and no accurate knowledge of the future.
Universal Soul: God is the knower of the three aspects of time (past, present and future).

Human Souls: They lose their power and become weak.
Universal Soul: God is the constant and external source of all spiritual power for all human souls.

Human Souls: They are brothers and sisters.
Universal Soul: God is the Father and Mother.

Human Souls: They come into greed, lust and attachment.
Universal Soul: God is bondage-less (free), the liberator of all, including the sages, saints, holy teachers and gurus. He doesn’t succumb to the vices.

Human Souls: They become worshipers.
Universal Soul: God is ever worthy of being worshiped.

Human Souls: They have desires based on bodily needs, name and fame.
Universal Soul: God is completely desire less and selfless.

Human Souls: They are takers.
Universal Soul: God is the giver, He takes nothing.

One Family

However, a man of any color who may belong to any race, nation or language, can be joined together with a woman who is in the another extreme corner of the world and who may be entirely different from that man in all the above said descriptions. They would lead a happy life and multiply. Hence, the differences mentioned above are merely external differences that is in the physical level and not the inward differences that is in soul level. Hence the human society is one family and God is father of all human beings.

Belief in the race and the caste discrimination reveals one’s ignorance of the knowledge about soul and universal brotherhood.

“One GOD, One Religion of Humanity”