Liberation is not for the I but from the I (that we think we are)!

Realization... Enlightenment....is the awakening from the delusion of personal karma

Enlightenment happens to ‘me’ only in the eyes of another; for enlightenment paradoxically implies no ‘me’!

Ignorance is the real bondage; and thus awareness of or freedom from this ignorance is liberation!

'You' can never be enlightened! For as long as there is a 'you' there is no awakening; and in awakening there is no you -no personal self left ...to ‘get’ ...or know... of its enlightenment! Like an orgasm, each tiny realization builds upon itself and becomes a series of tiny shifts - taking you from personal consciousness into universal consciousness- and just like in the orgasm, where ultimately there is no ‘you’ left- in enlightenment there is no you!

As we move from ignorance of our true nature/beingness, as we bridge the seeming separation between self and Self, as the personal identity expands or dissolves into impersonal universal Self… we are in the process of awakening! There is liberation from what is not! There is realization of That which Is! There is only light… and thus is it also called enlightenment!

Enlightenment is the paradox of finding that there is nothing to find; reaching an understanding that there is no where to reach; becoming aware that there is no one to become! It is the all pervasive stillness and momentum of the dawning that all is perfect, as it is, in every now and everything is happening as it must so really there is nothing to do or not do towards it!

Awakening is like an orgasm- both happen only when there is no ‘you/mind’ left! Indeed the process of enlightenment itself is orgasm-like, with each tiny realization building upon itself and becoming a subtle but all-important shift from personal consciousness into universal consciousness. Again just as in an orgasm, if your entire focus while making love is on your personal consciousness –for example your hair not being washed, your children not having done their home work, your stomach not being flat-  we all know the orgasm doesn’t happen! Thus the spiritual journey is a shift of focus from our personal/individuated/material self to our universal Self. But paradoxically if your entire focus while making love is on the orgasm (awakening/liberation) as to “when will it happen”, “will it happen”, “how do I make it happen”- we all know it doesn’t! So use this as a clue, even as you shift your focus to higher aspects of self,  forget enlightenment; enter deeply into whatever makes up your current life ,and enjoy the moments like you would revel in making love, and enlightenment -happens!

The very 'desire' for liberation implies the infinite is readying for 'my' exit from the cosmic play...! The 'effort' that arises due to this desire, is what the infinite is doing thru a 'me'..! The 'effortlessness/surrender' that then just... happens is the infinite merging increasingly with the 'me'...and as the gap decreases we increasingly move beyond concerns about personal liberation and 'when will i get liberation’ to becoming one with consciousness and in that resting in whatever is good for consciousness/the whole… rather than concern about an individuated me...

Paradoxically, as we increasingly become one with the consciousness that we are, our concerns about going home lessens, because as Consciousness we rest in the knowing that I ‘divyaa’ (current self) will ‘go home’ when I consciousness choose…we rest in the gnosis that I ‘divyaa’ is not awakened as I consciousness don’t choose it yet and when I as consciousness do so…then so will i as divyaa! Obviously I consciousness still need i divyaa in the cosmic play! In this we move from current selves concerns to what we as consciousnesses choose...! In analogy if we are the producer of the play and acting in it, we won’t want to go off the stage if our role in it is not over, no matter how tired we are, as we know it will affect the play

As you awaken, you switch your alliance from personal self and its interests and desires, to the larger universal Self that you truly are, and know that when You the larger Self has finished doing what It has chosen to through the chalice being ‘you’ the personal self… it will not need to exist in separation anymore, and its so called enlightenment will have ‘happened’ to it!  But ah… there will be no ‘you’ to pat yourself on the back for it would be an occurrence in Consciousness itself!  And when You as Consciousness deems it fit

Imho it’s best not to bother with who is or isn't enlightened...but to take from everyone you come across whatever enables ones journey. It matters not to me if another is enlightened or not...i believe fellow travelers can enable me richly... too...i believe enlightened beings speak through people on the path...! More so just as each journey is unique and inviolate… Consciousness awakens in different ways through each of its selves...and thus there need not be common signs...to look for! For example we don't all have to leave home like Buddha...that was consciousness journey through Its Buddha self! And as human consciousness evolves so does the manner in which ' they' may each awaken!

The awake state is not so much a wow a bingo but a oh yes but ofcourse!’ universal truths (for example: desire must be fulfilled or desire must be transcended; I shape my life or all is a cosmic play; etc) and thus constantly try and determine which of those truths is the ‘one and ultimate truth’! Either way you feel that if one is right then the other must be wrong- and indeed it is your need to categorize truth in terms of the ‘one ultimate’ truth, which comes in your way.

But at some point you increasingly become aware that seemingly opposing perspectives- indeed polarities- can be equally valid and that it depends from which ‘angle’ you are viewing ‘the truth’ .Now… expand this. Many of you are aware that there are many ‘points of focus’ (or what you call ‘realities’)…. there is not only your current reality and then what you call ‘God’! And thus there are not  Awakening is a bit like going the world over and coming back to ones simple ‘all is as usual home’; and the ahh yes it brings about! Awakening is not earth shattering with lightening effects that the ego expects…. but...more a ...but ofcourse; awakening is not an dramatic moment but a series of beautiful shifts!

Awakening is not a onetime thing- but a series of shifts, like awakening from a dream…and in that context I would say I am in the early morning almost fully awake but not quite out of bed stage! And there is no rush or anxiety- because being one with consciousness I know that ‘divyaa’ is not awakened as I consciousness don’t choose it yet and when I as consciousness do so…then so will i as divyaa! Obviously I consciousness still need i divyaa in the cosmic play!

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation....Tibetan Saying (not my quote)

Awakening =  no reincarnation: When we play a game, say ludo or monopoly, we are bound to its rules... and circles around the board...but once the game is over all that was part of the game ...isn’t/never was/doesn’t follow us into our realities. In the same manner, as long as we are part of the game of ignorance/separation /maya/...the cosmic board game... concepts like karma and reincarnation etc are part of the illusory experience...but have no validity in the larger reality!

Of course, just like while playing monopoly / ludo... we can either be wholly caught up in it and forget our 'real selves 'temporarily...or we can master the art of playing wholly yet play in the equanimity and knowledge that its only a game and its rules don’t bind us in reality... we don’t have to throw a six to move out of our homes in real life.. like we have to do in ludo! In the same way we can, even while playing the game of ignorance, become witness...and thus start to move beyond concepts like karma /reincarnation etc...!

Consciousness wakes up to itself- and consciousness chose to play this game of forgetting and awakening for the sheer delight of the awakening to All That Is...repeatedly ... thru each 'one’ !

We can’t all get liberated together: If everyone got liberated how would creation be! So like we don’t want a good book to end...we as consciousness keep enough aspects of self within the cosmic play...knowing full well that each of us will exit at the right time ...like cues actors get to exit the stage at the right time for the betterment of the play.  So the focus shifts from personal consciousness and 'when will get liberation’ to becoming one with consciousness and its cosmic play… and in that resting in whatever is good for consciousness/the whole… rather than concern about an individuated me.

When I began my so-called spiritual journey, enlightenment was far from my mind! What I was looking for was a better life and at the most some abstract notion called peace of mind.  And oh yes, most certainly a quick fix method to jump start me out of my current problems! But enlightenment?  That sounds an impossible concept and one usually leaves it for another life time …or for those we perceive as holier than thou! And yet if we could only become aware, that it is our preconceived notions of the term that comes in the way, perhaps more of us might make it our reality. Enlightenment is not something for the sages, it is not an impossible dream and it does not imply a distancing of self from all that we have held dear. Life, even our very contemporary life and enlightenment are not mutually exclusive states.  And this to me is true spirituality- something that includes and not excludes my day-to- day life! Something that blends with, and indeed optimizes my humanity and its purposes and desires, rather than opposing, suffocating and suppressing them! Thereby deeply fulfilled do we extend the same to ‘others’ around us and extend from self to selves to the Godself within!

Enlightenment happens in individual ways, tailor made to you!  Enlightenment does not need following a prescribed set of must do’s; neither does it imply becoming some impossible ideal like the Gods and Masters we revere or resonate to, for we have each individuated to be what only we could be for the whole,  and this awareness- embracing & playing our role in the cosmic play not fighting to get out of it –is enlightenment! We do not lose self but indeed revel in Self… in being what the whole chose to be through to us; we do not lose self as much as find Self… in ways perhaps we were not even aware of! And life becomes a beautiful Arabian night’s journey …!

Mindlessness -often considered a sign of enlightenment- is not doing ‘nothing’, being ‘nothing’ or being indifferent to everything…! It is indeed the very opposite- it is entering more wholly into whatever our now comprises of- allowing the play to flow through ‘you’!  Nothingness yet another term connected with enlightenment- is really not ‘nothing’- but ‘no thing other than I’! When there is no thing other than I… we become all-thingness- All That Is! Thus nothingness is not feeling empty… but full; it is not being devoid of purpose…but devoid of concerns about them… devoid of concern about their results! And so we don’t cease to exist or function in ‘normal’ ways but indeed live our day to day life ...accepting enjoying doing whatever our now comprises of ….blissfully. And Bliss is not some joyous orgasmic state as it is often viewed to be - it is indeed beyond joy & pain - where the seeming ups and downs don’t appear as opposites -and this paradoxically ‘neutral’ all accepting state is the much spoken about unqualified bliss. And so… thoughtlessness is not about no-thoughts....but about no thoughts about our thoughts! And enlightenment which cannot be defined- as each will describe the paradoxes differently- becomes the paradox of ‘finding’ that there is nothing to find; ‘reaching’ an understanding that there is no where to reach; ‘becoming’ aware that there is no one to become! It is the all pervasive inner stillness… allowing external momentum …in the dawning that all is perfect, as it is, in every now and everything is happening as it must so really there is nothing to do or not do towards it! And this is not divorced from your day to day life-   whatever yours may comprise of - whether seemingly grand or seemingly mundane for enlightenment brings us squarely back to what always was…nothing changes while everything has! And the sacred permeates our day-to day life in minute ways - awake, asleep, and playing, at rest or working …indeed the sacred and mundane lose their demarcations.

Enlightenment is an escalating lightening of the heart, reverberating through our personal lives and environment and indeed our world. Individual journeys spontaneously become spiritual service towards humanity for you are 24/ 7 transmitter of this new consciousness wherever you maybe placed in life, through whatever tasks your day –to- day life may comprise of! And enlightenment has happened somewhere along the way! It is not one magical moment as we sometimes think it to be…but a series of…and it’s conscious realization permeates us in a manner quite like the  music that has been playing all along  in our neighbors house…but we only become consciously aware of it at some seemingly sudden ‘point’!

In more modern and scientific terms enlightenment is a re-mapping of our neural pathways, a literal expansion of our minds, into consciousness! With literally new brainwaves, our perceptions begin to change, reflecting in enhanced ways of being almost automatically; as consciousness itself we become one with all things -and Unconditional love, non-judgment, forgiveness, oneness … happens!