BROWSE.... THERE ARE MANY INTERESTING SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON... WRITTEN IN A STACCATO HASTY MANNER MAYBE AS THEY ARE ALL QUICK COMMENTS TO QUESTIONS- YET THEY ARE OFTEN DEEP AND CONCISE!

IN REFERENCE TO HOW THE JOURNEY TO SELF STARTS- WHAT COMES FIRST-MY ACTION OR INSPIRATION? Thanks all, and dear peter …imho what starts us out into such a journey to self- is when the 'Whole/Consciousness/Spirit/God (whatever word one resonates to) desires that thru a ‘me’/the seeming individuation then ‘we/ the individuation’ take an interest…get inspired… come across someone or something that triggers this awakening process... seemingly ‘suddenly or for no reason’ start thinking along these lines …experience a challenging situation which propels us deeper…experience an spontaneous divinity…etc (The external means can be a variety)..

 This is a large subject- but in brief i would say when ‘my’/the individuations purpose of playing the separated self is getting over; when ‘i” have played whatever role in the cosmic play was my contribution …then one of the above happens! So while sometimes it may appear thoughts came first-the interest came first- and then we pursued the path…I would feel the internal activations/inspiration comes first.If we take this deeper… yes if it isn’t ‘my’ current soul purpose/plan/time…if  i the individuation still have the separated role to play out…as the whole for the whole… then i wont be inspired… even when others try to inspire me! But ofcourse even then…coming across anything that can be inspiring probably remains within this ‘me’… till it is required to be activated…

IN REFERENCE TO IS THIS OR THAT CONCEPT RIGHT? Imho Gnosis/ wisdom is not black and white- its not about should we 'fulfill desire or transcend desire'; its not about 'must we use the mind or go beyond the mind'; its not about 'is it using universal will or personal will'; accepting 'free will as a principle does not mean i reject the role of destiny'… for indeed a) 'seeming’ contradictions co exist ... these are all points along the one continuum ...with each one needing to view where they currently are(what’s their truth rather than only intellectual understanding) and that’s the best for them in that Now. b) And yet do what I call the tango…wholly fulfill where you are now and yet keep the ‘next’ step/stage in mind because by doing so we move into that over time! c) And also important to me… we need to understand the larger continuum along which these are all points; we need to know none is right or wrong; one concepts existence /validity doesn’t negate the other seeming contrasting concept's validity! d) Indeed when truths are not intellectual we move out of ‘is it this or that’ mode; out of ‘is this right or that right’ mode… again in brief pls! I will quote from an older channeling of mine- "one cannot understand truths, in terms of yes, and no. we cannot understand it in terms of: Is there free-will, is there not? Must there be desire, must there not? You must learn to understand the larger picture...you are all spiritual adults now, not children...so go beyond the need for yes and no -right wrong -this or that...and see how each co exists and yet when all put together something new emerges beyond each concept…. the new you beyond the words that took you there...love dee

IN REFERENCE TO THE NOW- BEING A POWERFUL CREATIVE MOMENT: To me The Now is that 'eternal infinite spacious big bang now moment'; so whenever we are in the now we are in sync with/one with/aligned with the power and will and force and love and surrender etc of That one moment ...That truly is... All That Is. In linear terms- because we alas cannot speak in simultaneous terms- in linear terms everything that ever happened...happens/happened in that one moment- call it the Now or (symbolically only) call it the big bang moment!Thus whenever we are not in the now- we slip out of our authentic beingness; and when we are in the now we tap into it. Thus all manifestation or creative visualization etc has to be seen happening in the now ...! The now has the creative power!  So...imho...whenever something has already happened-indeed in reference to anything of the past-even one second ago- then no use regretting it - for it is what the Whole did thru a me in that one now big bang moment! But in the now- I am tapped into that big bang everything happening moment and force- and thus what I do in the now- is what in linear terms- the Whole ‘did/does’ through a ‘me’ in that big bang moment!.

Simultaneous time is a large topic! Briefly touching upon it as your commment touched on it ;-))These terms ..spacious now, big bang eternal now etc are only an attempt to go with words where words cant go-so best for each one to get the gist/the essence... even if the words dont fit- use yr own words ...!! love d

THE SAME EXPRESSED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY: An idea i always mull on- difficult to express in words: What we view as life /existence (all the era's and zillions of years)  is actually what happened in the one nano big bang moment of the Now . So whatever is the 'past' -in our terms -is what happened in that Now/in the Now of the big bang- thus in our terms it 'had' to be! But in the now- in our now- we are Within That big bang moment so to say- as there is only truly that Now - and thus we shape what we 'call' our future -but actually its what we 'did 'in that Now moment of the big bang! Thus our every now is the big bang moment Now- thus it has all its power and free will ....! But the moment something has happened- the moment it is in our past even of one second ago- its what happened in the big bang now/it’s what 'we' chose to then! Phew-don’t know if the words express what i am trying to say; yes using words like big bang etc are concepts i use just to express the inexpressible ;-) love d

IN REFERENCE TO TRYING TO INCORPORATE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS /QUALITIES: THE PARADOX OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH THAT UNRAVELED AS I BREWED A CUP OF TEA!  Once you are on the ‘spiritual’ journey, impossible sounding concepts don’t remain impossible… or just merely concepts! And what we call ‘spiritual growth’ just 'happens'! All the different 'stages'/steps/ states –indeed all the concepts & learning- are more like beacons than instructions- because our awareness of & focus on them allows them to spontaneously unravel in our life. Thus more than ‘commands’ that we must practice or strive towards - they are signposts towards recognizing these stages/states/steps as & when … they happen (become our experience rather than intellectual understanding)! Sometimes aspirants read the words of masters and gurus and fret and try ‘how’ to love unconditionally or ‘how’ to move into unceasing 24/7 divine focus ‘how’ to see Shiva everywhere…they ‘try’ to surrender or ‘try’ to transcend desires… this trying and its accompanying fretting arises because we feel these stages/steps/states are something we need to ‘make happen’…while actually they are more descriptions of what ‘will happen’ as one goes along!!! In analogy, if we choose to have a cup of tea, this choice will yes entail the initial ‘journey’ of filling of the kettle and placing it on the stove. But when an expert/experienced cook describes the rest of the ‘journey’…the water boiling, the kettle whistling, the steam arising, the over flow, the perfect brew…they are descriptions of stages/steps/states/ that happen…rather than what you can implement! And just like we can’t make the water boil… or make the steam emanate….by reading/learning about the process …we can ....recognize each unraveling step…and go... ah …ah time for tea!

IN REFERENCE TO BUDDHA: Buddha really implies a state of consciousness; we can call this state of consciousness all-thingness or no thingness ...thus the ‘term’ Buddha literally means both –non-self & enlightened one (filled with all light)...and this state cant be really understood… but moved into...(as its beyond the mind )and in that moving into it...all the concepts that helped us move into it dissolve; thus the Zen quote… “The mind that does not understand is the Buddha.”‘Gautam’ Buddha… who was of the humans who attained this Buddhic consciousness …state of pure awareness…one of those who fulfilled the highest human potential… Buddha Purnima is actually a triple celebration….Gautam Buddha’s birthday & day of enlightenment & and seeming ‘death’; its deeper message being that this state of consciousness is inherent for all who are ‘born’! It whispers to us that in our birth -individually and as the human race – is enlightenment inherent! As is ‘death’! Not only physical death...but what Buddha really died into - eternal light… and its deathlessness indeed! The mind drops off by itself once all its exploration is done...till then dropping the mind remains a concept ;-))

IN REFERENCE TO KUNDALINI RISING UP OR DOWN : Very briefly: As we become more conscious/aware…we say consciousness/awareness enters us (& thus we say consciousness flows from up to down); in this it (our higher knowing /awareness) releases the unconsciousness within us/ the trapped energy so to say /Maya/its vasanas etc…; and thus released it  ‘travels’ back upwards…what is usually  known as the kundalni rising. This can be put in oh so many ways –thus its better to understand the concept-as different people put it differently; I am not well versed in the texts that explain this and only speak from my meditative experiences…( there is a full transcript from one of my medit on this-will try to find it..)At a deeper level there is no up or down etc; yet while we are in the physical corporeal experience we experience it thus and need these terms; so yes universal life force- enters us from above( pineal gland, medulla etc- u can actually feel this in meditations) and as we become more aware, more  in tune with the oneness/universal force… the separated/individuated ego self- starts to ‘dissolve’ and in that the kundalni rises ( our  state of beingness) from chakra to chakra… to finally merge back with consciousness itself! and we say the kundalani is rising! or i call it the move from personal concssioussness to universal...

ofcourse there ismore to say on the subject...but for now i hope this gives you some triggers to work with...love and we say the kundalini is rising! I call it the move from personal to universal consciousness..This can also be viewed as the mating dance between Shiva (consciousness) and shakti/prakriti (the individuated self)… with our Shakti aspect willfully descending into the human/Maya game…while our Shiva aspect experiences itself through ‘her’. And once that is done through ‘me’- as this ‘me’ is only one instrument for the whole cosmic experience… my Shakti aspect dances her way back…!

IN REFERENCE TO SOMETHING BEING ‘GOOD’: iNon judgment usually implies moving from judging things as bad/wrong/less! But a natural extension is not judging anything as ‘good’! This is a big leap as we often stop judging things/people as bad/wrong but still judge them as good/spiritual & unknown to us w/o even realizing- in judging good our negative judgment is only hidden- as everything that does not fit with our criterion of 'good' is automatically rendered 'bad'! And indeed a subliminal judgment is still present! Deep down we are still judging things as not good! Indeed this is an insidious judgment- dangerous in our very unawareness of it!This is an ongoing process within …helping us move into accepting every quality, experience and event just as it is! Non judgment turns into unconditional love – which is not some soppy emotion for everyone but a state of allowance towards all! Non-judgment turns to witnessing- propelling us into a state of being without labels! Non judgment enables us into accepting each moment without judgment of good or bad- into living in the Now! Non judgment propels us into that state called bliss - which is not that state that we would normally label as ‘good and joyous’ but a state that is beyond the opposites of duality…beyond good or bad…beyond painful or joyous…into the neutrality of all is as it is…into what is truly beyond words and Indian Masters try and describe through “neti neti..!”  Good bye judgment! Hello acceptance!

IN REFERENCE TO WE ARE ALL ONE -Oneness is beautiful but most confuse oneness with sameness & the obvious gets ignored- that while we are all one we need not be the same! Indeed each one is a unique aspect of that which is called 'Oneness'. And true oneness is when we can accept these ‘differences’ as aspects of our oneness- rather than trying to change all that is different from you …into the  right ‘one’ange all that is different from you, into what you consider the right ‘one’ Indeed when we truly know oneness other than intellectually - we accept all that is within it – we revel in the differences that make it up! That is why one became many.... to be all that it is...!Oneness is truly a oneness that is so ‘one’- so singular- that diversity becomes a dazzling embrace: each difference a display of affection, each facet and an open declaration of love for all that can be; a love song so beautiful made up if its many notes.Indeed we must not (and this may surprise you) go about converting everybody to the same 'one God' or 'one consciousness'!! Because that is the easy way out! A convenience so that you do not need to be one with the many nuances that make up life and its people. It is far easier to be ‘one.’ with an abstract golden hue than to be one with different aspects and qualities that make the people and attitudes that make you life and world! So yes dear fb freind this is pure advaita but my words are not about advaita as a concept but how it plays out in day to day ways! Indeed the abstract advaita-oneness- is very easy to 'follow'...but the trick is bringing it down into day to day seeming differences ;-)

IN REFERENCE TO GOING BEYOND CONCEPTS-Thank you Steven- yes humanity has to go beyond karma -and indeed the shift has already well begun i think! And yet it’s thru understanding concepts- that one usually goes beyond concepts! Specially concepts that deeply ingrained! Also i think such concepts (for example karma or good & bad or self responsibility; sacrifice etc) were part of the journey- and because human consciousness required to go thru them- texts were interpreted as such! Now that human consciousness is ready to go beyond them...these more freeing interpretations are arising everywhere! The texts/truths are magical in that way- the same 'concepts/truths' can be interpreted in different ways thru the different era's- based on what’s required in the now! and yet in every era/or phase there are some who experience and thus interpret and express from beyond the current stage of mass human evolution- so that human consciousness can move towards that- and this is evolution! And yet the currently outdated interpretations are not wrong or redundant- as each was right/valid/required/the step ....towards this more freeing human experience! While I have written this generically- in terms of humanity and human evolution (moving from earlier seemingly limiting interpretations to more freeing ones) this journey can also be seen within each of us. Based on what any of us need in the now…we come across that interpretation…! So even during lets the bhagwat geeta time when ‘Krishna’ spoke- ‘his’ words would reach different people in different ways based on their evolution!

IN REFERENCE TO GURU DAKSHINA: Dear v, very briefly another way of looking at the dakshina was also that this 'exchange' of gold (something worthy to mankind) enabled the subtle process between teacher and student; for the student/disciple it helped by subtly removing any behold ness towards the teacher; and for the teacher it helped by subtly removing any reason to feel they were granting something… helped them to move beyond the ego feelings of giving /granting things to another;  in this subtle equalization ...the optimal student-teacher relationship could take place. This is only one more way of looking at dakshina; yes not for gurus but those teachers/guides who were still not beyond the ego…and for their students. There is ofcourse so much more that can be shared about dakshina at all levels- from the current term called energy exchange- to the dakshina between student and teacher - and then in ref to dakshina between guru and disciple. Love divyaa

IN REFERENCE TO ‘NO STAGE OF EVOLUTION’ IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER: Bingo yes v ji... if we all got enlightened -went of the stage -where the cosmic play/creation? So we as consciousness choose some aspects of Self to move back into consciousness once 'they (or I consciousness thru 'them') have played my/their role in the play!  And we as consciousness choose other aspects of self to be in different degrees of the play or return (It is when 'our' role is getting over that we desire the merger and when our role is still to be part of the play we seem to be ‘material’ rather than ‘spiritual’- but that's not true as its spirit choosing the material experience! And we as consciousness willfully send new aspects of Self to keep the play going - but these new aspects of consciousness are at a higher frequency that the earlier new aspects ...as moment to moment through all the selves in the play...consciousness is 'expanding!  Thus when we move into our awareness of being this Consciousness - all states of being are embraced- enlightenment or playing the game are equalized...none better than the other....!

IN REFERENCE TO HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO: Thank you Lama!  'I' AM always home -never left it; and aspects of mine...yes... are out on an adventure and 'they' don't really need to 'come back' home…but only move from i to I; from the individuated self to the Self always at home!  And in That...join ME ...in being simultaneously at home and yet on an adventure- having my cake and eating it too;-))
Thus no rush no hurry to come back home or not! We always are-and can always enjoy the adventure! So yes dear S, Happiness is in knowing that as Consciousness/God we are having our cake and eating it too… we are safe at home yet on an adventure; we are love itself yet enjoying the foreplay of coming together; we are fulfilled yet enjoying the discovery and exploration; we are Oneness itself yet enjoying the various nuances thru seeming selves...

IN REFERENCE TO NOT JUDGING WHO IS AWAKENED: Imho its 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 awakened

IN REFERENCE TO THE GOING BEYOND WORDS: Indeed the paradox of language...when we label/describe/define what cannot be labeled/described we move away from it...! If i say something is intangible, the very defining of intangibility gives it a tangibility...! When i say... something is formless, I am giving it form! By saying it is description less, quality less, I’m giving it the quality of being quality less...or the description of being description less...!Yet we require this because - our minds cannot grasp something without a form or labels or words or concepts -it is beyond the scope of the mind… (Indeed the minds very purpose to 'be' ...is...to define the ‘being ness’ so to say)! But to really enter… (I would say touch, but you cannot touch the intangible) so… to enter… ‘THAT’…wordless… we need to leave behind the mind and its words. Use words only as far as they can go. Use words to take you beyond them…like a bridge having served its purpose we get off the bridge...

IN REFERENCE TO WHAT IS THE RIGHT PATH?  Dear M imho there is no 'one' answer, no 'one' process, no one 'way of having to do it'... each one's journey is unique. This is the wonder of Existence, that every aspect of Its Consciousness charts its own inimitable journey back ‘home’! Yes we have beloved masters, texts & those already traveled along the path(& their wondrous practices teachings experiences) to help, enable, encourage & motivate us- but like we all have a unique finger. print, we all have a unique exploration to fulfill and a unique path to going beyond the mind...
Each one shares what works/worked for them, but it is for each one of us to add to that living torch, a meaning, a quality that is uniquely our own! Only Consciousness could come up with this master plan-one journey, one exploration, one destination yet each one individual special & unique! There is no singular ‘best’ way towards awakening/enlightenment. There is no must do path, practice, step, teaching that is mandatory as a prelude to Self realization. Sometimes we get sidetracked by insisting this is ‘best’ or ‘only way’ or a ‘must do even if you do nothing else”…because something (path/practice/understanding) worked for us! We think what worked for us will naturally work for ‘others’! The intentions are good. But truly truly…as we establish in our awakening/awareness…we realize there is no one way, nothing that is mandatory, that each one charts their own awakening-this is indeed the coup de tat/master plan of existence… each one enables and yet each one creates afresh!
If you ask me , ok what is your way divyaa, well then all my notes here, give a glimpse, a glimpse only of the process that worked for me ...and thus i share with that others- always emphasizing that i only share what worked for me…may it help you in some way find your own way.

IN REFERENCE TO TRUE TEACHERS ONLY REMAINING SILENT: Ummm, sometimes i think when gurus/masters reach silence- then they as Consciousness 'create' others to speak on their/Its behalf......! Seemingly they- Consciousness create some like to express from 'the top'( no self, nothing has ever happened, thus nothing to be done etc) ..and some to speak from the 'basics/beginning' ( you are creator and can manifest a better life) ...and some to speak from different points along the continuum ( so we touch upon all aspects -based on where the seeker is)…. with all three doing what is required of them by consciousness and thus reaching those consciousness needs them to reach! If we take this further...at some point...(in their larger journey) those who express from the top...will also go into silence...and those who speak from all points will move into speaking from the top...and those who speak from the (all imp)basics will extend into diff points along the way;-))

IN REFERENCE TO THE EGO NOT BEING THE ENEMY! yes amir, indeed my experience and message is that the ego is the tool we have created to navigate this experience...one cannot live w/o it...and thus it is not about conquering the ego as usually thought...but about entering into harmony with the ego...using it for what it is intended… and in that lays it’s paradox that it is the  ego that helps us go beyond itself...; another way to say it would be that the ego expands itself into becoming one with all that is..; or one can say it dissolves...and so we become one with all that is...all different words...but all expressing the same essence...and  there is nothing that is not of help ...everything that exists helps us…each plays a role at the right time. 'Befriending the ego...and going beyond it...are but diff points along the same continuum... seeming contradictions which co exist...for when viewed from the larger picture…! Indeed fighting the ego gives it more power…seducing the ego enables its automatic surrendering!

IN REFERENCE TO BEING DRAWN TO DIFFERENT KINDS OF SEVA Imho one way of looking at this: we are each called to be passionate about different things (ok yes we can say consciousness chooses to be passionate about different things through different 'people') and what ‘we’ are passionate about is what consciousness chooses to achieve/effect through a us… so some of us feel inspired to save the whales and some to save the trees and some to heal the sick or the old or ozone layer or bring peace or reach out spiritually or whatever. And what a wondrous game plan consciousness adopts- to ‘desire’ its different goals/ causes that need to be addressed/effected/experienced- through its different vehicles/us!   As long as we are still in even a small degree of doership –it feels like our …interest/ passion/cause…! Which it must, for it to drive ‘us’! Sometimes we wonder why the other feels so passionately about peace or trees or spiritually awakening fellow mates or whatever …when we know all is happening as it must, there is no doer etc etc …but imho that feeling passionate about it is part of ‘all happening as it must’…indeed that will lead to…’all happening as it must/as consciousness wills’! Sometimes it’s the reverse and we wonder why the other isn’t interested in peace or the poor or the ozone layer etc…but perhaps it’s because consciousness chooses some other area to focus on through that person! When we real-ize this, it’s a big equalizer and there is no judgment towards any ones goals/passions…or anyone not having being in sync with ‘my’ laudable goal.
 I will share a personal example: Bombay was having a ‘run for Bombay’ marathon. One of the organizers somewhat well known to me, dropped by to register me, and was shocked at my refusal!! Especially because (in his words) I was a ‘spiritual teacher’ he had ‘expected’ my joining in!! I gently explained that I whilst I found the cause/marathon a lovely idea for those who resonated to it (and many did and yes it was heart filling to see them on tv) it wasn’t one that I felt drawn to do! I would be a complete hypocrite to say I would. ;-)) I added that if he had asked me to mediate for Bombay I would’ve jumped at it! The reason I share this is that imho  we must rest in what we are drawn to do, knowing that’s what consciousness chooses thru  a us- if we were all drawn to the same how would the several issues be addressed-  and in that not judge anyone who is passionate or not about some cause!

IN REFERENCE TO TAMAS RAJAS AND SATVIK: Imho All gunas, tamas, rajas and satvik are aspects of consciousness, none really better or worse when viewed thru the larger perspective. So yes, Tamas is unconsciousness/density… but consciousness chooses to lower its vibration...become tamas for the cosmic play! Rajas is the passion…the creative force which then enters this game… and moves it back to its satvikness/supra consciousness ! Thus all aspects of the whole, each plays a vital role in the cosmic play! Yes from the human point of view, its about moving from tamas to satvik…thus is tamas viewed in the way it is. How do we transmute tamas? One way (as there are many) is that by knowing about our satvik aspects/potential…our rajas spontaneously arises to enter/play/move away from the denser human game; and as we get a glimpse of our satvik aspect- by focusing on it (rather than focusing on the past /tamas/or how to move away)...by focusing towards where we wish to go...does transmutation happen more and more automatically

IN REFERENCE TO CONTRADICTIONS CO EXIST: Beloved aruna, steps may seem contradictory, but in the larger perspective they are not; so we need to move away from allowing seeming contradictions to confuse us...!  Allow seeming opposites to coexist! Don't think in terms of if this is true that cant be...if this is right that cant be..! There is a certain unity even in seeming paradoxes!   Once you become comfortable with this idea ...the seeming contradictions will find their own balance...! You will become aware of the simultaneous nature of consciousness and all within it…you will allow yourself to hold seemingly opposite ideas/experiences...w/o one canceling out the other...You will transcend the seeming opposites to flow with their ebb and rise..!.

IN REFERENCE TO EXPERIENTIAL AND ACADEMIC TRUTHS: Each step has to be real-ized- become your experiential truth rather than only intellectual- for the next to happen! So we must know where we are experientially, and yet be open to the next level. I always tell my fellow travelers to do the tango- to experientially (not intellectually) know where you are in the now and wholly embrace the ‘step’- and yet be open to the 'next' and 'next' … (which is first intellectual then as we move into it after experiencing what led to it does it become our experiential truth)… thereby catalyzing our consciousness… into higher/finer levels of beingness…into being more in sync with pure consciousness!

IN REFERENCE TO WE MUST DESIRE GOD!  Imho...its not a question of do we need to desire for Self/God/What we already are...but that at some point...we all do! Indeed one cant really yearn for something if one doesn’t 'know' it at some level...all yearning/desire arises from some memory...even if deeply subconscious /unconscious...and thus do we yearn to be all that we already are!  But that’s only one step...at some point when we become aware of the self/find the self/reawaken the self…use what words u like... then the yearning/desire/ seeking automatically finds a certain rest. And yet...consciousness is a three fold beingness- simultaneous: desire/will & simultaneous exploration/discovery/journeying/ and simultaneous rest/fulfillment

IN REFERENCE TO MATERIAL DESIRES NOT BRINGING YOU DOWN: Beloved Trevor...imho... desire for material stuff and buying a lotto ticket is not regressing… specially... if you can ...through it all, know its what consciousness desires thru ‘a you’ ; in that you don’t fight it or resist it...allow consciousness to play that game out thru a you...! The trick is to be firmly established in the gnosis its not you who desires the lotto... consciousness does thru you for some reason of its own... maybe so that its vehicle called Trevor doesn’t give the ego too many chances of grabbing the mike;-)) so it keeps this Trevor self humble thru this desiring and thus knowing its not awakened; or maybe consciousness desires this thru a you as this is the experience it will have thru a you; or maybe…maybe …maybe…there can be so many maybe’s… we cant always know why….consciousness desires what it does thru a us…but if we firmly know its all consciousness play for whatever r reason… then ha ha you may get awakening with a lotto too ha ha

IN REFERENCE TO ‘DO WE NEED TO LEAVE OUR HOME LIKE BUDDHA? : Gautam Buddha left his wife and son w/o thought as that's what consciousness chose thru a 'him' for that 'Buddha' experience; if a spontaneous leaving on our part doesn't 'happen'... it only means its not what consciousness wills thru a 'us' for our 'Buddha 'experience.. so there is not only one way of being/experiencing Buddha state of No-Self...maybe his required a leaving and yours doesn’t...

IN REFERENCE TO REINCARNATION - DOES IT EXIST? : Past lives…reincarnation are also transcended at some point!  When we move from self to Self… from personal doership to the cosmic play…from Maya to beyond it…then past lives have no hold/interest on us! But till then they play a vital role! When we play a game, say ludo or monoply, we are bound to its rules.- and to going around the board in circles-...but once the game is over all that was only part of the game ...it doesn’t follow us into our real lives…!. In our real life the games rules don’t exist! 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 monoply/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 hv 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...!!

IN REFERENCE TO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL SOULS GET REALIZED? : Then Consciousness begins a new dream/play/game... through which to experience, express explore and revel in Self ; thus again it individuates into unconscious beings to become Conscious again...and again! Through each such 'cycle'(also called one day of Brahma) it expands/deepens/enriches Itself...and then That enriched consciousness has more to experience/express and revel in....and thus individuates/ separates/sets forth again…and again…infinitely...always from this ‘more’ enriched experience of Itself….!In this is the paradox of how even 'All That Is'...is infinitely a state of becoming 'more' ; how in spite of being 'All That Is'...Consciousness is a dynamic state of being... a kinetic state of perfection….not perfection that is finished and done with! (in linear language;-)) because of course all of this 'happens' in the now!)

IN REFERENCE TO WHY GOD CHOSE TO CREATE WAS HE BORED? Dear R that’s something so many ask/think... so many ask me why creation? Is God/Consciousness bored, unfulfilled that it chose to create existence? So many think that only that someone/something that is not complete would want to experience itself! But think: of a master artist who then wants to paint for sheer pleasure; or the most accomplished singers...who then want to sing for the joy of singing...or the fulfilled mother who wants to enjoy the experience of her child growing up…or the complete lovers who as an expression of that complete love want to make love ... best friends who are complete together choose to play a game… all of these spring not from  boredom ...not  from inadequacy/in-completion... but as an expression of one’s completion!  Being...is what consciousness’ is..! It’s not a noun... so experiencing expressing, exploring, reveling in its perfection…And that’s the answer as to why creation!

IN REFERENCE TO ANY SONG TAKING US INTO MEDITATION/CONTEMPLATION : Every long song can be heard from The soul to god/higher self/consciousness point of view...indeed almost very love song is great to meditate on... one needs not only chants and bhajans...as a group we regularly 'meditate' to love songs...! For example Johnny cash song "I walk the line for you"...I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Because you're mine, I walk the line"- i hear it as 'God' singing it to me and the whole gnosis of divine will/free will unravels within! Or Stings: "Every step you take (I'll be watching you) Every single day. Every word you say "i will be watching you." … ha ha i hear it from Self to self! Or Joe Crocker: " You are so beautiful / To me / Can't you see / You're everything I hoped for / You're everything I need / you are so beautiful to me..." I hear it as existence singing it to me... or even the song "I don't want you to be no slave; I don’t want you to work all day; I just wanna make love to you. Love to you Love to you... is Shiva singing it to creation...! Oh I could go on and on! “.So if i am ever in the car with the radio on and love songs playing....zoom i am in immediate medit zone.. ;-)

IN REFERENCE TO WASTE OF TIME/EFFORT - Everything has its own place in the universal scheme, including the internet, virtual world, fb messages and sharing; b) Everyone serves as consciousnesses chooses to thru a them...all cant serve the same way...and what... you feel strongly about is how consciousness chooses to serve thru a you; for example only...some are drawn to saving the whales, some to serving the poor, some to clean up corruption, some to reach out with truths and bring awareness in diff ways-each one reaches/serves whom they are meant to w/o judgment of anyone being higher/better...a sweeper is as important as a dancer or a preacher or social worker or whatever maybe imp to another...c) Plus it is our consciousness that is true our contribution to the world...through whatever positions we may hold or not..thru wherever one may be placed....thru whatever we may be doing...and that is a 24/7 impacting of our worlds at tripartite levels..(Personal realities, environment and the larger world arena).. so we are all enabling the 'real world' you are concerned about thru our very consciousness-indeed it can be no other way and that's the beauty of it all d) Having said all of this, i don't know why you presume/judge that fb seekers are only about posting on fb...most of us reach out in different ways in what you call real life...i may be a teacher/writer reaching out to hundreds, another maybe a mother reaching out to her family and thru them to their friends and thru them to the their friends and thus an ever widening circle, some one may do it in other ways... so imho no judgment...we are all doing what consciousness chooses thru a us and reaching whom consciousness chooses thru a us...this gnosis is a big equalizer...taking away all judgment and what others should or should not do...

IN REFERENCE TO NOT CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS:  Dearest A, as I always say each one to their own- thus there are no rights wrongs - but imho- a) If you cant celebrate self you cant celebrate another b) Celebration is not about parties and gifting and pockets full of cash...but about honoring self and others -indeed honoring the purpose you as Consciousness have chosen to  birth as you the person ...if you read the quote (and article that i will repost)  -this honoring and celebration can be done silently if one prefers c) If one cant celebrate ones beingness on the human realm one is not in sync with the Whole...for it is the Whole that chooses this human experience! Thus we see it not as bondage but as an experience I Consciousness chooses....only in separation from Consciousness does one see it as bondage...

IN REFERENCE TO WHY DO PEOPLE SAY OUR EGO IS DISSOLVING? Ummm i think the layman, who doesn’t know the concept of not being the ego/going beyond the ego...describes the dissolving of his ego in those terms ...for as dis- identification with the ego begins to happen...one starts to feel happy holy oneness etc etc and he initially thinks this is 'him'...till again automatically...at the right time…when consciousness wills...he will realize its actually not being him...that brings about this essence...!The ego is really not an enemy- a) because its not something that exists but is separation from or ignorance of our true nature; so something that doesn’t exist cane be an enemy … unless imagined b) it’s part of the cosmic play, plays a vital role, and as its role gets fulfilled it transcends itself c) so yes this awareness helps but best w/o making it an enemy-for in that we give it a power it doesn’t have!

IN REFERENCE TO WHAT CHANGES AS YOU SPIRITUALLY AWAKEN? Ah swami ji…everything changes and yet nothing does; and yes one can’t help but speak in paradoxes, the seeming contradictions not conflicting but fitting in beautifully! So what does the I Am God to God I am mean in real day to day terms? Very briefly…and in a rush so excuse the language/words…get the gist… spiritual and day-to-day life are not two compartments to be juggled but one beautiful whole-so lets start with the simplest: there is no desire to manifest this that or the other (as there used to be in the I am God and can manifest my life the way I choose); divyaa cant any longer desire something in particular…for even if it rises it subsides in the understanding that  whatever consciousness desires is what will happen thru a her ..thus there is automatic surrender, going with the flow …a goal-lessness yet not aimlessness…a freedom…from wanting this that …into complete acceptance that whatever is happening in ‘divyaa’s’ life is what consciousness chooses to experience, express, explore  through a her … So yes divyaa becomes a ‘her’…not a me! The Identification is now with consciousness! The divyaa self remains, but ofcourse, but as vehicle/stage artist for the God I Am (cosmic play) …; so identification with divyaa is loosened.... like an actor in the process of removing his costume/makeup…and yes she goes thru whatever her ups downs, life events ,‘karma’, sanskars call it what you may( her scenes  that’s still left in the play)   …or another analogy- its like divyaa is wound up toy and the winding/charge is still present so till then divyaa will continue to be there/whiz about like the wound up toy  for the God I Am…and  God I am knows that as the winding up/charge runs out so will divyaa… so again no identification thus no concerns as divyaa.. .call it tranquility.. call it what you wish… call it freedom …call it acceptance…surrender…bliss….silence…(not external silence…inner silence doesn’t make a big hoo ha about external silence-it can use words as and when required w/o disturbing /touching the inner silence…)

Also all concerns with enlightenment dissolve… the focus shifts from personal consciousness and  its 'when will i get liberation’ to becoming one with consciousness and its cosmic play and whatever is good for consciousness/the whole …! And thus happy in whatever wherever ‘divyaa ‘is’ or not… in the now… … rather than concern about an individuated ‘me’ and ‘my’ awakening! There is no rush or anxiety about  enlightenment anymore  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! Ok consciousness if off for the night;-))))))))))))))

TREVOR-IN REFERENCE TO CHANNELING: Dear t no not heard of him…But as I was a channel I have understood a few things about it- different channels tune into different 'levels' of truth, based on their own frequency or awareness. Thus all channeled knowledge is not sacrosanct because someone with 'lower' awareness/frequency may tap into knowledge/truth of 'lower vibration/planes' (this is w/o judgment pls and thus I use inverted commas on those words)

-Even when people connect with spirits-they think ah a spirit speaks so it must be truth! but which level spirit are you in touch with? They may reside in a lower astral plane than where you reside when not in earth form. Thus their truths are not yours

-The best clue is to see/feel the message. Do you resonate? Do you feel ah? Does it feel like truth to you? Does it touch you? If not its not for you- and we don't go into judgment of whether it is 'lower' etc.

-Indeed channels who speak about destruction of the world or black magic etc don't resonate with me. It doesn't mean they are wrong or I am right. To me it says those who resonate to it and believe in it will experience it in their world. Those who need to experience it will believe in it! If I don't -if I am absolutely untouched by it- it’s not the future of my world. There is not only one world- we each live/create in our own world based on our beliefs/truths. So yes, imho channeled info on dark forces evil punitive god and energies etc doesn't resonate; so it’s not for me; and no judgment for whom it works. Because we have all gone thru the process so maybe in some life we too ascribed to it.

-And yet, imho I don't need to reject all or accept all from anyone- whether channel, teacher, guru of fb friend. I feel we can accept, learn, agree with or resonate to parts of what people share and reject what doesn't fit. So for example with the channel you mention- - if his knowledge seems vast- sure- he may be tapping into much valuable knowledge; so imbibe that part… and what seems of lower frequency-don't embrace that; indeed don't buy into it. We all have many frequencies- we are all actually a range of frequencies- so our higher frequencies can tap into higher/purer stuff and our lower frequencies into lower /denser stuff (The word ‘pure’, is without the judgment it usually implies and thus not better than ‘dense’! The only difference in pure and dense is the vibratory frequency at which I am exploring or experiencing Self! Thus yes, while pure does refer to our ‘finer’ vibrations …in the larger picture it is these finer aspects of self, which choose the ‘denser’ experiences to add to their finesse.)

- Also being a channel was an initial opening for me. As I quickly moved into a more conscious awareness and spoke from there... the channeling took a back seat! It still 'happens' sometimes...specially in meditation...but I (divyaa) am also wholly there...and know its only my deeper/ higher Self or frequencies being accessed...

-Imho channeling worldwide too has changed. In much older days, the channels were more unconscious (of the larger truths) or in more separation (from Self) and thus had to be 'taken over'- go into deep trance- so that they could by pass that unconsciousness to access the deeper truths. As humanity evolves and channels are more aware and more in touch with Self... the trance... doesn't need to be so strong.

-Also due to the earlier unconsciousness or lack of awareness channels felt someone else was speaking thru them. Now a day’s most channels recognize it higher and higher aspects of Self ...Different aspects of Self that express through current self. Indeed current self is there, its current selves mind/brain that is used thus the words language etc remain that of current self! Indeed this is the biggest block people have- its sounds like divyaa; these are her usual ways of speaking! sure it will sound like divyaa as divyaa's brain is being used! its also the block for those who channel-oh my god this cant be an higher Self or Jesus or kali expressing...its sounds like me!!! Well it will sound like 'me'...as my brain is being used!

In the ultimate sense, the highest/deepest we go… what I mean is those channels who express from the highest/deepest Self or plane are all tapping into or expressing from that One place- call it consciousness call it God call it ' All That Is" or whatever. (That's where gurus speak from consciously). Now yes, while channeling from here, the energies often express themselves with an identity or name...Jesus speaking... or greetings from kali ...or kryon...or whatever... as its the only way to express to the others -which energies from 'All that is/'-that we are tapping into at any point. Consciousness is made up of any aspects/qualities and these are identified as the Indian gods... so if I channel Krishna maybe I am channeling that portion of a larger whole; if I channel Saraswati I am expressing from its wisdom aspect; if I channel an angel then from that aspect of consciousness.....etc etc...In most of my channelings the energies gave no name and only identified itself as universal consciousness; or Shiva/shakti! But yes on occasion it was kali; or Tara... all aspects of the Whole! I don’t think i ever channeled an ‘entity’...

IN REFERENCE TO A QUOTE: THAT, WHICH YOU CREATE, IS THE TRUTH; WHAT HAPPENS, IS NOT ALWAYS TRUE...NABNEETA DEB SEN: Simply put...(as it can unraveled deeper n deeper)  we create our reality… our truth. It’s tangibly true for you… But as it’s like having created a painting... or a ...movie......it’s not true... in ‘Absolute’ terms...!