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QUOTES AND PASSAGES FROM MY WRITINGS ON ENLIGHTENMENT- LIBERATION- AWAKENING

 

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

Moksha 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’! '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!

The seeker does not gain through his seeking but dissolves through the seeking

Moksha is liberation from the wheel of samsara - the cycle of life death & rebirth . When we awaken to or real-ize… that we are not the separate individuated self we thought we are… there is no separate track of cause and effect … and in that are we liberated from cause and effect itself and thus the cycle of samsara!

No me /personal self /ego = deathlessness! As we move beyond the personal self (and its cause and effect and life and death known as the wheel of samsara) we move into impersonal self and its deathlessness – there is no one or nothing to die. This is what Moksha really implies = the birthing into deathlessness… the birthing into eternal Self.

Enlightenment = The Light of Universal Self (Consciousness/Awareness/Authentic Self) automatically leads to dissolution of the ‘darkness’ of personal consciousness-the ‘me-notion’!

On a visit to a Buddhist temple as my niece & I were turning the large wheel there, she asked me what it symbolized & to keep it simple I told her it was the wheel of samsara- cause & effect- good thoughts/actions leading to a better turn of the wheel. She thought for a moment and then said: “But mausi/aunt, then how does one get off this wheel, is there some magic door?” I was touched by her keen perception…..and explained to her the magic door of non doership… moving beyond personal identity.... the cosmic play’s events and deeds flowing through a you rather than by a you… the magic door being from a you rather than for a you.!

Liberation is likened to an orgasm – as both happen only when there is no ‘me/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 unto universal consciousness. More so , just as in an orgasm, if our entire focus while making love is on our personal consciousness – for example our hair not being washed, our children not having done their home work, our stomach not being flat - we all know the orgasm doesn’t happen! Likewise it is the shift of focus from self to Self… from personal consciousness to impersonal consciousness … that leads to liberation. However, paradoxically, if our entire focus while making love is on the orgasm (liberation/awakening) happening - in terms of “when will it happen”, “will it happen”, “how do I make it happen”- we all know it doesn’t! Thus likewise, even as we shift our focus from self to Self… if we make it a goal to achieve (then the ‘me/mind’ who desires thus remains strongly entrenched)… but if instead enter deeply into whatever makes up our current beingness and revel in the Now of love - liberation - happens!


As we awaken, we switch our alliance from personal self and its interests and desires, to the larger universal Self that we truly are, and know that when I as Consciousness have finished doing what I have chosen to fulfill through the ‘me’/ personal self… the me/personal self will not need to exist in separation anymore, and its so called enlightenment will ‘happen’. Indeed once the personal self is truly awakening-  there is no rush or anxiety or goal - 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! But ah… there will be no ‘you’ to pat yourself on the back for it would be an occurrence in Consciousness itself!

Ignorance is the real bondage and thus awareness of the illusion… and freedom from ignorance… is the process of enlightenment, liberation and awakening

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… enlightenment, liberation and awakening is happening! There is liberation from what is not! There is realization of That which Is! The dream of f individuated self is being dispelled by the light of awareness …

Awakening is not a dramatic moment but a series of shifts… like we start to wake in the mornings… initially in between our dream state and the waking… then almost fully awake but not quite out of bed stage… waking up a little more every moment… which yes then leads to the spontaneous final awakening!

The awake state is not so much an ecstatic “Bingo! Oh wow!”  But more a silent sense of “Ah yes but ofcourse.”  Awakening is a bit like going the world over and coming back to the familiar uncomplicated sense of “all is as it is at home”…  and the restful “Ah yes” it brings about! Awakening is not a shattering new experience with lightening and sound effects that the ego expects… but... the Self’s ‘but ofcourse’ of home coming!

Enlightenment is the paradox of ‘finding’ that there is nothing to find… its ‘reaching’ the gnosis that there is no where to reach… its ‘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!

‘Enlightenment’ is not some perfected end …not a finished state with nothing else to do or be or experience… but indeed a dynamic state of being… ever afresh like Consciousness itself… life doesn’t end but is truly lived for the first time!

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!

Awakening =  beyond 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 they have no validity in the larger reality!

Consciousness wakes up to Itself! 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.

Enlightenment 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 and neither does it imply becoming 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!

Transcending the mind can be viewed in many (seemingly contradictory but not really so) ways: we can say it’s about stilling the mind (unto pure consciousness); or expanding the mind beyond itself (into pure consciousness); or dissolving the mind (into pure consciousness)! And yet we must not make the mind out to be some enemy. Indeed it is Pure Consciousness that creates/adopts 'the mind' to experience & express Indeed it is Pure Consciousness that creates/adopts 'the mind' to experience & express its infinite nuances. Thus, only in fulfilling its purpose to be through an 'us'... in experiencing/exploring/adding whatever pure consciousness chose through ‘our mind’….is our 'mind' effortlessly and spontaneously ready to transcend! The much maligned mind is a beautiful vehicle/tool pure consciousness creates…to explore All That It Is…somewhat like a car/bridge which enables our journey/exploration - yes after that it is automatically redundant-but was a vital l part of the journey!

Enlightenment 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! This is what the  Zen quote ‘chopping wood and billing water means’
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.

Through enlightenment individual journeys spontaneously become spiritual service towards humanity for you are 24/ 7 transmitter wherever you maybe placed in life, through whatever tasks your day –to- day life may comprise of!

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.  As Consciousness Itself we become Its qualities… and unconditional love, non-judgment, forgiveness, oneness …happens!

Self-responsibility unravels: we all begin by placing responsibility outside self, feeling and saying: “You are responsible”. Then at some point in life, this sense of responsibility expands to an acceptance that we too play a part- that both the other and self are responsible and we move to feeling or saying: “We are responsible.” Authentic spiritual growth however begins from the turning point “I am responsible”! Once we have truly imbibed this it expands to the deeper understanding that ‘No one is responsible’! And as this becomes increasingly apparent- we take one more leap - to the eureka that there is nothing to be responsible for!  Eastern and western concepts like Maya- the play of creation, Shakespeare’s ‘the world is but a stage’ and even quantum physics theory of the ‘Now moment’ have tried to ‘describe’ this deepest of understandings but truly, can only point towards it. In analogy, it is like getting up fro a dream of your house being burgled. Who would you hold responsible for what? This is the awakening spoken about as enlightenment!

We don’t exist ‘in’ a dimension; our consciousness is the dimension!  As you expand your limited perspectives- as personal consciousness merges with universal consciousness … enlightenment is happening!  And as enough of us make this change within, it indeed reflects all around and hey presto- our planet indeed progresses and we have a new dimension, an improved human experience to then further explore and add to. And the world is getting enlightened too!! A new dimension is not some mumbo jumbo mystical plane that will descend from the skies- it only implies the critical mass of human consciousness - enough people – moving into a new consciousness! 

An awakened consciousness integrates duality and non duality… duality and unity consciousness.  It is simultaneously and totally present in the relative and totally liberated in the absolute.

An awakened consciousness straddles both aspects... humanity and divinity... the paradox of both breathing and yet abiding beyond breath … of being beyond breath yet alive... of living in physicality yet being spirit...  living in the day -to -day world and its actions and maintain bodies and have seemingly ups and downs - yet living beyond it all as consciousness!

An awakened consciousness abides in the gap between breaths… where Masters abide simultaneously as both Consciousness and the human roles they play. The breath becomes minimalistic enough to maintain the physical-corporeal body (duality) and yet the gap enables us to be beyond as the awakened Consciousness (non dual

The simplest path to liberation = is acceptance! Yes, how much simpler can it be! Acceptance of whatever the universe wills through a ‘me’ … Acceptance of whatever choices happen through a ‘me’… Acceptance of whatever actions happen or not towards them… Acceptance of wherever it leads or not… Acceptance of the Now… thus no desires for some future. Indeed acceptance subtly leads to desirelessness…and desirelessness leaves the mind with nothing to chew on and nothing to be reborn for = which leads to liberation. All through the simple path of acceptance! And Beloveds, what a simple, practical, day to day ‘path’! No exotic practice…no complex texts … no future oriented spiritual will do’s … nothing to give up… only here & now , day- to- day, moment –to- moment …. Acceptance!

Acceptance leads to Non resistance and non resistance leaves the mind with nothing to chew on.  With nothing to do the mind is deprived of its reason to exist and starts to subside, bow out and dissolve! No mind = No ‘me’
= Liberation/Enlightenment!

Enlightenment is not for the me but from the me (that we think we are)! Thus trying to fight, suppress, over come the ‘me/ego’ grants something that doesn’t exist- life! But the light of awareness works like the two pronged effect of light being shone into our inner mansions…removing non existing shadows & silhouettes (dissolution of me/ego notion) and bringing to life That which is truly within (Consciousness/Universal Self/ No self/ Source call it what you may). At some point as we increasingly become aware of and abide as That I Am... all that i am not ...further and effortlessly dissolves... this is also known as the path of tantra, awareness of our true nature spontaneously dissolves what’s not...rather than trying to fight what’s not and in that...give it life!! I call this path seducing the ego! As the ego is seduced with the light of awareness it begins to divest its many layers and ultimately willingly surrenders unto the embrace of authentic Self… knowing that in this embrace is not non existence but becoming All That Is…

The dissolution of the 'me' notion – is the one single step to all those states we speak about ... thoughtlessness, detachment, witnessing, love, equanimity, deathlessness, renunciation … what we call enlightenment, liberation and awakening. ‘Me' is paradoxically a term to describe all that we are not! We are not the body not the mind not its thoughts, actions, concerns, joys etc etc.. indeed we are not all that makes up this seeming ‘me’! The increasing awareness of all that I am not (Know thyself) with the increasing awareness all That I Am (Know Thyself)-is the ‘journey/process’ of a spontaneously dissolving me/ego!

-No ‘me’/ ego self/personal identity = no doer = no one to suffer = no thing like suffering!

-No me/ego self/personal id = a state of witnessing! as long as there is a ‘me’ there is some degree of labeling/judgment/coveting/rejecting going on….but as the ‘me’ dissolves…we spontaneously begin to move from judgment/labeling to witnessing…and as there is no me = no one to judge/label= a state of pure witnessing..

-No (personal/separate) self/id = no thoughts! Thoughtlessness is not a state without thoughts- but a state where one doesn't identify with the thoughts- so as we drop identification with the me, we don’t claim its thoughts!!

-No me/ personal identity/ego self = Universal consciousness = Love! Love is not an emotion but a state of being devoid of the separation that i (and it’s me, mine, you & yours) brings about.

-No me/ ego self/personal identity = a state of detachment rather than a ‘me’ trying to detach

-No ' me'/ego self/personal identity = living in a state of renunciation rather than trying to renounce this that or the other.. As the notion of the false self dissolves = true renunciation is!

-No me/ ego self/personal identity = a state of Grace. Grace is the presence of 'your' absence.

-No me/ego self/personal id = Dharma = being in sync with our true (divine) nature, living as Authentic Self and all that flows from this state of being. Adharma = being out of sync with our true (divine) nature/authentic Self, living the duality experiences of individuated/ ego self and thus experiencing the thoughts, feelings & actions that arise from this sense of separate self

-No personal self/ego = no doer= seva, the flow of service. Seva can be the path back home. Seva is self-less sharing... and over time... no self = Liberation

-As our ‘me’- ego notion dissolves, so do our attachments, and thus lessening of interest..... thus no memory! No memory no bondage!

-No personal self /ego = deathlessness! Who is left to die?

- No me/ ego self/personal identity = beyond destiny, cause and effect and reincarnation! There is no ‘one’s cause and effect to track, thus no personal destiny and no one to be reborn.

Divyaa kummar


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