SILENCE AND ITS SEVEN  SHADES/ RINGS                           07-10-08

Music begins…

Everybody was just sitting here talking… and one by one…somebody became silent… somebody closed their eyes…and without any conscious effort… all of you… slipped into ‘That’… into … “This…”

Come beloveds conjure before you- where sits ‘Divyaa’ or the ‘speaker’- she sitting with beautiful circles radiating all around her; one circle after the other … seven circles shining… glowing… radiant; different shades of a colorless glow… different shades of silence. And even as you place your focus on her… on that energy field of different shades of silence… it becomes yours… and therefore see yourself… sitting wherever you are… with those seven radiating circles all around you… one after another… different shades of a shade-less color… different colors of a colorless glow…different aspects of silence… (Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…)

See this very clearly…feel this very clearly…know this very clearly as your silhouette… sitting wherever you are… seven beautiful circles radiating… one beyond the other… different shades of silence… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

And become aware of how the physical you…current you are not there …there are only these 7 rings of silence where ‘you’ were; Of course our very saying that you are not there… has brought you back into being there… and yet  those few moments when we said nothing… none of you were here…

Now become aware of the first ring around you; allow only the first ring to be there…feel its energy… feel its glow… feel it embracing you… feel it radiating out of you the silence of fulfillment in your here and now physical life... the silence of happiness… when you are happy, when you are joyous, when you are fulfilled through your day- to -day life and its activities you enter a certain silence within. This silence happens in many… many… little…little ways- you buy a beautiful object and you move into a certain silence for a moment because your mind rests in the joy of having acquired that; and because your mind rests…the silence of fulfillment is what you feel.  The silence of fulfillment… when you are out with friends… laughing… talking…chatting… dancing… all ‘activity’…sometimes vociferous… yet the fulfillment brings a certain silence into you…yes?  

Tune into that silence… allows that silence to be… this is the first ring of silence around you… see it in place… the silence of fulfillment when ever you feel happy your mind rests… and this first layer becomes palpable… you can call it fulfillment… you can call it rest… you can call it silence; yet view that this ‘silence’… it is not in solitariness… it is not in keeping quiet… it is not in sitting alone on top of a mountain…or in your room in meditation… it is in the midst of every one… and every thing… love…joy…laughter… sharing… dancing…working…. the silence of fulfillment…. Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores

See it in place…Fulfilled in the Now…in physical tangible ways…!  The sweetness… the silence … of fulfillment… not alone… not in meditation…not on top of a mountain… not silent…not quiet… amidst  laughter and friends… and sharing and talking… and dancing… and yet the silence of fulfillment… how subtle it is… you usually miss it… in your day to day life… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores

And now move into this second ring around you…the second layer of silence… that understanding… that knowing… that experience… that there is no one other than I;  and as this becomes more than words and concepts… when you know that every one is but an aspect of you… that there is no one other than I… then this ‘anchor’ of knowingness dissolves all judgment… the blame…the guilt… the powerlessness ; and you move into this silence of a deeper level than fulfillment… no one other than I… the silence of all is as I needed to be…thus chose it to be…indeed willed it to be.  And again, this silence is also not of solitariness… not on top of a mountain… not in sanyas… but in the midst of day to day life… people… activities… indeed amidst each and every one who makes up your life… …and your world…and the events ‘good bad ugly’; indeed  each one only takes you within…into this silence where there is no one other than I.     And with this single knowingness… drops  anger… drops recrimination … blame… judgment; with this single knowingness is the silence of all is as I required, chose, willed it to be; so yes beyond the first circle is the second layer of silence… not in solitariness… not alone… not in sanyas… but in the midst not only your friends and beloveds but each and every one who makes up your life and each and every one who makes up your world… for every one and thing only  takes you within…into this… silence… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores

Yes… allow this silence to glow… the second layer to touch you deeply within … and as it touches you deeply within... it glows even more;  there is no one other than I… every one and every other thing is as I chose it to be…as I need… as I require… every one takes me within… silence indeed in the midst of everyone and everything… allow this to permeate you… soak you… every cell…your subconscious mind… your energy field… so that it is beyond concepts &  academic understanding… allow the truth of ‘there is no one other than I’ to licks along your veins…it travels deep into your subconscious mind.  
Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores

So come beloveds be conscious of your first layer of silence of fulfillment… and the second ring of silence of no one other than I…and in the peace this brings…the stillness this brings the mind has no one or nothing to blame… or judge…and it starts to dissolve;  Ahh …the  silence of the second layer… permeates into you… and expands…view  the second ring is far wider than the first… and around that is the third ring…the third  layer of silence… you are just about becoming aware of it outside the second ring – the  silence of that understanding…dawning… eureka… knowing beyond academic…that  there is no cause and effect…I don’t need to know why and how I have set the things and people  and activities  into motion…I don’t need to know what leads to what…for everything happened…(sound of clap)…in that one split second…as I choose it…! The silence of no cause and no effect…no karma…no learning…(sound of clap)…all just instantly was…and is …as I chose it to be… a deeper silence indeed and would take a hundred words or classes or texts to reach… and yet not in solitariness…not in aloneness…in the midst of your day today life…! The Silence of everything happening …incidences happening …people coming… going… good… bad… ugly… but it matters not…what leads to what…what is a honi…(Hindi word)…what is the future…(sound of a clap)…everything just happened… in that one split second… as you chose it to be for your highest good…and beingness… and therefore the silence…(sound of clap)…paradoxically of oneness with the   ‘big bang’…

Allow this to permeate…deep into your energy fields…every atom…every molecule…every cell…into your subconscious mind…into your energy fields…beyond academic understanding…no cause no effect…the silence of freedom…from trying to understand…! Come…again… into this silence of nothing leads to anything… (Sound of clap)… all just is…how liberating…how freeing…a deeper silence…allows this to lick along your nerves…your veins…your energy grid… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

See yourself sitting with these three rings…of ‘silence’…The first closer to you…the silence of fulfillment…be it of pleasure…happiness…joy  or bliss…

The second ring far wider…Ahh…the silence of no one other than I…all is… as I choose it to be…

The third ring outside that…far wider…far wider …your eye cannot almost not reach there …it disappears into the horizon…the silence of the dawning, of the knowing ,of the wordless eureka that there is no cause and effect…nothing leads to anything…it all happened in …(sound of clap) the split nano second exactly as I  chose it to be…for my highest knowing and in my highest being ness… and as it matters not what is the   honi…(causes seeded in for effects))…tt what is the effect… what is the karma …or learning…(sound of clap)… it just was…it just is…no cause…no effect…then your mind is loosening its grip…there’s nothing for it to hold on to; in pleasure…in bliss…the mind recedes; in there is no one other than I the mind recedes; in no cause…no effect…the mind does not even understand it…it is crumpling…it is dissolving… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

And yet none of these silences have been in solitariness…or silence as you know it to be; indeed all these are in the middle of your day today world and pleasures…in the middle of your world…and activities…and people… (Sound of clap)…in the middle of the big bang indeed…! Come hear ear the click of the billiard rod cracking open the roll of billiard balls…and the silence even amidst this ‘noise’ as every ball goes whichever way it requires to go…the mind has nothing to hold on to it…it is crumpling…it is dissolving… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

And then you become aware of the fourth ring- a slight glimmer…grayish like…ash…almost like you almost see your ethric body- that subtle… far into what you will call the horizon…the fourth ring of silence of not only is there no one other than I but there is no ‘me’ for  the mind has dissolved…and with that there is no me…there is no separate identity; Ahh…the silence as identity dissolves… the silence of being pure consciousness…no concerns with how ‘you’ began …and where ‘you’ are going…and when  is  ‘your’ enlightenment…and what is the journey for ‘you’ …there is no you…there is only consciousness…all is a  play of consciousness…A deeper silence is this…a deeper silence…allow it to permeate your subconscious minds…your energy fields…every atom…every molecule…every cell…see it crackling in ways…blasting apart the little shreds of mind that are left…and yet not in solitariness…not in sanyas…but as every Unit of Consciousness…dancing…alive…vital…as being part of all that is…every tree…every leaf…every stone…every bird…and yet the silence of being pure consciousness…no I…no identity… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

And you now become aware of a sixth and seventh rings simultaneously…they are dark black… only because you know colourless to be black…you can call them colourless…you can call them black…you can call them the unknown…something that cannot be described…or understood… or labeled…and you will for the time being skip the sixth ring… and go into the seventh…that deep dark blue indigo flame…pure beingness…where even consciousness…awareness…has are subsided…abides… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

No words…no labels…you are out of the awareness that can understand this unawareness …Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

And now you come back into the sixth ring…into the silence of being in the now; in between awareness and unawareness … consciousness and unconsciousness …understand when you are in the seventh ring… you are in unawareness…when you are in unconsciousness…there is nothing… that can be said… or described; and in the fifth ring… you had the silence of that awareness…awareness of that unawareness…!but the sixth is the silence of being in the now…not aware…not…not unaware…the silence of  the now …where there is no past…where there is no future…no love… or no… no love…no gyaan…no…no gyaan…no meditation…or no…no meditation…no action…or no…no action…no…not doing…or doing…no enlightenment…or enlightenment…no this…no that…no karma…or no …no karma…no this…no that…no nothing…no…no nothingness…in the now labels cannot exist because labels exist in the awareness of the mind…and the mind cannot exist in the now…and therefore in the now there is only… not this…not that… Neti … Neti … Neti… Neti… Neti… Neti…Not this …not that; no consciousness…no not conscious; and no awareness… no …no awareness; all labels crumbling…labels…words…concepts…belong to the mind…and now there is no mind…and therefore there are no labels…it is only the now… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…

And you move back into the seventh…from this vantage point… Silence…Sound of waves crashing on the shores…The music changes to Chants Allow all seven rings to blend and merge…silent dissolution of the mind…no labels…no concepts…no understanding…no…not understanding…Silence… Chants continue…

Allow this to crackle along your energy fields…every atom…every molecule…every cell…allow it to  soak and permeate… your subconscious mind…silence  of fulfillment; silence of no one other than I; the  deeper silence of no cause no effect ;a deeper silence of no I …only consciousness; a deeper silence where consciousness is aware of that which cannot even be described…or labeled; a deeper consciousness of being in the now… nothing exists but the now…which cannot be caught… cannot be described… cannot be labeled…where there can therefore be no mind…just the now…just the now…just the now…just the now… just the now… just the now…

Just the now…just the Now… into the seventh… Silence… Chants continue…

Once again…from the wordless experience of 7…enter the first…enter the second…enter the third… the fourth…the fifth…the sixth…back into a deeper seventh… Silence… Chants stop….

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And each of you…for the remainder of your the weeks till we meet again …must live in the now…all these different layers of silence are only about being in the now; whatever happens in the now…spontaneously; there exists nothing but the now; no past…no future…no cause…no effect…no reason; just the now…

 Come beloveds seed  this in your energy fields : See yourself sitting in a car…driving through the streets…looking out of the window; to remain in the now…you are concerned not from where you are coming…or where you are going…you are just sitting in the car at the window; there is a taxi outside your window…in the now; the taxi moves away…there is a cow standing there… in the now; your car moves…there is a beautiful stone wall...in the now;  your car goes further…there is graffiti on the wall; your car stops… there is a signal… in the now…there crosses a bus…in the now…a dog barks…in the now…your mobile phone rings…in the now…you answer it …in the now…its over… in the now…you have reached…in the now…you are on the steps …in the now…the now…the now…the now…the now…the now…the now…the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…

None of you can truly remain in the now …for even sixty seconds…not even thirty seconds…it is what you need to embrace…live in the now…

Think of yourself sitting here in this circle…and the circle has become a pool of water…ripples…lapping…the star card; and in the center…arises from deep within the pool…a bubble…and bursts and ripples spread across; and another bubble bursts…and ripples across…and another bubble…you are concerned not with the bubble arising from the pool…and are concerned not with the rippling across…keep your focus only on the bursting of the bubble in the center…the bubble bursts…the bubble bursts…the bubble bursts…the bubble bursts…concerned not are you…from where it came…what source it comes from…what are the causes…concerned not are you with the ripples it will create…where they will go…what will be the effects…concerned are you only…(sound of clap)…with the bubble bursting…in the now…in the center…of the pool…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…in the now…

See an arrow being shot…to reach the center point on the dart board…concerned not are you from where it is shot…who has shot it…concerned not are you where it has to reach…; you are the arrow in the now…in the now… in its every ‘millimeter’ now of movement it is completely still …( divyaa’s voice gets soft and hushed)  .. now…now…now…now…now…now…now…now…now…now…now…now…you are in the now…only the now of the arrow …pure movement and pure stillness…you do not know where…you do not know where you have come from…nor where you are going…in the now…

We are doing these techniques to seed this now into your energy fields…but to remain in the now…you must either become deeply involved in your physical…day to day activity…focusing only on what is happening…in the now; or the only other way to keep your energy fields in the now till you can automatically be here without support…(because none of you can remain in the now for even thirty seconds…) is to hold an  image…a yantra…a symbol…it can be the bubble bursting…into the center of the pool…it can be the arrow… a mantra…or a chant…as an aid which will keep you in the now…

Silence… Chants begin…Let there be nothing but this chant deep within, or around…and let there be no image other than the bubble bursting…into the center of the pool…be in the now…

Silence…you are back with the seven circles…you were being introduced to being in the now; all the seven circles are mixing…blending…interpenetrating…they do not exist in linear time and space of sequence for  there are no seven shades of silence…they are only one…seven aspects of the one silence; let the seven rings blend and merge…let there be a pure glow…a light and yet dark…let it crackle along your energy fields…every atom…every molecule…every cell…let it soak your subconscious mind…and as you sit in a circle of pure…dark…indigo blue…turning subtly darker…and darker…black…(sound of a clap)…the mind dissolves…as do you…

No words…only silence…but not the silence of solitariness…sanyas …sitting in a room …meditating…silence of pure being…licks along your veins…you feel a certain pulsation…an excitement…a joy…a thrill…a love…you cannot describe it…and yet it feels so still…so good…you cannot understand it…seek not to understand it… Silence…

There is no you…where you were…there is only a vacuum… Silence…

Yes there is the awareness of the vacuum…but there is only a vacuum and the awareness of… Silence…

Then the awareness starts to filter away…dissolve…disappear… Silence…

You may open your eyes whenever you are ready…

Thank you beloveds…