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THE 3 STEP JOURNEY BACK
HOME - BRIDGING IGNORANCE,
SEPARATION AND THEN THE BIG LEAP –GOING BEYOND PERSONAL
IDENTITY!
Come beloveds, lets view Consciousnesses
‘journey’ into existence ... lets understand the (simply put) 3
step foray that Consciousness adopts to enter the cosmic play
and ... play it in in full swing!
a)
Ignorance/forgetfulness of Self -Willfully moving into ignorance
& forgetfulness- donning the veils - creating Maya (The move from Self
Awareness)
b) Separation from Self -Willfully separating from Self -
dissolving unity consciousness – creating time & space (The move from
Oneness & its Here and Now)
c) Individuation (into
selves) -Willfully adopting a range of
identities- creating personal consciousness- creating the ego/personal mind
(The move from Universal undifferentiated consciousness into individuated
consciousness)
Of course we need to use linear terms to express but
these states are immanent in Consciousness and occur simultaneously –this is
often called the big bang – Consciousness throwing the dice and entering into
the game full swing!
Thus our journey from the cosmic play
back into/as Consciousness comprises of incorporating and reversing these very
3 steps that I as Consciousness adopt to enter into the cosmic play of forgetfulness/separation/and
individuation...!
a) Awareness! The shift from
ignorance& forgetfulness to Awareness/Remembrance - moving into increasing
awareness of the self I am not and the Self I Am (path of gyan)… this awareness
increasingly and spontaneously dissolves the delusion/hold of maya on us....
b) Oneness/Union with All That
Is! Unity consciousness! Bridging the seeming separation! (Path of Bhakti)
Of course as Awareness (gyan) increases... the
separation automatically starts to dissolve (and bhakti ‘happens’). Some seekers
start with bridging the separation (path of bhakti) and as they increasingly
become One with the Beloved/Self …Self awareness (gyan) automatically starts to
happen! Both come together at some point and both in tandem work wonders in
bringing about a series of inner shifts enabling
the move ‘back’ from abiding in ignorance to abiding as Awareness …in bridging
the gap of separation into Unity Consciousness/Oneness/Love..
However, the grand finale back
into/as Consciousness... from the
willfully entered into cosmic play back into Consciousness ... only happens
through the '3rd' step: dissolving personal consciousness!
Thus even as highly evolved beings who have moved from ignorance to awareness
and from separation to unity consciousness - this is the step that becomes all
important:
The move from self to Self…. the move from personal
consciousness … loosening of our identities… dissolution of the
ego/individuated self!
I as Consciousness was smart enough to
create My individuations with a firmness…indeed bestowing on My individuation's
a certain stronghold to better play the game…so that I could truly explore,
express, experience all nuances of Self though My individuated selves… or
it would be one big cosmic mishmash soup! If I as an individuation could easily
dissolve my personalization and its role…the cosmic play would have been quite
shaky!
Thus as we move from ignorance to
awareness and separation to unity consciousness … as we fulfill our role in the
cosmic play… then only does this dissolution automatically begin to happen…! It
is the tricky part of the game (and as God/Consciousness having created the game
it could not be less surely!) … the more
‘you’ try to dissolve you are there! Allow the Awareness and Oneness to do this
part…allow the ‘other side to work for you so to say!
We can also see this foray as :
Non Self to Self to self - back to Self - to Non Self:
-Non Self/ No thingness /Void... becomes
Self/ I AM/ All that is ... which becomes self/individuated personalized
selves/ego-mind.
-Thus on the way ‘back’ self dissolves or expands back into Self/I
AM/All that is….and by abiding here…even I am ness dissolves into No Self…no
thingness.... events happen deeds are done but there is no doer thereof!
Divyaa Kummar
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