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An interview about my long and winding winding spiritual path (also available on Appel and Goggle)
What Does It Mean To [...]
Guruji, where are you now?
Guruji, where are you now?
I am the air and the space in which the air moves.
I hold the birds in their flight
I caress your face as the wind
I cause each blade of grass to wave and each seed to sprout
I part the clouds
I am the sky
I let you feel the warmth of me through the rays of the sun
I let the rain fall through me
I am in each drop of rain
I allow the seasons to change seamlessly into each other
I fill your chest and flow through your blood
I enter every cell in your being
I am the pulse in your body and the beat of your heart
I am the one who is aware
I am the one who is aware of awareness
I am everything you see before you, have seen and will ever see.
I am none of this
I am All
(Vijay Shyam. June 2017, Chandrakhani)
Perception is Deception,
You observe the stars, your thumb, your thoughts, your first memory….
In one swift movement of your awareness, you seem to traverse infinite space. And time. And scale.
How is that possible?
We see the world as multitudes, as complexity, as “other”.
At the same time, we intuit everything to be one whole,
because our awareness is the medium that connects everything we experience.
It is all oneness,
wholeness shining with your awareness.
Unbroken awareness that in every millisecond tries to become conscious of itself, embrace itself,
and thereby produce an appearance of infinite changes, infinite lines of separation.
We are that power which constantly unites and splits the observed,
by the very act of observation.
How?
To answer the question, we have to find out what we are.
But we seem to have forgotten who we are.
Is the world a projection of your longing to be free?
Yes, you are the master of imagination who has enslaved himself through forgetfulness.
We, being truly all, cannot resonate with any fragment.
Don’t you remember?
Picture this:
A man walking in a thick fog, he can only see one meter ahead on all sides. His senses reflect impressions to his mind, his mind is aware of the landscape within a one-meter radius. He carries his sphere of knowledge and the horizon of knowledge with him wherever he goes.
The fog is invisible to him because it is made of tiny floating particles endlessly reflecting his sphere of limited clarity. He is the reflective centre of this tiny self-reflecting world.
What is a Seeker? What is a Guru?
An absolute field of unwavering stillness is said to permeate and contain everything. This field is absolute consciousness. It is Oneness. Knowing this infinite background field is said to be the highest purpose of life. This purpose, this wish, has driven the universe into existence.
In this infinite field of consciousness, a succession of more and more complex patterns appears. They all seek knowledge. They all push evolution. At one point the human body- mind entity appears as a pattern vibrating in consciousness. The specific human pattern is a result of all the preceding patterns, whose work has preprogramed the human being for the possibility of self-awareness and liberation. The consciousness alive in the human pattern can return to Oneness by knowing itself as the stainless field of absolute consciousness, in which all vibrations are perceived by themselves.
The Beautiful Dreamers
Eternal consciousness rested forever in perfect unmoving bliss.
Then, for no reason, the unmoving exploded into a playful dance [...]