This is a fun read - the key element, to me, being the very dynamic, yet coherent, aspect of the whole process [of enlightenment]. Refreshing, too, to read the account of someone established in Being, vs. the 'experts' on here, with a lifetime total, of a couple weeks of witnessing under their belt. Thanks for sharing, Raunchy - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <raunchydog@...> wrote :
As my seven-year anniversary of being on the IA course nears, I felt compelled to give an overview of my experiences in hopes that it may be of value. Using every trick in the book; every tool in the box, to squeeze every bit of evolutionary potential out of every moment, has yielded a rich harvest of varied and profound experiences. But, I needed to pierce the veil of chhandas and achieve escape velocity, beyond the cloudy atmosphere of collective consciousness, to reach the real, true, genuine and consistent experiences, that could not be denied by the most jaded of intellects, nor could have they been contrived out of some unconscious desire for self-aggrandizement. So, rather than provide a long litany of flashy ephemeral displays of pyrotechnics and eye-candy, I will attempt, given the limitations of language, to comprehensively, yet concisely convey those bench-marks and watershed moments, when a new, more expanded and stable state of being, was achieved. Now, please bear in mind, these occurred over time. But, if I had to describe their overall pattern of development, I would say that I would be going along, day to day, thinking maybe that nothing was happening, but steadily putting my time in. Then there would be a gathering of momentum, an increase in tempo and variety, to crescendo at an event horizon, a transcendental quantum leap, then I would find myself waking up in the realization of a new state of being and style of functioning. This process repeated itself, again and again, over time. A key component discovered, which significantly changed the whole nature and color of my experiences, having grown up in a society where fatigue is considered a caffeine deficiency, and that is, my friends, rest is king. Silence penetrated, then inundated, until it permeated every particle and fiber of my being; bubbling, percolating and roaring with the deafening impact of a great waterfall disappearing into a calm, clear pool of peace that passes all understanding. Then, over time, within this peace, blossomed a restfully alert state of poise, where I spontaneously found myself, assuming the royal pace of an elephant, while pouncing like a tiger in all directions: I am still as a mountain; flowing like a great river. Then again, over time, within this state of poise, blossomed a power, which passed into my experience without effort or labor. And, I found things steadily coming my way, and coming my way without that awful effort that destroys the peace of mind of the majority of mankind. And, I feel such deep ease, enfolded in the arms of infinite divine love, taking care of me. I experience myself as the center and circumference; the point and the whole. The sutras weaving point-to-whole, and whole-to-point, into an exquisite tapestry of vibrant awareness. The sutras are multi-faceted gems, each of unique character and hue, dropping into the ocean of my being, reverberating out to whole and back again. The returning waves crossing the outgoing waves forming vertices, that become planes of primordial geometry. I do not experience this geometry as static, but as a stable harmonic resonance of divine musical vibration. Yet this geometry also contains a dynamic flowing quality, with a funnel style hole, that goes completely through a sphere that continually flows in, around and on itself. This archetypal geometry, with its dynamic flow, clusters and generates the plethora of forms and phenomena found manifest everywhere in my experience. And, I really have to thank Maharishi for giving me a backstage pass to the universe: a golden ticket to the symphony of creation behind Vishwakarman's magic show. A shift took place in my awareness from experiencing consciousness existing within and a function of my physiology, to my body existing within and as my consciousness; as an individualized, ever changing state of wholeness, moving within my Self. And I found myself able to experientially discriminate the successive states of my own material manifestation: I can see, feel, hear, taste etc air, fire, water, earth and even the mineral densities of self. But, even at the greatest depth of density I experience the gold of universal soul; I see the brilliance of indwelling light; I feel the fire of boundless divine love. Yet, this light does not blind, and this fire does not burn, but continually fills me with ever expanding delight. And while I am able to discriminate these individual stages, it remains one stream of awareness; one infinite reverberation. Then, over time, I found myself able to do the same with other individualized aspects of Self, be it person, place or thing. In terms of right action, I went from needing a long logical reasoning process, which only yielded about 50% results, essentially the probability of a coin toss, to the next stage where I was able to apprehend right action, but I needed to make a conscious effort to choose it. Then in the next stage, I would feel a certain action was right and move ahead without hesitation, and recently to the simple elegance of, right action alone is. In terms of invincibility, I went from being a highly sensitive individual, easily wounded by any dark look or disparaging remark, to shifting into a neutral state where I spontaneously found myself not wasting time or energy on the lack of emotive or cognitive development of any spiritual adolescence I might find in the field of activity. This brought a profound quietness to my feeling nature, that coupled with the great silence of my mind, gave me the power to wield the sword of indifference, with its double edged blade of knowledge and experience, cleaving ignorance from the Self, like never before. Lately, my ecstatic experience of infinite divine love, intelligence and power is so great, so consistent, and so stable that anything stated or acted contrary to that, is an utterly laughable non-sequitur and simply does not have any real existence in the face of such self-evident cosmic verity. And, I know without a shred of doubt, that when this experience comes alike to all, the tread of armies will ceaseā¦and the bugle call will echo the soft notes of peace and love. Lastly, the boundaries between meditation and activity have increasing slipped away to the point to where I experience very little difference between the two. To site just a few examples, the buoyancy and lightness of being I experience while flying, I experience in activity; the blissful joy I experience in program, I experience with every fall of my foot on the earth: And, Shiva/Shakti; Purusha/Prakriti are one and the same. And now finally, all this is not to say, that over the years, from time to time, I haven't gone blindly stumbling into entire herds of sleeping elephants, but if like a good sea captain in stormy weather, I stayed the course, following the guidelines to the best of my ability, things really would be "steady as they go." And, being some what humorously inclined, I would throw in a couple of laugh-asanas to stimulate the clown-chakra and things would smooth right out. For I always remembered, when as a child, my grandfather had placed this wonderful quote in front of my desk, while he patiently home-schooled me in the classics' as well as the arcane wisdom of the perennial philosophy, found in all traditions and cultures throughout time, whose highest, most direct and accessible expression I have found in Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence and his unique resurgence of Vedic Wisdom. For like Alexander the Great, simply slicing through the Gordian Knot, Maharishi had such a delightful way of cutting right through all the muddled clutter of ponderous philosophical thought, turning every misconception on its head, brilliantly shining through, as the sparkling crest jewel of illumined truth. AND THAT QUOTE IS: "Angels fly, because they think lightly of themselves" -Sir Thomas Aquinas. Jai Guru Dev Ted Clancy